Friday, November 26, 2004
a day late, a dinar short
Here's a couple of good reads for yesterday. They'll work just fine today as well.
They Call Them "Charlie's Angels"
Thanksgiving in Fallujah - Emails Home
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(written yesterday morning)
Nice and quiet down in the jungle this morning. Haven't figured out what type of trouble to get into before it ends, just enjoying the annual listening of "Alice's Restaurant" and reading A Tribute To Officer Obie. The real story is "slightly" different. I think this is called "artistic license" and it's much funnier in Arlo's version!
Just listened to the 1999 version. Arlo brought up the 18 minutes, 20 seconds missing in the Nixon tapes. Same length as the original "Alice" recording? !! ;o)
I suppose it helps to be a middle-aged male to really appreciate the humor in Arlo's old tune. I had gone throught the Air Force tests earlier, passed all except the physical, turned 18 and had to take the Army's. Passed ALL of them and only had the "conviction" of a fine that had to be paid when the muffler fell off of my 1950 Pontiac on the way home from church. Didn't get to sit on the Group W bench darn it!
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Not to be read until after Thanksgiving. Tends to produce indigestion.
No child left unmedicated
Phyllis Schlafly - November 23, 2004
"Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is under way, and pharmaceutical companies are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.
Like most liberal big-spending ideas, this one was slipped into the law under cover of soft semantics. Its genesis was the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health created by President George W. Bush in 2002." (snip)
Here are 16 of the reports. I've read a few of them. Not good stuff. Lots of other links available through this site.
Subcommittees of the President's New Freedom
Commission on Mental Health
The brainsuck continues:
New Freedom Initiative/Mandatory Mental Health Screening of American Children Passes
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Good news is always in order however.
Future of 9th Circuit Under Review
They Call Them "Charlie's Angels"
Thanksgiving in Fallujah - Emails Home
* * * * * *
(written yesterday morning)
Nice and quiet down in the jungle this morning. Haven't figured out what type of trouble to get into before it ends, just enjoying the annual listening of "Alice's Restaurant" and reading A Tribute To Officer Obie. The real story is "slightly" different. I think this is called "artistic license" and it's much funnier in Arlo's version!
Just listened to the 1999 version. Arlo brought up the 18 minutes, 20 seconds missing in the Nixon tapes. Same length as the original "Alice" recording? !! ;o)
I suppose it helps to be a middle-aged male to really appreciate the humor in Arlo's old tune. I had gone throught the Air Force tests earlier, passed all except the physical, turned 18 and had to take the Army's. Passed ALL of them and only had the "conviction" of a fine that had to be paid when the muffler fell off of my 1950 Pontiac on the way home from church. Didn't get to sit on the Group W bench darn it!
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Not to be read until after Thanksgiving. Tends to produce indigestion.
No child left unmedicated
Phyllis Schlafly - November 23, 2004
"Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is under way, and pharmaceutical companies are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.
Like most liberal big-spending ideas, this one was slipped into the law under cover of soft semantics. Its genesis was the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health created by President George W. Bush in 2002." (snip)
Here are 16 of the reports. I've read a few of them. Not good stuff. Lots of other links available through this site.
Subcommittees of the President's New Freedom
Commission on Mental Health
The brainsuck continues:
New Freedom Initiative/Mandatory Mental Health Screening of American Children Passes
* * * * * *
Good news is always in order however.
Future of 9th Circuit Under Review
