out of Woodbury, I might as well tell you folks something good. There is at least one billionaire on the planet that I begrudge nothing.
Vigil for a dying girl that left footprints on Rowling's heart
AP/REUTERS TOBY MCDONALD
JK ROWLING fulfilled a dying child’s last wish by telephoning her from 3,000 miles away and reading chapters from an unpublished Harry Potter novel, it has emerged.
Nine-year-old cancer victim Catie Hoch was desperate to read the fourth Harry Potter novel but was certain to die before it was published.
Rowling heard of her plight and telephoned Catie’s home in Albany, New York. As the little girl lay dying, Rowling read chapters from the then unpublished Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire direct from the manuscript.
The extraordinary transatlantic relationship between the multi-millionaire author and tragic girl has only been revealed after Rowling made a $100,000 (£62,000) Christmas donation to a fund set up in Catie’s memory.
Rowling has also written to Catie’s parents telling them: "She left footprints on my heart."
The youngster was diagnosed with a kidney tumour shortly before her sixth birthday.
The neuroblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer, quickly spread to her liver, lungs and spinal column.
As the cancer took hold, blonde-haired Catie’s only comfort was to escape into the magical world of boy wizard Harry Potter.
When the youngster suffered a relapse, and was given only weeks to live, her mother, Gina, wrote to Rowling’s publishers about the then unpublished fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
She was stunned when a personal e-mail arrived back from the author. As Catie’s condition deteriorated, the two began to write regularly.
Then, as the little girl had only days to live, Rowling telephoned to read Catie chapters from the manuscript.
Yesterday her mother said: "Catie never complained or asked, ‘Why me?’ She was a ray of sunshine.
‘Don’t thank me, I feel truly honoured to have known your daughter’
"Jo used to e-mail Catie and send her presents. She even called our home to read to Catie. I must have written her a note telling her about the Foundation, and a few weeks ago we received a $100,000 donation from her. Catie continues to work her magic."
Neuroblastoma is the third most common form of childhood cancer. Catie
was diagnosed with the disease in 1998, after which surgeons removed one of her kidneys, her adrenal gland, three-quarters of her liver and portions of her lungs.
She endured seven rounds of high-dose chemotherapy, radiation and numerous clinical drug trials.
But after almost two years of treatment she was told that the cancer had returned in a more aggressive form.
The youngster was given just months to live and had only one wish. Her mother had almost finished reading the third book in the series, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Catie wanted to have her mother read her book four, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
But Rowling was still writing it and the book wasn’t due out for many months. Catie did not have that long.
A friend of a friend sent an e-mail to Rowling’s publisher, Bloomsbury, in England. A short while later, an e-mail arrived.
"Dear Catie. I am working very hard on book four at the moment ... on a bit that involves some new creatures Hagrid has brought along for the care of Magical Creatures classes. You are an extremely brave person and a true Gryffindor. With lots of love, J.K. Rowling (Jo to anybody in Gryffindor)."
Rowling sent Catie a plush stuffed owl named Pigwidgeon (a character in her book) for Valentine’s Day along with a card. Two weeks after Valentine’s Day, Rowling wrote again.
Catie dictated her replies to her mother, who typed them into their home computer and sent them to the author by e-mail. Mostly Catie talked about the intricacies of the Harry Potter plot, her family and friends.
And Rowling replied: "I love you even more for telling me to make book four long, because I am worried about how long it’s getting. You’ve cheered me up a lot. Lots of love. Your friend right back. Jo XXX"
Defying doctors’ predictions, the little girl made it through her ninth birthday in March. She received a card and presents from Rowling, a soft toy and a fantasy book.
But by Spring Catie had lapsed into a coma. When she awoke, she asked her mother to invite several of her friends round where she gave away her collection of dolls.
As the end came Gina relayed this information to Rowling in an e-mail. A phone call came to the Hochs’ Clifton Park home from Edinburgh on a Sunday afternoon. It was Rowling. She wanted to read parts of book four to Catie.
"We laid Catie down on the living room couch, and Jo read to her over the phone. Catie’s face just lit up," her mom recalled.
Rowling called three or four more times to read to her, but Catie started failing so badly she couldn’t receive any more calls.
Catie died on May 18, 2000. Three days later, Rowling wrote a message of condolence.
"Dear Gina and Larry. I have been away again. I’ve only just received your message. I have been praying that Catie would be released, that she would go where she can wait happily and painlessly for the rest of us to join her. But there are no words to express how sorry I am.
"I consider myself privileged to have had contact with Catie. I can only aspire to being the sort of parent both of you have been to Catie during her illness. I am crying so hard as I type. She left footprints on my heart all right. With much love, Jo."
Rowling continued to write to Catie’s family in the ensuing weeks and shared in their feelings of grief and loss.
"I look back at Catie’s e-mails to me and happiness shines out of each and every one. Please don’t thank me for anything I did, because I feel truly honoured to have known your daughter, however briefly. Jo XXX"
Following Catie’s death her mother Gina Peca, and step-father Larry Hoch, a lawyer established a charity in their daughter’s memory.
So far the Catie Hoch Foundation has raised almost £100,000 in two years and made gifts to a hospital and hospice to help children with neuroblastoma.
Then just before this Christmas came their surprise present - a cheque for £62,000 ($100,000) from JK Rowling.
Yesterday a spokeswoman for JK Rowling said: "We can confirm that a donation was made, but we cannot comment on how much."
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Pipe Job
Another pipe issue hits Kiryas Joel
By Chris McKennaJuly 21, 2007
Times Herald-Record Monroe —
Nothing like the words "Kiryas Joel" and "water pipe" to stir up a little controversy.
The source of friction this time is not the 13-mile pipeline the village wants to build to tap the Catskill Aqueduct, but a much smaller pipe to carry water from one of its Monroe wells to a filtration plant.
The problem is that the pipe must cross under an 8-foot-wide railroad bed owned by Orange County and destined to become part of the recreational path known as the Heritage Trail. And for that, Kiryas Joel needed permission from county lawmakers.
But it started work without approval — until ordered to stop. And now, a harmless request that might have sailed through the Legislature with little or no opposition has kicked up a minor kerfuffle.
One legislative panel unanimously approved the crossing yesterday, but the chairman of a committee that was bypassed wants to delay a vote by the full Legislature for at least a month so that his group gets a say.
"I'm just very, very disappointed about the whole decision," said Legislator Frank Fornario, R-Blooming Grove. "They knew what the process is, and they avoided it."
For about a year and a half, Kiryas Joel has been using a fire hose as a makeshift connection to its latest Monroe well. The 8-inch-wide pipe that will replace it must pass under the Heritage Trail and then run underground beside it for 800 feet.
County lawmakers have approved similar crossings by utilities and others without much hoopla — except for Chester School District's request to build a driveway across the trail to its new high school and middle school. That finally got approval after much controversy.
Yesterday, lawmakers considered postponing Kiryas Joel's request so Fornario's oversight committee could hear the matter. But they agreed to move it forward after Michael Amo, a Central Valley Republican who represents Kiryas Joel, told them the village could lose $200,000 to $300,000 if its contractor must continue waiting to resume work
The Committee members are: .A. Alan Seidman, Chairman
Anthony Marino, Thomas Pahucki, Jeffrey D. Berkman,Michael Amo, Michael R. Pillmeier
By Chris McKennaJuly 21, 2007
Times Herald-Record Monroe —
Nothing like the words "Kiryas Joel" and "water pipe" to stir up a little controversy.
The source of friction this time is not the 13-mile pipeline the village wants to build to tap the Catskill Aqueduct, but a much smaller pipe to carry water from one of its Monroe wells to a filtration plant.
The problem is that the pipe must cross under an 8-foot-wide railroad bed owned by Orange County and destined to become part of the recreational path known as the Heritage Trail. And for that, Kiryas Joel needed permission from county lawmakers.
But it started work without approval — until ordered to stop. And now, a harmless request that might have sailed through the Legislature with little or no opposition has kicked up a minor kerfuffle.
One legislative panel unanimously approved the crossing yesterday, but the chairman of a committee that was bypassed wants to delay a vote by the full Legislature for at least a month so that his group gets a say.
"I'm just very, very disappointed about the whole decision," said Legislator Frank Fornario, R-Blooming Grove. "They knew what the process is, and they avoided it."
For about a year and a half, Kiryas Joel has been using a fire hose as a makeshift connection to its latest Monroe well. The 8-inch-wide pipe that will replace it must pass under the Heritage Trail and then run underground beside it for 800 feet.
County lawmakers have approved similar crossings by utilities and others without much hoopla — except for Chester School District's request to build a driveway across the trail to its new high school and middle school. That finally got approval after much controversy.
Yesterday, lawmakers considered postponing Kiryas Joel's request so Fornario's oversight committee could hear the matter. But they agreed to move it forward after Michael Amo, a Central Valley Republican who represents Kiryas Joel, told them the village could lose $200,000 to $300,000 if its contractor must continue waiting to resume work
The Committee members are: .A. Alan Seidman, Chairman
Anthony Marino, Thomas Pahucki, Jeffrey D. Berkman,Michael Amo, Michael R. Pillmeier
Friday, July 20, 2007
Rough Justice or a Double Screwing?
So Woodbury asked Albany for special legislation to ease the burden of having a village and Albany said -"Tough, you guys wanted a village. Now live with it!"
That response, while blunt and unfriendly, seems like rough justice. "You made your bed, now go lay in it."
Unless.
Unless.
Unless, the main player behind the scenes in Albany, getting the Legislature to tell us to f*** off was our pal Senator Bill Larkin.
Unless, Uncle Billy was getting us the heave ho at the request of his pals Szegedin and Weider.
Then we would have two questions for dear Uncle Billy.
1. Why do you pretend to be our pal, but screw us whenever Szegedin tells you to?
and
2. If all this is our fault because we chose to create a village - how much of that blame are you willing to put on your aide Ralph Caruso - the man who got us into this mess to begin with?
But -But - the state senate voted to give us that legislation. So, perhaps it wasn't Uncle Billy who did us in.
Perhaps our pals next door just passed along their wish list to the New York City delegation and we got screwed that way.
Some many questions. So few answers. I have a headache.
That response, while blunt and unfriendly, seems like rough justice. "You made your bed, now go lay in it."
Unless.
Unless.
Unless, the main player behind the scenes in Albany, getting the Legislature to tell us to f*** off was our pal Senator Bill Larkin.
Unless, Uncle Billy was getting us the heave ho at the request of his pals Szegedin and Weider.
Then we would have two questions for dear Uncle Billy.
1. Why do you pretend to be our pal, but screw us whenever Szegedin tells you to?
and
2. If all this is our fault because we chose to create a village - how much of that blame are you willing to put on your aide Ralph Caruso - the man who got us into this mess to begin with?
But -But - the state senate voted to give us that legislation. So, perhaps it wasn't Uncle Billy who did us in.
Perhaps our pals next door just passed along their wish list to the New York City delegation and we got screwed that way.
Some many questions. So few answers. I have a headache.
Warning - Refers To The Universe Outside Woodbury
Tipping Points
As the Second Millennium ended, America - and the world - had reached a number of tipping points.
The Soviet Union had collapsed under its own weight and the world found itself under the influence of one single superpower. One that was both generally benign and possessed of an armed might greater than that of all of history’s previous major powers combined.
The tide had been turned on our mounting national debt and for the first time in a generation we had run a surplus not a deficit.
A new enemy to civilization was just beginning to reach out across the world from Arabia.
Science continued increasing the pace at which breakthroughs in medicine and technology were being achieved.
Man’s eons-long war against nature - a seemingly impossible exercise a mere century ago - was, horrifyingly, being won. And it was beginning to dawn on us that we had not merely tamed the planet, but were, in fact, killing it.
Our dependence on petroleum as our primary source of energy was not only having disastrous effects on our environment but also holding us hostage both to a cartel of the most regressive regimes on the planet and to a doomed technology based on a dwindling resource. A resource which, we are learning, is invaluable as a raw material for manufacture but which, instead, we are burning at an ever increasing rate in a manner little different than fueling our fireplaces with irreplaceable works of art.
And just as we reached this fulcrum in history, an unbelievable series of chance events and the choices of a handful of corrupt officials and the intervention by a feckless Supreme Court majority, had seen to it that America was to be governed by the worst possible President at the worst possible moment. A man whose intellectual laziness was indistinguishable from utter stupidity. A man whose lip service to religiosity was as close as he was capable of getting to any sense of morality or ethics.
And so this man became President just at the moment when choices could have been made to begin reversing the damage we were doing to the environment; to continue our long climb out of debt; to lead the world in a better direction: to create a global consensus to counter terrorism in a viable way. And, instead, this President made disastrous choice after disastrous choice.
Under this President, science, medicine and technology were subordinated to a fundamentalist Christian Know-Nothingism which became the new Inquisition. Medical decisions, already hampered in this country, were further usurped by preachers, politicians and insurance industry con-men.
Our schools had to battle to teach established, scientific fact. Our libraries not only had to face a wave of politically empowered, self-righteous book burners, but were ordered to become arms of our state security system. The Surgeon General, the Head of NASA, and others, had to rewrite scientific reports to meet the demands of the political apparatchiks installed in their offices.
Agency after agency was gutted as able civil servants were replaced by politically connected incompetents. FEMA went from being a superbly run operation to being a national dirty joke. The Justice Department, squandered a two-century-old reputation of professionalism. The EPA knowingly let rescue workers at ground zero destroy their health. The FDA put politics above policy. Regulation and oversight were cut back in department after department. Public safety gave way to private profit and political expediency.
Soon we will have a new President. And he or she will be faced with a nightmarish list of problems: a National Debt which will have soared from 5 trillion dollars to more than twice that already unimaginable figure; the increasing threat of irrational nihilism spreading like a virulent disease under the banner of fundamentalist Islam: an American army, sapped by the pointless war in Iraq, requiring perhaps a generation to rebuild - and this while the actual terrorist threat has grown unchecked; a federal bureaucracy from which honest men and women fled; a world which now looks upon America with fear and disgust.
Soon we will have a new President. Soon, but far too late.
As the Second Millennium ended, America - and the world - had reached a number of tipping points.
The Soviet Union had collapsed under its own weight and the world found itself under the influence of one single superpower. One that was both generally benign and possessed of an armed might greater than that of all of history’s previous major powers combined.
The tide had been turned on our mounting national debt and for the first time in a generation we had run a surplus not a deficit.
A new enemy to civilization was just beginning to reach out across the world from Arabia.
Science continued increasing the pace at which breakthroughs in medicine and technology were being achieved.
Man’s eons-long war against nature - a seemingly impossible exercise a mere century ago - was, horrifyingly, being won. And it was beginning to dawn on us that we had not merely tamed the planet, but were, in fact, killing it.
Our dependence on petroleum as our primary source of energy was not only having disastrous effects on our environment but also holding us hostage both to a cartel of the most regressive regimes on the planet and to a doomed technology based on a dwindling resource. A resource which, we are learning, is invaluable as a raw material for manufacture but which, instead, we are burning at an ever increasing rate in a manner little different than fueling our fireplaces with irreplaceable works of art.
And just as we reached this fulcrum in history, an unbelievable series of chance events and the choices of a handful of corrupt officials and the intervention by a feckless Supreme Court majority, had seen to it that America was to be governed by the worst possible President at the worst possible moment. A man whose intellectual laziness was indistinguishable from utter stupidity. A man whose lip service to religiosity was as close as he was capable of getting to any sense of morality or ethics.
And so this man became President just at the moment when choices could have been made to begin reversing the damage we were doing to the environment; to continue our long climb out of debt; to lead the world in a better direction: to create a global consensus to counter terrorism in a viable way. And, instead, this President made disastrous choice after disastrous choice.
Under this President, science, medicine and technology were subordinated to a fundamentalist Christian Know-Nothingism which became the new Inquisition. Medical decisions, already hampered in this country, were further usurped by preachers, politicians and insurance industry con-men.
Our schools had to battle to teach established, scientific fact. Our libraries not only had to face a wave of politically empowered, self-righteous book burners, but were ordered to become arms of our state security system. The Surgeon General, the Head of NASA, and others, had to rewrite scientific reports to meet the demands of the political apparatchiks installed in their offices.
Agency after agency was gutted as able civil servants were replaced by politically connected incompetents. FEMA went from being a superbly run operation to being a national dirty joke. The Justice Department, squandered a two-century-old reputation of professionalism. The EPA knowingly let rescue workers at ground zero destroy their health. The FDA put politics above policy. Regulation and oversight were cut back in department after department. Public safety gave way to private profit and political expediency.
Soon we will have a new President. And he or she will be faced with a nightmarish list of problems: a National Debt which will have soared from 5 trillion dollars to more than twice that already unimaginable figure; the increasing threat of irrational nihilism spreading like a virulent disease under the banner of fundamentalist Islam: an American army, sapped by the pointless war in Iraq, requiring perhaps a generation to rebuild - and this while the actual terrorist threat has grown unchecked; a federal bureaucracy from which honest men and women fled; a world which now looks upon America with fear and disgust.
Soon we will have a new President. Soon, but far too late.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Order and Justice
You are mistaken if you believe that law exists in order to ensure justice.
The purpose of law is to maintain order.
Justice is merely a secondary goal.
That is because those who rule and make the laws - in any society - value order far higher than they do justice.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Uncle Betty Dispairs
July 15, 2007 New York Times
Bush Is Prepared to Veto Bill to Expand Child Insurance
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The White House said on Saturday that President Bush would veto a bipartisan plan to expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program, drafted over the last six months by senior members of the Senate Finance Committee.
The vow puts Mr. Bush at odds with the Democratic majority in Congress, with a substantial number of Republican lawmakers and with many governors of both parties, who want to expand the popular program to cover some of the nation’s eight million uninsured children.
Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman, said: “The president’s senior advisers will certainly recommend a veto of this proposal. And there is no question that the president would veto it.”
The program, which insured 7.4 million people at some time in the last year, is set to expire Sept. 30.
The Finance Committee is expected to approve the Senate plan next week, sending it to the full Senate for action later this month.
Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who is chairman of the committee, said he would move ahead despite the veto threat.
“The Senate will not be deterred from helping more kids in need,” Mr. Baucus said. “The president should stop playing politics and start working with Congress to help kids, through renewal of this program.”
The proposal would increase current levels of spending by $35 billion over the next five years, bringing the total to $60 billion. The Congressional Budget Office says the plan would reduce the number of uninsured children by 4.1 million.
The new spending would be financed by an increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco products. The tax on cigarettes would rise to $1 a pack, from the current 39 cents.
Mr. Fratto, the White House spokesman, said, “Tax increases are neither necessary nor advisable to fund the program appropriately.”
Democrats in the House would go much further than the bipartisan Senate plan. They would add $50 billion to the program over five years, bringing the total to $75 billion. By contrast, in his latest budget request, Mr. Bush proposed an increase of $5 billion over five years, which would bring the total to $30 billion.
White House officials said the president had several other reasons to veto the bipartisan Senate plan.
“The proposal would dramatically expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program, adding nonpoor children to the program, and more than doubling the level of spending,” Mr. Fratto said. “This will have the effect of encouraging many to drop private coverage, to go on the government-subsidized program.”
In addition, Mr. Fratto said, the Senate plan does not include any of Mr. Bush’s proposals to change the tax treatment of health insurance, in an effort to make it more affordable for millions of Americans.
Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Finance Committee, said he would like to consider such tax proposals. But, he said, “it’s not realistic — given the lack of bipartisan support for the president’s plan — to think that can be accomplished before the current children’s health care program runs out in September.”
Bush Is Prepared to Veto Bill to Expand Child Insurance
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The White House said on Saturday that President Bush would veto a bipartisan plan to expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program, drafted over the last six months by senior members of the Senate Finance Committee.
The vow puts Mr. Bush at odds with the Democratic majority in Congress, with a substantial number of Republican lawmakers and with many governors of both parties, who want to expand the popular program to cover some of the nation’s eight million uninsured children.
Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman, said: “The president’s senior advisers will certainly recommend a veto of this proposal. And there is no question that the president would veto it.”
The program, which insured 7.4 million people at some time in the last year, is set to expire Sept. 30.
The Finance Committee is expected to approve the Senate plan next week, sending it to the full Senate for action later this month.
Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who is chairman of the committee, said he would move ahead despite the veto threat.
“The Senate will not be deterred from helping more kids in need,” Mr. Baucus said. “The president should stop playing politics and start working with Congress to help kids, through renewal of this program.”
The proposal would increase current levels of spending by $35 billion over the next five years, bringing the total to $60 billion. The Congressional Budget Office says the plan would reduce the number of uninsured children by 4.1 million.
The new spending would be financed by an increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco products. The tax on cigarettes would rise to $1 a pack, from the current 39 cents.
Mr. Fratto, the White House spokesman, said, “Tax increases are neither necessary nor advisable to fund the program appropriately.”
Democrats in the House would go much further than the bipartisan Senate plan. They would add $50 billion to the program over five years, bringing the total to $75 billion. By contrast, in his latest budget request, Mr. Bush proposed an increase of $5 billion over five years, which would bring the total to $30 billion.
White House officials said the president had several other reasons to veto the bipartisan Senate plan.
“The proposal would dramatically expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program, adding nonpoor children to the program, and more than doubling the level of spending,” Mr. Fratto said. “This will have the effect of encouraging many to drop private coverage, to go on the government-subsidized program.”
In addition, Mr. Fratto said, the Senate plan does not include any of Mr. Bush’s proposals to change the tax treatment of health insurance, in an effort to make it more affordable for millions of Americans.
Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Finance Committee, said he would like to consider such tax proposals. But, he said, “it’s not realistic — given the lack of bipartisan support for the president’s plan — to think that can be accomplished before the current children’s health care program runs out in September.”
Friday, July 13, 2007
Gasho owner plans housing for seniors
By John Sullivan
July 12, 2007Times Herald-Record
Central Valley — The owner of a Route 32 Japanese restaurant where food is served with blazing displays of cutlery wants to provide Woodbury senior citizens with an affordable place to live.
Gasho of Japan owner Taku Aoki and his family are proposing to build as many as 60 affordable rental homes for seniors who can no longer pay the high costs of owning homes in town.
A small number of the units would also provide affordable housing for public workers, including municipal staff, firefighters and police, he added.
The project, which is still in its preliminary stages, would be the first development of its kind in the town.
Gasho of Japan is an iconic landmark in the community, where it got its start.
The family business has three other restaurants: two on Long Island and one in Westchester.
Aoki, 38, who took over his father Shiro's 37-year-old business about 15 years ago, said the senior housing project is his way of giving back to a community that embraced him and his family when they were among a few minorities in town.
"Maybe 90 percent of the people around here treated me like a regular person, and that affected the way I grew up," he said. "I never felt like an outsider. I'm a townie, just like everyone else."
The project would be built on 12 acres, where Gasho's three-story office building — a former conference hall — and closed hotel are located.
Still uncertain, Aoki said, are such details as the cost of the rentals, the number of units — a variance is needed to raise the allowable number from 48 to 60 — and water and sewer access.
Aoki said he's looking into government grants to help keep rents affordable.
The upscale Woodbury Junction located on Dunderberg Road is the only other development proposal with a senior-housing component in Woodbury, which is witnessing the same flight of seniors and working-class residents as elsewhere in Orange County.
"They take care of us when we're little, and we're supposed to take care of them when we get older," Aoki said of the seniors in his community. "It's not some ancient Japanese secret, it's just common sense."
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Under Construction
It's been too damned hot to put anything together (including a coherent thought).
The weather is breaking and maybe the uncle will focus.
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Go Bleed
Blood Drive Today, Sunday, July 8th
Highland Mills Fire Company
Upper Level
Highland Mills Fire Company
Upper Level
455 Route 32
Highland Mills NY 10930
Alas, the Uncle cannot donate.
When circumstances dictated that I relinquish my former home, there was some sort of todo at the airport, and time was pressing.
Therefore, I had little choice but to travel cross-country along certain spectacularly scenic, but far from salubrious routes through a local rain forest.
It was there that I happened to pick up a wee bit of the maleria.
How ironic that a mob clamouring for my blood should cause me to possess blood that, now, no one wants.
Your blood, however is not merely wanted, but needed, and sharing some small amount of it will only do you good.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
231 Years and Counting
Have a safe and glorious Fourth.But while you're at it, tell me, what is the state of our nation?
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