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Monday, September 27, 2004 ( 9/27/2004 02:16:00 PM ) DN Meaning of life nearly revealed to woman in car Last Friday afternoon, I almost had it just for a moment. A secret. An understanding of humanity, or a glimpse of unified meaning in this teeming world, of how and why we run around living, grasping, fighting, killing each other, loving and hoping enough to keep on bringing children into it. Why we're joyful and sad, envious and spiteful and ambitious, power hungry, devious and cruel. The crush of Delhi and night-life in Tokyo, every photograph ever taken of a crowded market in Africa, ticker tape parades, armies, protests, factory workers, orphanages. It was the briefest of moments with the Aleph, that dizzying God-view, there in my mind's eye. And then it wasn't there. It wasn't the rapture & I didn't brake, but I might have if it had been. # Sunday, September 19, 2004 ( 9/19/2004 07:42:00 AM ) DN Local man makes news Phil Parlock of Huntington did do this before - stage or at least encourage sign-ripping behavior. This week's flap over the AP photo of Parlock and daughter with a torn Bush poster made Wonkette, too! Here's the link from the Charleston Daily Mail in 2000: SIGNS FOR BUSH TAKEN AT RALLY, FATHER, SON SAY . Note: you must pay for this article, so I merely quote the headline/link. This site has the text of the article, though: Democratic Underground. And here's the Herald-Dispatch article from earlier this week: Edwards greets supporters at airport. And finally, here's a link to an un-scientific attempt to identify the man Parlock calls a "union thug": The Gamut More from another blogger, including mention of the 1996 incident: Rising Hegemon
Friday, September 17, 2004 ( 9/17/2004 10:44:00 AM ) DN WV Pols/Politics Two interesting state races. Manchin v. Warner: do we need anyone whose family members have already disgraced themselves in public office? Why did Joe disband the election fraud unit - or did he? (see below) [Another side note: I LOVE BugMeNot, a Mozilla accessory that lets you use existing login information for those 'Free but you must register' sites. Right click at their login page, and BugMeNot promptly supplies you with an amusing, working name and password.] Statusquojoe.com has some disturbing but not too surprising material on Manchin. Where's Jesse Johnson in all this? Protesting because of exclusion from a debate in Charleston in October! McGraw: Why, why must we suffer more than one person from any family in office at the same time? (there's actually two McGraws running for office now, but I was referring to the McGraw Supreme Court race, which is quite ugly) Note on the Election Fraud Investigation Unit: Found some published articles on this topic. Manchin made changes to the Election Fraud staff when he became Secretary of State in 2001. One thing he did was to fire the full-time investigator, though he apparently hired new staff as well. Certain parties believe the firing was politically motivated (the investigator was a Charlotte Pritt supporter--bad blood between Manchin & Pritt from gubernatorial primary in what, '96?). At any rate, the Republicans are screaming about Manchin's activities or lack thereof in the Logan--or is it Lincoln--no, wait, I think it's Mingo--County fraud business, and they keep bringing up the firing of the fraud unit (unit=one guy?). So. Manchin replaced the ex-cop with a lawyer. That must be better, right? One Manchin Refutes Criticisms From Warners - - The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register And Another Update: there are no others (not from news sources, anyway), that I can find. This "story" apparently comes straight out of the Warner campaign. I'd like to hear if anyone knows more. However, Manchin doesn't have a great record in the Election/Campaign ethics area, troubling if you are the Secretary of State. He had his name printed on voter registration materials late last year--by accident! GOP files ethics complaint against Manchin due to voter forms Also there's this: The Manchin cites clerical error for mislabeled campaign contribution and this: Activist group complains about McGraw Though this complaint is related to McGraw stumping for Manchin, they should both know better. # Monday, September 13, 2004 ( 9/13/2004 10:46:00 AM ) DN I'm Counting Number of book ideas this year: 2 1) my own - abandoned after 3 paragraphs 2) for Tom's project - a fabulous idea, if he'd only listen to me Number of fantasies about writing the day away in a picturesque upscale writing studio (free of all the dirt and most of the clutter of reality), a room calm yet visually invigorating, with good art on the walls--probably photographs; an antique oak desk, large and solid; a low-key Oriental rug; a window revealing a country landscape in late October, probably in the Northeast, perhaps Canada, a scene that says, "It's gray and blustery outside, but warm and inspired in here.": too many to count Number of actual writing efforts completed (not including this website): very low, possibly less than zero if you count old writing that I discovered and threw in the trash this year. Number of writing pieces submitted for publication consideration: 1 But here's a site publishing writing of the kind Im sure I can do: the-phone-book.com # Thursday, September 02, 2004 ( 9/02/2004 12:57:00 PM ) DN Strange Site of the Day Lucky Mojo: Hoodoo, Magic, Mojo Hands, Occult Shop, Sacred Sex, Amulets, Books, Spells, Information on Magick Didn't know I needed some mojo till I got here. # |
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