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Like Ed Dames? I won't hold that against you :-). Most of it is things that make you go crazy in the night to me.

Ed Dames, so far, his prophecies have proven to be wrong. Everytime he comes on, I roll my eyes. MK Ultra, I don't deny that it exists but it seems there has been a lot of side stories spun about it to where it does sound rediculous. It's like a lot of "New World Order" stories where the stories are concocted in a Rube Goldberg fashion to where everything is entertwined and appears to work and fall into place until you change one small part of the equation and it falls apart. I do believe there is a New World Order that does exist, heck, most of the free traders buy into the ideals behind it but I see them more as a consensus of the movers and shakers in world finance, government and think tanks. So collusion of the world's ultra rich and powerful, yes, I believe that, but where it does go overboard are the stories of black helicopters, The Free Masons (my grandfather was one and I'm certainly not in the loop) and so on. Put it another way, it is like a gaggle of people who want to go back to the divine rights of kings without the titles of nobility and just ride the backs of us "untermenschen." Boil it down even further, it is just a power and/or preservation by these elites and nothing more and free trade and things like NAFTA and CAFTA play into that. As to UFO's and weird technology, I generally believe there are something there, there are powers in this universe that we are just beginning to understand so there your mileage may vary. I know there can be exaggerations there too but I'll file them in the "things that make you go 'hmmmm' file."

Getting back to Earth again, all I can say is that it is easier to look down on others not as fortunate as they and just say, "live with it" or "go watch Oprah." I can't stand Oprah and Jerry Springer is worse.

Maybe I ought to do a photo essay and perhaps talk to people on how the decline of industry has affected them here in Pittsburgh, maybe I could be the next Jack London, David Graham Phillips or Upton Sinclair, (noted muckrakers) it's worth a shot. B-)

Maybe I ought to do a photo essay and perhaps talk to people on how the decline of industry has affected them here in Pittsburgh, maybe I could be the next Jack London, David Graham Phillips or Upton Sinclair, (noted muckrakers) it's worth a shot. B-)

I think you ought to do that, only cover more of the country if you can. Use this thread as a backdrop, kind of interweaving, flashback style. Don't quote more than you are allowed or you will be in copyright violation.

As for myself, I need to publish my book of WWII letters. Might give our troops some inspiration. I sincerely regret that I didn't include them in my list of people I stick up for too many posts back. God bless our troops.

Later maybe we should talk more about how they suffer on the home front in their service of our country. It puts a strain on the best of marriages, and they get in trouble financially. During 'Nam, one of my husband's fellow soldiers got into financial difficulties and jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. I saw what some of the others went through and how they were treated as trash and exploited with rent deposits by the locals. About a chapter's worth. They (the troops and their wives) never complained or stuck up for themselves. There was much sadness when one got shipped off to 'Nam and the wife went back home to wait it out and/or file for divorce.