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Post by Tim Collins on Apr 1, 2009 18:36:57 GMT -7
Hey, Snil, that's pretty good. Congrats. Lets just see if it draws any comments
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Post by rosa on Apr 2, 2009 5:33:38 GMT -7
Finally, a reason to read NPT
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Post by webrunner on Apr 2, 2009 5:57:32 GMT -7
Do you think now that Snil's a published writer he'll still speak to us little people?
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Post by Tim Collins on Apr 2, 2009 6:07:08 GMT -7
Do you think now that Snil's a published writer he'll still speak to us little people? I will, just with a little more disdain for your common-ness
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Post by webrunner on Apr 2, 2009 6:46:09 GMT -7
LOL. I may also happen to know that you're going to be on local talk radio tomorrow. Dang Snil, you're bordering on celebrity status here. When's the interview with Geraldo?
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Post by Tim Collins on Apr 2, 2009 7:06:30 GMT -7
LOL. I may also happen to know that you're going to be on local talk radio tomorrow. Dang Snil, you're bordering on celebrity status here. When's the interview with Geraldo? I'm in negotiations with Geraldo, the sticking point is he wants a tour of the Seven Cities of Cibola, but won't agree to being blinfolded for the whole trip. He expects me to let him in on the secret location because he is afraid the cities will be empty of gold and doesn't want another Al Capone Vault incident. Sorry but I can't reveal this family secret.
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Post by rosa on Apr 2, 2009 12:11:58 GMT -7
Knock it off you two snil, give so I can listen in, and maybe get someone to make one of those obscene calls into the show what station, time, all the good stuff please
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Post by webrunner on Apr 3, 2009 6:28:29 GMT -7
Rosa, since I'm not a published author like Snil is, I'm not too big for my britches and I will answer you. He's on at 10a.m. today on KHRO. That's 1150 on your am dial.
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Post by rosa on Apr 3, 2009 20:05:05 GMT -7
Snil, I heard you on the radio today. I think you were a great guest and I heard some very nice compliments about your interview. I was pretty impressed.
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Post by Tim Collins on Apr 4, 2009 16:22:50 GMT -7
Brownfield thanks for joining and adding to EP Vox.
I like the basketball story - guess that player got a good education at Stanford.
I appreciate how someone can become totally disillusioned with politics and politicians to the point of losing any thought that things will ever change. Every 4 years I get real close to feeling the same way - I hate the BS. Until about 2 years ago I was like 90% of the population - screamed at my TV, complained to friends, when really ticked off by some self-serving or arrogant idiot I would write a letter to the editor (not a very big batting average with getting published.
Two years ago I decided yelling in private was not enough, I felt compelled to find a way to at least help bring about some change. I am not (though some would strongly disagree) arrogant enough to think I have all the answers, but hell I do have some ideas that I have not heard anyone else be willing to stand up and say in public.
I started out pretty conservative, or at least I thought I was. Then I started LISTENING better to the other side. Not so much the loud mouths we elect - I have little time for most of them, at least the ones that get the air time; but believe it or not some of the people on the strelz. The ones that at least made an effort to explain their positions. I found my self looking inward and changing some of my long held views. Let me be honest - a lot of my views did not change at all, but some that did I was even surprised about.
Call me a dreamer, or more likely call me a schemer, but the truth is I REALLY believe the people can and should take back the government from the professional politicians running the show now. I would bet that out of the 435 members of Congress, hidden away from the press, is at least 100 members that are honest and still idealist. Those are the people we need to work with, and expand their members by throwing out all those guys that have made a life of living in Washington.
Just to confirm your suspicion of me - yeah I would like to run for congress. And I admit I have selfish reasons - I want to make a mark on this world before I die. I want to leave behind even some small memory that says I was here and I did some good.
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Post by rosa on Apr 4, 2009 18:09:24 GMT -7
"The system will change you. You will not change the system"
I heard that when I graduated from school; it was true. I was changed...but so was the "system"...via my participation
I got to decide whether or not falling in lockstep was the way to go, or whether I wanted to do what I believed was ethical--even in the face of political pressures at work.
Every day, I make that decision, and I do it by choice. Whether or not I can make a positive impact, well, some days are better than others....but knowing what the odds are, I can accept even the most minimal change, as long as it's a good one.
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Post by Tim Collins on Apr 4, 2009 20:00:07 GMT -7
Brownfield
My Father taught me one real important lesson (of many) that I have never forgotten.
He said "There are two kinds of knowledge. Knowledge from college and knock around knowledge. If you can only have one skip college."
It was always a joke whenever my brothers and I argued politics with him (he was a self educated stationary engineer who learned his trade as a Merchant Marine between 1942 and 1951 sailing all over the world, oh yeah a DEDICATED Marxist as well), when we got too high faluting he would smile, wave his hand in dismissal and say "Knowledge from college..."
Well one day on leave from the Air Force having just left the Philippines and enroute to Germany he gave me that line and I asked him when the last time he had been to Manila, Tokyo or ...and by the way the last time you saw Germany wasn't it a smoking ruin for the most part? He got quiet and poured me a beer.
About 8 years later at a family reunion in Maine where he had retired, my brothers and I were arguing politics with him on the porch and drinking beers. he looked at me at one point and said 'Tim - get a load of these guys...Knowledge from college" My brothers spit and sputtered and demanded an explanation...they never got one, but it was the funniest moment I ever had with my dad and brothers. Brings tears to all our eyes now when we remember him on the rare occasions we get together.
So Brown - college is no requirement for this board, in fact it may at times get in the way.
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Post by webrunner on Apr 4, 2009 21:23:50 GMT -7
I read somewhere once that knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting them in a fruit salad.
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