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Letters to the Editor
Hi Sam Loved your recent issue [April] and appreciated your reference to "evangelical" Christians. As usual, I enjoyed the humor on the last page, and share your anger that the value of your thought provoking/entertaining newsletter is not generally recognized. Thanks so much! Tom; Redwood City, California
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Sam Greetings! Sam I must say your essay on "purity in anger" (April 2011) is your best! You see Sam, anger is what motivates us to do what we have to do, it does not tear us down! Or that "sissy" talk about letting go of anger because it isn't good or healthy! But I tell you this; at Wounded Knee all those braves were angry! On account that the government broke all their treaties so they did what they had to do! They were angry! enough to give up their lives! And you're right about one thing! No plane crashed into the Pentagon at all! If you notice the video, it looked like a missile hit the place! Or a bomb from the inside blew out! But saying that a plane hit it is a lie! No plane debris! You know Sam that the government holds 95% of the truth from us and they control the media, so we do not know for sure what the truth is at all! What makes me angry is that no one respects personal mail at all! Back then when you could carry around your six shooters, and if some yellow-belly stole mail or horses, he finds himself in a pine box or he gets hanged! Nowadays people are more sneaky and they let go of that healthy anger and settle for a "Dr. Phil" outlook that us God fearing "Americans" know is brainwash material! It takes anger to do things and it takes anger to accomplish them. But you're right, it takes sacrifice to reach a goal and it takes anger to reach it! Never compromise when the hill seems steep or when you think what the use? Just then you'll realize that people will listen how healthy anger can be when it's put to good use! Well Sam keep up the good work and I'll keep on reading! Take care my friend! Sincerely, a prisoner
Cop Fooler T-Shirt Sam Aurelius Milam III Have T-shirts made with pictures of seat belts printed across them, diagonally. You'd need T-shirts for the right seat and T-shirts for the left seat. When you went whizzing past a nosey cop, it would appear to him that you were wearing your seat belt. Curiosity
Stray Thoughts
And Then The Fight Started
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Restart Earth
Sam Aurelius Milam III I expect an extinction event to occur sometime in the foreseeable future. It might happen tomorrow or it might not happen for a long time. Whether or not it will happen isn't in question. Eventually, it will happen. I'm not concerned with minor extinction events. The planetary environment can recover quickly enough from those. I'm concerned with a major extinction event, the kind that leaves the planet with not much in the way of living things, if it leaves any living things at all. Recovery from such a major event will take a long time. I have an idea that might reduce the recovery time after such an event by a lot, maybe by millions of years. I won't be able to do it by myself but it would be a good project for a group of people. We should build time capsules and scatter them all over the planet. We should use concrete, unless someone can suggest a better material. The composition of the concrete (or other material) should be such that it will last as long as possible before it begins to disintegrate. The capsules should be hollow, so that they'll float, if necessary. They should be filled with dry Nitrogen, unless somebody can suggest a better internal environment for them. Within the Nitrogen (or other) environment, the capsules should contain seeds, or maybe spores, from the most hardy plants available. Since there won't be any insects available in my proposed scenario, the plants must be of species that don't require pollination by insects. I suppose that very simple, primitive plants might be best. I don't know for sure. The plan is that the time capsules will last long enough that, by the time that they begin to disintegrate, the planetary environment will be ready to begin the process of reestablishing itself, at least in some locations. When the capsules begin to disintegrate, they'll release their contents into the waiting environment. If the plants are able to survive in that environment, then the necessary recovery time for the planetary environment will be shortened significantly. The project won't be very expensive, compared to the other loony things that people do, although it'll be way more expensive than anything that I can accomplish on my own. Even if it won't work at all, it still won't be very much of a waste of resources. In either case, I don't see what harm it will do to try. I'll need funding and help from some botanists. I'll need help from people who're familiar with fabricating things with concrete, or with whatever other materials we decide to use. I'll need some help from somebody who knows how to preserve seeds or spores. It wouldn't hurt for some geologists to help us decide where to put the time capsules. Of course, getting people to let us put them there will be a whole additional problem. Maybe this seems like a loony idea but I don't see what harm it will do. Anyway, I'm waiting for offers of help or funding and, of course, technical suggestions. After all, I'm only the dreamer, not the technical expert. Social Security Original Source Unknown. Forwarded by Mary, of Rome, Georgia. I edited this article a little for grammar and content but I didn't verify any of the claims that were made by the author. editor
Franklin Roosevelt introduced the Social Security Program. He promised that participation in the program would be completely voluntary. It isn't voluntary. He promised that the participants would have to pay into the program only 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes. It's now 7.65% on the first $90,000. He promised that the funds that people paid into the program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year. The funds paid into the program are no longer tax deductible. He promised that the funds that the participants put into the program would go into an independent trust fund rather than into the general operating fund and would be used only to fund the program, and nothing else. The funds were moved to the General Fund and are now spent on other things. Roosevelt promised that the annuity payments to retirees would never be taxed as income. The annuity payments are now taxable. Up to 85% of your Social Security payments can be taxed. Then, after violating all of those original promises, the government gave to members of congress 100% retirement payments for serving only one term. The worst part of the situation is that the people keep tolerating it. Where's the anger? editor
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Acknowledgments My thanks to the following: SantaClara Bob; Lady Jan the Voluptuous; my mother; Dewey and Betty; and Tom, of Redwood City, California. editor
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