List member Rick Kissell was quoted in this column:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2011/11/03/142002422/non-lethal-projectiles-was-non-accurate-police-speak-in-occupy-oakland-clash
The "ombudsman" does his usual job of defending the indefensible. It reminds me of when I worked in state government - every single person employed by the state, despite how their job descriptions said they were neutral - personnel employees, ombudsmen, etc - always favored power, and regarded as wronged employees and the public as the enemy of agency management. That is how this guy views his job - to defend the propaganda arm of the government from taxpayers with complaints, preferably to weasil his way out of it, to distract and deflect.
In this case, it wasn't just the use of the phrase non-lethal to describe the weapon that almost killed Olsen, it was their neglect to mention that the weapon almost killed him. I raised the same point as Rick did, but I don't expect to get quoted, I've made it clear how much I detest NPR these days. I listen to NPR to find out what the propaganda line is for government and big business; I post on the NPR site to advise people to not pledge, to consider occupying NPR, and to steer them towards good stories on Counterpunch and Democracy Now! There is a certain amount of free speech there, but the moderation is quite arbitrary. If you leave a comment that doesn't violate their (mostly reasonable) posting guidelines, and they remove it, you know you are on the right track!
I've finally achieved consistency in my life. Any person of average or above intelligence can predict what I will say next with unerring accuracy. And what I say will always be wrong.
Sunday, November 06, 2011
[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Orwell and Olsen
[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: Your Petition has Ended
Well, we made a good go of it, thank you to all my friends that supported this petition. I may try again, now that Occupy Wall Street is in full swing. I might have just been a little bit ahead of the curve, as I so often am.
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I want to play in your town for you and 2 of your friends.
http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands
Sunday, October 16, 2011
[ItsAllAboutMeMan] More pictures [3 Attachments]
P1080304 - Chinese wild pigs. they are fierce fighters, and extremely intelligent.
P1080317 - another O'blerg's pub - this one really departs from the template. I asked about this, and it seems that much of the actual pub was lost at sea when the ship transporting it went down, and so local craftsmen were forced to erect a building that they thought looked like an Irish Pub. I have to give them high marks for their effort and pluck.
P1080396 - a gratifying sight that every musician likes - a bus load of fans being transported across the Gobi Desert, arriving just in time for fermented yak milk and Guinness, and a rockin good time!
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I want to play in your town for you and 2 of your friends.
http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands
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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] More pictures from the O'Blerg's tour [4 Attachments]
P1080018 - This chandelier was made from empty Guinness bottles - though it was a departure from the usual O'blerg's decor (tm) I thought it was very interesting so I photographed it. True fact: all O'blerg's pubs are first built in Dublin, then dismantled and shipped to their final location, so they are all extremely authentic. But only a man with a very cold heart would reject local innovation, don't you agree?
P1080024 - This is a Himalayan Yak - prized for it's delicious milk, which the locals ferment and drink in great quantities. When this is mixed with Guinness, it creates a delicious, cosmopolitan beverage!
P1080025 - this handsome beast is a Gobi desert cow. My understanding is that consumption of the milk is avoided, per local tradition, it is poisonous, and therefore verboten, as Jewish people would say.
P1080103 - an Asian elephant. They differ from the African variety in that they have smaller ears.
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I want to play in your town for you and 2 of your friends.
http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands
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[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Re: THIS IS MY FULL LIFE STORY WITH LOVE AND TRUST I HAVE FOR YOU, [2 Attachments]
Hi Jenifer
It was wonderful to hear from you again, and I'm so very happy to know that my extremely advanced age and my diminuative stature isn't a deterrant for you to our ongoing relationship. I found your life story very interesting, and so I will tell you mine as well.
I had an uneventful childhood growing up in Wenatchee, Washington. It was a fairly normal, usually happy life, though my brother was a sadistic sociopath, and I was easy pray due to being so very small as a child. My mother would put me sobbing into a shoe box every evening... she had a great deal of love for me, but somehow felt powerless to end my torment.
However, everything changed when I discovered rock and roll, it was a liberating experience. I had many fascinating gigs and sexual encounters, and for the first time in my life, my weirdly puny size wasn't a handicap. I spent some time in an all midget KISS cover band (www.minikiss.com/) and for a time I was making good money as a Prince impersonator.
More recently, I've been working on the management side of the music business. I'm managing a band called The Icehole Sailors - perhaps you've heard of them, they have a global reputation. Management can be just as challenging as playing music... a million and one things to deal with. These guys are brilliant musicians, but hopeless as organizers, so I have to go on the road with them. Our latest tour took us to a series of Irish Pub franchises, O'Blerg's Pubs (tm) scattered along route of the ancient silk road in Asia.
They had to learn a bunch of Irish tunes in a hurry for this tour, but I think they did a fine job. Listen to some of their music at: www.soundclick.com/iceholesailors, and let me know what you think, OK? They were very well received, but honestly, I don't think people in rural China and the various Stans would know much about authentic Irish music, anyway.
It turns out being short was useful for this tour, too... I could comfortably stand on the dashboard of the tour bus (which we dubbed Bismillah, King of the Desert) and help the driver scan the road for those axil breaking potholes the region is famous for.
I've attached some pictures from this tour that I thought might interest you, and here is a short explanation of what is in these photographs.
P1070967 and P1070970 - these are pictures of the rare asian grey rhino. You can see that they are in a child's playground. This picture was taken at a orphanage right next to a shoilin accademy. The rhinos were allowed to mingle freely with the children, who benefited greatly from the experience; they were all very quick, and exceedingly nimble. The shoilin priests selected the most able students from among the bunch to be new initiates,and they always eventually proved to be the very best Kung Fu masters.
I will send more pictures separately, this is all google will allow me t send at one time.
Matt
Dearest
I am more than happy in your reply to my mail this morning, How are you today hope all is well and fine? Mine is a little bit hot over here in Dakar Senegal. Just like i told you in my first mail that I'm from ivory-coast, But due to the war in my country that cost the dead of my father and my mother which made me to stay here as a refugee. My condition here is terrible Its just like one staying in the prison and i hope by Gods grace i will come out from here soon. I don't have any relatives now whom i can go to all our relatives ran away in the middle of the war the only person i have now is (Rev Father Paul Johnson). who is the pastor of the (Christ the king Churches) here in the camp, He has been very nice to me since i came here but i am not living with him rather I'm leaving in the women hostel (in the camp) because here they have two hostels one for the men the other for women.The Pastor's Tel number is (+221-77 23 32 339) if you call please tell him that you want to speak with me he will send for me in the hostel, because of my condition here i don't have any right or privileged to any thing being it money or whatever because it is against the law of this country. I want to go back to my studies because i only attended my first year before the tragic incident that lead to my being in this situation now took place. Please listen to this, I have my late father's statement of account and death certificate (as his next of kin) here with me which i will send to you later, Because when he was alive he deposited some amount of money in a leading bank in United kingdom which he used my name as the next of kin, The amount in question is $7.5m(Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) So what i need from you is for you to see that this money is transferred to a good account and also to make an arrangement on how i will come over and stay with you and continue my life and education. My choosing you is a question i knew you must ask and i think it is a good question. I have two reasons for choosing you, i choose you because it is the will of God. And i believe knowing you will bring hope back again to my life. My choosing you does not mean i do not have anybody from Africa. I have two uncles that is my late father's junior brothers whom i think are suppose to be taking care of me but they do not care, All they did was to sell one of my late father's houses and company to one Mr Olson Steven from united states and enjoy the money with their wives. I wanted to tell Olson about it but should my uncles know of the money they can kill me ,So as to eat the money, It was as if my father saw their deed because he told the implication of having a big money in Africa and that was the reason while he made the deposit in Scotland. The day i wrote you first, I picked up three address from a dating site and i prayed over it with my Rev,father. He brought a pieces of paper and wrote the three email address in it and fold it, He ask me to pick one and i picked your email address then i decided to write you and i also believe that it is the will of God. However you can call me with the reverend office phone line, My favorite language is English but our official language is French, I speak English very fluently because i attended an American and English speaking private school in my country for almost all my school, please try to call me as requested so that we can hear each other voices, I have a lot to tell you, I will be thinking about you so much as i will be waiting to hear from you soonest,
Have a very wonderful day,
from Jenifer;
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I want to play in your town for you and 2 of your friends.
http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
[ItsAllAboutMeMan] Fwd: FLAVORPILL: 10 of Music's Best Late Career Albums
Glad to get the props from a very smart guy...
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I want to play in your town for you and 2 of your friends.
http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands

Surely Matt Love's incredible comeback album "So Hot For Matt", made at a very advanced age for both rock and roll should have been included on this list. It's been tragically overlooked… you can hear / download the songs here:
http://www.last.fm/music/Matt+Love/So+Hot+For+Matt