Thursday, August 30, 2012

"Chimes of Freedom"

Barb would probably dig Honorable Ranch Dressing eater Dave + Mary's Flying Rabbit Farm in NY too, Yve, but Arlene doesn't like to watch "American Loggers" with Percy 'cause it's too scary !

[Attempted to link this reply to Yve Alexander's reply at Harequin American Romancer - "A Cowboy For every Mood" Barbara White Daille's Twitter page  that even though Nietzsche  is dead, John Ondrasik isn't]



Wiki says "Five for Fighting" is UCLA grad and lifelong LA Kings fan John Ondrasik's stage name,
                       mp3   Five For Fighting's Website

 Percy mentioned when we were at Bonanza after finally being able to leave the Walmart parking lot, where a dark, expensive looking sports car had parked - not even in a parking space next to the van, but actually in the access roadway in front of the Walmart, so Percy couldn't open the wheel chair lift on the right side of the van - that he was recovering from the same illness that Chistopher Reeve had when he passed away.

Curiously, the topic came up after Percy mentioned that his son, Allen, had the Van Buren High School men's single game scoring record after I let slip that I had once covered the former Williamstown Theater Festival actor - super hero in a pick-up basketball game, and a friend [named Dave] had lunch with him at a cottage at Galusha's Farm. Check out Dave's invention of a grass gasifier which turns lawn trimmings into a fuel that will run a tractor.



Bangor Daily News: Van Buren man comes up with simple solution for parking challenge



http://bangordailynews.com/2012/04/12/politics/maine-house-passes-workers-compensation-overhaul/  "Maine House passes workers’ compensation overhaul"



Posted April 12, 2012, at 5:10 p.m.

"• Alters eligibility requirements and creates a 10-year cap for employees who are permanently impaired with partial incapacity."




From Maine State Representative Bernard Ayotte's voting record (beginning with his vote to reform Maine's workman's comp laws)  according to Project Votesmart:

http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/36642/bernard-ayotte










https://twitter.com/BarbaraWDaille Barb may or may not be the former proofreader who gave me a ride as I was hitch hiking back from  Milford, Conn.in '86 who - if my memory is correct - [she let me drink the whole 2 liter  bottle of pina colada wine cooler on her passenger floor - scintilating + glib with a hint of revolutionary impudence ...and the wine cooler was really good too] said she had just been living with Buddhists in a cave for two weeks and apparently knew Carlos Castanada's Don Juan as well as Byron's...

If it is Barb who kept reminding me of  1984 Girl she may still be mad at me 'cause I wouldn't let her take me to my dad's home...yes I was living with my father when I was 23 + loved it  'civilization, take it away!' ...dad and i may have turned our adorable neighbor and matrix oracle Mrs Harris's son Mike's housemate Maine born and raised 'i am iron man' Mark Sisson into a caveman...and when your parents are gone you may regret leaving  them [and their racial memory survival lessons] too...

...but it is possible me, my dad and our cat were the only corporal beings with enough tolerance built up be able to to survive in our beloved home that would soon be condemned by the building inspector that replaced the building inspector who for some reason left a high powered and paying job as Grande Oilster's right [and left] hand man to be building inspector just long enough to move next door to us over the objections of our other neighbor at the time - which if we were to object he wouldn't be able to build his house there...[he and his wife built the house almost entirely by themselves - grew an organic garden and were actually quite nice neighbors] ...only if we objected we knew we might face inspection...about...let's see...maybe 2[?] years after I threw a golf ball - not even coming close -  at the Grande personal helicopter that always made me paranoid by flying really low over the golf course when I'd sneak onto it in the evening...and the helicopter stopped...and turned around...

..But I wasn't thinking clearly enough to just tell Barb that from another person's perspective our heart where the home is home was a dump and I didn't want any of the guy - who called me his kid after we had somehow  f 'ed up this wealthy doctor [ + el lake association jefe honcho]'s lawn on one of the lakes in Milford we had just removed the aquatic weeds from for two weeks with a kind of pontoon boat backhoe rake Virgilio Construction invented- 's money...so I couldn't get her a hotel room...[it would have been too late for her to drive back to Springfield from Williamstown]...


Aquamarine Crane Boats
http://www.aquamarine.ca/crane-boat/  from Aquamarine - the ecological way of thinking

Oh yeah - that's right - it had paddle wheels too...


Hmmm...and it seems 1984 Girl was also Nikita looking toward the West to find a friend



http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/harold-theurer-played-tony-seeks-jimmy-article-1.1382988?comment=true
http://goodnewsunderground.blogspot.com/2012/08/chimes-of-freedom.html
http://www.thetranscript.com/news/ci_23532045/rsquo-american-hero-rsquo-debuts-wednesday-at-williamstown

http://honoreeblog.momschoiceawards.com/from-the-mailbox-harold-theurer-shares-americas-pasttime-with-dads-sons/

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/sports/basketball/30cheer.html




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_for_Fighting

http://www.eatwellguide.org/listing/detail/21302


http://www.google.com/patents/US4070978

http://goodnewsunderground.blogspot.com/2012/08/chimes-of-freedom.html
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http://bangordailynews.com/2010/02/07/opinion/letters/feb-8-letters-to-the-editor/ Bangor Daily News February 8th, 2010 letters to the editor, including;



Posted Feb. 07, 2010, at 10:34 p.m.


Don’t give up
After the late Rev. Jerry Falwell blamed 9-11 on pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays and the ACLU, a little see-through angel appeared in a vision and told me: “It was because you kicked people off welfare.” I Googled it. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, requiring poor families to leave Temporary Assistance to Needy Families within 60 months, was enacted Aug. 22, 1996; 60 months and 20 days later was Sept. 11, 2001.
Who created the housing bubble by speculating in real estate with loans at interest rates lowered by the Fed to prop up the markets after 9-11? People on food stamps?
Who got people to accept sub-prime mortgages with escalating variable rates by claiming the people could get a better mortgage when their home’s value rose due to the bubble? Homeless people?
Who packaged those mortgages, got them inaccurately rated and sold them as securities, creating the credit crunch? Methadone clinics?
Who drastically increased many types of insurance premiums? Planned Parenthood?
Who drove oil up to $145 a barrel in 2008 by speculating on futures contracts? Illegal aliens?
If you’ve been on TANF and injured by putdowns on these pages and by multimillionaires who make their living disparaging the poor — I apologize.
Check out Luke 6:20-26 and Google the Kate Bush-Peter Gabriel video “Don’t Give Up.”
God didn’t begrudge America His help.
Keith C. Taft
Van Buren

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http://bangordailynews.com/2010/07/04/opinion/july-5-letters-to-the-editor/ Bangor daily News letters to the editor  Monday, July 5th, 2010 including;

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The TVA lesson

The June 26-27 BDN told us how Kay Phaneuf, 53, died after National Grid shut off the electric to her oxygen machine. She hadn’t paid her bill. The Boston Globe mentions she was a grandmother, cancer survivor and went to St. Joseph’s parish in Salem, N.H.
The Columbia Missourian reported that 30-year-old Nathan Graham Curry died of hypothermia in his home on Dec. 4, 2009, after his power had been shut off in September.
Michigan Welfare Rights representatives claim 18 people died last winter in Detroit because of DTE Energy shut-offs.
Some people might wonder about our nation. Not I. Jesus tells us we’re offspring of vipers in Matthew 12:34. So what’s that electric guitar distortion pedal shiver when we hear the first illegal fireworks on the Fourth? Could there be fine fruit too?
On MPBN, Libby Mitchell said: “We have entrepreneurs in Maine who are struggling to start photovoltaic and geothermal industries. The high cost of energy is one of the biggest barriers to businesses.”
It appears having lived in the South, Libby learned the lesson of the federally owned Tennessee Valley Authority which bea.gov says added an estimated $3 billion into the federal budget receipts in the first quarter of 2009, producing inexpensive electricity for 9 million people in seven southeastern states.
Tva.gov says its industrial rates in 2008 were 16 percent lower than the U.S. retail average, commercial rates 9 percent lower and residential rates 20 percent lower. Hit the juice.
Keith C. Taft
Van Buren





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http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/21/opinion/letters/wednesday-feb-22-2012-teachers-libraries-and-the-right-to-choose/ - Wednsday, February 22, 2012 Bangor Daily News letters to the editor including;




Library history

The Journal of Library History says King Ashurbanipal (ruled 669-627 BC) of Assyria’s library at Nineveh on the Tigris opposite what is now Mosul, Iraq is considered the earliest known library.
Plutarch (46-120 AD) said Julius Caesar accidentally burned the famous Library of Alexandria, Egypt while purposely burning his own ships in 48 BC.
Constantine’s (46-120 AD) mom St. Helena built a chapel at the possible site of the strange bush from Exodus 3:2 in Sinai, Egypt. It is now called St. Catherine’s Monastery after the beautiful scholar from Alexandria the Golden Legend says was tortured and beheaded by Maxentius (250 -312 AD) after marrying Jesus in the desert. Emelibrary.org says St. Catherine’s Library is the oldest continuously operating library in the world.
Loc.gov says the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. is the largest library in the world after having been burned by the British in 1814 then having bought 6,487 of Thomas Jefferson’s books in 1815.
Literacy Volunteers of Augusta say the first public library building in Maine, built in 1880 in Hallowell is often mistaken as a church.
The Abel J. Morneault Library may not be the biggest, oldest or richest but it does have the DVD “Jimmy Franck’s Van Buren Memories,” bringing alive Van Buren’s past with haunting photos, interesting research and a World War II Pacific Theater Veteran’s endangered species memories.
You’ll forget your potato chips!
Keith C. Taft
Van Buren



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http://www.sjvalley-times.com/view/full_story/17705339/article-War-experiences-and-censorship

February 29, 2012 St. John valley times letters to the editor including;



War experiences and censorship
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Feb. 29 edition -

To the Editor,


The National Archives shows Jack Kerouac was honorably discharged from the U.S. Naval Reserves during World War II after being diagnosed with dementia praecox (schizophrenia), later changed to schizoid personality disorder. He then served a successful hitch during the war with the U.S. Merchant Marines. His third wife Stella’s brother John Sampas said in the Italian journal La Stampa that Kerouac and his manager Malcom Cowley cut two to five pages from “On the Road” believing it wouldn’t be published otherwise due to censorship.


In 1944 war correspondent John Steinbeck was wounded by a munitions explosion in North Africa while accompanying commando raids. Nvg.org says “Of Mice and Men” was banned in Syracuse, Ind. in 1974 and four other cities between 1977 and 1983.


Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was an Army scout during the Battle of the Bulge. Nvg.org says his novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” was burned in Drake, N.C. in 1973, Rochester, Mich. in 1972, Levittown, N.Y. in 1975, North Jackson, Ohio in 1979 and barred from being bought by the Washington Park High School in Racine, Wis. in 1984.


James Franck, Jr. served in the Pacific Theater with the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II so you’d better pick up the Abel J. Morneault Library’s DVD, “Jimmy Franck’s Van Buren Memories” ($15, 868-5067) showing Van Buren’s past through pictures shared by many VBers with Mr. Franck’s and librarian Nancy Troeger’s well researched reminiscences - before they come after it too.


Keith C. Taft


Van Buren


Read more: St. John Valley Times - War experiences and censorship



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http://www.sjvalley-times.com/view/full_story/19209748/article-Potato--%E2%80%98a-terrible-thing-to-waste%E2%80%99 - July 4th, 2012 St. John valley times letters to the editor including;

Potato, ‘a terrible thing to waste’
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July 4 edition -

To the Editor,


Okay, Van Buren isn’t the boomtown it was when Loring Air Force Base assembled nukes. But cancer.gov says the U.S. incidence rate for all cancer types rose from 1975 through 1992, the year the U.S. last tested nuclear weapons, and has dropped since from 1993 to 2009.


And now Sunny Side Up Films is planning to use Van Buren as a location in its movie, thanks to LaJoie Growers’ Peruvian blue potatoes, which St. John Valley Times says they began growing about 11 years ago.


The LaJoies grow some of their potatoes in Cyr Plantation, which received a Federal Empowerment Zone designation in December 2001. Empowerment Zones (EZ) were created by the Democrat-controlled Congress to stimulate businesses and job creation in distressed communities in 1994, the year Loring closed.


Hud.gov says each rural EZ received $40 million Health and Human Services grants and qualifying businesses received a 20 percent credit for each EZ resident employee’s qualifying wages (up to $15,000), 0 percent tax on capital gains on property kept for five years and increased tax deductions on equipment.


Part of President Obama’s deal with Republicans in December 2010 to extend the Bush tax cuts was to revive the Federal Empowerment Zone designations, which had expired Dec. 31, 2009. But the Empowerment Zones were only extended to Dec. 31, 2011, while the Bush tax cuts are still in effect.


A potato is a terrible thing to waste.


Keith C. Taft


Van Buren


Read more: St. John Valley Times - Potato ‘a terrible thing to waste’


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-----Original Message-----
From: takei132 <takei132@aol.com>
To: takei132 <takei132@aol.com>
Sent: Thu, Jan 26, 2012 12:46 pm
Subject: Dear Bangor Daily News: W-2 for tea





The shaved-ice glaring streetnik guarding his paper coffee cup like a fisher king outside the Pinellas Park, Fla. labor pool 3 blocks from the former Jim Morrison / Jack Kerouac frequented Beaux Arts Coffee House was avoided by the other laborers 'cause now and then he'd smack someone upside the head for no apparent reason.



Found out after carefully informing him of the Earned Income Tax Credit he was a probably Polish homeless ex-marine studying algebra at the public library.



He got the few hundred extra bucks back on his refund, gave me beer money, got me on a good ticket laying cable lines in Bradenton, told me a Polish joke I can't relate being probably Irish and showed me the calculus textbook he eventually wrote.



Think short term oil futures speculators are ashamed paying 12 percent less tax than comparable stock traders? Or Maine businesses of sales tax exemptions for 95 percent of manufacturing energy costs? Or the 83 of the top 100 US businesses cbsnews.com says had offshore tax havens in 2008?



So why let Mr. Grinch cow 15 - 25 percent of you due EITC from claiming it, or the American Opportunity (college) Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, Dependent Care Tax Credit, deducting medical care car mileage, or claiming your Maine Rent Refund, when you're Mr. Grinch's market?



Find free tax help at http://www.ptla.org/tax-tips or dial 211.



How'd the Irishman break his leg raking leaves? He fell out of the tree.



Keith C. Taft

98 Main St.

Apt. 101

Van Buren, ME

04785

Tel: (207) 868-5619



http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/an-addition-to-the-list-of-tax-loopholes/ - NY Times futures speculators pay 23% top rate for short term trades.



http://www.maine.gov/decd/mainebiz/business_assistance/business_assistance/tech_tax_credits.asp - Maine businesses exempt fromsales tax on 95% of Manufacturing energy costs, sixth paragraph



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503983_162-20054892-503983.html - 83 of top 100 companies in 2008 with offshore tax havens



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit - "Uncollected Tax Credits" scroll 2/3rds down unclaimed EITC





http://20somethingfinance.com/child-tax-credit/ - Child Tax Credit extended 2012



http://www.taxcreditsforworkingfamilies.org/child-and-dependent-care-tax-credit/ - Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit extended 2012



http://finance.duke.edu/travel/news/items/2012_01_06-mileage.php - 23 cents / mile deduction for medical care driving














http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503983_162-20054892-503983.html - 83 of top 100 companies have offshore tax havens

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You may not be able to click on it, but the green benches in the scene in Ocean's 11 where Livingston Dell is working for the FBI surveilling mafia men that was filmed near Vinoy Park in St. Pete, Fla.  had to built from scatch because St. Pete's green benches  at the time of filming had metal arm rests in the center of them to keep the homeless people from sleeping on them.



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"Larry Pochatko was last arrested in Tampa, FL on August 17, 2006."


Larry called just before asking me for a twenty. Sent him one with the now regretted caveat that he go to the Socaial Security office and apply for disability because he had said the new manager at Workforce   had told him: "I've heard about you" and Larry said the manager hadn't sent him out to work since. Larry mailed $8 back and I lost touch when my landlady made me move to a new address and Larry's Tracfone didn't answer anymore.


Larry said he was going to go to the mall (Pinellas Park Mall) where Ocean's 11 were holding tryouts foe extras, but he didn't have a photo himself.


Guess he does now.


He once told me he was working on an invention using a calculus function he had learned.


I told him not to tell me what it was because I though I was telepathic and someone would steal it


It was a toy Halloween bat with flapping wings wings.


A few months after he told me about it he saw one in Walgreens.


Curiously, before he had mentioned his invention, he told me he had woke up in his fort or tree house one night, and this bat was drinking his blood.


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 Quotes from Ocean's 12:





Saturday, August 25, 2012

"Desolation Row"

Hi Josee and Dr. Sparacio, here are some videos you might choose to see:


     




Went to the polling place at the Van Buren Community Center on Champlain street in Van Buren, Maine on Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 - thinking it was well after 8:00 AM [hadn't set my clocks back] and was told I'd have to [wait] until the official clock  struck 8:00.

One of the poll volunteers mentioned that the clock was usually a few minutes slow, and that made me suspicious, so I left and about 30 seconds later [asked a guy named] Mike what time it was, and he replied 8:05.

I went back to the polling place with my video cam recording to make sure no-one did anything to me while I was waiting to vote, and one of the poll volunteers said I had to be outside the guardrail if I wanted to record video.

The lady who told me about the clock always being a few minutes slow called Percy after I went back home without voting, and Percy called to ask me if I was okay.

I told him about the calculus class I had attempted to take at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 1985.

According to my admittedly flawed memories, the school paper had said the calculus professor was one of the top ten mathematicians in the world.

I had raised my GPA from 1.5 to 3.0 by tape recording classes.

The professor walked into the classroom on the first day, said 5 or 6 words that sounded vaguely mathematical, then walked out.

He walked in a few minutes later, looked around the room, then asked me if I was tape recording his class.

Then he asked me not to.

I wasn't doing well in the class, and was asked to transfer to the other calculus class, which was taught by a lady professor (which as I recall the school paper had also said was one of the top ten mathematicians in the world) whose story may be even more amazing that the first professor's, but according to my memories she asked me not to tell.

But she wouldn't let me record the class either.

Memories began returning to me in 1998 that made me believe apparently I had been drugged and hypnotized as a child.





 Social Security disability review meeting with Dr. Sparacio:



Here's the link to the video below, that should play, unless I messed it up too.


Pardon me, I haven't uploaded it right yet, so it won't play...
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 Video report of some work I did in return for Percy's help:

(Oops, this video won't play either, so you'll have to find it here.)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing - Here is the Wikipedia page on dowsing, but this twig thing isn't mentioned.

If I remember corectly, my uncle Bill Freenier, (no, it was Uncle Loyd who's last name was Bump I think - Bill Frienier was the man who used to live at the town dump and found toys for my father to give me when I was a child) who lived next door to and west of the Burdicks on Hancock Rd. in Williamstown - was a dowser, and he owned the field across Hancock Road where we used to have the Hall family reunions. There was a spring on the side of the hill there that he had found, according to my memories of what my parents said.

Went to Presque Isle two weeks after my Social Security review meeting to get these amazing non - leather Gore-Tex Timberland hiking boots hecho in China and stopped into Marden's where I heard really nice music on what we find out in this video was Sirius XM satelite radio, or as the lady says: "XM radio".
" In 1992, AMSC established a unit called the American Mobile Radio Corporation dedicated to developing a satellite-based digital radio service; this was spun off as XM Satellite Radio Holdings, Inc. in 1999. "




Dr. D. Ewen Cameron:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKcameronDE.htm



Hi SSA, Josee and Dr. Sparacio. I apologize for turning this Social Security disability review report in late - and regardless of your decision, thank you very much for your help.
And thank you United States of America for giving me the chance to tell my side of the story.
My dad once told me my mom tried to stop the town from cutting down the Elm tree in our front yard to protect the ones at Mount Hope Farm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_Rockefeller_Prentice) from getting Dutch Elm Disease, but they did anyway and she fell to her knees and started crying when they began sawing, so since I forgot that you will be able to cut, or copy and paste this if you want a print, and you won't have to worry about any editing, I'd rather not send a paper copy, thanks!
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Section B - Information about your illness, injuries or conditions:
#5. How do your illnesses, injuries, or conditions limit your ability to work?
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http://bangordailynews.com/2010/11/29/opinion/whatrsquos-the-mood-among-shoppers-this-christmas-season/ - This was the Bangor Daily News ClickBack question I posted the following on about December 1st, 2010:

This year and the last two Christmas seasons a store in Fort Kent advertised on our local radio station that "Ho ho ho it's going to be a dickens of a Christmas!" until it was pointed out to the station last week that according to Webster's New Collegiate, "dickens" means devil.
In 1985 the manager of Champion Factory Outlet in Pittsfield, Mass. told us it was corporate policy to reply "happy holidays" instead of "merry Christmas when a customer wished us a "merry Christmas". Why? I don't know, but one night I was standing at the store's register and suddenly I had the taste of semen in my mouth. There was no-one around, Doug, the assistant manager was up in the office. I just thought "this is weird" and ignored it. I left Champion a few weeks after Christmas. The next summer I ran into Doug at a bar in Pittsfield called "The Cellar" and he told me the manager of Champion, Beverly, had gone insane and he was the manager now. He didn't seem happy about it. I found out according to memories that returned 13 years later that I had been drugged and hypnotized as a child and on the last day I worked at Champion, Doug had told me he had made me perform fellatio on him. I shoved him, and Beverly called me up to the office to tell her what was going on. I told her she would go insane if I told her, but she ordered me to tell her anyway.
I mention it because of John 8:32 and because about a year after I found the hypnotic trigger that brought my memories back, a soft, white flash of light entered my hut in Florida and an image of a small girl appeared in my mind's eye. She had a message for me. Apparently heaven was being assaulted and they needed our (humans) help. She was very charming. I found out that this was her first message and she hoped she wouldn't mess it up, and that back in heaven she used to eat porridge out of a big wooden bowl, and when they sang hymns in their simple little church, she couldn't sing them very well, except for one spiritual that she really liked and enjoyed singing, and the title of that spiritual was the message she wanted to deliver: "Go Tell it on the Mountain" - adapted by John W. Work, Jr. (1871-1925) with text from Luke 2:8-20.
Merry Christmas.