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"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -George Orwell - 1984

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Begin compensating for the pollution your life creates in your car, house, and even when travelling...

Learn more about how many Iraqis have died for Bush's lost WMDs, the fraudulent connection of Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, and showing the Iraqi people what happens when they are not democratic like the US.

Can the Iraqi people, our troops, the world, and the American people afford to wait that long? Should we while murders and lies continue as the official policies of the Bush White House in our names and with our tax dollars?

Neil Young: Let's Impeach The President (just click on the error message; not available if on a LAUSDnet computer terminal)

Cindy Sheehan (Gold Star Families for Peace); Beat the pants off of "neckless" Pelosi and the so called "Democratic victors"..

International Criminal Court (US refuses to sign treaty for fear that its own people will be held accountable--extraterritoriality is alive and well!)

I never really dug Billy Joel, but this guys slideshow done to "We Didn't Start the Fire" is great history.

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value
of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
--Mark Twain

I have been in Los Angeles since Anna Fugitt (she passed with a comet in 1997) unloaded me at Kaiser Hospital on Sunset Boulevard back in the summer of 1956. That makes me a Cancer (Virgo Rising). The rest of the page below tells you plenty about my outer ring. Welcome.....

By the way, have a look at your week, care of Rockie Gardiner, at the LA Weekly:

Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear - From Frank Herbert's Dune Book Series
© 1965 and 1984 Frank Herbert
Published by Putnam Pub Group
ISBN: 0399128964

I have been a teacher with the LAUSD since 1981. Political Science and International Relations were my majors at the University of Southern California, class of '78, so I teach social studies now.

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." --A. Lincoln

This is my third year in Sunland, an inspiringly named, northern foothill district (Actually, Sunland-Tujunga) of the behemoth city of Los Angeles. I was born in the Hollywood area and have grown up in and around it all my life. I went to Thomas Starr King Jr. High and John Marshall High. As I said earlier, USC is my alma mater.

I began teaching as a fluke. I couldn't hang around waiting to pass the exam for the United States Foreign Service--got close though, so I became an emergency credentialed teacher. I enrolled initially in more college credit teaching courses than a sound minded person has business taking, and achieved my full teaching credential in three years--all while teaching full-time in the classroom. I had been studying for a master's degree in TESL (Teaching of English to speakers of other languages) at the California State University, Dominguez Hills, since I have transferred to Grant and now Verdugo, I will see about resuming my master's work at California State University, Northridge. I am now more interested in developing a master's degree in educational applications for information technology. There are many possibilities that I may serve education in the future.

So here I am. I love traveling (even if its just to the national park 'up the road'), scale modeling, computers and computer simulations, studying history (for personal interest and professional growth), science fiction and espionage literature. The Internet is the best tool for me. It has so much for my students to use and learn with as well. I have provided some links to sites that I particularly enjoy. You will really get a good idea about me from them.....

Pastimes
I have a googol of impulses going on currently, I can share most with you here.....

I spent two years in Nagoya, Japan and made some of my dearest friends there. I taught at Meito Senior High School. It was a very formative experience in my life and professional career.

You can learn a lot about my home state, California, and environs with Huell Howser

"You broke the ship. You broke the bloody SHIP! I told you don't hold down a turbo. You push it once, maybe twice for a boost but you don't HOLD it." ~Alexander

One great source for entertaining yet comprehensive science is Bill Nye. I wish we had had him in the 60s!

"Hi guys. Listen, they're telling me that the generators won't take it, the ship's breaking apart and all that. Just FYI."--Fred

Flight Simulator X Better "eye candy" and performance than FS 2004; many old and some new issues to be dealt with. (Really, where do you want to go today?)

See an expert player's POV on FSX: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcW3hbnR2EI BTW, it is in German--they got a great simmer tradition there.

Here are wild examples of play: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fej9EWWLSsw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ykSFVK7EnQ&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYyGBuudvTQ&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTkfxadjdfU&mode=related&search=

Of course, plenty of folks are playing FS9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB7CAKWhOdc&mode=related&search=

Call of Duty 4

"You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?"

Still in the basic state, but much promise if they expand to the capacity of CODUO.

Silk Road On-line, a brief flirtation. If you have the time, and love to "bot", this is your game. I hear they have fixed it up a bit.

"If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, what happens?"

“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.”

“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” ~Julia Child (1912-2004)

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learnt something from yesterday." epitaph for Marion Robert "Michael" Morrison (1907 to 1979)

The most interesting for my taste were Tom Clancy novels (I really dislike every "Hollywood" production that claims his titles (but I do like Harrison Ford)).

Actually, I grew up with lots of espionage; some real, most not, and mostly on TV. Click on the links below to see more about these programs. There is even an International Spy Museum in Washington as of July, 2002.

"We adore chaos because we love to produce order." ~M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)

My Favorite Radio Drama: Westway (ended October 30, 2005, after 8 dynamic years)

If you like world music, start with WOMAD, World Music, or RootsWorld (you can get around the request to register, but it is worth to help them promote all this good music)

"Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our
ass." ~Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), "De l'experience", 1580-88

Tired of increasingly freak weather patterns and being told there is no global warming? Want to help the presently "illegal" aliens who are the backbone of our thriving market economy (could you really live without them?) Want a responsible foreign policy that will help the globe's people, rather than drive them to desperate acts or crush them for exerting a free will other than what the current administration wants? Want sustainable domestic progress and development that allows for respect of human and environmental rights?

One very important organization which I belonged to is the Burbank Community Disaster Volunteers. Go to the page to see how community members are prepared to meet emergencies, by assisting their neighbors and city services. I was part of their CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) cadre. I really cannot stress how important it is to be ready to keep the community calm and confident in an emergency. Look up CERT or community assistance programs in your locale.

"How can we say that there is peace when so many go hungry?" ~Oscar Arias Sanchez

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." --John Locke (1632 - 1704)

"When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid
only when we have something left to cling to." ~Don Juan Matus, The Second Ring Of Power (Carlos Castaneda)

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." ~Mark Twain

Nice having you stop by. Send me your thoughts.....I hope that I will get to share some ideas with you over the Internet.

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery." ~H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)

The Saint	The Prisoner
The Avengers	James Bond
I Spy	Get Smart
Reilly, Ace of Spies

LITANY AGAINST FEAR

Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear - From Frank Herbert's Dune Book Series
© 1965 and 1984 Frank Herbert
Published by Putnam Pub Group
ISBN: 0399128964

LITANY AGAINST FEAR

Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear - From Frank Herbert's Dune Book Series © 1965 and 1984 Frank Herbert Published by Putnam Pub Group ISBN: 0399128964

Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear - From Frank Herbert's Dune Book Series
© 1965 and 1984 Frank Herbert
Published by Putnam Pub Group
ISBN: 0399128964