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Rafe Pilgrim

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Rafe Pilgrim, after "a life largely wasted on hard honest work," found himself a jungle of turkey oak, scrub pine and giant palmettos up a dirt road running east of Crystal River, Florida, which neither school busses nor the U.S. Postal Service dare to assay. Sharing a house of his own design with Spanky the cat, Darla a pit bull, and a foundling of mysterious breed named Alfalfa -- all collectively known as Our Gang -- he spends his time "productively: writing poetry, working for peace, and gazing at the sky."

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Central High School of Philadelphia, University of Maryland, Syracuse University, University of Maine, Ursinus College, Air Force Intelligence (Washington D.C., Germany), Ford Motor Company, Philco-Ford Corporation, Eighth Day Gallery, Phi Kappa Phi, Romey Everdell Award for Journalism,(1988), Hole in one (1998), and struggling to find America ever since 2000.

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       Friday, February 28, 2014
Madness Magnified
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Obama advises the Afghan leadership that Americans forces will leave their country if they do not cooperate with our occupation. What could be better for both sides and humanity than that?
(3 comments)        Friday, February 21, 2014
Wake Up, Dimocrats!
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This item was titled to indeed not spare Repukians of fully deserved exposure, but on the quite reasonable assumption that few if any of that partisan perversion would choose to read this decent organ.
       Friday, February 7, 2014
Defending Djibouti from Terrorism, or Something or Other
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Well, we're attacking yet another nation to protect its people from something or other.
       Monday, May 6, 2013
Woo Hoo! "Support Our Troops" All Over Again?
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Israel bombs Syria again, a defensive measure, of course. Then Iran steps in to defend Syria. Then we ....
       Monday, April 1, 2013
Defending the Homeland from North Korea
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Freedom's On The March to the Korean Peninsula -- Again!
(1 comments)        Saturday, June 2, 2012
Politicos Americanos & the Dead Democrats Society
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The problem is that it doesn't matter if either Obama or Romney wins -- the people lose.
       Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Tweedledee or Tweedledum -- Who's to Win in 2012?
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With evidence of growing discontent among liberals, does the incumbent President have a lock on re-election? Could a Republican win the day? And would either outcome make much difference for the people?
       Monday, June 13, 2011
The October Initiative
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Activist luminaries are planning a major protest in D.C. in October, something special that will hasten the peace and petition for decent governance.
       Monday, April 18, 2011
2012 is Coming. What to Do?
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The choice for a national government is due again in about eighteen short months. We need to be ready to make a change to something more decent than we've had for the past eleven years. Get ready!
(1 comments)        Sunday, March 6, 2011
Support-Our-Troops Redux !
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The propaganda machine has now been activated in support of the NEXT U.S. attack in the Middle East.
       Saturday, July 10, 2010
The We're-the-Best Syndrome, an American Affliction
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Too many Americans are afflicted with the compulsion to proclaim "we're the best" at practically everything, which is not only stupid and annoying, but simply wrong and counterproductive to the best interests of our citizenry.
(2 comments)        Friday, July 2, 2010
Celebrating the Birthday of a Dying Republic
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Is it not bizarre -- on July Fourth -- that in celebrating the birth of America so few realize that the republic has been actually dying incrementally for the past thirty years?
       Sunday, June 27, 2010
The Conditions-Based Integrity of the Obama Government
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Atop the farce of command change in Afghanistan, we get the "conditions-based commitment" for troop withdrawal, whatever in the treacherous employment of polit-speak that portends.
       Monday, June 7, 2010
Condemnation of Israeli Action Against Relief Ships is Justified, But --
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An appropriate application of the advice: Physician heal thyself.
       Saturday, May 1, 2010
Surrender to the Mirror Twins: Treachery and Pathetic Opposition
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Peace and decent governance are not gifts from God. They must be earned. We have not earned them.
       Thursday, April 29, 2010
God, Flags, Family Values and Terrorism
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It will be interesting -- if we indeed are spared the opportunity -- to witness history's judgment of the plastic perspectives of today's Americans.
       Monday, April 19, 2010
The Security State is Necessary
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We must do everything that's necessary to stop the threats of terrorism.
       Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Love America or Leave It? An Interesting Proposition.
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Most Americans appear to be still unaware that their government does not perform to their best interests nor to humanity's, and the few who are aware seem unwilling to do anything sufficient to actually change the situation.
       Saturday, April 10, 2010
Student Assistance and Social Neanderthalism
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Student assistance limps forward a baby step as Obama signs the tuition-loan bill.

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(1 comments)        Friday, July 30, 2010
The Price of Justice in America
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If all citizens are equal in the eyes of the law, why do convicted rich criminals get paid more than convicted poor criminals?

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