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ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION THERE ARE 179 CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT IN THE 2008 ELECTION CYCLE. THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION SENT ME THE LIST. THE U.S. MAIL POSTAGE ALONE WAS $2.03.
EVER HEAR OF ANY THEM IN THIS LAND OF THE FREE PRESS? PROBABLY THE ONLY ONES YOU HAVE HEARD OF ARE THE 10 OR 20 MEDIOCRE EX-POLS THEY PROP UP AT THE DOG AND PONY SHOW DEBATES. THESE ARE PRESUMED TO SHOW "THE RACE IS WIDE OPEN."
IN FACT IT IS NOT.
I MYSELF, FOR EXAMPLE, WAS EXCLUDED FROM ONE OF THE DEBATES BY A RULE OF QUALIFICATION - MADE UP BY THE MEDIA AND THE POLS RUNNING THE PARTY SYSTEM - THAT IS NOT IN THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR PRESIDENT LISTED IN THE U. S. CONSTITUTION. IT'S NOT ENOUGH FOR THESE TURKEYS THAT I AM NEARLY CRIPPLED, ABOUT LIKE FDR WHO SOME THINK DID PRETTY WELL AS A WAR PRESIDENT, AND HAVE TO WAGE MY CAMPAIGN WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO WALK MUCH LESS RUN. NO, THEIR STYLE AND CHARACTER IS LIKE THE ARABS WHO SHOT LEON KLINGHOFFER THE OLD JEW IN A WHEELCHAIR ONBOARD THE ACHILLE LAURO AND THREW HIM AND HIS WHEELCHAIR OVERBOARD. THAT IS THE KIND OF UN- FULL, FAIR AND FREE METHODS THEY USE TO OPERATE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORAL SYSTEM.
PART OF THE REASON IS THE MEDIA IS NO LONGER DOING ITS JOB OF BEING A GOOD INFORMER OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. RATHER, THE MEDIA PURSUES ITS OWN INTERESTS. MONEY IS A PART OF THE PROBLEM TOO.
ONE FELLOW WORKING FOR CBS TV NEWS , WELL-RESPECTED AND SO FORTH, I MAKE NO PERSONAL SORT OF AD HOMINEM ATTACK ON HIM, A MAN I "LIKE" AMONG THE VARIOUS NEWSCASTERS AS ONE WHO SEEMS TO HAVE MAINTAINED HIS OWN PERSONAL SENSE OF INTEGRITY, WHICH IS ALL FINE SO FAR AS IT GOES BUT HE IS ALSO A COG IN OUR FIRST AMENDMENT CREATED FREE PRESS AND RESPONSIBLE IN A MORE ULTIMATE MORAL SENSE TO FULFILL WHAT TED TURNER ONCE CALLED A SACRED TRUST BY WHICH I TAKE THE LIBERTY TO SUGGEST HE MEANT IN PART TO KEEP THE REPUBLIC FUNCTIONAL AND BILL PARRISH IN THE FINE FILM MEET JOE BLACK SPOKE STRONGLY OF AS A PRIVILEGE AND A RESPONSIBILITY, THAT MUST BE EARNED, NOT BOUGHT, DEPLORED ON THE AIR THE MANY PERSONS WHO WOULD OFFER THEMSELVES IN SERVICE TO THEIR COUNTRY AS A POTENTIAL NEW BLOOD PRESIDENT. HE SPOKE DISPARAGINGLY OF THESE PEOPLE "INFLICTING THEMSELVES ON THE REST OF US AND THE COUNTRY."
I AM ONE OF THOSE AND YOU MAY NOTE THAT I, ALONE AMONG THE CANDIDATES, HAVE SAVED AMERICA FROM A NUCLEAR BOMB, HAVE SAVED U. S. MILITARY PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT WORLDWIDE AND HAVE CREATED A SPECIFIC ECONOMIC PLAN ON A NEW PARADIGM TO RESCUE THOSE - MANY IN THE MIDDLE CLASS BUT ALSO OTHERS - WHO FOR MANY REASONABLE REASONS ARE EXPERIENCING LOSS IN THE ECONOMY AND FOR THEIR CHILDREN.
THIS IS WHAT THE MEDIA SEEKS TO PREVENT BEING "INFLICTED" ON AMERICA.
YOU CAN SEE ON THE FACE OF IT THAT WHAT THE MEDIA IS DOING BY EXCLUDING ME FOR EXAMPLE FROM ANY COVERAGE IN FAIR NEWS REPORTING PIECES:
1. INCREASES THE PROBABILITY OF A NUCLEAR BOMB REACHING AMERICA
2. INCREASES THE NUMBERS OF AMERICAN MILITARY PERSONNEL DYING
3. DEPRIVES MANY FACING LOSS IN OUR ECONOMY - IN PERHAPS A BELL CURVE WITH MOST (AH, MANY MILLIONS) IN THE MIDDLE CLASS BUT STILL FAIR NUMBERS (AH, MILLIONS) ABOVE AND BELOW MIDDLE CLASS - FROM HAVING EVEN THE CHANCE AT A SPECIFIC PRESIDENTIAL PLAN TO RESCUE THEM FROM THE LONG NIGHTMARES OF THEIR AND THEIR CHILDREN'S PERSONAL GREAT DEPRESSIONS. IN THIS SENSE, THE MEDIA IS ACTUALLY ACTIVELY DESTROYING AMERICANS AND AMERICA
THE MEDIA - THE OLD GUARD IN PARTICULAR - IS, ACTUALLY, A HORRIBLE ("TRAITOROUS" IN LINDA THE HON'S BLUNT PHRASING) DISGRACE TO EVERYTHING GOOD ABOUT AMERICA.
DO YOU SEE THE MACABRE HUMOR? A CBS TV NEWS GUY[!], WHO HAS BEEN IN THERE FOREVER, PREACHING WHAT MANY AMERICANS (REMEMBER THE WEEPY WOMAN INTERVIEWED ON THE AIR AFTER THE 2004 ELECTIONS WHO LOOKED AT THE ALMOST COMPLETELY RED PRECINCT LEVEL MAP AND SAID INCREDULOUSLY "THERE ARE MORE OF THEM THAN US!"?) RECOGNIZE IS THEIR LEFT OF CENTER AGENDA YEAR AFTER YEAR, DISPARAGES SIMPLE HONEST PATRIOTIC AMERICANS WHO WANT TO TRY TO SAVE THEIR COUNTRY FROM THE KIND OF LOSING LAST YEAR'S COACHES THE MEDIA THEMSELVES INFLICT ON THE REST OF US.
SO, YOU, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WHO SHOULD BE SIMPLY AND HONESTLY INFORMED OF THE 179 CHOICES YOU MAY CHOOSE FROM FOR A NEW PRESIDENT ARE REDUCED AND LIMITED TO SELECTING ONLY AMONG THOSE 10 OR 20 WHO ARE PERHAPS AMONG THE MOST MEDIOCRE. NONE OF THE ONES YOU ARE ALLOWED TO SEE, FOR EXAMPLE, HAVE DONE ANY OF THE 3 THINGS I HAVE DONE FOR AMERICA WHICH ARE LISTED ABOVE.
THE MEDIA FIGURES THEMSELVES SPEND A DISPROPORTIONATE PERCENTAGE OF THEIR TV AIR TIME CRITICIZING THE PRESENT POLITICIANS, OH, SAY . . . PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH FOR INSTANCE. THEN, WHEN THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER AMERICA A FAIR CHOICE OF FRESH TALENT - INSTEAD OF LAST YEAR'S LOSING COACHES WHO GOT US ONLY INTO THE STATUS QUO (WHAT RONALD REAGAN DEFINED AS THE MESS WE ARE IN NOW) THEY JUST FRONT AND CENTER THE OLD LOSERS AND EXCLUDE ANYONE WHO WILL SAVE AMERICA FROM THEM.
IS IT ANY WONDER THE OLD GUARD MEDIA ARE WIDELY HATED? THEY ARE LOSING SO MANY VIEWERS AND READERS THEY ARE LIKE DINOSAURS DYING OFF FOR LACK OF SUNLIGHT AND AIR IN A WORLDWIDE EFFECTS METEOR IMPACT DISASTER.
I WISH I COULD SAY IT IS NOT JUST THAT NO ONE BELIEVES THEM ANYMORE. BUT IT IS JUST THAT NO ONE BELIEVES THEM ANYMORE.
THERE ARE NOW OTHER SOURCES WHICH PUT OUT A CLEANER NEWS PRODUCT. SO WE ARE NOT ALL CAPTIVE AUDIENCES FOR THE LEFTIST PRESS TO FORCE THEIR AGENDA ON US ANY LONGER, SEE? SOME OF THE NEWER NEWS OUTLETS ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POLITICAL DIVIDE AND RUN THE DANGER OF BECOMING MERELY A RIGHTIST PRESS FORCING ITS AGENDA ON US. YET THE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE DIFFERENT, THEY ARE MOSTLY IN CONSUMER MARKETS SUCH AS FOR-PAY MEDIA INCLUDING CABLE OR SATELLITE TV AND NOT NEARLY AS DISTORTING, CONTROLLING AND SMOTHERING AS THE LEFTIST PRESS HAS BECOME. THE NEW NEWS NETWORKS ARE SOMETIMES DISPARAGED BY THE OLD GUARD NETWORKS AS NOT NEWS NETWORKS BUT NOISE NETWORKS.
HA HA. OH, THAT'S RICH.
LIKE THE OLD GASLIGHT COMPANIES RIDICULING THOMAS EDISON BECAUSE HE HAD A BETTER, CHEAPER, CLEANER PRODUCT. OH. LORD, HELP ME STOP LAUGHING. PRICELESS.
IT WILL NOT BE THE FIRST TIME, IF AN UNEXPECTED ENTRANT WINS OUT IN THE ELECTION. I REMEMBER WHAT THEN U. S. PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER SAID IN 1980 WHEN A REPORTER MENTIONED THAT THE FELLOW IN THE PICTURE BELOW MIGHT RUN AGAINST HIM.
"WHAT . . . THAT OLD ACTOR?"
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"HOO-AH"
- LT. COL. FRANK SLADE
U.S. ARMY RETIRED
PORTRAYED BY THE GREAT ACTOR AL PACINO IN ONE OF THE TWO FABULOUS FILMS BY DIRECTOR MARTIN BREST I TAKE AS LIFE LEARNINGS. IN SCENT OF A WOMAN I ALSO SEE MYSELF WHEN I WAS SO LIKE YOUNG CHARLIE, A MINNOW IN A SCHOOL, YET ONE WHO KNEW FOR ALL HIS PEACH FUZZ YOUTHFUL INEXPERIENCE THAT THERE WERE SOME THINGS YOU JUST DON'T DO. LIKEWISE I SAW MYSELF AS A YOUNG GUY STARTING HIS SUIT CAREER YEARS IN THE CORINTH COFFEE SHOP SCENE IN MEET JOE BLACK. NOW I FIND MYSELF PERHAPS A BIT MORE LIKE THE LT. COL. - TOO FRICKIN' TIRED,TOO FRICKIN' OLD, TOO FRICKIN' BEAT UP (THOUGH NOT BEATEN DOWN) OR BILL PARRISH WANTING MY COUNTRY AND MY LIFE'S WORK LOVING AND SAVING IT NOT TO BE STOLEN BY A FEW CHEAP PIRATES BUT TO LIVE ON THE BEST WAY I WANTED IT TO BE IN HONOR AND INTEGRITY.
SO, HELL YEAH.
HOO-AH
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SOME THINGS ARE BEST SAID IN SONG
IT HAS BEEN REMARKED THAT A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS.
APPLE’S iTUNES HAS RECENTLY UPGRADED ITS SOFTWARE SO WHEN YOU LISTEN TO A SONG YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN WILL DISPLAY THE ORIGINAL COVER ARTWORK OF THE ALBUM ON WHICH THE SONG WAS RECORDED. SOME OF THE OLDIES I HAVE PURCHASED THROUGH THE iTUNES STORE SUCH AS THE BEACH BOYS, LENA HORNE AND THE KINGSTON TRIO RETRIEVE FROM OUR SHARED POPULAR MUSIC CULTURE HISTORY REMARKABLY EVOCATIVE ICONIC ALBUM COVER ARTWORK AND THROW IT ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN NEARLY FULL SCREEN SIZE WHEN YOU PLAY A SONG FROM ANY GIVEN ALBUM. PRETTY COOL. WAY TO GO, AGAIN, APPLE!
THE GREATNESS OF CREATIVITY IN THE AMERICAN MUSIC PANOPLY SHOWS THAT IF – AS THE BEACH BOYS SONG SINGS IT – YOU ADD SOME MUSIC TO YOUR DAY IT ALSO WORKS THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
A SONG EVOKES A THOUSAND PICTURES.
JUST THE MERE NAMES AND THE ALBUM COVER ARTWORK OF THE GREATS OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL STAGE IS ENOUGH.
ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN, LENA HORNE IN HER LIVE ON BROADWAY ALBUM PERFORMING THAT UNBELIEVABLE RENDITION TITLED STORMY WEATHER PART 2 AND HER GREATEST HITS MARVELLOUS INK DRAWING COVER EVOKES A SULTRY SLINKY SEXINESS WHILE SHE TORCHES ONE FOR MY BABY (AND ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD), LERNER & LOWE, GEORGE M. COHAN AND YANKEE DOODLE DANDY, OVER THERE AND SHE’S A GRAND OLD FLAG, IRVING BERLIN WHO WROTE WHITE CHRISTMAS AND BING CROSBY WHO CROONED IT, JEROME KERN, LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S SPECIAL 3 MINUTE 20 SECOND RENDITION OF WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD ON HIS ALBUM OF THAT TITLE, ELVIS, JOHN WILLIAMS WITH STEVEN SPIELBERG AND GEORGE LUCAS IN CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND AND STAR WARS TO NAME JUST 2, ROY ORBISON, FRANK SINATRA AT THE SANDS WITH COUNT BASIE, SIMON & GARFUNKLE AND JUST PAUL SIMON HIMSELF, JUDY GARLAND, THE TIN MAN, THE SCARECROW AND THE LION IN AN ALBUM TITLED THE WIZARD OF OZ, IS JUST GRAZING ON THE SURFACE.
ITS REALLY A CASE OF GREATNESS THAT IS WAY OVER THE RAINBOW.
ONE OF MY FAVORITES IS NEIL DIAMOND. WE GREW UP IN THE SAME TIME FRAME. SO I HAVE LISTENED TO HIS SONGS AND FOLLOWED HIS DEVELOPMENT FROM UNDERGRADUATE YEARS TO MY PRESENT, WELL, TO BE KIND, FOR NOW LET’S JUST CALL IT MY POST POST-GRAD YEARS. HIS LATEST CD, TITLED JUST 12 SONGS, IS SOMETHING OF A CASE OF AN ADULT LOOKING BACK OVER A LIFE AND ASSESSING HIMSELF AND SOME OF THE KEY ISSUES AND PROBLEMS WE FACE IN THIS BEAUTIFUL THING CALLED LIFE. WHILE HE CASTS THE SONGS AS MAINLY IN TERMS OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, I AM GOING TO CITE HERE THE LYRICS AND TONE OF SOME OF THEM AS THE BEST WAY TO EXPRESS MY MESSAGE TO CERTAIN PEOPLE GROUPS IN CONTENTIOUS AREAS OF PUBLIC LIFE.
MARY, OH . . . . THE MARY I LOVE AND ALL GREAT WOMEN EVERYWHERE
HELL, YEAH . . . . MY OWN LIFE
CAPTAIN OF A SHIPWRECK . . . . THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS HIT BY HURRICANE KATRINA AND ALL STRUCK BY NATURAL DISASTERS
ON TO YOU . . . . . ISLAMISTS
MAN OF GOD . . . . MYSELF
CREATE ME . . . . THE AMERICAN VOTER
YESTERDAY’S SONGS . . . . POLITICIANS WE WANT GONE AND FORGOTTEN
EVERMORE . . . . AMERICA AT HER BEST AS WE HAVE KNOWN AND LOVED HER
SAVE ME A SATURDAY NIGHT . . . . ALL MY FRIENDS, AT HOME AND ABROAD ESPECIALLY IN ISRAEL, NORWAY, DENMARK, SWEDEN, CHINA AND A MUSICIAN IN EDINBURGH CASTLE AT THE END OF THE NIGHT-TIME MILITARY TATTOO THE LONE PIPER
FACE ME . . . THE GOVERNMENT POLS AND THE MEDIA
DELIRIOUS LOVE . . . . ALL YOUNG PEOPLE
WHAT’S IT GONNA BE . . . . THE AMERICAN VOTER
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JURIS DOCTOR
U. S. LAW DEGREE
SCOTT JOHN WALLACE STEVENSON
COLLEGE OF LAW
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
MAY 1985
Together with 911 Commission Report
which I purchased and read with care
as soon as it became available
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Historic Bays of the Mediterranean:
Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored by Syracuse University and The University of Pisa, Italy
This knowledge helped me speak intelligently when I unexpectedly had a beautiful bai Mandarin qi poao saojeimen served long private luncheon meeting in Beijing (one of the simple yet elegant things I love about China) with the then Secretary General of China's Association For Relations Across The Straits of Taiwan. China may consider and assert certain seas are Historic Bays of China giving China priority rights in these areas, for example economically as to fishing, mineral rights, drilling rights and perhaps politically and militarily, including not only parts of The Straits of Taiwan but also parts of the The South China Sea which has very large offshore oil deposits. These may play into the present wild card game of crude oil demand, driven in large measure by China, where the floating world oil markets price is, this first week of November 2007, hitting the psychological meltdown level of $100 per barrel. Other at length discussions during this significant luncheon brought in also China’s highest level police administration official who extended to me the privilege of personally opening to me every prison in China. War with Taiwan was raised repeatedly I three times reiterating my personal view that whatever China wanted to accomplish of significance with Taiwan could be done peaceably. A further topic of great interest to the Chinese was probing my personal view of The Dalai Lama. Disclaimer required by the Federal Election Commission Rules: This web site has been paid for by the Principal Committee To Elect John W. Stevenson President of The United States of America in the 2008 Election. John W. Stevenson approved this message and web site and intends they comply with all relevant laws. Back to Top
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