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THE
DAY
(if
you were never a special person, you are a special person _now_)
THE CONSTITUTION DIED
The official (accept no substitutes)
web site of Kurt F. Ericson
"It's better than Gone
With The Wind!"
- W.C. Fields
Hey, we're the USA
"Nobody's Gonna
Rain On Our Parade" [VIDEO]
Make free donations to several worthy charities just by clicking at
The
Hunger Site
OK,
"For
What
It's
Worth" here goes...
As an
American Citizen,
the only authority people have over you is that which you willingly
grant them.
The State may have certain authorities over individuals,
but only those specifically designated to it by The People via their
representatives.
Any other form of authority is an agreement.
The
(Expanded) Philosophy of Liberty [VIDEO]
A wonderful primer on the philosophy of Libertarianism
As Jimi Hendrix said, somebody's
"House is Burning
Down"
Unfortunately, it's OUR HOUSE, and it sits on Capitol Hill
"Democracy is a messy and inefficient
way for people
to govern themselves,
but it's the best way there's ever been.
Let's not throw it all away, as so many peoples have in the past,
giving
up their liberties, freedoms and privacy to those who would take power
using
the guise of providing security. Too many people have died in the
names
of the The Soviet, The Nazi, and The Cultural Revolution only for the
'winners'
to find themselves not freed from tyranny, but surrounded by it."
09/17/07
Chinese Communism is funding the American lifestyle.
If that doesn't upset you, I don't know what would...
10/25/07
Remember, we weren't just fighting one tyrant named King George III,
we were fighting the
concept of kings...
11/24/07
You can hurt peoples' hearing, and there's no recourse in the
courts?
Tip of the
iceberg, my friend ;-)
02/18/08
"US
Blues" -
Shake the hand that shook the hand of PT Barnum...
Welcome to the World of Madison Avenue
Which cigarette do
you
smoke? Which one are
you?
As was asked of Gordon Gekko in the movie
"Wall Street", how
much is enough?
Remember what Mister Roadkill says...
"Constitution yes... or Constitution no...
Constitution little bit, get squashed like Texas Roadkill!!"
You are not an American Citizen, you are a belt...
No courts, no
judge, no
jury? No thanks...
Are you a
real
American, or do you just know a little bit?
Do you need more
American training?
What do you know about the
Constitution
and
the Bill of Rights that people have fought and died for?
with all due respect to my former instructors, I say,
American First
Martial Artist Second
-- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber
barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s
cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be
satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us
without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.
— C. S. Lewis
-- There is an anecdote about General Patton meeting a priest by the
side of the road during a campaign in WWII. Supposedly, the
priest asked, "Do you read your Bible, General?" General Patton
replied, "Every Goddamned day..."
-- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
~ Martin Luther King
With dis-regards to "The Cable Moron" - That's riiiight ;-)
"Is this your bar of soap?" "No" "Just as WE thought.." -
the Firesign Theatre
Listen to
Joe Vitale's "Lady On The Rock"
-- How do they know when milk goes bad? Maybe the cows tip 'em
off when they're milking them?
"July 3rd...."
-- Jerry Seinfeld
"America... a country so polite even their war was
civil." - Dudley Moore
"For America"
-
from Jackson Browne's "Lives In The Balance" album
This web site is
dedicated to the rights and freedoms
of the citizens of the United States and Texas
(and it wouldn't hurt you to laugh a bit as well - yes you, the
one with the computer)
When the new King George asks you, "Which One Are You?"
tell him "None of Thee Above"
Ann Richards - former Governor of The Great State of Texas
Joe Vitale's "Plantation
Harbor"
(with a little help from Mr.
Joe Walsh and producer for The Eagles Bill Szymczyk)
Never forget that
WE ARE THE MASTERS
The
American Declaration Of Independence
The
United States Bill Of Rights
You have some new rules for America? Write them down,,,
they did :-)
The
Federalist Papers
The Texas State
Constitution and Bill Of Rights
and the one that got it all started, the English
Magna Carta
Judge
Scalia's Constitution Comics
(not at all funny, really)
Constitutional
Compromise - Mark Fiore flash animation
Watch
Keith Olbermann's MSN Countdown video "
The Death of Habeas
Corpus?"
Not so funny when he starts X-ing out the articles of the Bill Of
Rights which are no longer in effect. :-(
Listen to a Democracy Now interview with Naomi
Wolf about her new book
"The End of
America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot"
In this timely call to arms, Naomi Wolf compels us to face the way our
free America is under assault. She warns us — with the
straight-to-fellow-citizens
urgency of one of Thomas Paine's revolutionary pamphlets — that we have
little
time to lose if our children are to live in real freedom.
“If we do not hang
together, we shall surely hang separately.”
-- Thomas Paine
read his
"Common Sense" pamphlet
"You call yourself a patriot, and loyal Subject
to the Crown??", asks the British Officer
on horseback in a crowd of Colonists
"I do not call myself subject to much at all...", says the American
Colonist amidst barely stiffled laughter
-- from the movie
"Last
of the Mohicans"
John Cleese’s “Letter to America"
WE hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective
immediately.
(Note: there have been reports that Cleese didn't write this, but it's
surely in his style)
My Current Blog
A
Soviet Level of Surveillance?
Current
(more or less)
News and
Op-Ed
Click here for more news stories and editorials
Click here for links to information on political
issues,
as well as politically-oriented videos and my opinions on various
subjects.
Ron Paul
former 2008 Presidential candidate, and Libertarian
Libertarianism
Click here for links information and links about
the Libertarian philosophy
Economics
America's
Financial Situation
and possible remedies
Favorite
Humor
Click for a page of my favorite
comedians and comedy
Inspiration
provided by
The Firesign Theatre
The finest in comedic and intriguing
Radio Theater, since 1967
"This animal is sick!!"
"Yes, but it's a catchy little number..."
YOU - too much TV!!
"TV-The Drug Of The
Nation"
If you are however drawn to the silver
and/or cathode-ray screen, may I suggest some of my
Favorite Movies & TV
Click for a page of my favorite
melodic muses
Click here for my current favorite "Hit List"
- Wake Me Up On Judgement Day
The
Texas Border Wall Can't Separate Latinos From Their Memories and Culture
- an excellent article with a debate in the comments section which is
(for
the most part) quite educational both in terms of current and
historical
perspective.
The Austin Chronicle
- Music, Arts and City news from the 'Live Music Capital of the World'
"Austin"
-
listen to Mr. Robin Williams' take on our little burg. Be sure to
check out his
"Live 2002"recording
(if you like it, buy it :-) You may find a commentary upon a city
close to you ;-)
What
I would do...
I would create a "Beltway" like there is around DC,
and get I-35 out of the center of town. In it's place, I would
put high-speed passenger rail running from Houston and San Antonio,
through Austin, to Dallas. I would make Austin communities
"walkable", and make cars as unneccessary as possible.
Stuff
About Me
My Bio
Born DeLand, FL 1954
Grew up in suburban Washington, DC
near Blackwell Lane in the Buckingham section of
Belair at
Bowie (now simply
Bowie), MD
Currently living in
Austin, TX
My
Music and Stuff I've Worked On
(pardon the sound quality of these tunes - mp3'd from
old cassettes)
"DaVinci's
Dream"- An original, but let's just say I'm a fan of Rick Wakeman
;-) Me on MIDI keyboards & Simmons PortaKit/Alesis D4
percussion. MotU Performer 5/FreeMIDI with some nice synths (even
recorded my bad timing accurately lol)
Download it here as a Standard MIDI File
Download the Sheet Music as a printable
PDF File
"Holy
Lamb" - My cover of the Yes tune. Once again, me on MIDI and
vocal.
Coming Soon - "Which One Are You?" - Identify yourself, American!!
Juli Maners' "Dark
Side Of the Moon"
- A picture of Juli when people were trying to make her a 'Country
Star'. From what I've heard, she's more into Christian music
these
days. Whatever genre she chooses, she still is another person
with 'the voice of an angel'. This is not Pink Floyd, rather a
country tune. Digitized from an old 45,
so
once again apologies for the poor sound quality. Juli Maners on
lead
vocal. I engineered and co-produced. Had a chance to play with a
Lexicon
224XL reverb. Niiiice....
The Armadillo Roadkill Report - a (more or less)
weekly news/information bit I do for
The Jim & Bambi Show on
CNI
Radio
(Saturdays at 7pm EST). Go
to
www.cniradio.com to learn how to listen in on your computer
and join in the IRC chat. Great info and good fun.
SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY
General
Systems Theory - My Father's (Richard Ferdinand Ericson) passion
was the Society for General
Systems Research. The basic idea being that the same rules apply
to any systems, whether they be biological, electrical/electronic,
political, religious, physics or whatever. A fascinating study
(if you have a very good dictionary handy ;)
Just like my Daddy did!! (lol - hardly - they lost me at
trigonometry ;)
See his
GWU
Professor Emeritus profile
Marcel Douwe Dekker has put up a
Wikipedia
article
about my Dad
and some more info under the General Systems heading at -
http://www.uia.be/node/150?kap=4
Since 1956, the Society for General Systems Research has produced a
yearbook,
General Systems, which collects together significant
papers, often originally published in journals of a wide variety of
disciplines. This is a very valuable source for the location of
concepts and their definitions. (A former director of the Society,
Richard Ericson, has himself prepared two tentative versions of a
"Selected
glossary of terms with particular reference to concepts associated with
cybernetic management and information technology"). Oran Young has
carried out a survey of the use of general systems concepts (
General
Systems, 1964, p.61-80, 239-253). In 1979 a further survey of the
movement was carried out for the Society (Cavallo, 1979). The many
books on general systems naturally also offer definitions of concepts.
It is appropriate to ask why general systems has not been able to
respond as effectively as might have been hoped to the challenges of
the times. Attempts have been made to render general systems relevant
to the issues raised by the global problematique (Ervin Laszlo, 1974
and R F Ericson 1979), but there has been little follow-up.
Learn more at the
International
Society for the
Systems Sciences
Recommended
Businesses
coming soon... Leif's Viking Cowboy Trading Post
- my eBay Store of Music Technology and sundry collectables
Computing/Telecommunications
Fran's Computer Services
- The home "Aunti Virus" (aka Fran Parker) - Web hosting and design
services
for all your online needs, and local computer maintenance and repair in
the
Williamsburg, VA area.
"Made In
The USA"/Union-Made
Products
Sun Tzu -
"The
Art Of War"
A treatise on the subject which has been studied for
centuries
Morehei Ueshiba -
"The
Art Of Peace"
The philosophy of Aikido
Armadillo Roadkill
(poor Old Ironsides.... sniff,
sniff)
Charles Darwin said
it's about "Survival Of The Fittest"
I believe it's more about, "Survival Of The Faddest" ;-)
"DETERIORATA"
from the album Greatest_Hits_of_the_National_Lampoon
(c) 1972 Visa Records
performed by Norman Rose
written by Tony Hendra
music by Christopher Guest
Go placidly amid the noise and waste,
and remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep.
Rotate your tires.
Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself
and heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys.
Know what to kiss... and when.
Consider that two wrongs never make a right... but that three do.
Wherever possible, put people on hold.
Be comforted that in the face of all erridity and disallusionment,
and despite the changing fortunes of time,
there is always a big future in computer maintainance.
Remember the Pueblo.
Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate.
Know yourself. If you need help, call the FBI.
Exercise caution in your daily affairs,
especially with those persons closest to you...
that lemon on your left, for instance.
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls
would scarcely get your feet wet.
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
Gracefully surrender the things of youth,
birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan,
and let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Hire people with hooks.
For a good time call 606-4311. Ask for Ken.
Take heart amid the deepening gloom
that your dog is finally getting enough cheese,
and reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot,
it could only be worse in Milwaukee.
You are a fluke of the Universe.
You have no right to be here,
and weather you can hear it or not,
the Universe is laughing behind your back.
Therefore, make peace with your god,
whatever you conceive him to be:
hairy thunderer or cosmic muffin.
With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal,
the world continues to deteriorate.
Give up
Rosa
Parks
"The
World's
Gone
Crazy Cotillion" - Waylon Jennings' take on the state of the
planet
MAY GRID HELP US ALL
A crime so heinous, it couldn't be taken to court!!
(there's more to it than meets the eye ;)
Remember: It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve
as a warning to others.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
WILLIAM E. HENLEY
And a final thought...
"Who has more than me?" Listen to Don
Williams's beautiful ballad
"Miracles"
Classical music fans may hear a bit of Dvorak's New World Symphony in
the chorus
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Every man has his follies - and often they are the most
interesting thing he's got.” ~ Josh Billings
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