G. Gordon Liddy
The G, surprisingly, doesn't stand for "goon," "ghoul" or "gestapo." It stands for "George." However, G. Gordon Liddy's second middle name is "Battle," which has to count for something.
There are two ways you can look at Liddy: He might be a curious study in grand megalomania coupled with apparently only mediocre ability. Or he could be a nefarious power-mongering secret agent whose life is filled with intrigue, secrets which could shake the nation and tales of high adventure. We'll let you guess which version of the story Liddy himself prefers.
After two years in Korea, Liddy got his law degree and went to work for J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI. Liddy arrived during the glory days of Hoover's reign, while the agency was tracking down gangsters left and right, but before it started assassinating civil rights leaders.
According to Liddy's own accounts (which vary considerably from day to day), his jobs at the FBI included monitoring possible candidates for internment at secret concentration camps, tracking down America's Most Wanted and raiding the home of recreational drug guru Timothy Leary in a fruitless search for something that would stand up in court (in light of the drug laws at the time).
In 1962, Liddy left the FBI for a short-lived career as a lawyer, first in private practice and later as a prosecutor in New York State. He continued his weird lifelong fixation with Leary, raiding his home in the area in an attempt to nail him on drug charges. Liddy's prosecution eventually led the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the existing drug laws of the day as unconstitutional (prompting Congress to write a whole new set of even more Draconian laws).
As a minor politico in New York, Liddy naturally caught the attention of Richard M. Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, which was looking for unpaid help, as all campaigns do. As a reward for a job well done, Liddy was brought into the Nixon administration, as a lawyer in the Treasury Department.
In 1971, Liddy was promoted to the White House Staff, and that's when the trouble began. After (in his own mind) creating the Drug Enforcement Agency, he moved on to bigger and better things — a job with the White House "Special Investigations Group."
Organized by Egil "Bud" Krogh, the man who brought Liddy on board, the group was informally known as "the Plumbers," because their job was to stop leaks from the executive branch. The prima facie justification for this was "national security," but the Plumbers quickly expanded their role into political security as well.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
G Gordon Liddy
Monday, July 14, 2008
Ted Nugent
The NRA stands with all freedom-loving Americans. Indeed, our focus is on the 2nd Amendment, but the NRA members realize that the other freedoms contained in our sacred US Constitution and Bill of Rights are also worthy of our watchful eye and protection. Just like the NRA will not support gun-control, we also won't support freedom-control. - Ted Nugent
Monday, July 7, 2008
If you want the best airfare.
don't be in a hurry.
fined your self a good travel agent. join a travel club. look for coupons or discounts. At one time you could buy out people who would cancel at the last minute.
They cant get a refund so they will sell there ticket cheep.
I don't no if you can still do that with all the new security since 9/11
check e-bay.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.”
You may know Mark Twain for some of his very popular books like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He was a writer and also a humorist, satirist and lecturer.
Twain is known for his many – and often funny – quotes. Here are a few of my favourite tips from him.
1. Approve of yourself.
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
Arthur C Clark
I have only read a few of his books (I read, and greatly enjoyed, 2001: A Space Odyssey and then something distracted me before I finished 2010: Odyssey Two) but he has had a huge influence on my life, if only as a byproduct of the influence he has had on the world as a whole.
He was among the first to think about and formally propose the concept of a geostationary satellite, a technology that is the basis of almost all global telecommunication systems, and he was always at the forefront of scientific knowledge. He also brought the concept of space elevators to his audience, an act he believed would leave a far greater legacy than even the satellites.
Really, there's nothing more I can say. He was a great man.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
The World today
Well lets get started.
Technology in are World today. We have advanced to the point. Where Any thing is possible. We have cell phones.
That can not only make calls. They can take pictures. Make movies. Play music. Watch movies that you can down load from the Internet. You can surf the web. Get directions. Check the stock market. Get the news. Change your ring tones. Play games. And so much more.
Who would have thought. That a person could. Make a phone call. Ask grand ma if she wanted a picture. Of you standing in front of the Washington monument . Then you could send it to her. in minutes. Or you could go to walmart. Or sum picture place. That has a picture machine and you could "blue tooth" "send" .your pictures to the machine.
From your phone. Where you then can. Make prints. Make a picture CD. That you can play on your DVD player. Or you can hook your computer. And do all these things your self.
I can remember. When you took film. "That's the stuff pictures where on in the old days" To k-mart. And if you got them back in a couple of days that was good. Or you could get a Polaroid. now that was technology.
We now have cars that you can talk to. You can tell it to make a call. Turn on the radio. Ask it for directions. If you loose your keys. You can call your car and ask it to unlock your doors for you. "I no its some one at on star" Your car can even call in when it needs repair.
Your home can even be controlled by a computer. Your stove. Refrigerator. Dish washer. Lights. Stereo. TV. And so on.
Just think about it you can tell to your car. To call your house. And tell your stove to start dinner. That is if you have one of those stoves that is a fridge combined. It can tell the house to turn on the lights. And turn up the heat. And put on your favorite show. "wow" beam me up Scottie"
Well i am going to make a point. If we can have all these nice toys. Then why is it that we don't have the things that we really need. What do we need you ask. How about a scanner. That a person could walk through and get a full body scan. One scan could cost about the same as a cell phone bill. How about a machine that you put your hand in. It could pinch a little blood and check you for every thing. OK so we don't have that right now. But if the people that ran the MRI. X-ray. Blood tests. And so on. If they did it like a smart business. First you could lower the price of one of thees test. Then you could send every one to get tested. This could prevent a lot of symptoms from getting worse. All so it could help doctors to give the right medicine the first time. I don't no how often i went to a doctor. And he would guess at what the problem might be. So he would give me this pill that pill. Until he found something that helped a little.
I don't no about every one else. But i don't like trial and error with my health.
This would also save money for the insurance companies. By not paying for false diagnosis or just guess work. Ask your self how often have you gone to the doctor. And he really didn't find out what was wrong with you. If you took your car in to a mechanic. And he changed your brakes. When you needed a tune up. You would say that's not what the problem was. And i am not paying you for that.
well until next week. Thank you for your time. please leave your comments and thoughts.
sincerely derold.
