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What is the sound of a guitar gently weeping?
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Live! From the low-band of Kevin Mitnick's
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HamRadio it's aTi. At Thousand-Oaks Island.
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Judge Richard Sippel, do you copy? A small
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piece of justice recovered. You are a better
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man for it. Over. Thank you, thank you, thank
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you.
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Out.
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\__| |_| |_|_|_| \___| /__/ 0212291334 hrs
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ATI 340! For the week ending tomorrow or
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yesterday, depending on which ethnicity
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you like or dislike.
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PUBLISHIARY COLUMNIARY
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You prolly noticed something extra "under your
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tree" this year.
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Something really neato. Keen.
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Yeah, that's right. Counting this issue, you
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got three (count em 3) editions of ATI. Activist
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Tiactivist Iactivist.
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Mumbo jumbo. That's a lot o' rant, ramble, raving
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writing and parithmetic. (the PA is silent) Yup.
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That's because there's much to say, lots to do. and
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mega bigtime hella lot to share.
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I've also had six (count em 6) people ghostwriting
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this month. A couple will continue on, but the rest
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are done until summer or so, they say. I bet they
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don't come around until next year though.
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Either way, I think that's a record here. Truth
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be told, aTi has never been written by more than
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three or four people at a time. And in our 13-year
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history I must say most weeks have gone by with
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this one lonely little old me to write, edit AND
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publish, save for the occasional "letted" or #s
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RUN URL submission.
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At any rate, things welled up so much by mid-Dec
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we decided to put out 3-in-a-row as close to the
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day they call "XMas" as possible. So here's the 3rd
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of 3.
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Enjoy.
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Could we sustain this kind of behavior? 2 or 3 per
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week? Hells no. But could this be the sign of a shift
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toward a 2X / wk schedule? Wrong again. No way.
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Nah! Just there's so much coming in -- much needs
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to go out, and you know I don't like to edit things
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down too tiny, or very much at all, eh? Brings us back
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to the "weekly" periodicity. About 4-a-month. Fairly
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close-tuned to the lunar fazes. I mean phases. Er uh,
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er, I mean phrases.
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Word.
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-={ Prime }=-
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HALF-PRICE GIFTWRAP ONLY AT ATI
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Yeah, yeah, we know.
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50% of zero is 0. Sure. Go ahead. You know
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you wanna.
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Print out this 'zine, get some scotch tape
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and wrap up a belated gift for someone.
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Yes, give them homemade ATI "newsprint" giftwrap.
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Washington's economy won't thank you, but worry
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not! Mr. Housekeeping (ekonomos) is an ingrate
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anyhow. You'll get your thanks from the entire
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universe.
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And contrary to popular belief, the US. Eco -
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Nomy's NOT senior ranked to the universe.
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SHARDS
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a poem by marco
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59 beads is a rosary
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33 is the same but anglican
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33 or 99 makes muslimism they say
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108 is the hindu mala
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And it is said that 27,
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54 or 108 beads make you a buddhist.
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Gee is it any clearer?
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That we are each left with
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Just a few pieces of the
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Whole truth.
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#'s
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http://www.antiwar.com
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http://www.blackopradio.com
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http://www.newsmakingnews.com
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http://www.notowar.com/media.html
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http://www.rawilson.com/links.shtml
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http://www.indieradio.org/submitrecordings
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C&C: A More Harounish Satanic
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Versesish Comparison And Contrast:
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Tallit and Kafiya:
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How similar;
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How different?
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SIFODOH: Sitting In Front Of Dahmer's Old House
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The Weekly Column On Violence In The Untied States
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Yesterday, I saw Bowling For Columbine again.
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My second time. This doesn't mean much to this
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column in the grand scheme of things, but I just
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thought I'd mention this as the documentary asks
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some of the same questions you and I do.
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QUESTION: Of Child Husbandry
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Is four minutes a proper time-out?
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And is 4+ moving toward being seen as abuse?
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Is time-out in a corner, a bathroom floor or a
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currently unoccupied room proper for a timeout?
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But is a closet abuse? Especially if you lock the
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door, right?
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Where do parents and "careworkers" draw these
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lines, and where do children? How about child-advocates
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and how about the state? We really need to ask these
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questions "aloud" don't we?
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When is an egg-timer therapy, and when is it a subtle
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form of torture? What exactly *IS* a timeout anyways,
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and how many times a day is still "effective?"
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Did Jack the Ripper have timeouts? And how about
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Timothy McVeigh? Did Benjamin Spock do timeouts? Mr.
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Rogers? Captain Kangaroo?
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George W. Bush?
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Baby Bush. I'll leave it at that.
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[INLINE]
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(PAWN) Unemployed Japanese look over job listings on
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computers at an unemployment office in Kadoma City,
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Osaka. As the EnronOsaka price-per-share plummets,
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so jobless rates and bankruptcies soar.
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QUOTE:
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"For better or worse, Americans by the millions get
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their information about politics from 'The West Wing.'"
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--Frank Luntz
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QUOTE:
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& NOW ATI'S FUNNIEST QUOTE
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OF THE WHOLE WEEK QUOTE:
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"This is not a porn video, it is a clean-cut
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strip video only."
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[found in a weekly newspaper ad looking for "acters."]
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A SHORT NOTE FROM THE GLICK BOOK
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In Berkeley, California in the late 1960s, activists used
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whistles, noisemakers, and spotlights to ward off FBI and
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police harrassment. When law enforcement personnel entered
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an area, the first person to spot them would alert other
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activists in the vicinity. Soon dozens of people were
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gethered around the intruders, blowing loud whistles,
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shining bright lights on them, and demanding that they
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leave. The effect was to ridicule the FBI and police and
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undermine their intimidating mystique. Activists had fun
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in the process, and gained a sense of their collective
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power.
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[ref]=[http://www.publiceye.org/liberty/War_at_Home/Glick_Overview.html]
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ANOTHER GREAT QUOTE (OR PRETTY GREAT...)
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"Tasteful wear has become part of an album's look
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and is a visible metaphor for an LP's history."
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-- Art Greinke
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OPEN LETTER TO POWERBALL WINNER
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So, how's it feel to win big?
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Oh, we already asked you that the last couple
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careers, didn't we?
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Meeting Daily, US Nerve Center Prepares Terrorists
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(PAWN) NORAD, Colorado - At about 8:45 most mornings
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in a conference room deep inside a mountain, the CIA,
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FBI, and a dozen other 3 & 4-letter agencies meet to
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debate how the Pentagram should respond if the whole
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ship leaks and sinks too much.
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Four Star General Phillip R Eberhard throws out
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doomsday scenarios for a new wave of attacks easily
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blamable on Al Queda, or some other GOT (group-of-terror)
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such as the Daschle-Feingold Brigade (nicknamed Dirty
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Buggers or DFB) or the dreaded Simbiotic Leiberation
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Army.
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For up to an hour each day in what is blandly called
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"The Commander's Situational Attitudinal Maintainance
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Meeting" (or C-SAMM for short) General Eberhardt asks
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representatives of the 14 agencies (that we're allowed
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to discuss) a roster that includes DOS, NSA, NASA, NAUSA,
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the FAA, the FASA, and the FAUSA, essentially everyone
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EXCEPT FEMA (yes, FEMA's never there. Repeat, FEMA's
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never there. Do you hear me? FEMA is NOT there every
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morning.) for updates from their experts and advice on
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what if the worst happens.
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There are boxes of alka-seltzer in each hallway along
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with Pain-Aid (TM) and Aspirin (TM) and the brand new
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Eli Lillies (Also TM) and a psychotherapist sits in a
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front lobby Info-Booth that strongly resembles Lucy from
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the Peanuts cartoon.
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Eberhard says he is sensitive to the concerns of Civil
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Liberties and that he would respond to a terrorist attack
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ONLY IF the White House and Pentagram tell him it's O.K.
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"We understand Civics101," he said. "I really don't
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think based on those checks and balances, that we're
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going to get into a situation where the military will be
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doing something they shouldn't."
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T R I L O G Y
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DEPART MENT: Store Blues
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A story in three parts.
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1) ati 340
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2) ati 341
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3) ati 342
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I shopped at Caldor the other day.
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I bought three things; all from different departments.
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I always like giving Caldor my money even though the
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original owners sold it many years ago; back in the 80's
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I'm told. Carl and Deloris Bennet live comfortably now
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somewhere in western Connecticut. One of the managers
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at the Norwich store tells me they're doing well. Just
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your typical retired old people, I guess.
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Once when I was young I went to the Groton Caldor
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wearing a shirt and tie; and I filled out a job application.
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Those were the days when you didn't need a resume to land
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minimum-wage jobs. But a young man was always assured that
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a tie gave him a "shoe in."
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I honestly don't know if it was a manager or an owner
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who took my application, but she directed me into her
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office saying it just happened to be a slow moment and
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if I was willing she could interview me right away. She
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offered me coffee and I obliged. I honestly didn't know
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how I liked coffee yet, so I asked for it "with everything."
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All went well with the interview until she got to the
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line about my date of birth. Yes it was my 14th birthday.
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She wished me a happy birthday and explained to me that
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by law she couldn't hire me for another two years.
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She said I was a very nice charming determined young man,
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and that she was certain I would do quite well for my self
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in all of life. If I came back in a few years, I had her
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word that she would personally find me a job somewhere
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within the company.
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I thanked her, shook her hand, held up my face until I
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left the building and then cried all the way home.
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I never took her up on that job offer two years later
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as I'd ended up working at a local Elks Club that paid
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twice the minimum wage. Cash! And a year early, but I
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won't go there in THIS story.
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A year later I found out at a family reunion while my
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father was picking on me for what I'll always remember
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as "that Caldor moment," that my grandmother used to
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buy fruit from Deloris Bennet back during the depression.
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Lots of fruit. My grandmother supported my grandfather's
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two failing clothing stores by selling apples in front of
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factories during shift changes and breaks. Her philosophy
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was, "If they can't afford anything else, they should at
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least buy fruit."
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"You actually knew Carl Bennet?" I asked my grandfather.
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"Knew him?" he said. "I helped him open the clothing
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departments to all his stores years ago."
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When my grandfather sold his three clothing stores back
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in the 70's, you could say he went on to live and die
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comfortably in Pawtucket and Warwick, Rhode Island. I'll
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never forget when my 9th grade prom was coming up and my
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grandfather looked me up and down and said "38 short."
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No tape measure or anything. Grampa still "had it."
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That was long after he'd sold off his stores. One became a
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chain of "Gentleman's Wearhouses," and the others are still
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in Warwick and Providence run by children of some of his
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original partners.
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My dad took me to Anderson Little outfitting me a really
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cool light brown corderoy 3-piece suit. "36 medium," the
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salesman said measuring me with tape. He tried a few suits
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on me and they looked almost right in the mirror, but never
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felt right. (CON'T Next Issue)
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ANALYSIS: Lies Don't Figure; Music Figures Don't...
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AP says best-selling albums for '02 *WERE* by
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Eminem
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Nelly
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Avril Lavigne
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Dixie Chicks
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8Mile Soundtrack
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Pink
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Ashanti
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Alan Jackson
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O BrotherWhereArtThou
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Shania Twain
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Hmm. Only four of these sound the least bit familiar
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to me, and I listen to, play, write and record music
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all day, every day.
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What's wrong with this picture?
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Best selling according to who? Is this dollar returns
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for each artist? Some for each corporation? Each major
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label?? Or is this perhaps based on how much each
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artist's PR department budgets for a year's worth of
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"Product Recognition?"
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Is this how much was bought anywhere in the world,
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just the US? One state like NY or L.A.? Or perhaps
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only one store?
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And since there's still four days left to the year,
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I should ask if this isn't only part of a year, like did
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they poll just a coupld stores for a couple days? Weeks?
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And since the album publishing season really only goes
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from like mid-Sept til about late Dec, I would have to
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ask out loud whether this didn't just reflect Christmas,
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Chanuka, Kwanzaa sales?
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So who does AP claim made this year-end "Top 10?"
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Nielsen SoundScan.
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Figures.
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VOTER ALERT:
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If Hillary runs I might vote (for her).
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If she picks Liebensheizahozen though, I
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will definitely not. Frankly, I've no room
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in my heart for fascism, no matter which
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ethnic group it eminates from.
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Clinton gave the "radio address" retort
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yesterday. Didja hear it? Me either. But I
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sure did read about it, thank you very much.
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It was big news everywhere. Didn't you notice?
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It's her first radio addy, according to the
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AP. APparrently you must ask permission of the
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democrats to do this. Since when do you need
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permit to key a mic? (DON'T ANSWER THAT!) So
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she's going to get a lot of mileage out of
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saying she's definitely not running for
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pResident the next few months.
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I predict she makes it official March 1.
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'Zine #340 ends with a
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POEM: Because We All Need More Thneeds
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Needless Things;
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Need Less Things
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send all sendmail to:
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(well, scroll down...)
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OK
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So this was AT. The Activist Timez.
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...as usual send all fede-bak 2:
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ati@etext.org
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And just remember.
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A bird in hand is worth...
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Well, not much. I think porkbellies
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would get you more at the market
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T H E S E D A Y S
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ooh, second ending:
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/free/ /subscription?/ /send/
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Call 860-887-2600 ext. 5293 to hollar
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And remember,
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2morrow is
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International
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Scream loudly day,
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So get out there and yelp.
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[ this issue dedicated to a woman named Ita ]
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She's on our mind
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