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Let It Bleed / Any Major Dude Will Tell Ya...(Steely Dan lyrics thread)
« on: March 24, 2006, 01:18:00 AM »
...Did'ja feel like Jesus...
::dove::
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Cannabis Culture article about $tr8 from 2001
« on: March 02, 2006, 03:07:00 AM »
O.K. I don' know if this link is a gonna werk er whut...
http://www.cannabisculture.com/cgi/issue.cgi?num=33
Alright!! ::rocker:: Wooo-Hooo it worked !! I'm learnin'!! Linchpin won't have ta tell me that I fail at the internet :grin: !!!
O.K. so I thought this was a pretty cool article. After you reach the link you have to scroll down a ways to the section titled: "Featured Stories", where you will find: "Straight Incorporated, Orwellian anti-drug programs humilliate and abuse youth in a horrifying program of mind control"
http://www.cannabisculture.com/cgi/issue.cgi?num=33
Alright!! ::rocker:: Wooo-Hooo it worked !! I'm learnin'!! Linchpin won't have ta tell me that I fail at the internet :grin: !!!
O.K. so I thought this was a pretty cool article. After you reach the link you have to scroll down a ways to the section titled: "Featured Stories", where you will find: "Straight Incorporated, Orwellian anti-drug programs humilliate and abuse youth in a horrifying program of mind control"
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Feed Your Head / Book club: Malcolm Gladwell,
« on: February 24, 2006, 12:39:00 PM »
There will be a book club discussion of Malcolm Gladwells' book: "Blink the Power of Thinking Without Thinking" on C-Span 2 Book T.V. on Sat, Feb. 25th at 3pm. It will air again on Sun, Feb 26th at 3pm. I reccomend that anyone interested in Malcolm Gladwell check it out. [ This Message was edited by: Eudora on 2006-02-25 09:41 ][ This Message was edited by: Eudora on 2006-02-25 09:44 ]
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Tacitus' Realm / Bush brings shame on America
« on: February 22, 2006, 08:41:00 PM »
George W. Bush will go down in history as the biggest idiot to ever live in the white house. 3 years after the invasion of Iraq the situation there continues to deteriorate. He says he needs to be able to conduct warrantless spying on American citizens in order to protect us from terrorists but he won't even secure the Mexican border, which is an open avenue for terrorists who want to infiltrate this country. He is an obvious liar.
His handling of the Katrina crisis in N'Ore'n and along the gulf coast is abysmal at best. The crisis there is on-going.
He is insensitive and to say he lacks compassion for his fellow man is an extreme understatement. He is the living embodiment of shame.
I'm not even going to debate any of this with anyone, just speakin' my peace. Thanx for humoring me.
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His handling of the Katrina crisis in N'Ore'n and along the gulf coast is abysmal at best. The crisis there is on-going.
He is insensitive and to say he lacks compassion for his fellow man is an extreme understatement. He is the living embodiment of shame.
I'm not even going to debate any of this with anyone, just speakin' my peace. Thanx for humoring me.
.
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Winter Haiku
« on: February 18, 2006, 08:32:00 AM »
The sun always shines
In the cloudy winter sky
Shadows fall between.
In the cloudy winter sky
Shadows fall between.
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Feed Your Head / review of Skeletons On the Zahara by Dean King(non-fiction,h
« on: February 16, 2006, 03:07:00 PM »
This is the true yet unbelievable story of a small crew of American merchant seaman who sail from New England in the years just after the war of 1812. In the course of their voyage they become shipwrecked on the notorious norhtwest coast of Africa, where the natives are known for enslaving the European and American survivors of wrecked ships. I originally heard about this book from the author himself as he spoke about it on C-Span 2(book T.V), which is on every weekend all weekend long and features the authors of non-fiction books presenting their work and answering questions from the audience. The author was so excited and passionate about this story that I knew it had to be an excellent read and I was not disappointed.
It is the story of the true account of the courageous struggle for survival, first along the northwest coast of Africa and then on the Zahara desert itself, as the crew becomes enslaved by desert nomads with customs and ways that are hard and unfamilliar to the hapless sailors. The survivors are treated extremely harshly and each day is a fight to stay together and alive. They are generally viewed as sub-human by their captors and are barely fed enough to keep them from collapse and are offered little protection from the merciless Zaharan sun. The captain of the crew, whose name was James Riley is forced into one difficult situation after another as he desperately tries to save his men. At the risk of being executed he is forced to decieve his captors in his only chance for survival, as he lies to his master that he has a friend in Morrocco who will pay a weighty ransom for the safe return of his survivng crew. This book is a fuckin' heartbreaker and you won't believe what these hardy seamen from New England actually live through. I thought so much of the book and the people who live the adventure that I gave it to my dad, who loved it as well and then passed it on to his brother who also loved it and then passed it along to his friend. If I could I would give ever'one a copy. "Skeletons On the Zahara" by Dean King. Absolutely Incredible!! Check it out. Peace. ::dove:: [ This Message was edited by: Eudora on 2006-02-25 09:57 ]
It is the story of the true account of the courageous struggle for survival, first along the northwest coast of Africa and then on the Zahara desert itself, as the crew becomes enslaved by desert nomads with customs and ways that are hard and unfamilliar to the hapless sailors. The survivors are treated extremely harshly and each day is a fight to stay together and alive. They are generally viewed as sub-human by their captors and are barely fed enough to keep them from collapse and are offered little protection from the merciless Zaharan sun. The captain of the crew, whose name was James Riley is forced into one difficult situation after another as he desperately tries to save his men. At the risk of being executed he is forced to decieve his captors in his only chance for survival, as he lies to his master that he has a friend in Morrocco who will pay a weighty ransom for the safe return of his survivng crew. This book is a fuckin' heartbreaker and you won't believe what these hardy seamen from New England actually live through. I thought so much of the book and the people who live the adventure that I gave it to my dad, who loved it as well and then passed it on to his brother who also loved it and then passed it along to his friend. If I could I would give ever'one a copy. "Skeletons On the Zahara" by Dean King. Absolutely Incredible!! Check it out. Peace. ::dove:: [ This Message was edited by: Eudora on 2006-02-25 09:57 ]
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Superbowl, babe
« on: February 04, 2006, 04:25:00 PM »
The Steelers are gonna dismantle Seattle!!
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Pain
« on: February 02, 2006, 07:40:00 PM »
...mercy...Pain, have mercy on me. Have I not suffered enough ??
My life has made me sick...All the sick people have given me their disease. I haven't the courage to even say...I haven't the words to express my rage. Pain give me strength.
My life has made me sick...All the sick people have given me their disease. I haven't the courage to even say...I haven't the words to express my rage. Pain give me strength.
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Let It Bleed / Something you plan to listen to tomorrow...
« on: January 30, 2006, 08:37:00 PM »
Same thing except in the future...
:rofl: ...just havin some fun w/ya Frod. Keep up the good work :wave:
You can delete this if you want.
:rofl: ...just havin some fun w/ya Frod. Keep up the good work :wave:
You can delete this if you want.
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / justice
« on: January 30, 2006, 05:23:00 PM »
There is no justice...except in the present. The past cannot be undone and nothin' will make up for it. It is done.
Acts of revenge and sadism pass for justice. There is no justice for crimes committed in the past now. That river has flowed. What passes for justice is that same ol' divide and conquer M.O. and works as a social control.
Acts of revenge and sadism pass for justice. There is no justice for crimes committed in the past now. That river has flowed. What passes for justice is that same ol' divide and conquer M.O. and works as a social control.
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Only on Ecstasy(Whereas the author takes ecstasy,saves boy.)
« on: January 30, 2006, 04:26:00 PM »
The first time I ate ecstasy I was given it by an already rare angel on earth, she was so beautiful and sweet and cool...She wasn't albino but she had that real fair pale pink skin and some french vanilla hair and real crystalline light blue eyes and she used to play a nylon string guitar and sing folk songs to me when we ate mushrooms...she lived up the flood plain lane from me in a little cottage built before WW2..
She tol' me she wanted to eat ecstasy with me an' one day in the late spring, she come down to my shack and gave me some. She had already eaten hers a half hour before. So I ate her gift and we hiked up the hill along familliar trails, 15 minutes into it I could feel my senses startin' to acclimate, all things cool, beautiful.
We stood and gazed out over the land below for a while and then went down the trail toward the rocks of the Slippery Rock creek. Now,... I have to describe it some: At "Rock Falls" it is a wide PA creek about 100' across and at the rocks just below where the river cascades down over it's about 3 an' a half foot deep, normally. And there are some rocks to sit on next to the river and it's a swimmin' hole ya know, and people come there alot in the summer and drink beer and smoke pot and there's girls in bikinis and some folks skinny dip there sometimes, especially at night, and there is a hiway bridge that goes over the river about 200' upstream. So thats the swimmin' hole at Rock Falls.
So my angelike girlfriend and I come down to the rocks all trippin and rollin on the E to sit by the water and talk an' such and we notice how high the water is...We've had a lot of rain lately...the river was pro'ly a couple feet high, as was I, myself by then, on that pill. Then out in the floodwaters I seen a boy tryin to make his way across, a mere lad of only 5 or 6, I can clearly see that the waters will overpower him before he can get all the way across. He will be swept away. My mind is focused, and I am undistracted, completely calm and understanding. My girlfriend is cool. The lad looked at me for a sign...I motioned for him to come. He was not confident but he came my way sort of unsteadily and afraid struggeling along the top of the cascade. I yelled to him and encouraged him to keep comin my way, I was enveloped in ecstasy.
Suddenly the kid went down. I watched him fall and then dissappear under the current. The water was all brown and white and movin' fast. I waited about 2 seconds and then jumped in and reached down with my hand, felt around grabbed him and pulled him up. He was O.K. other than bein' scared and wet. I got him over to the rocks and me and my girlfriend just hung out there with him for a few minutes and made small talk with him and suggested to him that he might be too little just yet to play in the ragin' flood. He was shakin' an' tremblin' in shock. I knew where he lived an' sent him home. Later I told his dad what had happened.
Only on Ecstasy. :skull: Peace.
She tol' me she wanted to eat ecstasy with me an' one day in the late spring, she come down to my shack and gave me some. She had already eaten hers a half hour before. So I ate her gift and we hiked up the hill along familliar trails, 15 minutes into it I could feel my senses startin' to acclimate, all things cool, beautiful.
We stood and gazed out over the land below for a while and then went down the trail toward the rocks of the Slippery Rock creek. Now,... I have to describe it some: At "Rock Falls" it is a wide PA creek about 100' across and at the rocks just below where the river cascades down over it's about 3 an' a half foot deep, normally. And there are some rocks to sit on next to the river and it's a swimmin' hole ya know, and people come there alot in the summer and drink beer and smoke pot and there's girls in bikinis and some folks skinny dip there sometimes, especially at night, and there is a hiway bridge that goes over the river about 200' upstream. So thats the swimmin' hole at Rock Falls.
So my angelike girlfriend and I come down to the rocks all trippin and rollin on the E to sit by the water and talk an' such and we notice how high the water is...We've had a lot of rain lately...the river was pro'ly a couple feet high, as was I, myself by then, on that pill. Then out in the floodwaters I seen a boy tryin to make his way across, a mere lad of only 5 or 6, I can clearly see that the waters will overpower him before he can get all the way across. He will be swept away. My mind is focused, and I am undistracted, completely calm and understanding. My girlfriend is cool. The lad looked at me for a sign...I motioned for him to come. He was not confident but he came my way sort of unsteadily and afraid struggeling along the top of the cascade. I yelled to him and encouraged him to keep comin my way, I was enveloped in ecstasy.
Suddenly the kid went down. I watched him fall and then dissappear under the current. The water was all brown and white and movin' fast. I waited about 2 seconds and then jumped in and reached down with my hand, felt around grabbed him and pulled him up. He was O.K. other than bein' scared and wet. I got him over to the rocks and me and my girlfriend just hung out there with him for a few minutes and made small talk with him and suggested to him that he might be too little just yet to play in the ragin' flood. He was shakin' an' tremblin' in shock. I knew where he lived an' sent him home. Later I told his dad what had happened.
Only on Ecstasy. :skull: Peace.
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Some information about $tr8 of some interest
« on: January 25, 2006, 03:38:00 PM »
...Uhh...'ey ya'll. Scarreds' been askin' what $tr8 cost in like '80-'81 and I don't know. I thought I might 'a' had some info though, so I broke out my files on $tr8 and found this and thought it might be of interest. This info is outta some catalogue of substance abuse programs
Dragonfly you might know more about where this info came from since it was you who originally sent it to me about a decade ago.
"*12026* STRAIGHT INC (SI)
Address unknown since 1995 edition
Founded: 1976
Staff: 200
Budget: $14,000,000.
Trained personnel, adolescent drug users and their famillies, and rehabillated drug users.
Objective is to treat drug-using adolescents through the use of an intensive highly structured, progressive theraputic process; the program takes 9 - 12 months to complete and involves the drug user as well as his/her family. The program works to retrain adolescents in the values and rules of their culture and help them to relinquish the values of the drug sub-culture..."...(my comment: re-acculturation)..."...Seeks to effect reconstruction and revitalization of the family system. The program features: group discussions as the primary theraputic activity; counseling for individuals, parents and siblings; including peer pressure and peer support. Upon entering the program the child loses his/her privileges and responsibilities and must progress through the 5 program phases to regain these privileges. The program includes living with a child more advanced in the program and attending STRAIGHT therapy sessions on a daily basis; returning to living with his/her family while continuing in the therapy program; returning to school or a job while attending therapy sessions in the evenings and on weekends; beginning withdrawal from the program by spending less time in therapy and participating in recreational activities with his/her family and friends in the program; developing more personal freedom and assisting staff members in working with other people in the program. The program also includes an aftercare support group for individuals who have completed the program. Staff members include professionals supervising a staff of people who have completed the program and have been trained as counselors. Maintains advisory committee of doctors, educators, psychologists, area businessmen, and other interested individuals.
Computer Services: Mailing lists.
Publications: "Straight Talk", quarterly. Newsletter. Contains articles on drug education. Price: free. Circulation: 8,000
Also publishes brochure, flyers and reprints; produces videotapes.
Dragonfly you might know more about where this info came from since it was you who originally sent it to me about a decade ago.
"*12026* STRAIGHT INC (SI)
Address unknown since 1995 edition
Founded: 1976
Staff: 200
Budget: $14,000,000.
Trained personnel, adolescent drug users and their famillies, and rehabillated drug users.
Objective is to treat drug-using adolescents through the use of an intensive highly structured, progressive theraputic process; the program takes 9 - 12 months to complete and involves the drug user as well as his/her family. The program works to retrain adolescents in the values and rules of their culture and help them to relinquish the values of the drug sub-culture..."...(my comment: re-acculturation)..."...Seeks to effect reconstruction and revitalization of the family system. The program features: group discussions as the primary theraputic activity; counseling for individuals, parents and siblings; including peer pressure and peer support. Upon entering the program the child loses his/her privileges and responsibilities and must progress through the 5 program phases to regain these privileges. The program includes living with a child more advanced in the program and attending STRAIGHT therapy sessions on a daily basis; returning to living with his/her family while continuing in the therapy program; returning to school or a job while attending therapy sessions in the evenings and on weekends; beginning withdrawal from the program by spending less time in therapy and participating in recreational activities with his/her family and friends in the program; developing more personal freedom and assisting staff members in working with other people in the program. The program also includes an aftercare support group for individuals who have completed the program. Staff members include professionals supervising a staff of people who have completed the program and have been trained as counselors. Maintains advisory committee of doctors, educators, psychologists, area businessmen, and other interested individuals.
Computer Services: Mailing lists.
Publications: "Straight Talk", quarterly. Newsletter. Contains articles on drug education. Price: free. Circulation: 8,000
Also publishes brochure, flyers and reprints; produces videotapes.
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Nothin'
« on: January 15, 2006, 07:55:00 PM »
Anarchist-Hippies from PA, who were in $tr8 and could be kings with no power, still love football... :skull:
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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Aggitation
« on: January 13, 2006, 07:11:00 PM »
...I know I said I might lay low for a while...didn't know if I's comin' or goin 'n' such... but I feel O.K. now I just don't wanna make friends with a bunch a people who knew me in $tr8, or even ever'one who comes along from this board...dig ?? Aint tryin' to be cold but a lot of mutherfuckers get my neckhairs up ... dig ??
An' today I feel a surge of hostility risin' up in me. What with the shit ex-prisoner brings up and all the other beautiful people who were raped and mind-raped by $tr8. I feel like I been robbed of sumthin, raped a sumthin. I feel my anger bein' whipped. This site taps my buried anger and brings it to life.
An' today I feel a surge of hostility risin' up in me. What with the shit ex-prisoner brings up and all the other beautiful people who were raped and mind-raped by $tr8. I feel like I been robbed of sumthin, raped a sumthin. I feel my anger bein' whipped. This site taps my buried anger and brings it to life.