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I was expecting a "free cat" pitch here. That's how I got a couple of them here.. my mind was racing, thinking.. "what's he gonna do, send them in the mail?"

Groucho, he probably vacuumed up the said crumbs in the forest as he went, so they wouldn't be a "distraction" to the forest creatures as he taught them "der verd". You know.. hoisted on his own anal retentiveness..

Interesting.. I wonder why he came to Michigan.. can't be because of the economy.. plus we already have all the little tin foil hats we need, enough for a lifetime.. I think maybe the day of these organizations is long past.. they seem to be dying, like the fig tree.. from the inside out. No real fruit..

I think we are deeply spiritual beings Roy. I saw something once that sent me on a quest for over a year to try to figure out what it really was.. I saw something like that.. and I didn't cover my eyes.. I looked right into it.. and I felt like my skin was almost burned all the way off..

Oh yeah.. just what we need, another Semon Dye hitting the roads in an old jalope.. ya know.. if the economy keeps going the way it is.. we'll have these numbnuts coming out of their holes and working the countryside.. God have mercy on us..

Happy Birthday! Hope you enjoyed your day.

I dunno.. it's just a thought. Nothing else seems to get their REAL attention.. all they seem to be willing to offer are little one on one damage control sessions. I've seen loving exhortation, pleading, begging, brow-beating.. and.. nada. The national ham organization may have it's internal little squabbles at times.. but if they did half of this kinda nonsense, my local club would probably cancel affiliation..

I dunno.. there are quite a few "fellowships" that claim affiliation with the group. If I ran one, I'd send a letter, not email, through the U.S. postal service, requesting that my name be removed from the list.. The sad thing I think, is that a lot of them probably don't have a clue of what's going on.. it's like, der vey ministry, all over again..

Any other thoughts or comments about the ebook yet? they have a half a dozen or more books online.. I thought this one was about the best.

soo.. does anybody know? What is der gearo "fellowship" like? Are the "leadership" meetings like a scene out of an "old codgers's" home, or "grumpy old men", where the residents take to beating each other with canes, and for the life of them, they can't remember who started the argument? "eeeeeehhh, you traitorous, treacherous, possessed.. um. Ummmm... uhh.. " "aww, forget it.."

Well.. for a bag of pecans, it's a deal..

hmm. That's a thought. For a limited time, and the right kind of schmmozing not to mention "contributions".. I think we can get the Great Squirrel to interrupt his rather "hectic" fall schedule..

Need you ask? It's a "suggestion".. but we all know a suggestion is tantamount to a command. Those aren't rubber bands. They are The Prevailing Verd and Ice over Der Vorld bands. Embossed on each, "The Word of Squirrel is the Will of Squirrel".

OK "brotha".. I'm from WV.. I warned my daughters.. watch out for the guy that's giving away furs. Ya know.. "darlin.. if you marry up with me, I'll give you all the furs you'da ever want. You can have a coal fur, a wood fur.."

Hey.. no problemo! The Squirrel feels most perfectly safe here. Most of his crew probably can't remember where they left their dentures anyway..

Our core is light. If anything.. we all own each other.. maybe not in a practical sense, in this life. The Beatles sung about something like that.. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. and then the sun comes up, and the day job has it's demands..

Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Paw, and to all those of the cafe.

"There were Giants in those days.."

even pets can get possessed, too.

Yep. Either way it would be really bad.. "they" had a habit of exercising supposed authority over those who didn't really have any other place to go.. whole families were set out in the street from corps or staff at times. No savings, no place to go.

Imagine going through this kinda "stuff" without parents or any other possible kind of support or help at the time..

I'd like to know what they consider to be their greatest resource in the organization. what makes it "tick".. what makes it really work. Or SUPPOSEDLY work. Whadya think JL?

Who is John Lynn? I'm beginning to think that he really doesn't want us to really know.

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Few have been able to sort it all out prior to leaving the establishment. With one stupid doctrine or edict after another, I didn't have time to sort the first one out before the next one hit.. we weren't supposed to think, or sort it out.. that was the whole idea behind "implict obedience", was it not?