Thursday, November 13, 2008

The way it is


Catherine Vogt, 14, conducted an experiment in political tolerance at her Oak Park middle school and learned some valuable lessons.

Tolerance fails T-shirt test
John Kass
As the media keeps gushing on about how America has finally adopted tolerance as the great virtue, and that we’re all united now, let’s consider the Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment.

Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment in political tolerance and diversity of opinion at her school in the liberal suburb of Oak Park.

She noticed that fellow students at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama for president. His campaign kept preaching “inclusion,” and she decided to see how included she could be.

So just before the election, Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then bravely wore a unique T-shirt to school and recorded the comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore the simple yet quite subversive words drawn with a red marker:

“McCain Girl.”

“I was just really curious how they’d react to something that different, because a lot of people at my school wore Obama shirts and they are big Obama supporters,” Catherine told us. “I just really wanted to see what their reaction would be.”

Immediately, Catherine learned she was stupid for wearing a shirt with Republican John McCain’s name. Not merely stupid. Very stupid.

“People were upset. But they started saying things, calling me very stupid, telling me my shirt was stupid and I shouldn’t be wearing it,” Catherine said.

Then it got worse.

“One person told me to go die. It was a lot of dying. A lot of comments about how I should be killed,” Catherine said, of the tolerance in Oak Park.

But students weren’t the only ones surprised that she wore a shirt supporting McCain.

“In one class, I had one teacher say she will not judge me for my choice, but that she was surprised that I supported McCain,” Catherine said.

If Catherine was shocked by such passive-aggressive threats from instructors, just wait until she goes to college.

“Later, that teacher found out about the experiment and said she was embarrassed because she knew I was writing down what she said,” Catherine said.

One student suggested that she be put up on a cross for her political beliefs.

“He said, ‘You should be crucifixed.’ It was kind of funny because, I was like, don’t you mean ‘crucified?’ ” Catherine said.

Other entries in her notebook involved suggestions by classmates that she be “burned with her shirt on” for “being a filthy-rich Republican.”

Some said that because she supported McCain, by extension she supported a plan by deranged skinheads to kill Obama before the election. And I thought such politicized logic was confined to American newsrooms. Yet Catherine refused to argue with her peers. She didn’t want to jeopardize her experiment.

“I couldn’t show people really what it was for. I really kind of wanted to laugh because they had no idea what I was doing,” she said.

Only a few times did anyone say anything remotely positive about her McCain shirt. One girl pulled her aside in a corner, out of earshot of other students, and whispered, “I really like your shirt.”

That’s when you know America is truly supportive of diversity of opinion, when children must whisper for fear of being ostracized, heckled and crucifixed.

The next day, in part 2 of The Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment, she wore another T-shirt, this one with “Obama Girl” written in blue. And an amazing thing happened.

Catherine wasn’t very stupid anymore. She grew brains.

“People liked my shirt. They said things like my brain had come back, and I had put the right shirt on today,” Catherine said…

Catherine never told us which candidate she would have voted for if she weren’t an 8th grader. But she said she learned what it was like to be in the minority.

“Just being on the outside, how it felt, it was not fun at all,” she said.

Don’t ever feel as if you must conform, Catherine. Being on the outside isn’t so bad. Trust me.

We were just talking about how Oak Park was called the land of “wide lawns and narrow minds” by Hemingway.

And there they go again.

h/t: Sweetness and Light
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Hank suggests a remedy.

Gundersen files motion to toss convictions - UPDATED

UPDATED:

Former Blue Lake Police Chief David Gundersen has been cleared of all major charges first filed against him in 2008. - Arcata Eye MARCH 2012

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☛ TS Gundersen files motion to toss convictions
Former Blue Lake Police Chief David Gundersen's attorney filed a motion Wednesday challenging 13 of his client's 14 convictions.

The seven-page motion alleges that jury errors, insufficient evidence, issues with statutes of limitations and improper argument and questioning by District Attorney Paul Gallegos resulted in prejudiced jury verdicts that should be thrown out or, at least, retried.

Gundersen was arrested in February and stood trial on 28 charges, including two dozen counts of spousal rape with the use of an intoxicant, as well as charges of attempting to dissuade the victim of a crime, violating a court order and illegally possessing both a submachine gun and a pistol with a silencer.

After spending six weeks in court, a jury of five men and seven women acquitted Gundersen of the spousal rape charges, but returned guilty verdicts on 11 lesser charges of battery relating to nude photos Gundersen took of his wife, Darcie Seal, allegedly without her consent. The jury also convicted Gundersen on the two firearms charges.

...The motion filed Wednesday by Gundersen's attorney, Russell Clanton, first takes aim at his clients 11 battery convictions, saying the guilty verdicts were “contrary to both law and evidence.”
☛ TS read the rest

And, then there's this: ☛ TS Trinidad PD recommends theft charges against Gundersen

Trinidad Police Chief Ken Thrailkill said his department turned its investigative report into its former chief, David Ray Gundersen, over to the District Attorney's Office Wednesday, recommending that Gundersen be charged with theft, embezzlement and evidence tampering.

Gundersen is accused of taking firearms from the Trinidad Police Department's evidence locker while acting as police chief between 1997 and 1999, then allegedly trading them and other guns to Southern California's Cinema Weaponry in exchange for a Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine gun and a silencer -- the same weapons Gundersen was just convicted in September of illegally possessing, according to Thrailkill.

”Basically, he took the weapons without authorization from the city or the Police Department of Trinidad,” Thrailkill said. “Nobody had authorized him to, first of all, have those in his possession and, secondly, to trade Trinidad evidence for illegal firearms.”


UPDATE:
Grand theft charge dismissed against former Blue Lake police chief

UPDATED:

Former Blue Lake Police Chief David Gundersen has been cleared of all major charges first filed against him in 2008. - Arcata Eye MARCH 2012

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008


In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?
h/t: KT

One too many times.

I've heard it one too many times now. A snarky remark about Rob Arkley closing the Eureka Reporter 'this close' to the holidays. "What a guy!"

Yeah, what a guy.

Those making the remarks think nothing about how much money he poured into the thing in the first place - I've heard figures bandied about - 5 million a year, 10 million a year, I don't know how much, but it is alot - nothing about all the jobs he created there, however long it lasted.

That paper was a gift to the community - and an extremely costly one.

But like the Journal, if the public appreciates it and wants it to continue, the public has to support it - they have to subscribe, they have to buy ads, they have to contribute to its success.

If people don’t do that, the Journal, and many other local papers, like the Eureka Reporter, could also disappear.

Arkley provided the opportunity - a beautiful newsroom, its own press, a dedicated staff, the opportunity, complete with state of the art infrastructure, was an incredible gift, and one that the Journal, the Eye, the Independent and the Press never had.

From that solid base, all things should have been possible.

And what did he get? Snarky remarks and all out vile attacks.

Lesson learned. People don’t appreciate that which is freely given.

We've all lost. Some very fine up and coming reporters are out of work. The equipment sits idle. The community loses revenue, as well as an alternate source of news, one that ever so slightly edged into an unfilled niche.

But a little thanks and appreciation, a little sympathy and compassion are in order.

Alleged abuser found in Eureka

☛ TS Alleged abuser found in Eureka

The McKinleyville man accused of abusing and torturing his daughter was arrested this morning after law enforcement officials received an anonymous tip about his location.

Humboldt County Sheriff's deputies arrested Fernando Joel Calderon, 26, at a residence on the 1300 block of I Street after receiving an anonymous tip at about 10 a.m.

Calderon was transported to the Humboldt County jail where he was booked on suspicion of torture, inflicting unjustifiable pain upon a child, and inflicting an injury upon a child...


Authorities seek man for child abuse
Law enforcement was recently alerted by family members after the young girl returned from an unsupervised visit with Calderon. The girl reportedly suffered injuries that required medical treatment.
The Sheriff's Office has requested an arrest warrant for Calderon that includes allegations of torture and inflicting pain upon a child.


HCSO Suspect Sought in Child Abuse Case

Klamath dam deal previewed

☛ TS Klamath dam deal previewed

The federal government and Pacificorp have reached an agreement in principal on removing the four dams on the Klamath River and have floated the deal to tribes, fishermen, farmers and conservation groups.

The White House intends to release details of the plan tomorrow, but sources say the agreement includes beginning to tear down the dams by 2020, with Pacificorp putting millions of dollars toward the effort....

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Monday, November 10, 2008

Bloggers, Hoaxes, National Politics and Reporters...

Sarah Palin not knowing Africa was a continent. Made national news that one did. Such a juicy story.

Google “Martin Eisenstadt.” Amazing.

Martin Eisenstadt is the pseudonym of an anonymous writer who hoaxed major media organizations, posing as an adviser to the McCain campaign. He claims to be a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy, also a fake...

link

Measure T Down. No flames. Just Down. As it should be.

County, Pacific Legal Foundation reach Measure T settlement Measure T: 'Null and void'
The Pacific Legal Foundation announced Monday that it has agreed to a settlement with Humboldt County over the legality of Measure T.

Passed by county voters in 2006, Measure T aimed to ban political contributions from out-of-county corporations to local campaigns. But, the measure quickly came under fire from those who believed it to be unconstitutional.

...Reached Monday, Interim Humboldt County Counsel Wendy Chaitin said the county felt compelled to fight the case because it stemmed from a citizen-passed initiative, despite the fact that many worried from the beginning that the measure may not past constitutional muster.

”The county felt it was necessary to defend Measure T and they did,” Chaitin said. “But, there's a point where you have to balance the reasonable likelihood of winning the lawsuit versus what kind of effort and county funds -- basically taxpayer money -- you want to put toward that effort.”

Illston's initial ruling on the injunction, Chaitin said, plainly showed the proverbial writing was on the wall.

”It was clear from the preliminary injunction ruling that the U.S. District Court Judge Illston, in granting that preliminary injunction, was pretty strong and clear in her language that there were many distinct grounds on which she concluded that Measure T violated the Constitution, both on First and 14th Amendment grounds,” Chaitin said.

Under the terms of the proposed settlement, the county will have to pay $44,000 in Pacific Legal Foundation legal fees, but Chaitin said the total cost of the case for the county is closer to $100,000, not including county staff time.


heraldo has the press release from DUH C MEASURE T: Finished
Press release from the backers of Measure T:
HUMBOLDT COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CAVE TO CORPORATE PRESSURE:
AGREEMENT TO SETTLE OVER MEASURE T FILED IN FEDERAL COURT

Eric has a thread going.

And That POS Measure cost the county HOW MUCH? Kaitlin?

Looks like a big one.


TS Hells Angel shot Friday was cleared of murdering girls in Merced
The man shot outside an Old Town bar in Eureka Friday night had recently been acquitted of murdering two girls in Atwater in 1986.

Robert Daniel Thompson, 43, was most recently found not guilty by a Merced County jury in July. It was the second trial that found him not guilty of killing 12-year-old Jodi Ragsdale and 15-year-old Sheila Carter.

The two girls were brutally killed in December of 1986, and their bodies dumped along a road in a rural area, their heads smashed. Their murders have yet to be solved.

Thompson, a Hells Angel member who served seven years in prison and had to register as a sex offender for kidnapping a woman in 1987, was shot several times at 3rd and C streets Friday night. He was taken to U.C. Davis Medical Center Saturday, and is listed in fair condition. Police continue to look for witnesses to the crime.

Four men were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Eric Gunner Lundin, 28, Dustin Christopher Liebes, 36, Brad Lee Miller, 26, and Redding resident Eric Dean Garcia, 28, were booked into Humboldt County jail.


TS Four arrests follow shooting outside bar

A Merced man was seriously wounded after he was shot outside The Shanty in Eureka late Friday night, and four men were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder shortly afterward.

Robert Daniel Thompson, 43, of Merced was found lying in the intersection of Third and C streets, bleeding from several gunshot wounds, when police arrived at about 11:10 p.m. About five minutes later, officers stopped a vehicle at Watson and D streets and arrested four men believed to be involved in the shooting.

Eric Gunner Lundin, 28, Dustin Christopher Liebes, 36, and Brad Lee Miller, 26, all of Eureka, and Eric Dean Garcia, 28, of Redding, were booked into Humboldt County jail on charges of attempted murder.


Merced Sun Star Robert Thompson shot outside Eureka bar

Modesto Bee Detectives kept an eye on Thompson because of his Hells Angels membership

The AgingRebel.com Biker Motive Alleged In Shooting

UPDATE:
☛ TS Four arrests follow shooting outside bar
11/09/2008 - A Merced man was seriously wounded after he was shot outside The Shanty in Eureka late Friday night, and four men were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder shortly afterward....
☛ TS Alleged Mongols shooters charged for gang crime
☛ Merced Sun Star Robert Thompson shot outside Eureka bar
☛ Modesto Bee Detectives kept an eye on Thompson because of his Hells Angels membership
☛ The AgingRebel.com Biker Motive Alleged In Shooting
☛ TS Hells Angel shot Friday was cleared of murdering girls in Merced
11/11/2008 - A man who was gunned down in the street outside an Old Town bar Friday night had recently been acquitted of a 1986 murder of two young girls in Atwater.

☛ TS Four arrests follow shooting outside bar
☛ Merced Sun Star Robert Thompson shot outside Eureka bar

One arrested, two hospitalized after fight outside Eureka bar
11/16/2008 - A brutal fight outside a Eureka bar, The Shanty, early Saturday morning left one man in jail and two others recovering from serious injuries in the hospital.

☛ TS Prelim begins for alleged Mongols shooters

☛ TS Expert links shooting suspects to Mongols motorcycle gang

☛ TS Suspected Mongols accept plea agreement
12/18/2008 - Members of the Mongols biker gang implicated in the shooting of a suspected Hells Angel in early November have all accepted plea agreements offered by the Humboldt County district attorney.

Mongols members sentenced for shooting

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Witness to Jonestown

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27187801#27187801

The Real Problem w/update

The TS editorial Keep salmon in the classroom today rightfully laments the death of the Salmon in the Classroom Program.

...The program is one that allows local elementary students to raise young steelhead trout, and then release them into the wild. It benefits a somewhat troubled species while teaching our children how to be stewards and caretakers of the environment....

The front page story gives details. Salmon out of the classroom: Long-time educational program victim of state budget cuts
...Acting on an executive order from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California Department of Fish and Game was forced to cut the position that oversees the popular and long-lived Salmon in the Classroom program. That's the one that has kids raising steelhead from eggs before releasing them into a river to grow....

Pointing out that when teachers ...started using Salmon in the Classroom, things were different. Today, steelhead in the region are protected, and Fish and Game requires its involvement -- or that of an approved contractor -- to oversee how the eggs and fish are handled, and to ensure that they're raised in stable conditions.

That oversight is a time-consuming job, and Fish and Game says it's not something that can simply be taken on by remaining staff...


Now, there are many classrooms in the County who use this as part of their curriculum. Many of those teachers have science backgrounds, and even if they don't, you have to believe that anyone who has what it takes to get a teaching degree also has what it takes to be able to manage an aquarium. At minimum these teachers have been doing it, many of them have been doing it for YEARS. These are the kind of people who DEVELOP programs like this in the first place.

This is a case of the State regulations and bureaucracy KILLING independent thought, action and instruction. Kids are learning a far greater lesson here. That they cannot do anything without approval of the Government (Big G). That they cannot think and act for themselves, or do anything without permission.

The kids know they can raise the fish. They've been doing it. They know their teacher knows how to do it. They've been doing it. The guidelines are all there, the curriculum is all there, the aquariums are all still intact. The will is there. The teachers are fully capable.

South Fortuna Elementary School recently invested $900 in each of four classrooms for equipment like chillers, pumps and aquariums when it learned that Fish and Game wouldn't be able to provide eggs or support for their nearly self-sufficient program. It was highly disappointing, said third grade teacher Jim Buschmann, who said the fish provided a way to teach a variety of topics, including how human behavior effects the environment.

”It created a tremendous amount of interest among the students,” Buschmann said, “they were able to watch the whole life cycle.”

...Habib said she plans to talk with her students and their parents and get them involved in writing letters and making calls to elected officials in an effort to find some way to restore the program.

”That's excitement you don't want to lose,” Habib said....

This is a SIMPLE matter of relaxing some regulations to allow this program to go through without the state funding it doesn't even need.

Go back to the way the program undoubtedly began, with innovative teachers, dedicated volunteers and curious minds, working to create something great. Before it got the kiss of death - becoming a state program.

UPDATE:
☛ TS Salmon -- coming back to a classroom near you

Like a steelhead in high water, the renowned Salmon in the Classroom program just won't quit.

Acting on an outpouring of public support to save the hands-on classroom steelhead-rearing project, a grassroots campaign was quickly launched after news of the program's demise was learned. Now, not only is a volunteer, county and state partnership vowing to revive the aquarium project this year, it may grow to become something more.

”Hands-on learning is something that you just can't beat,” said Humboldt County Superintendent of Schools Garry Eagles.

The California Department of Fish and Game in October sent a letter to more than two dozen teachers who had raised steelhead in classroom aquariums, informing them that a key position had been cut, and no one would be able to oversee the program. Teachers were saddened to learn of the suspension of the project.

But the beloved program was not about to get washed out to sea. There are many teachers with strong experience raising steelhead, and a number of fisheries professionals interested in seeing the effort carry on.

”If you start talking to the kids and the families that have gone through this the last 20 years -- you know those milestones you go through in school -- they always come back to 'Are you still raising fish?'” said retired teacher Jeff Self, who has a long history raising salmon in Blue Lake, Freshwater and Eureka city schools.

On Friday, representatives with the county and Fish and Game and volunteers met to figure out how to restore Salmon in the Classroom, and ensure that kids would see steelhead raised from eggs this year and into the future. Things quickly came together.

”We've got a plan, we've got a strategy and we've got people lined up,” said Fish and Game senior biologist Scott Downie.
The group needs to raise about $20,000 to contract a volunteer and for supplies and travel. There are about 33 classrooms in the county scheduled to raise steelhead from eggs procured from the Mad River Fish Hatchery this year. Fish and Game's Fortuna office has agreed to oversee permitting and other elements.

Eagles said he believes there are funding sources that can contribute to the program in the short term, and expects to have them in place by the beginning of December.

Another potential hurdle for the program has been cleared. A lawsuit lodged by the Pacific Rivers Council and the Center for Biological Diversity in 2006 looked to force Fish and Game to do an environmental analysis of its decades-old fish stocking programs.

That could have shuttered Salmon in the Classroom, because it may have closed the Mad River hatchery and prevented students from releasing the steelhead they raised in their classrooms.

But Sacramento Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette on Friday ordered the environmental analysis -- after lengthy negotiation between the parties -- while allowing certain stocking programs to continue, including the Salmon in the Classroom effort.

Eagles hopes to take the program further in coming years. He's looking into how California State Parks and the K-12 system might work to bring videoconferencing into classrooms in an effort to link schools to each other and to park interpreters.
Virtual field tours can be arranged through such a program, he said, and an existing curriculum is available.

Saturday, November 08, 2008

Hoopa man charged in boy's 1976 murder















A 51-year-old Hoopa man suspected of kidnapping and murdering a 6-year-old boy in Happy Camp 32 years ago, was charged with murder in Siskiyou County on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.

The charge was filed more than two weeks after Gregory Nelson and suspected accomplice Suzanne Little, 69, were arrested for kidnapping William Alford Cook Jr. in 1976.

Both suspects have already pleaded not guilty to the kidnapping charges.

Siskiyou County District Attorney, Kirk Andrus, did not return repeated phone calls Friday, but according to booking information, both Nelson and Little have been incarcerated at the Siskiyou County jail in Yreka.

☛ TS Hoopa man charged in boy's 1976 murder

New lead finally surfaces in boy’s death 10/22/08
...According to the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, Cook’s father had left him in the truck for a short time, and came back to find him missing.

His body was found by two teenage boys on Feb. 18, 1977, in a cardboard barrel that had been dumped off Highway 96 about 16 miles northwest of Yreka. The body had been dumped 100 yards from Highway 96 near the Cayuse river access at Gottville. The river access is located a few miles from the Tree of Heaven Forest Service campground.

A break in the case came in September of this year, when the Yreka Police Department contacted the sheriff’s office with new information about the case. The sheriff’s office detective unit and deputies, along with the Siskiyou County-wide Interagency Narcotic Task Force were able to develop information which led to the arrests, Riggins said.

The investigation is continuing and anyone with information regarding the kidnapping and murder is asked to contact Detective Mark Hilsenberg at (530) 842-8767.

Siskiyou County deputies were assisted by the Hoopa Valley Tribal Police Department, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department, Cal-Fire law enforcement officers, the California Highway Patrol, California Department of Justice Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement and the Humboldt County Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team.

According to court records reviewed by the Siskiyou Daily News, Nelson had been charged with driving without a license in Siskiyou County in December 1989. No other local arrest records were found.

The sheriff’s department did not release whether Nelson and Little knew Cook. The district attorney’s office issued the arrest warrants for Nelson and Little on the kidnapping charges and will decide if and when additional charges will be filed.


☛ SD Accused kidnappers to make their first court appearance 10/23/08
UPDATED: D.A. says kidnap suspect will be charged with boy's murder 10/23/08
☛ RS Man faces murder charges in boy's '76 kidnapping
Nelson and Suzanne Dorene Little, also known as Suzanne Aubrey, 69, both of Hoopa, were both arraigned Thursday on kidnapping for ransom charges in connection with the Aug. 28, 1976, disappearance of William Alford Cook Jr., known as Willie.

...In a strange twist, Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Susan Gravenkamp said Thursday that the boy's uncle, 28-year-old Herbert Cook of Happy Camp, was found murdered on July 20, 1975, at an American Indian ceremonial ground in Somes Bar.

An arrest was made in that case, but no one was ever convicted, she said.

It's not known whether the two cases might be related.

"That's something that they (detectives) are looking at," Gravenkamp said.


☛ RS Murder charge postponed for kidnap suspect 10/28/08
On Thursday, Siskiyou County District Attorney Kirk Andrus said he would file a murder charge against one of the suspects, Gregory Lynn Nelson, 51. Nelson's bail was raised to $1 million in anticipation of the new charge.

That new charge was postponed Monday until lawyers in the case reached agreement, said Sgt. Michael Montreuil of the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Department.

☛ RS Murder charge filed in Happy Camp "cold case" 11/7/08

Rules, unfortunately, do apply.

Look. I prefer. as you know, NOT to censor comments.

But I also cannot allow the blog to be hijacked and turned into an attack machine.

Someone has a beef with Greg and Carol. Well, ok, lotsa people do... it's the nature of politics. I have my own, which I will elaborate on later.

But this blog is not about the personal attack machine, despite what some people think.

It is based on the notion that, at heart, we all share some common values - and that once the blinders came off, people - off all stripes, parties and affiliations would recognize that there are certain things they care about when it comes to law enforcement.

Like Victim's Rights. Like CAST. Like SART. Programs that were put in place to ease the pain and stress of victims, to help them negotiate the horrific rigors of the legal system, and to help ensure that investigations are properly conducted - that evidence is well and fairly gathered, that innocent people do not go to trial, that CHILDREN, above all, are shielded, to the extent possible from pain, while they are helped to find the justice they seek.

Those things matter - and I have been horrified to see my friends, for whom they once mattered, turn their heads and avert their eyes, because to them, the politics of hating Palco, and hating Corporations somehow replaced their goodness and decency.

I thought that, eventually, people would stop and say "THIS is not what we hired you for, Paul. We did not vote you in to destroy the office, run off our seasoned and respected prosecutors." And most especially, "WE do not condone using the office as a weapon for your backers and cronies."

I believed that people were good.

Long and short for now - disagree with Greg and Carol on issues - it's part of the discussion. But no personal attacks. I don't like censorship. Sometimes, however...
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Friday, November 07, 2008

Computer issues

Experiencing technical difficulty. Down today, probably tomorrow. Back soon.