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To Anon, directly above:

  Thank you, for the reasonable critique.

  Are you the same "Anonymous" who started this thread?? (That is the problem, we can't tell...)

  To answer your question, it is my paycheck that verifies my professional status.

  The whole purpose here, ultimately, is communication.

  This isn't a newspaper, magazine, nor FCC- regulated broadcast.  If I were trying to communicate with a little toddler, I wouldn't use University-level vocabulary.

  There is nothing "un-professional" about use of slang or profanity, if it is in context.  The context here, is a "thread", started by "Anonymous", that calls everybody at this site a "fucking loser".

  My first entry, if you scroll-up a page or two, was a parody, of a sort, using proper grammar and language.

  Statement by the site host that: "Anonymous posting encouraged" is to properly encourage those who might otherwise suffer retaliation, to participate in this forum (e.g. current or recent Pathways kids, parents, PFC staff).

  The "Anonymous" who started this thread hides behind anonymity, because he is a "pussy-ass bitch", and "chicken-shit coward", exactly as I stated.

 Mike Stevenson (Mike007)
 Ann Arbor, Michigan
 mattblack001@yahoo.com

Hi Tony...

  I was just kidding about your photoshop paste-in.  Lighten-up, for Christ's sake.

  Actually, you aren't significant enough to "upset" me, or any other mature person.

  Nobody said "credentials" are required for posting, but if there is some actual issue being contended, and personal-attacks made, only a pussy-ass BITCH would be so cowardly as to hide behind "anonymous" posting.

  You seem to be a guy with some creativity and imagination.
  I don't really care much, but I think your creative talents are being wasted by fuckin'-around on this site.
  Have you considered writing (or for that matter, photoshop, etc.) for one of the "alternative" publications, either online, or in print??  One example is "Metro Times" in Detroit Area.

  You'd have to learn how to spell, of course...

  A Community College, for actual training, would probably even admit a smartass like you.

   As I posted on another thread, I am a journalist, researching for an article on Pathways, Straight, and similar.
  If you have first-hand experience, information, and know others who do, I would very much appreciate it if you would contact me.

  I started-out with a "clean slate", but the more info I get, the more I realize that Pathways is a bullshit cult, bullying and abusing kids who aren't capable of defending themselves legally.
  Do me a favor, and contact me, willya?  I'd like to hear your "history" and knowledge of PFC.

  (The same to anybody else with first-hand knowledge.  Your identity and confidentiality will not be violated.)

 
Mike Stevenson (Mike007)
Ann Arbor, Mich.
mattblack001@yahoo.com
 
  [ This Message was edited by: Mike007 on 2004-08-31 11:13 ]

Antigen:
 
  I'm pretty sure that the quote is properly attributed to the philosopher Santayana, depending on translation:
  "One who does not know history is doomed to repeat it."  [paraphrased]
  I am sure that it is in "Bartlett's Quotations", and I mention this because specific references are always stronger than un-attributed or vague statements.
  It is often interesting, also, to go to the actual source, and read the context.  (Hey, you remember what a "book" is, doncha?)

  TO "ANONYMOUS", IMMEDIATELY ABOVE:

  Your critique of people on this site is about as petty and pathetic as you are, personally.  You repeatedly make sweeping, bullshit generalities about "they".
  I am a journalist-photographer, "on this site" seeking further information, preferably first-hand accounts.  
  I discovered this site about a week ago, after Google-search.
  The fact of the matter is that abusive "treatment" is still going-on, victimizing kids by humiliation and imprisonment.
  Pathways (Michigan, Indiana), for one example, which evolved from "straight", should be exposed for the money-grubbing, abusive cult that it is, because the kids imprisoned therein can't defend themselves legally.
  Honest medical and psychological treatment are an entirely different matter.
  It is also true that parents, (and insurance companies) however well-meaning, are being "bilked" out-of large amounts of money, all to further a POLITICAL agenda: Drug Prohibition.
  The fact that you are too cowardly, or too lazy, to log-in and identify yourself, is "revealing" in itself.
  Mike Stevenson (Mike007)
  Ann Arbor, Michigan
  mattblack001@yahoo.com

TO "DRUGGIE FRIEND":

  Thanks for the great advice.  
  I omitted the Xanax, substituted a snifter of Courvoisier Cognac (instead of beer), rolled a joint, and watched a good, old, black-and-white movie on TCM.

Try this, see how it works, and report-back to us:
At the same time, take:

6 Vicodin tabs
6 Xanax
6 Valium, 50mg
6 Oxycontin
6 Pheno-Barbital (or similar)
6 shots good whisky

... I've kept all the quantities the same, so you don't get confused.
When you've taken all the above, roll a nice big joint, light it, lay-back and relax.
Let us know how it turns-out...
Mike S.

Try this variation:

  Set-up a camera, then have somebody casually kick a linebacker from the Denver Broncos in the balls...

  (...Just to see what happens...)

-Mike[ This Message was edited by: Mike007 on 2004-08-25 19:34 ]

Deborah:

  Hi.
  We have strayed a bit from the subject of Carter, but brief comment:

  The whole damn mess is worsened by overpopulation.  It would be better if our "children and grandchildren" didn't exist.  Then, they wouldn't be driving anything.
  (And they wouldn't be clogging the roads with traffic, so it wouldn't take 45 fuckin' minutes for me to drive 10 miles to a Doctor's appointment.)

  "Human Nature" does exist, one factor of which is that people, generally, are lazy.  I have ridden many thousands of miles on bicycle (primary transport for a few years [as adult, duh]), but it's a hell of a lot easier to drive my Toyota.

  There is also the problem that 95% of the population are idiots.
  ...You think you are going to convince people, using REASONING, to give-up big SUV's and Cadillacs, to drive Hydrogen Mini-Cars??

  ...Nice meeting you, Deb...

   Hey, I gotta go... My wind-mill generator / hydrogen-electrolyzer needs to have the tanks changed...

  - Mike 007[ This Message was edited by: Mike007 on 2004-08-24 20:32 ]

To Patriot:

  Understanding that you may in a hurry, or pissed-off, or something, I've gotta ask that you take a moment to proof-read before you post.  
  Anyone can make a "typo" or two, but what you have written above is so riddled with typing and grammatical errors that it is difficult to understand:  
  "...I said Crater was a good and Nobel man..."
 [I think you meant "Carter" and "noble", right?]
"...during his term was one of the most APETHETIC times in our nations history..." [Caps added]
  So what is "apethetic", honestly?? Did you mean "pathetic", or perhaps "apathetic" ??  
  In either case, the statement is meaningless.  Individuals can be apathetic (or pathetic).  I suppose if a great number of people were collectively apathetic, it could be said that the nation was apathetic, but you present nothing to substantiate your statements.
  That is correction of a small fraction of your errors in the two posts above.
  You are a champion of vague, bullshit generalities.
  I was as specific and precise as possible.
  I did not say that Carter (or "Crater" as you call him) was a good President.  I did defend him against your typically brainless generality, your accusation that he "ran this country into the ground".
  I know about the ill-fated Special-Ops attempt at "rescue mission", that got caught in a fierce sandstorm, aborted, with casualties.
  You, however, didn't answer my challenge:  What would YOU have done, if YOU were President.
  You accuse Carter of being "spineless and way too trusting of others in office and on forign [sic] policy..."  You don't bother to be specific, provide example, or to otherwise substantiate your statements.
  I watched, on live TV, when Anwar Sadat (Egypt) and Menachim Begin (Israel) shook hands, in a gesture of peace, at the signing of the Camp David Accords.  That meeting was hosted by President Carter, and would not have happened but for his skills in FOREIGN policy.
  Granted, the Middle East is still a shit-hole, as bad as it's ever been, but until they figure-out that their problems are caused by overpopulation and limited resources (water, land) it's gonna stay that way.
  The Camp David Accords were a start, at least.
  Sadat was assasinated as a result of that compromise.
  To summarize, you are a chicken-shit, and I will say that to your face.
  As stated, you are a champion of vague, bullshit generalities, never substantiated.
  Please do try to correct your spelling and grammar.
  Mike 007  
[ This Message was edited by: Mike007 on 2004-08-23 19:29 ]

To "Anonymous", directly above:

  It only takes 2 minutes to register on this site, if you haven't yet.
  "Anonymous posting encouraged" is to facilitate open communication from those who may need confidentiality (e.g. medical or psych. patients)
  There is no excuse for your making an "anonymous" posting, when you claim to present "authorized" statistical data, as a representative of Pathways.
  (One "excuse", though, is the fact that you are an INCOMPETENT FOOL, as evidenced by your writing.)
  Anyone can make an occasional error, but you have 15 substantial errors in the short posting above...
  Look at the spelling errors, for Christ's sake!
  In the second paragraph, you decay into honest-to-God incoherence.  I challenge anyone to try and decipher the first sentence of paragraph 2.
  Have you been drinking, by any chance??
  I daresay that you are a good representative for Pathways:  functionally illiterate, incoherent, incompetent, biased, apologetic, and "on the take" (i.e. your paycheck).

  I DEMAND THAT YOU IDENTIFY YOURSELF.

 - Mike Stevenson,       ( Mike007 )
   Journalist
   Ann Arbor, Mich.
   mattblack001@yahoo.com