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Shands at Alachua General
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Hello again everybody.
I've been in the hospital for two weeks for what they said was a heart attack. It was in fact arteriosclerosis. Yeah, hardening of the arteries, which, I guess in reality is a blockage in the arteries.
They put a couple of stints in and I have some important medicine to take. I also must stay on a low carb, low fat diet.
I've been doing pretty good on the diet, although I don't know if I have lost much weight. That I think will require some exercise. - I'm looking for a fitness center to join but I can't decide if I should choose one out here in the back woods, as my mom still calls it after 34 years of living here, or in the Big City as some of the cool cats in Gainesville like to call that area.
I thought I had a chest cold or the flu. I took a lot of flu medicine and called the doctor hoping I could see her quickly. My joints in my shoulders hurt quite a bit and I had chest pains, like a chest cold. I took a lot of medicines and they seem to be helping at the end, but when I went to the Doctor, she gave me a stress test which indicated something was wrong. She kept hearing about chest pains and that the treadmill, a feature of the stress test, was tiring me, I guess, and she called an ambulance.
I was taken to the hospital and there I was questioned relentlessly. I thought I was under arrest or something. Anyway, finally they decided I needed to be taken to have a look at my heart.
I was taken to a weird room that looked like someplace you might get radiation. Very gray and silvery, like a cellar, or a cave and of course the doctors and all the big machines. They were going to insert a tube through my leg that was going to go up to my heart to have a look.
I needed to have part of my pubic area shaved. The girl who did that gave me a bit of a scare. I think she thought she was planing a piece of wood instead of shaving a sensitive area. I wondered if her pubes were shaved.
They called this procedure catheterization.
During the procedure they saw a blockage of an artery in the heart and put two stints in it. Stints keep the artery open and allow the blood to flow.
I had to piss real bad while they were doing the procedure and they were nice enough to help me out in that regard. After I was out of the big room and being taken away they gave me another kind of catheter that allow me to pee indiscriminately. But it hurt to have that put in.
When I was taken up to my room they told me I had to keep my leg straight for so many hours. At 9:00 P.M. I would even be allowed to get out of the bed. But it was only about 3:00 P.M. then.
Next day I got very upset with the cardiologist and his female associate when they told me I would have to stay in the hospital because my heart rate was so quick. Later I developed an infection, an urinary infection, and I had to stay even longer. I got over most of this anger with the help of Gurumayi and the mantras I've learned from her. I chanted and so forth. Mom brought me some books. But I had been doing japa since I started hurting, on Thursday or so of the week before.
Well, that's it breifly. I finally got home where the food is familiar and tasty and I have my own T.V. Of course there are no nurses here.

Cat of the Day
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
So, Jim, the mechanic, took the old 78 Grenada from off our property Sunday before last.
Glad that's done.
Our cat is still here and I had been thinking she was eating well and I still do, but I see a lot of the woodsy animals are prowling around late at night. Sometimes I hear her fighting with them. It's pretty obvious they are eating her food.
Before I found the coons and opossums sneaking up around here there had been other cats and even a young doggie, come up and get into her food so I thought they were the only problem.
I used to wonder at how clean she got the bowls. lol.
On other fronts. Today, mom and I watched Gurumayi's New Years Day Talk and an appearance by Guru Maharaji at the University of California at Berkeley.
We enjoyed them both.
A couple of days ago I spoke with Danny Wareham on the phone after purchasing his XP Smoker. If you are having problems with XP I highly recommnend Danny's software.
I went to the Windsor Zucchinni Festival last weekend. I was there to help with a booth for the Alachua County Democratic Party.
I had never been there before. I really enjoyed it although it was a bit hard on my back. I only spent two hours there but that seemed to be enough to make me a little achy all over.

Playboy
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Just got up today.
I was up late last night watching TV. I do a lot of that.
I have Playboy Channel and the only time I can watch it is late at night.
My mom likes to watch the Yankees and I am relieved that they are winning again. Two in a row over the Athletics.
I do have a little problem with masturbating these days. I have this itch at the tip of my penis. When I have an orgasm the semen overflowing onto the the foreskin really hurts.
This is the second time this itch has occurred. I took it to my doctor last time and she didn't know what it was. She gave me some lamisil.
My doctor worries me a little.
Mom loves her, but I thought I could get a prescription that would lower my blood sugar a little extra and she gave me a pill that lowered it less. (I've got a new glucometer, by the way, an AccuChek).
On the up side, my asshole seems to be gaining relief from an indian herb called triphala. It comes in a powder form and pill. I've been taking the pills, which are more like tablets and my ass does seem to be less painful.
I used to use wet wipes on it, now I don't need them nearly as much. I used them once or twice a week, instead of on a daily, by that I mean every time, basis.
Our cleaning girl is here today. Her 4 year old had a birthday last week. We went this picnic place which I am familiar with since I was a little boy visiting this area with my mom and dad back in 1960, I think. My father's brother and brother in-law whom everybody said were in the Mafia, had motor boats and their kids went swimming at this same place all those years ago.
I've gotten the new Gurumayi video and have watched it a few times. I attended the event, a satsang on New Years Day, and so I am familiar with a lot of the material.
I'm doing a little gardening in the back yard, watering plants, etc. and we have a cat visiting us.
This cat is a gray, fluffy, persian type and she meows a lot. I assume its for food, but sometimes I think she wants in. It has been getting a lot colder at night lately, but she can't come in.
It has been an experience buying food for the gray feline and feeding her. She can sometimes get a bit feisty. I think she has been kicked around a little in her time. She appears to be a pretty mature cat but that might just be due to an above average intelligence.
Sometimes she runs accross the dirt road in front of the house over to the park and she looks just like a raccoon. I suspect she has had her encounters with those animals, coons and armadillos.
You must be careful with her because she may bite and scratch.
Been drinking a lot of tea lately. I've heard it is better for the asshole than the coffee. I live Arizona Green Tea with Honey and Ginseng. Of course I also buy the Tazo Green Tea at the Health Food Store even though it is more expensive.
Other News. We got a notice from a code enforcement officer about the Ford Grenada that has been sitting in our yard for 7 years. Mom suspects the neighbors.
Anyway, a mechanic who has been working on our cars for years, came and got it. The Kidney Foundation, to whom we had given a car before, refused to take it because it wasn't in working order.
That's the biggest news lately, it seems to me.
I still have that problem with my networking that I think I've told you about. Can't see other computers on the network although I can share the Internet Connection.
That's it for today. Maybe I'll post the latest letter to the editor that has gone unpublished soon.
Until then Au Revoir, Sayonnara and Arrivederci.

Salon
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Hey, so what's been going on with me these days?
I've adopted a stray cat and have been feeding it for about 2 weeks it seems like.
Looks like a persian with the fluffy fur, you know.
Took some photographs so when they are developed I'll show them on my website.
I have a link to Salon. I've been reading it lately.
I'm reading Tour of Duty, too, and I am at the point where John Kerry is getting out of the Navy and despairing at the continued death of friends he left behind when he finally got out of Vietnam.
I've got my broadband networked but I still can't share my files and folders on my host machine with the other machines. I also have lost use of my Music Match with which I have an MX Platinum account. Bummer. I can hear it on the lappie and mom's computer which she uses for cards.
I've been posting to my local newspaper's discussion board on things dress code and anti-terror. Of course the yoga and meditation come up.
Nobody cares.
I have had a sudden loss of some of my hearing. I think because I took too much allergy medicine, a sample of clarinex and an Eckerd version of it that is over the counter.
I was scared for a while.
Also, I have an awful itch at the tip of my penis.
Oddly enough, although it hurts to masturbate, I altered my television subscriptions so I could get PlayboyTV.
We no longer get STZ and Cinemax.
We are getting the MLB baseball, Grandma loves.
We are also getting a subscription to Netflix so I didn't feel the need for all those movie stations.
I also have just ordered the Siddha Yoga Message for 2004.
Should be here in a week or so.

Adidam
Monday, February 23, 2004
I just viewed a video sent to me by Adidam's magazine. There was a discussion of Adidam as a religion, a new religion. Some things were discussed about creatorship and other disciplines, or you might say lineages.
The presenter of the discussion was named William Stranger. It was pretty good, but I think what they really mean by creator oriented religion is authority oriented religion. He says we depended on this creator and when we were in trouble he was nowhere to be found, but I think it is an authority or authoritarian religiousity that is the real trouble.
Adidam's link is above.
Sign up for the Global Magazine.

John Kerry Internet Town Meeting
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Michael Sullivan wrote:
EB:OKAY!
I know what flames are!
I know about people's emotions.
MS: So do I.
EB: So why are new rules made and who has any say in them?BR> This is about democracy isn't it?
Or is it?
MS: We have had to respond to an onslaught of right wing and dean supporters citing the same rightwing web sites and we do not exist to provide web traffic to these sites full of lies, smears and unsubstantiated allegations.
EB: You haven't said anything about say so!
You exist for the good of DEMOCRACY!
The same links apparently could be posted witin a post as at the signature.
I read a post about Log Cabin Republicans.
This was a Gay man, but a republican.
Andrew Sullivan, former editor of The New Republic type.
I subscribed to that magazine for a while, but I heard Sullivan was conservative and I didn't like some of the spin, so I quit it.
Ond posters name was something like "I was for Dean."
Democracy is a hard thing to stand for. Like Indira Ghandi, we may prefer, in our hearts to imprison those who oppose us. That is not democracy!
We ask nations like Cuba and Nicaragua to be democracies. We ask Iraq to be a democracy.
We offer aid, but are we truly democratic ourselves?
We still depend on the antiquated electoral college, a purely political structure created to appease large territories deciding to become states when this nation was still very young (correct me if I'm wrong).
And there is rarely a chance for other parties or people with a brave new notion of how we should act, i.e. we have no runoffs.
Imagine a Clinton v Perot runoff in 1992? If Perot had stood a chance at a runoff maybe more people would have voted for him. I know that as it stood a runoff would have been Bush, Sr. v Clinton.
So a new rule is made, we are to obey "pronto", which is not a flame at all to you, you think it is just friendly jargon, "pronto".
MS: I think your sarcastic tone indicates that you have little respect for the difficulty of our job. We have to discern between Rove's provocateurs and Dean supporters who are using the same playbook. They say they support Kerry and proceed to spread slime. We do not consider rightwing web sites a reputable news source.
EB: What am I being sarcastic about? This is what Sandra said to me!
"Remove them Pronto."
You know the moderator named sandra, don't you?
Further, you are sounding quite the Maoist, now, but this is nothing that Jane Fonda would endorse.
In fact one of our chief supporters, Stephen Stills, says "paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep, it starts when you're always afraid, step out of line ... and the man come and take you away!"
If I should want to create a link to a page about Stephen Stills, or a page that Stephen Stills has made himself, what is wrong with that?
Take a picture in your mind of Senator Kerry and Stephan Stills. Maybe the whole band could come together and do a performance in his name, and maybe he could appear. I'm not too sharp on these campaing things, but I would enjoy seeing them together and well again.
I hope David's liver is good!
Or how about Carol King. Saw her on the Grammys. Maybe she and Baby James could help the Vietman Veteran who opposed the War. In fact I'm sure if they decided to, they would.
You are talking about REGULATION, HERE.
I THINK REGULATION IS A GREAT THING!
But we can't keep people from competing just because they may beat us!
Its the same thing as we say they do!
I have long hair and I feel I am not getting a fair chance because of it.
They say just cut my hair, and I have done that now and then, but isn't that like asking me to be an OREO?
The president of the university here was forced from position by calling another univerity president that word. Adam Herbert was a republican. John Lombardi called him an oreo in conversation at some party and it caused a big uproar. Lombardi is now at UMASS.
John Lombardi didn't have to look to the president of the Universty of North Florida for someone to call an orea, he could have just looked into his own faculty.
Why wasn't free speech allowed to take its course?
I helped make John Kerry the odds on favorite to win the democratic nomination pronto and then suddenly, I'm not needed. New rules have been made and I must remove my links in my signature "PRONTO!"
This is not the military! and if it is then say so!
I'm not here to follow orders but to discuss the issues of the day!
MS: You, me, the mod team and many many members of this board "helped make John Kerry the odds on favorite to win the democratic nomination". I made over 5000 phone call to Iowa, NH, SC and TN.
Together we have made over 25,000 calls to date. I don't see that links in your signature line are such a big deal. We don't want them and we won't permit it period. I think you could have been cooperative and just a bit understanding but you weren't.
EB: You're kidding, aren't you buddy? Did you bother to go to my webpage and check out my resume? It's on page 4.
How much do you make a year?
I made nothing last year, and the year before that.
I haven't had a job since I got financial aid going to COMMUNITY COLLEGE for work skills. I got a certificate from ITS (Information Technology Service).
I was told while attending that I would be able to pass a Microsoft A+ exam that cost $240, but I couldn't so I just lost that money.
What the hell, the state was paying me to go (as long as I could pass at least two of my classed per semester).
My grandmother, a German immigrant, lived in the Bronx on relief. When her husband died in the 40's what could she do? She had a disability. Her leg was unusually large and she had to drag it along behind her when she walked. She didn't speak much english either.
But, what's my point, right?
I see that question asked a lot.
Like when I posted about the MJ article on slavery and the English colonies.
What was the point of mentioning this article that said slavery was abolished in the English colonies before Lincoln, before the Civil War?
Do you have no need for such valuable education at the Kerry Boards?
I beleive it was sandra who contended that John doesn't read these boards, if so, then they are not terribly important to the campaign, are they?
So what does a link mean.
And what do conservative or near conservative posters have to say about their links being dismissed?
You know Senator Hillary Clinton was once a Goldwater girl?
She went to a womens college and she was quite conservative. Would you like to buy her book? It's on sale at Amazon. I can almost undersstand links that send you to advertising, but links to faith related places, that sort of disses me.
Do you know today is SHIVARATRI?
EVERY MENTION OF THE HOLY NAME TO DAY IS WORTH A THOUSAND TIMES WHAT IT IS NATURALLY.
You do know the holy name don't you, Michael?
My post was deleted and I never even got a copy of it! I don't know what the post said, but you are the judge and jury on the post. The issue does not go to the electorate.
EB: Posts are not deleted, they are moved to an area of the board that is out of public view. And yes, we do make those decisions and it isn't easy considering the large number of disingenuous individuals who are sneakily trying to undermine support for JK and need to get weeded out.
You're PARANOID!
When I was younger they used to say this about Nixon. Now I know what it means.
Parents proudly declare that in the home there is a dictatorship and obviously the same is true here.
MS: Well, as far as 1st amendment rights go it is more like a newspaper with a certain editorial policy - in this case getting out JK's message. A newspaper is under no obligation to publish every letter to the editor they receive just as we, who pay for the bandwidth and webspace for this forum are under no obligation to permit every post to remain.
Posts do get old and can be archived.
You know I have a little EZBOARD center myself.
There is a link to it at my webpage which I have declared in the settings at John Kerry Internet Town Meeting.
Speaking of Town Meetings, shouldn't this be more like a town meeting than a newspaper?
John's Town Meetings were my good fortune to attend via satellite TV.
I was lucky to see them, being somewhat focused on all this. You know a lot of people "bought into" the notion of the 9 dull democrats.
I saw a few debates but found them hard to stay with as per their scheduling, but I felt lucky to see a town meeting at a Fire Station (sorry he had no veg chili) and in Iowa. I also saw his sister in South Carolina.
She is a lot like his mother is described in tour of duty, small and self-effaciing but dogged.
I read with interest how John's mother was stranded in Paris when the Nazis invaded it.
Must have been something like Sarajevo. Aren't we proud we have solved that problem?
I read quite a bit about that issue in The New Republic. TNR boasts of being present are Air Force One.
So my post is removed and I removed my own link, but now I'm not a happy Kerryer!
I've been giving $10 a month to this campaign with other important donations I do not wish to tell you about.
MS: That's too bad, we wish that you were more cooperative. We really hate having to moderate Kerry supporters but we have to try to be even-handed and this is difficult but I stand by our policy.
You know I hate to hear the anchormen say that John is being accused of being a dupe of special interests like G.W., but I am hearing you wish I had been more CORPORATE, than you wish I had been cooperative.
John's grandfather and grandmother, you know, were jewish and they escaped the anti-semitism of the Austro-Hugarian empire. I'm no history buff, but I do know Hitler was Austrian and that the semitic people who cooperated with him were called COOPERATORS.
I have also had some interest in Organic Food Cooperatives! There was one such cooperative in Gainesville, Fl called the HOGTOWN GRANARY.
According to my newspaper it was embezzled and that's why it went under.
I suspect my newspaper of not telling the truth, well, because I have found my share of lies in it.
One was that they supported Nixon in '72, another was that Steve Spurrier was a Heisman Trophy winner.
Silly things, those sports statistics.
Yes, I understand about moderating the Kerry Fans, they might start removing the bras and swing them around and wouldn't that be a bummer. (Now that's some real SARCASM.)
I compared you to Bush.
MS: That did not make me very happy I have to admit.
EB: Have you ever eaten the Vegetarian Baked Beans? There is a Transmission company over there in Gainesville. I truly believe Homer was the key to the Yankees success when he was with them.
Isn't the war the fight for "civilization?"
Well, many of us don't exactly believe in the civilized.
Remember the Back to Earth movement, people getting away from technology and closer to nature.
MS: Yes, I remember and very few of them became successful farmers.
I was one of them!
EB: Oh, yeah. My family on my father's side has a farm. They grow white acre peas, watermelon and collards.
When I arrived here in 1970 I was given a job that lasted one day and nearly killed me laoding watermelon in the dead of summer.
Lots of black people worked for them but none were allowed any positions of authority.
Where really hard work was necessary the black person, male or female, was "empowered" but where you could lay back and bullshit with the guys it was all white.
They were unashamedly racist, one cousin espousing the principles of B.F. Shockley later on when he attended college which was just 2 years before I.
One of my Back to Nature friends, on the other hand, lived in a chiki Seminole Indian hut that he built himself. He and his wife and child were naturalists, meaning that they were often nude.
They didn't smoke dope and when I first met them I saw a devotional picture of the young Indian Guru Maharaji.
Maharaji has a site on the web, but I find many people hate him, as opposed to Marijuana which apparently many people love. It's Maharaji or marijuana to them isn't it? But I have seen a lot of "Maharajis" smoke marijuana. Maybe that's why I liked them and why I continued to pursue the spiritual truth.
My links were to spiritual identities not to right wing or Deaniac sites.
By the way, do you see that now Dean is thinking of endorsing a rival.
Do you think having deleted posts by his supporters at this forum will affect his decision?
Oh well, since John himself hasn't the time, how important could it (this forum) be?
Have you ever read the Penthouse Forum, Michael?
I wonder if that's on video?
It's natural for people to be angry when rules are changed and their posts are removed or they are summarily barred from a board entirely.
You make it worse when you seek to punish, quickly and without contest, those whose posts you do not approve of.
MS: Suggest an alternative. Spend ONE day as a moderator of this board and I can guarantee you would be screaming for the trolls heads!
I try to be even handed and strict. otherwise chaos will ensue.
EB: May I suggest that I be allowed to work with some of the faculty who taught me computer data processing at Santa Fe Community College?
Is a knowledge of computers necessary to any degree in what you do?
I have noted that you were a research biologist studying breast cancer, does political science have anything to do with what is going on here? I guess you would be invaluable to a debate wherein Bush's contention that the birith control bill causes breast cancer in in question. He would probably like to confuse people with the idea that this very near the news of the day that antibiotics can cause it in women.
Let me tell you there was no profanity in my post even though I find nothing wrong with posts that use it. Many can be amusing and full of JOY!
MS: We may have been a bit hasty but we have been under coordinated attack from Dean and Bush supporters (each coordinated not together) for over a week. None of us were in the mood to be terribly tolerant and if you got caught in that cross-fire I apologies EB: Sound like a "scary lineup!"
This links thing, you know, its pretty integral to the revolution they call the Internet!
My teachers said something like it was nonlinear.
I've read about that in my philosophy books so I may be getting confused.
One thing they didn't have the time or money for at SFCC was integrated the concepts of books and the Internet.
So, we were left thinking they were opposed to one another, even that the school was PREJUDICED!
Most of my books were on Indian Philosophy and you know the Indian person is non-white.
Why did links in the signature become some big issue. Is it more important than Howard Dean's position on Iraq or the tax cut?
It would be nice to see government and politics have a little more love in its heart.
MS: Because people were linking to Rightwing websites and if they had to go they all had to go to be evenhanded.
EB: Are you a Marxist? I wonder why the Sandinistas allowed an oppostion party to assume power there?
Have you read, this was in the same Atlantic Monthly that a part of Tour of Duy appeared in, that Robert Mugabe is committing mass murder in Zimbabwe.
He's an evil man, let's go get him, moreover let's not be just like him.
I'm unemployed and I still consider myself young although boys who work cash registers in my town are calling me "SIR" for some reason! MS: I get that all the time.
EB: Are you 50 years old?
Maybe it's my KERRY HAT or KERRY BUTTON!
Well, I'll stop wearing that now, thank you!
And I will stop giving the money. God knows there are enough other people who need it, like Hillraisers or Center for Science in the Public Interest.
MS: I like the last charity, I'm a research biologist studying breast cancer.
Give or don't give to the cause of your choice. We appreciate donations to Kerry's campaign.
EB: Do they call that being curt?
Oh, yes, that's being courteous, right?
Indeed, I guess I will unsubscribe to Florida for Kerry and whatever else this campaign sends me.
MS: Scorched earth? Is that entirely necessary? Sigh. I did my best.
Vietnam reference?
I will still vote for Kerry when the time comes and I will say so on the way, because he is a liberal and that's what I want.
But I won't love him!
Not after this!
MS: We will appreciate your vote. I don't love Kerry but I respect him AND his supporters. How about a little kindness for me? I'm an unpaid volunteer who had thousand of hours into this campaign and many, many days and night administrating this forum. Do you thinks it's easy?
EB: I'm quite surprised? Why wouldn't you love him? Do you think that's homosexual or something.
And if you're not getting paid, again, how important?
You know as a Flash Activist Networker I send faxes and email and lost of websites working for the social good send faxes and emails and I expect them to be read or somehow conferred to an important official on the matter. That's what I thought of John Kerry Internet Town Meeting (JKIT). Does Mary Beth Cahill work for free? NO! and neither should the administrator of this board.
MS:My decisions about rules etc. stand.. Continue posting (within the rules) or not. It's up to you. Personally, I think the decisions should be "approved by John Kerry!"
Kindest regards, Michael Sullivan Administrator John Kerry Internet Town Meeting

D-Link
Thursday, February 12, 2004
Well, I'm blazing away at with my high speed connection now but I have been frustrated trying to get my wireless network running.
It is very complicated and even after e-mailing and calling D-Link Support I am still far from up and running.
Jesus, ethernet was so easy!
You need a wireless card in the host computer besides the Cable/DSL router.
I've got a Wireless Access Point as well but I don't know what good that's going to do me.
I've got a PCI Adapter for my other computer, which is actually Mom's and a cardbus adapter for my old Dell Inspiron (my laptop).
It has been getting me so upset I haven't even had time to experience the joy of the DSL.
Speaking of joy, there is a new eatery over on Archer Road in Gainesville, and India Bazaar associate and it's a nice place to eat.
If you know the India Bazaar that opened a few years ago and moved to the adjacent shopping center, where Winn-Dixie and Tony and Pat's are, then you probably know the little place where it started out. They have turned that location into a restaurant serving lunch and dinner.
Hours are limited! and they are not open Tuesday!

Eddie's
Friday, February 6, 2004
I have gotten my web page changed over from earthlink to alltel.
Tell me if you see any "glitches."
It took a couple of hours.
I think it's all fixed just right.

Spiritual Retreat at Shree Muktananda Ashram
Sunday, February 1, 2004
Couldn't go to South Carolina for John Kerry.
I had a car problem. I needed a new battery.
It was kind of expensive so I decided to take it easy on my poor old mother's bank account and stay home.
As you may have already read in the previous post I am looking forward to high speed surfing on the Internet.
I hope it is available near you soon.

Melrose@www.ezboard.com
Sunday, February 1, 2004
This entry is for my sister Barbara whose computer experience is limited.
I just can't believe you finally got an email.
I keep getting these Mailer-Daemons that say Your mailbox is full.
I've wanted to tell you, from my experience that's when you have the boxes at the webmail sites full.
You know, spamblocker and all that?
They allow settings for suspect email, known spam, and all mail sent by people in your address book If they are not in the address book then it goes to suspect mail.
Known Spam you can just delete, but suspect mail you have to surf through and see if anyone or anything important sent you mail.
Imagine a thing sending you mail. That's like Siddha Yoga where they talk about BEINGS.

XTRA XTRA READ ALL ABOUT
Ed and Mom to have HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS, soon!
That's right, the email will be eddiebryan@alltel.net, I assume because it is alltel that is setting us up.
Already the phone number on the line in my room is changed to 475-1543 and I am awaiting the arrival, on Monday, I guess, of a DSL Modem.
ISN'T THAT GREAT?
More News If you would like to share my postings with your friends, I have been posting at Mother Jones Discussion and John Kerry Online Town Meeting.
Things got a little rough at Town Meeting. They decided they didn't want any links in our "signatures." Signatures are unique in themselves, you have to write them in settings, but I got upset because mine were links to Eastern Beings, Gurumayi and Krishna Das, a new singer I have discovered through KaaZaa.
Krishna Das was invited by the Jimi Hendrix Experience to sing with them but he had an arrangement to go visit Ram Dass and Ram Dass' dad.
He has a deep and powerful voice. He chants Om Namah Shivaya and Hare Krishna, but his liner notes disavow any connection with ISKCON, the deovotees who don't believe in abortion or sex except to procreate and won't eat eggs or drink tea or coffee. It all goes under the heading of people who have shaved their heads and chant in the park or something.
I personally believe in chanting in the park, but I think the one mantra and sect is a bit much.
I like to have the Siddhas and the Buddhists and whomever else wants to sing to sing in the parks.
I'm going to copy and paste this into my BLOG, because I am not sure it will get to you.
I let the Kerry Online thing go.
Mojo also gets under my skin a bit. I wonder, are these the people opposing censorship??? They delete posts and throw people off of their boards and yet they give little positive reinforcement, its all negative.
I would like some pats on the back for my kindnesses to the candidate or to the magazine.
It doesn't seem to be that way. O:-)
So tomorrow is the Super Bowl. I have been wondering, do they call the primaries Super Tuesday because they are after the Super Bowl or because they are fixed? After Al Gore and Bill Clinton's victory's then, I feel like they are fixed.
We'll see if Kerry comes out a winner this time, and they I'll be able to forgive them for getting way far ahead of Jerry Brown and destroying any chance for Bill Bradley.

Betty Castor for U.S. Senate
Friday, January 23, 2004
I'm so happy about Iowa and last night we had a Kerry Meetup! We got 5 people and all of them came. Karen, a Kerry supporter who goes to UF and majors in political science thought more would come.
I was delighted we got 5!
The Meetup occurred at the Mellow Mushroom on University Avenue in Gainesville. I am so sorry I didn't bring my camera and its flash, but I did have a bit of a bundle with the Douglas Brinkley book about John Kerry in Vietnam, "Tour of Duty," and a book of Robert F. Kennedy quotations my "favorite" teacher in High School gave to me back in 1970.
Also had a Tempeh Hoagie (half) and one of the Meetup attenders paid for it, and my diet soda. Tom Baumgartner, who gave me his card but I have lost it.
It gets real busy in my house and I get angry. Is it the same at yours?
On the lighter side, we are getting DSL here. I am looking forward to that, but they are moving rather slow on it.
I called their number 3 or was it 4 days ago.
I've gotten as far as to be waiting for someone to call to activate an account, that is give them a username and a password.
Does this mean the end of Earthlink? I'm not sure. I was told the Lite version you could not use your current Internet Service Provider, but I do plan to subscribe to the Tier 1 service.
May be going to South Carolina for a weekend to help out the John Kerry for President campaign there.

John Kerry Internet Town Meeting
Thursday, January 1, 2004
Hey, my nick at the above board is WolfGang19.
I used to like Steppenwolf.
Monster was my favorite piece.

A Man of Secrets
Thursday, January 1, 2004
A man of secrets
Howard Dean's apparent penchant for keeping public matters private is a bad habit that should alarm Floridians.
What, exactly, does Howard Dean have to hide?
Because of the bizarre nature of Vermont's public records laws, Democratic primary voters may never know exactly what it is that Dean - by all accounts the front-runner for his party's presidential nomination - doesn't want them to know about his years as governor of that tiny state.
That's because Dean took the trouble to invoke "executive privilege" for 145 boxes of documents relating to his administration. Nearly half of those documents will remain under seal for 10 years - meaning that if Dean is successful in his campaign for the presidency, he could conceivably serve two terms in the White House before Americans may know what it is he wants to hide about his record in Vermont.
There are indications aplenty - both in his comments to reporters and in memos - that Dean's presidential ambitions figured prominently in his decision to invoke executive privilege on the documents of his choosing.
Moreover, whatever else may be worthy about Dean's platform, he is clearly no advocate for open government.
During his tenure, Dean defended his right to secrecy in lawsuits filed by environmental groups and news organizations attempting to gain access to public documents relating to the governor's actions in office.
Mark Sinclair, an attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, which unsuccessfully attempted to access Dean's records, told The New York Times last week: "I assume they (the closed records) were his perspectives on development projects or on regulatory conflicts. And I think Dean was also very concerned about anything that might be used against him in the future and he just wanted to be double careful that anything that looked embarrassing or compromising was kept out of the public's eye."
Is there an elected official in all of America who wouldn't salivate over the prospect of being able to bury the public record in the interest of making sure that anything "embarrassing or compromising was kept out of the public's eye?" Fortunately, in Florida, that luxury is denied politicians because the people's right to know what government is doing with their tax dollars and in their names is paramount over the right of politicians to bury their embarrassments.
It's called Government in the Sunshine, and Florida supporters of Dean ought to be asking themselves what it is their chosen candidate wants to hide from them. His penchant for official secrecy flies in the face of Florida's rich tradition of open government. Dean's hidden trove of records may not matter much to some of his supporters. But we think it matters a great deal. And not only because elected officials ought to be willing and able to take the heat for their actions in office.
Dean seeks to replace George W. Bush in the White House. Bush is himself a bear on secrecy. He has used the claim of executive privilege to, among other things, shield the details of meetings Vice President Dick Cheney had with big-donor utility, manufacturing and fuel industry lobbyists who were invited to help rewrite national energy policy.
Talk about the foxes guarding the henhouse.
Dean, of course, has criticized the Cheney energy talks - only to be embarrassed this week when it was revealed that he held his own top-secret energy policy advisory meetings as governor.
The truth is, the potential to bury embarrassing secrets under the seal of executive privilege is greater - and far more damaging to the public interest - in the Oval Office than in the governor's mansion. And the prospect of replacing a president who already holds such contempt for the people's right to know with a challenger who is potentially even more contemptuous of open government is, frankly, frightening.
We don't care what it is that Howard Dean doesn't want us to know. The specific contents of those 145 boxes of privileged documents is less important than the fact that Dean would rather protect his own reputation than stand up for the principles of open government.
There is too much secrecy in government as it is. Dean ought to revoke his claim to executive privilege and expedite the release of those records. Failure to do so would, in our view, reflect badly on his fitness for higher office.

JK online links
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
One of the links at the site above is TalkLeft, a blog committed to free speech of an alternative variety. I posted there on the Vatican's opposition to the Death Penalty for Saddam Hussein.
Some interesting comments there.
Some thought the repetitive showing of the Hussein's photo taken upon being captured was a bit "over the top." I made a comment on his likeness to a spiritual master, relaying that a great being named Guru Nanak once spent time in Baghdad.
A little something I thought may have missed there attention if they were not students of eastern philosophy.

Nice Timing
Monday, December 15, 2003
It's funny that Bush wants the world to forgive Iraq its debt but not so long ago he refused to forgive the debt of impoverished third world countries, a cause which was dear to the lead singer of U2, by name BONO!

Lost in Translation
Wednesday, December 3, 2003
November 23, 2003
Dear Ron,
Mel Brooks is a great comedian, but you should also check out his son Albert. I really loved his movie, “Mother,” with Debbie Reynolds and Rob Morrow. It’s about a man, a writer, who moves back in with his mother hoping to resolve personal differences he had had with her his whole life. It turns out Mom, played by Debbie, had to give up a promising writing career to take care of her first born, played by Albert.
Since I live with my mother I found that film very relevant.
But, you were writing about liars, weren’t you Mr. Cunningham.
When Mr. Clinton had his problems before the Grand Jury, Psychology Today had an issue on lying. It discussed when it was acceptable in the mind of the working public to lie and what lies were acceptable. It was for example, an acceptable lie, even more acceptable than the truth, to lie about why you were late for work.
I know from my own personal experience that lying is a very acceptable behavior. Lying about why you can’t go to school for instance, lying about your true intentions toward a girl or lying about whether you possess illegal substances.
In fact, I think your own newspaper howled out loud when a young man stopped for a traffic violation confessed to having pounds of marijuana in his trunk. The fool must have thought honesty would go well in an Alachua County courtroom. Who knows if he found that to be true.
Besides reminding us of the genius of Mel Brooks and the relationship of Ted Kennedy to Arnold Schwarzaneggar you also take potshots at John Kerry and Howard Dean. I wonder if by doing that you are saying, “I’m a southern man and I will sabotage any candidate who isn’t from the south.”
Yours is the first news I’ve had of him firing his staff. The news I get is he just recently invited his supporters from all over the country to come to Iowa and New Hampshire to help as those primary election days draw near.
Although I haven’t been exposed to Senator Kerry as one of my own, I know my own Florida representatives much better, I believe he is a candidate of courage and conscience, a candidate who would not say “Saddam is building nuclear weapons…” when he means “that man threatened to kill my daddy.”
Respectfully yours,
Eddie Bryan

Entries from 8_11_03
Saturday, November 8, 2003
The page was getting long so I archived my entries.
Some of it is some really recent stuff, such as my castration complex. Been watching a lot of Woody Allen, I guess that's how that got in there.
By the way, have I told you about the sofa? We finally got it!:-) I think it is about a month old now. It's green and one of those Lazy Boy sofas with the footrests that flip out on each end of it.
John Ashcroft came to Gainesville this weekend, which is also Homecoming weekend. There were protests, mostly mentioning the Patriot Act. You know there is also the naming of a special prosecutor to look into the leaking of the identity of a CIA Agent from within the White House, which is federal crime no matter where you do it. They say G.W. was pissed with an ambassador who opposed hiw war, and exposed the ambassador's wife's identity as an agent for the CIA to "get even!"
I've heard the administration has done things to get even with allies as well who didn't support the war on Iraq, but that is not such big news, I guess.
Ashcroft comes on Homecoming weekend when our minds are distracted by other things. That is best though I think, because I have heard thinking can cause things to get worse.
That would be something to understand wouldn't it? I suppose it is something like not letting your nerves get upset about things.
Sadgurunath Maharaj ki jay!

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