tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58222592011-06-08T01:41:35.359-05:00A Filing CabinetOrangeHanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04552959990355567107noreply@blogger.comBlogger7011100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822259.post-83059894883759257742008-10-03T10:47:00.011-05:002008-10-03T11:57:45.220-05:00

Click the image to see it larger.Wordle made this word picture of Ghost Town Orange's current home page. Click here to go to my gallery page at Wordle where you will also find several word pictures created from this chunk of text from Barack Obama's Audacity of Hope:Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides

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This radio ad is playing frequently on a pop music station in Virginia:Tim: My name is Tim. I registered to vote because I've never voted before.Anthea: This is Anthea, and I went to voteforchange.com because the economy stinks.Male voice: I'm registering because I want Social Security to be here when I retire.Dominique: My name is Dominique, and I'm voting because I want to retire before I'm 90.

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A letter to the editor in the September 17-23 issue of the North Fork Journal, Rockingham County, Virginia [no web presence]:Recently, I and my wife noticed this sign in a field at Fulks Run. Painted over the Barack sign were the letters KKK.My wife is from Puerto Rico (a U. S. territory) and has lived in central Florida for twelve years. She has seen the face of the KKK actively. She has also

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I just installed a gadget in the sidebar which publishes "Christian Quotes Past and Present." The first quote is not particularly inspiring nor insightful--C. S. Lewis chimes in with this profound wisdom: 'wouldn't it be great if everyone was nice?':Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.--C. S. LewisGod our security,

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Ron Rivera, (Coordinator of Ceramic Water Filter and International Projects, Potters for Peace; sociologist, potter and appropriate technology enthusiast) recently died.William Grimes wrote the New York Times Obituary for Ron Rivera.Ron Rivera liked to call his ceramic water filters “weapons of biological mass destruction [sic--Mr. Rivera's wording was "bacterial mass destruction"].” For 25 years

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So I changed to a totally different template. I think I have brought over all needful content from the old template. I started searching for posts with common key-words and adding appropriate labels.Good evening.At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. -- Justice Anthony Kennedy.This quote earned

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I restored and added a few blogs etc. to the "other favorites" section of the sidebarPaul Krugman and Stanley Fish were added to the "favorite columnists"Strunk's Elements of Style Revised by John Cowan added to 'reference links'Sitemeter was unavailable over the weekend--so I added code for StatCounter just in case Sitemeter stops working. Sitemeter reports 5015 visitors since October 5, 2003.

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Click for larger image Small print at the bottom of the poster reads:4/08 - 81% of the people said that the country was on the wrong track and G. W. Bush's approval rating -28%Vote John McCain - Get More of the Same! found at boing boingLinks may fail without warning. Since we rarely test links for reliability and since many links eventually rot, we urge readers who see an item worth keeping to

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No astounding prediction this year. Remember that the Presidential Election is won in the Electoral College, so national polls are meaningless. Of course I'll support the Democratic Party as usual.Here's a good website to track state-by-state polls: FiveThirtyEight.Com."Christianity has become bloated with blind followers who would rather repeat slogans than actually feel true compassion and

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I have yet to update the 'Other Favorites' and "Stamp Collecting Links'--more updates to come!I deleted the Ghost Town Orange Weather service and upcoming news service although the original posts they link to are still there...maybe I'll update it with my current location...More columnists have been added to the favorite columnist list. I suppose I could add Paul Krugman and Stanley Fish from the

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The Terror Banana has been deleted from the template...Christian Links and Reference links have been checked and updated.New link: Diacritic Decoration changed 'Ghost Town Orange' to 'Ǵh̉ờśŧŦóẃñỢŕåņg̣è'"Most people I meet assume that Christian means very conservative, entrenched in their thinking, antigay, antichoice, angry, violent, illogical, empire builders; they want to convert everyone,

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I finally figured out how to change this blog over to my Google account. The last time I tried to post anything at the 'new blogger' my computer locked up...The Terror Banana is gone.I will check some of the links and update the template soon.There has been an unusual spike in activity at Ghost Town Orange:The last 100 visitors to Ghost Town Orange appear on this map:God our security,who alone

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I like to take photographs with available light only, so these pictures from the county courthouse tend to be a bit blurry because of longer exposure times.The technical imperfections occasionally seen in this post are original to the master images. They are presented for their historic value and should be judged in that context. Loose threads and fraying seams are evidence of this handcrafted

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39 pair of boots, representing 39 Oklahomans killed thus far in Iraqborder:1px solid black">After midday, the reason for this became clear. During the service, the village council, seated between machine-gun-armed police, had received from the police chief of the Haute-Loire department instructions to sign an "Appeal to the Jewish Refugees," which asked Jews to present themselves at the town hall

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border:1px solid black">When the sermon was over, there was great emotion in the church. In pain and fear, the parishioners said adieu to their pastors as they all made their way to the street that divides the grounds of the temple from the grounds of the Boys' School. But when they looked around, they saw no police in the street waiting to arrest the leaders.--Philip Hallie, Lest Innocent Blood

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border:1px solid black">Let us have no imitation Christian love. Let us have a genuine break with evil and a real devotion to good. Let us have real warm affection for one another as between brothers, and a willingness to let the other man have the credit. Let us not allow slackness to spoil our work and let us keep the fires of the spirit burning, as we do our work for the Lord. Base your

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More pictures tomorrow. Blogger's photo upload is slow and doesn't always work, so this is taking more time than I expected.border:1px solid black">God our security,who alone can defend usagainst the principalities and powersthat rule this present age;may we trust in no weaponsexcept the whole armor of faith,that in dying we may live,and, having nothing, we may own the world,through Jesus Christ.

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It was this strenuous, this extraordinary obligation that [pastors] Theis and Trocme' expressed to the people in the big gray church. The love they preached was not simply adoration; nor was it simply a love of moral purity, of keeping one's own hands clean of evil. It was not a love of private ecstasy or a private retreat from evil. It was an active, dangerous love that brought help to those who

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As usual, click photos for larger versions.border:1px solid black">But the spirit of the passages about the cities of refuge [Numbers 35:9-31; Joshua 20:1-9; and Deuteronomy 19:1-13] makes the prevention of harmdoing, the prevention of injustice, a requirement, a heavy obligation upon those who live as regular inhabitants of those cities. They must both refuse to do harm themselves and act to

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The front page of today's paper features 4 Halliburton stories:Demonstrations peaceful: Protesters turn out in numbers, but short of expectations by Rod Jones [According to this story, 17 arrests were made, which contradicts every other story I've read about the protest. Those of us waiting for the arrested protesters to be released did not expect a 17th to be released.]Local voices heard: Duncan

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Alas, I succeeded in locking up the computer I'm working with, and will not be able to post any pictures before tonight's choir practice. So I should be able to post some pictures between 9:00 and 10:00 pm Central time tonight. On a totally unrelated note, I have finally kept a New Years' resolution to my self to start creating an album for Japanese postage stamps--some of the most beautiful and

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Fellow Oklahoma Mennonite J. M. Branum knows Two Oklahoma Greens among the 16 arrested at the Halliburton protests in DuncanHe also provides links to 'mainstream' and 'alternative' stories about the protests.border:1px solid black">But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.--Matthew 13:16Behold, behold, behold! You have eyes to see, but how often you miss seeing My

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I do not have my physical copy of the Banner yet, but here is a link to today's story. Unfortunately, the paper is put to bed in the morning, too early for it to give details about the protests or about the shareholder meeting itself, for that matter.Copies were circulating at the Stephens County courthouse while we awaited the bailing out of the sixteen prisoners. The mis-identification of the

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This photo was taken about an hour ago, just after the sixteen protesters had been released from the Stephens County Jail. They had been arrested this morning in a civil disobedience action at the Halliburton shareholders meeting in Duncan.I have many more snapshots to post, but first I need to shrink them down to web-friendly size. I will try to provide somewhat accurate captions, but I am sure

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Today's Duncan Banner newspaper has two positive stories about Halliburton:Big bonus: Duncan Public Schools Foundation recieves windfall by the Banner StaffHalliburton, Duncan link long-standing: Shareholders' meeting emphasizes differing perceptions by Rod Jones and Floyd Jernigan The first article reports on a $50,000 gift presented to the Duncan Public Schools Foundation on Monday afternoon.

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I notice that someone at Halliburton was burning the late-night oil surfing the web for information about the shareholder meeting:I was up early this morning reading Halliburton's 2006 shareholder proxy statement to learn more about tomorrow's meeting. For your own copy, go to Halliburton's Investor Relations page and download the "2006 Proxy Statement - PDF Version" available there.Here's the

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Here's the link to the article promised yesterday: Halliburton's meeting draws fire [Duncan Banner, 15 May 2006]Reporter Rod Jones interviewed Darla Shelden [identified as a protest organizer for the Oklahoma City branch of Halliburton Watch] and Katie Heim of Houston Global Awareness. The theme of this year's protest is "Monopoly" [as in the board game].The paper and ink newspaper [not the

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Darla Shelden of antiwarfair.com sends an invitation to everyone for the Oklahoma City Halliburton On The Run!Teach In / Press eventWED, MAY 17TH, 20065:30pm-7:00pmMayflower Congregational Church 3901 NW 63rd Street Oklahoma City, OK 73116(OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)Event to present & discuss actions taken at theHalliburton Annual Shareholders' Meeting in Duncan, OK,on Wednesday morning, May 17 (

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This morning's Duncan Banner promises a Page 1 story for tomorrow evening's paper: Halliburton shareholders, protesters coming to town. I'll summarize what they have to say and provide a link, if available. Duncan should take advantage of this event for some publicity, despite Halliburton's misgivings. The calendar for Wednesday is blank.

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This humble and not-very-frequently-updated blog has attracted a sudden flurry in visitors looking for information about the Halliburton on the Run demonstration on Wednesday May 17.Of the past 100 visitors:3 have been from halliburton.com4 have been from the State of Oklahoma [presumably law enforcement agencies or the city of Duncan?]1 from the US Senate1 from the US House of Representatives2

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From Veterans for Peace:Click for a larger version.Also found at Veterans for Peace: Rolling Stone: The Worst President in History? by Sean Wilentz. I wondered why they even used a question mark--what competition does Mr. Bush have for being the worst President? Historians list a few:Was the lousiest James Buchanan, who, confronted with Southern secession in 1860, dithered to a degree that, as

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This morning after dropping one of my sons off at school, I took a few snapshots of the area set aside for the anti-Halliburton protest. This photo is of the sign directly to the north of the protest lawn:This is a sloppily-edited panorama of the protest lawn at 8:30 this morning, viewed from the northwest corner. The north wing of the Simmons Center [left in the panorama] has the theater and

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Today's devotional prayer at Sacred Space reflects on our freedom to serve each other:Freedom--God is not foreign to my freedom.Instead the Spirit breathes life into my most intimate desires,gently nudging me towards all that is good.I ask for the grace to let myself be enfolded by the Spirit.Today's verse, to read slowly and meditate upon:John 13:16-17After Jesus had washed their feet, had put

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Here are some links:Halliburton Watch--about as anti-Halliburton as you could want. Not very fair-minded.Antiwarfair Coalition--frame based site. Here I learned that some protesters will be camping at Lake Humphreys Tuesday night. The most useful of these sites to learn about the Duncan protest. Houston Global Awareness Collective--rather stale, not updated since December 2005. Blah blah '

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In an attempt to avoid protestors, Halliburton has moved the annual shareholder meeting from Houston to Duncan, Oklahoma.Halliburton has become the "poster child of war-profiteering," so protesters will be coming to Duncan anyway.Of course, the local power structure here is very pro-Halliburton. Halliburton is one of the largest local employers, and the oil industry has a strong local presence.

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I flipped the AM radio dial this afternoon, and heard the creation of a right-wing meme to discredit the Christian Peacemaker Teams. Two different talk show hosts, Michael Medved and Neil Bortz, condemned the Christian Peacemaker Teams for not expressing gratitude for their military liberators.I can only imagine what the Hannitys, Limbaughs, and O'Reilys said today.What did the CPTers say that

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The cold war is over, but rock in a park suggests the spying game still thrives:Electronic equipment concealed in a rock, allegedly used by four British embassy workers to receive intelligence information provided by Russian agents, in an image from a television documentary shown on Rossiya television. Photograph: RTR Russian Channel/APFour employees of the British Embassy have been fingered on

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Naomi Klein [8 December 2005] has noticed that liberals, like Molly Ivins [13 November 2005], were echoing Senator McCain's talking point--that 'never before' has the United States government been involved in torture:The principal propagator of this narrative (what Garry Wills termed "original sinlessness") is Senator John McCain. Writing recently in Newsweek on the need for a ban on torture,

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Molly Ivins:I'd like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Hillary Clinton for president.Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone. This is not a Dick Morris election. The senator is apparently incapable of taking a clear stand on the war in Iraq, and that alone is enough to

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From the file called "Funny Stuff and Ideas," a selection of quotes:One half of all human gene expression is in the brain?4th patriarch of Zen, Tao-hsin: "What is the method of liberation?"3rd patriarch, Seng-ts'an: "Who binds you?"4th patriarch: "No one binds me."3rd patriarch: "Why then should you seek liberation?""One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's

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Although I was born at the end of the baby boom, I've always identified more with 'Generation X'--the children of television, divorce, and downward mobility.Here are some notes from an old notebook. Alas, I did not record the source of these observations...I don't buy things--especially if they're advertised.--Scott Lamorte'It's the self-consciously minimalist lifestyle of the Lamorte brand of

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I have found the Navy to be a fairly Godless organization [with the exception of the Naval Academy] . . . I do not enjoy the prospect of continuing to stand on the quarterdeck as Officer of the Deck in foreign ports, being subjected to drunken tales of moral emptiness, passing out penicillin pills and seeing promiscuity on the part of married men.I have observed little in the way of a direct

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Found at the beginning of SisterChicks Down Under! by Robin Jones Gunn:Mostly what God does is love you.Keep company with him and learn a life of love.Observe how Christ loved us.His love was not cautious but extravagant.He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us.Love like that.--Ephesians 5:2--The MessageI thought I'd compare this translation with a

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Evolution-Completion Ideaby Donald BurgyDecember 1973[a Ghost Town Orange reproduction of a work found in "Donald Burgy: Participating in the Universe,"by Robert Joseph Horvitz in Artforum September 1974]Click image for a larger view for readability; the swirly, crinkly background texture is my 'artsy' addition and not part of the original work, which was deliberately left unornamented so the

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Source: ChinanewsOn 30 August 2005, Hong Kong Post unveiled a gigantic stamp mosaic to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the 'Post Office Trading Fund.'The mural portrays Victoria Harbor and the Hong Kong skyline. Over 1000 staff members of Hong Kong Post helped create the mosaic.Source: Hong Kong PostThe mural contains over 69,000 used postage stamps. The Guiness Book of World Records has

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...when the rich and powerful seize more and more control over our country. Witness President Bush's statement on Judge Alito this morning:Sam's got the intellect necessary to bring a lot of class to that Court. He's got a judicial temperament necessary to make sure that the Court is a body that interprets the law and doesn't try to write the law.Mr. Alito will 'bring a lot of class to that

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Technical difficulties over the weekend have delayed the 'Statue of Liberty on US Postage Stamps' post...Also, I suddenly had a desire to see The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe on the big screen; a movie where Santa Claus cheerfully passes out gifts of weapons to the young heroes, with the admonition that they are 'tools, not toys.' Odd that spiritual warfare is reduced to physical battle

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...and doesn't recognize Ghost Town Orange, so the Hitmap has been removed from the template.Fortunately, Sitemeter can show a map of the most recent visitors too.The map is a fairly good representation of the English-speaking Web--prosperous parts of the world, with more access to the Internet.Looking more closely at Sitemeter, I discovered that the post on the Statue of Liberty on Postage

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Tonight [or in some traditions, tomorrow night] is the 'Twelfth Night' of Christmas. In Shakespeare's day, this holiday was celebrated as a festival in which everything was turned upside down--much like the upside-down, chaotic world of Illyria in the play.More from Wikipedia on Twelfth Night: In Tudor England, the Twelfth Night marked the end of a winter festival that started on All Hallows Eve-

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At this time of the year, earth is at perihelion. Follow the link to find out what that meansHINT: it is not the reason for earth's seasons.O God! who giv'st the winter's cold,As well as summer's joyous rays,Us warmly in Thy love enfold,And keep us through life's wintry days.--Samuel Longfellow[the Unitarian minister, not his brother Henry Wadsworth Longfellow the poet],"'Tis Winter Now" from

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Christian Peacemaker Teams--committed to reducing violence by getting in the way.What would happen if Christians devoted the same discipline and self-sacrifice to nonviolent peacemaking that armies devote to war?CPT photo: Jim Loney passes off a peace dove to a friend for release at a multi-faith walk for the release of Iraqi captives.[found here: Missing in Iraq: Pictures Related to the

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Click image for larger viewSome of the most popular posts at Ghost Town Orange have been ones about the Statue of Liberty and postage stamps. For those new to Ghost Town Orange, here are a few posts that continue to attract visitors and may be worth a second look:The Statue of Liberty on Postage Stamps [May 2004]Even More Statue of Liberty Images [June 2004] New 'Old Bridge' at Mostar, Bosnia [

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On 2 January 1905, astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine observed the seventh moon of Jupiter for the first time. It was called Jupiter VII until 1975; it has been re-named Elara.Here are the 1905 journal articles reporting the discovery:The first--Harvard College Observatory Bulletin, number 178, page 1:27 February 1905[Click image for larger view]The next--Publications of the Astronomical Society

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Japanese New Year's Stamps for 200650 yen Akita dog postage stamp designed by Hoshiyama Ayaka80 yen Sadowara clay doll 'dog' postage stamp designed by Kaifuchi JunkoI hereby resolve to update my blog frequently spend more time with my stamp collection in 2006.A year ago, I purchased a nice lot of postally used stamps from Japan but I have not created an album for them yet. I print out pages from

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At times, I can do nothing better than 'borrow' from other blogs. Today, Ghost Town Orange is an echo chamber:I'm just going to take this wholesale from a comment below, because I wholeheartedly (and broken heartedly) agree with it: I wanted to post the following from something I read at DailyKos. The question was, "why did BushCo fumble this so badly?"The answer from one tcorse:They deny that we

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Virtually any terrorist attack with Weapons of Mass Destruction (TM) on a major American city would create thousands of refugees. Why in bloody hell has there been no planning for a refugee crisis? One thing we all know now for certain -- the Bush Administration had no plans to protect the American people in case of a terrorist attack. May every incompetent government official and clueless

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Why city's defences were down by John Vidal and Duncan Campbell, UK Guardian. An excerpt:Lloyd Dumas, professor of political economy and economics at the University of Texas at Dallas, criticised the government's failure to oversee a more efficient evacuation. "It's remarkable that with the massive restructuring of the federal government that took place with the establishment of the Department of

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"I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees."--President BushWhy did anyone vote for this idiot?border:1px solid black">God our security,who alone can defend usagainst the principalities and powersthat rule this present age;may we trust in no weaponsexcept the whole armor of faith,that in dying we may live,and, having nothing, we may own the world,through Jesus Christ. AMEN--Janet

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NY Times opinion piece -- Destroying the National Parks: Recently, a secret draft revision of the national park system's basic management policy document has been circulating within the Interior Department. It was prepared, without consultation within the National Park Service, by Paul Hoffman, a deputy assistant secretary at Interior who once ran the Chamber of Commerce in Cody, Wyo., was a

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It angers me when a member of the pundit class calls ordinary people bad names. Intellectuals are supposed to be above name-calling and ad hominem attacks. Whenever one of these bilge-sodden pigs bladders calls ordinary people names, they get the 'it takes one to know one' prize at Ghost Town Orange. Therefore, Christopher Hitchens has earned the nomiker Fruitbat and Nutbag: So as well as being

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What We Did on Our Summer Vacation--A Ghost Town Orange Mini-series. [Click on photos for a larger view; e-mail me to request higher-resolution versions for printing...]Saturday June 4, 2005: a travel day.During the first part of the drive we were passed by a large number [it may have been more than 30] of BMW sports cars. Many of them bore Texas plates; they were eager to drive fast on curvy

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What We Did on Our Summer Vacation--A Ghost Town Orange Mini-series. [Click on photos for a larger view; e-mail me to request higher-resolution versions for printing...]Friday June 3, 2005: Lake Ouachita and Hot SpringsA lazy morning -- the boys swam and got sunburn, and I painted this:"Traffic Planning," June 3, 2005 Joe took these photos in the afternoon:Woodpecker holes in the trunk of a

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What We Did on Our Summer Vacation--A Ghost Town Orange Mini-series. [Click on photos for a larger view; e-mail me to request higher-resolution versions for printing...]Thursday June 2, 2005: Hot Springs, ArkansasDrizzly morning:Displaying my watercolor 'Cooking oatmeal in the rain'Lake Ouachita State Park, ArkansasJune 2, 2005 We went into town to accomplish two things: find a laundry and find

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Rachel Maddow's show [Air America's 'Front Page'] is a bright spot on Air America. It's entertaining and informative and not too long to download [unlike Al Franken's much longer show, which I sometimes download overnight.] If only she didn't have such a pro-abortion bias ... [like much of the Democratic Party, alas.] The libertarian in me says one thing; the Christian consistent-life ethic in

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Food for thought about blogging: Blogging in the Early Republic: Why bloggers belong in the history of reading by W. Caleb McDaniel [at common-place.org]Henry Clarke Wright was an antebellum American reformer whose eclectic interests ranged from antislavery to radical pacifism to health reform and beyond. Born in 1797 and educated as a minister, he later abandoned institutional religion and

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What We Did on Our Summer Vacation--A Ghost Town Orange Mini-series. [Click on photos for a larger view; e-mail me to request higher-resolution versions for printing...]Wednesday, June 1, 2005 was a traveling day. We headed north with a shopping list of things we forgot to pack for camping:Extension cordWhisk broomSharp knifeIn Glenwood, we did find an extension cord and a small broom with dust

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What We Did on Our Summer Vacation--A Ghost Town Orange Mini-series. [Click on photos for a larger view; e-mail me to request higher-resolution versions for printing...]'Continental breakfast' oddity: a container of peaches from Greece packed in Thailand. How can that be cost effective? Do we not raise peaches in this country anymore?We spent about half of our second day digging for diamonds at

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is actually a Latin maxim from a letter by the ancient Roman philosopher/statesman Seneca warning against relying on maxims.The German version:Die Wahrheit steht allen offen; sie ist noch nicht eingenommen worden.-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca After paraphrasing it into English and Googling, I was able to find several English translations: Truth lies open for all; it has not yet been monopolized. And

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Yesterday's Daily Grist included a link to a special report in Sunday's Detroit News: The Great Lakes: An endangered legacy -- about 29 articles and 4 interactive presentations on the environmental challenges facing the Lakes. A good reference for the Ghost Town Orange file cabinet.God our security,who alone can defend usagainst the principalities and powersthat rule this present age;may we

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As a long-time left-libertarian, I am amazed at how many right-wing libertarians are really statists at heart. For example, read Charles Krauthammer's recent article Situational libertarianism [at Townhall.com]Call it situational libertarianism: Liberties should be as unlimited as possible -- unless and until there arises a real threat to the open society. [Who determines the reality of the

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What We Did on Our Summer Vacation--A Ghost Town Orange Mini-series. [Click on photos for a larger view; e-mail me if you want higher-resolution versions for printing...]We drove to Murfreesboro, Arkansas on the first day of our trip. We picnicked at Boggy Depot State Park, near Atoka, Oklahoma. Turtle in roadway near Boggy Depot State Park,May 30, 2005 12:46 pm The boys kept a tally of roadkill

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I see that the arbitrary deadline for Iraq's Constitution has been arbitrarily extended by Iraq's Parliament. God our security,who alone can defend usagainst the principalities and powersthat rule this present age;may we trust in no weaponsexcept the whole armor of faith,that in dying we may live,and, having nothing, we may own the world,through Jesus Christ. AMEN--Janet Morley, All desires

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What We Did on Summer Vacation--A Ghost Town Orange Mini-series will start soon.Forgiving God,you do not deal with us according to our sins,nor repay us according to our iniquities.For as the heavens are high above the earth,so great is your steadfast love toward those who fear you;as far as the east is from the west,so far you remove our transgressions from us.--from Psalm 103

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As we eagerly await the unveiling of the Iraqi 'Shotgun Constitution' [not to be confused with this Shotgun Constitution], we are busy reading the weekend's revelations and opinion pieces about Iraq:US Lowers Sights on What Can Be Achieved in Iraq by Robin Wright and Ellen Knickmeyer [Washington Post]--Note that this is one of those stories that relies entirely on anonymous government

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Today's essential reading on politics in these United States: Four Amendments & a Funeral: A month inside the house of horrors that is Congress By MATT TAIBBI [Rolling Stone] The election process is broken--and it appears nothing will be done to insure true elections--but pork-barrel politicians can build bridges to nowhere in Alaska...border:1px solid black">God our security,who alone can defend

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NEWSFLASH [AP]: A federal appeals court threw out the convictions and sentences of five men accused of being Cuban spies, ruling Tuesday that their trial was not fair because of community prejudice and extensive publicity.Several days ago, I stumbled upon a Cuban website dedicated to the Miami 5 [Spanish] [Miami 5 - English (as of post time the English site had not been updated since June 20;

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September 11, 2001 changed art critic Steven Vincent into a war correspondent. Mr. Vincent 'fully supported the Iraq war, believing it was part of a much larger campaign being waged by the United States against "Islamo-fascism."' Go read The Tragedy of Steven Vincent [swopa at Needlenose] for more. Recently, Mr. Vincent reported about off-duty police officers in Basra who ride around

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Read Above the rule of law by Sidney Blumenthal in today's Guardian.Since September 11, Bush proposed a sharp dichotomy between "war" and "law enforcement". In his 2004 State of the Union address, he ridiculed those who view counter-terrorism as other than his conception of war: "I know that some people question if America is really in a war at all. They view terrorism more as a crime, a problem

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Juan Cole reminds me of one of the reasons I loathed President Reagan: his role in the creation of Islamic extremists. Go read about it at the link.Allow me to comment about this sentence: "In the US, the Christian Right adopted the Mujahideen as their favorite project."In the early 1980s, I attended a meeting of the Young Americans for Freedom in Los Angeles. A video was shown promoting the

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Two examples from Iraq:Documents Tell of Brutal Improvisation by GIs [Josh White at the Washington Post] I found myself... [Khalid Jarrar at Tell Me a Secret]Guess which link provides this excerpt:When I was in jail I cried twice, one of them was when Nathom came to the toilets from an interrogation session, and I was in the toilets at that time, and he started crying hard, he said that they beat

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By far the best news of the week: the confirmed sightings of the once-thought-extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker.Ivory-billed Woodpecker by John James Audubon, ca. 1829.Source: Audubon gallery at Haley and Steele[dealer in antique prints and maps]. More resources:Science magazine's freely available article "Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) Persists in Continental North America" [

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Ever alert to the intersection of religion and politics, Ghost Town Orange noticed the Pope's installation homily (Sunday, April 24): The symbol of the lamb also has a deeper meaning. In the Ancient Near East, it was customary for kings to style themselves shepherds of their people. This was an image of their power, a cynical image: to them their subjects were like sheep, which the shepherd could

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Filing cabinet entries:Recent volumes of the State Department's massive series Foreign Relations of the United States are available on-line. Cold war historians--take note and dig in!The USDA's new "My Pyramid Plan"Observation:The sidebar feature "Today in History" has an obvious right-wing bias. For example, one of today's items reads "1983 President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social

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Larry Schweiger has a review of Rick Bass's new book, Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich-'in Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge:"Each year," Bass writes, "I become more ashamed and mortified by my government, and by the widening disparity between the people's will and the secret practices, secret allegiances, of big business and government."(Longtime readers of

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Johann Christoph Arnold of the Bruderhof knows the new pope, and has met with him several times. On another encounter I was told that he was not well and would have only a few minutes for me; that he was tired and might seem inattentive due to his physical condition. We had come to Rome with a delegation from the United States and Germany to talk about the role of the Catholic Church in the

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Madman, terrorist, or crucial spark in the struggle to end slavery in the United States?John Brown, illustrated by Gregory Nemec for the New York Times  The new book 'John Brown, Abolitionist': A Soldier in the Army of the Lord by David S. Reynolds was reviewed recently by Barbara Ehrenreich in the New York Times. The militant abolitionist John Brown is frequently dismissed as a crazy person or

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Check this out: local history research by high school students at primaryresearch.org. border:1px solid black">God our security,who alone can defend usagainst the principalities and powersthat rule this present age;may we trust in no weaponsexcept the whole armor of faith,that in dying we may live,and, having nothing, we may own the world,through Jesus Christ. AMEN--Janet Morley, All desires

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The study of history can change your mind. Jeffrey L. Pasley has had his mind changed about Social Security: History Made Me a Liberal (And it has something to teach us about Social Security)[from the current issue of Common-Place, an on-line American history journal:The current Social Security debate presents a great example of an issue on which history has changed my mind. Before graduate

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If I were a good citizen, I would be plowing through the new report on the 'intelligence failure' regarding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. But I would rather browse the New York Public Library Digital Gallery, play this grid-game [I was able to score 1437; then my son Tim stepped up and scored 1576], or play Snood (shareware download available).This morning's op/ed in USA Today summarizes

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I see that the 'Today in History' (see sidebar) lists "1987 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified." Well, I'm not a constitutional law expert, but I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court had not issued a ruling stating that 'less qualified' women/minorities may be hired. So I look up the case referred to at Findlaw [JOHNSON v. TRANSPORTATION AGENCY, 480 U.S. 616 (1987)]

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Hoyt Axton (singer, songwriter, actor, and artist) was born in Duncan, Oklahoma on this day in 1938.

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Mikey before and after his haircut. He thinks getting his picture taken is a punishment. [Click picture to get a bigger version] border:1px solid black">This is a day of new beginnings,time to remember and move on,time to believe what love is bringing,laying to rest the pain that's gone.For by the life and death of Jesus, God's mighty Spirit, now as then, can make for us a world of difference,as

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#flickrWords .flickrImg { float: left; } You can spell with photos too.

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'Objectivity' used to mean the unbiased exposition of facts. Now, lazy reporters use objectivity as an excuse for not doing their jobs. They merely divide the issue they are covering into two sides [we'll call them Red and Blue] and parrot statements from both sides without saying which side is telling the truth. "One the one hand Blue says ... and on the other hand Red says ..." Slacktivist

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I've added 'Today in History' and 'Today's Birthdays' to the right sidebar.

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This story is one that I have followed in the Christian media for several years. I didn't realize until last night's Nightline how many lies the Christian media have been telling about the case. Unfortunately, I can't find a link to a transcript and I can't even remember the name of the doctor who formerly served as Terri Schiavo's guardian under Florida law. Christians who engage in

OrangeHanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04552959990355567107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822259.post-1111164542305690692005-03-18T10:35:00.000-06:002008-09-14T20:42:25.022-05:00

If you get tired of reading blogs, like this one, written by white men, Juan Cole has some recommendations:al-Muhajabah Veiled 4 AllahIranians for PeaceAmarji by Ammar Abdul HamidAbbas KadhimJust World News by Helena CobbanRiverbendJust a Bump in the Beltway by Melanie MattsoonSuburban Guerilla by Susan Madrakborder:1px solid black">This is a day of new beginnings,time to remember and move on,

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Something by Saint Patrick of Ireland arrived in my in-box today: The Cry of the DeerI arise today:in the might of heaven,in the splendor of the sun,in whiteness of snow;irresistibleness of fire,swiftness of lightning;absoluteness of the deep;in speed of wind,rock’s durability…Eye of God for my foresight,ear of God for my hearing;word of God for my word,hand of God for my guard,shield of God for

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Back in 1992, George Will was pondering the potential election of Bill Clinton as president. Would the changing Presidents have a negative effect on the economy? Mr. Will seemed to conclude that change itself was good--that changing Presidents might be good for the economy. An odd position for a conservative pundit, no?Mr. Will cited the Hawthorne Effect as evidence for his opinion. He defined

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