There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. - MLK, Jr.
Male
41 years old
Morgantown, West Virginia
United States
Photography, photojournalism, cats, animals, politics, college sports, history, the outdoors, music, yada-yada...
Music
U2, Collective Soul, INXS, Bon Jovi, Santana, Nickelback, REM, Creed, Three Doors Down, Nickelback, Dave Matthews Band, Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw, 'Til Tuesday, Kansas, Van Halen, Guns and Roses, Journey, Steve Perry, Elton John, Peter Frampton, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Tina Turner, Cheap Trick, Maroon Five, Joni Mitchell.
Movies
The Accidental Tourist, The Conversation, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Saving Private Ryan, The Flight of the Phoenix, As Good as it Gets, Star Wars, If it's Tuesday This Must be Belgium, Seven Waves Away, Rear Window, Ice Station Zebra, Airport, Michael Collins, Leatherheads.
Television
Law and Order, Criminal Intent, Cold Case, Nova, Secrets of the Dead, Globe Trekker, Deep Sea Detectives, Digging for the Truth, Seconds From Disaster, National Geographic Explorer, Independent Lens, History Detectives, Battlestar Galactica, House, WKRP in Cincinnati, Countdown.
Books
Joanna Brady mysteries, J.A. Jance mysteries, Tony Hillerman mysteries, Ice Station Zebra.
Against All Enemies, Exporting America, Commander In Chief, A People's History of the United States, Right is Wrong, Truth and Consequences, Throes of Democracy, What Happened, The Glass Castle, and many others...
Heroes
Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, Lois Wilson, Ernest E. Evans, Daniel Pearl, Don Haskins, the Dalai Lama.
Molly Ivins, Ann Richards, John Murtha, Smedley Butler, Eric Shinseki, Paul Wellstone, Jim Webb, Keith Olberman, Karen Kwiatkowski, Howard Zinn, Hugh Latimer, Vincent Bugliosi, Scott McClellan, and anyone else who stands up to our modern day Pharisees.
Southern West Virginia Community And Technical Col
Mt Gay, WV
Graduated: 2006
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Associate's Degree
Major: General
Minor: Campus Heretic
Clubs: Student Support Services, Radical Student Underground
2003 to 2006
Logan High School
Logan, WV
Graduated: 1987
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Close Up, Guyana, Here's How
About me:
40, single. New Jersey native currently in WV. I recently earned my Associate Degree at Southern WV Community College, looking to move on to a four-year school.
Majoring in journalism or photojournalism, minor or second major in political science. I did freelance news photography through much of the 90's, as well as school photography for a couple of years. I'm not as active in photography right now as I'd like to be, but hopefully that will change after I am back in school.
I despise the neo-fascist fool who is currently in the White House. Terrorists may kill people - but the Big Brother laws courtesy of George W. Bush and friends are the real threat to our freedom. Hillary Clinton is just as phony as King W in one sad way - they are both wind-up platitude dispensers. Just twist that little key in their back a few times and both of them strut around spouting endless noble-sounding hot air.
I commend the incredible courage, dedication and sacrifice of the men and women in the American armed forces. I condemn the arrogance and deceit of our political "leadership" for putting those brave men and women in harms way in Iraq without any intelligent plan for what came next. Bush now claims that he just wants us to listen to the generals, yet he himself blatantly ignored the pre-invasion advice of the top general in the United States Army!! Then Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki recommended using a much larger force to properly secure all of Iraq after the invasion. W's pet rock at the Pentagon, Rumsfeld, was allowed to ridicule the general's recommendation! Then, four years later came the surge, as in, "OOPS, we need more troops!" Now, more than five years after the invasion, King George the Pious says that "we are learning as we go." Wow. If Bush and his clown circus of yes-men weren't so determined to ignore history and any facts that didn't fit their plans, we wouldn't be five years and four thousand American lives into the process just to re-learn the same old lessons.
I believe in God, but I am often dismayed at the prejudiced, vindictive attitude of some of His right-wing followers. Christ must cry as He witnesses the gay bashing and immigrant bashing that some dare to do in His name. I believe that God intended for us to focus on "The least among you shall be first." Those who focus on condemnation and persecution resemble the arrogance and hypocrisy of Old Testament Pharisees, or the High Priest Caiaphas - not the redeeming love of Jesus. If any person or group is especially guilty in God's eyes, then God will handle it in His own time. There is no need for the self-appointed Morals Police to put themselves in His place.
The Bush gang's deceit and arrogance on Iraq, now that was immoral. But the ultimate morality issue lays in the conservatives' UN-Christlike and immoral favor-the-rich economic policies. American "leaders" and American companies sourcing so many once-American jobs overseas - immoral. A system that leaves millions of hard-working people, with full-time jobs, below the poverty line - now that is truly immoral.
Hello. Hope you're doing good. So what do you think the final healthcare reform bill should be named? "Ted Kennedy?" "The American Plan"? ...and why do the conservatives continue to hijack the national debate? Visit http://wp.me/ps8BM-75 Peace!
hey just thought I would drop a line to see how you were... haven't
talked with you in a long while sorry about that been busy with college
and I never seem to get a break... how have you been?
Hey its been along time... I am doing good, Finaly finsh getting my degrees, stell living in harts creek. lol.. glad you back to logan are you liking it.. How is your mom doing??
Long time know talk... How have u been??? I have been good, just finsh out this semseter and found out I will be done in May can't wait to be done... lol.. How is ur mom doing?
who are not happy campers marshall fans...... oh well crap happens... the kicker just had a bad day... i am sure mark isnt as happy either..... u can guarantee that