H Paul Garland

There's no point in living if you can't feel alive. - James Bond

Monday, October 01, 2007

Haloweene

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- A friend sent these. - Pumpkin bums, titts, and ass. - I'm not sure that it is entirely appropriate for young kids to trick and treat ...

Renaissance Fair

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- Yesterday there was a Renaissance Fair in El Paso. - A friend of mine named Winston makes really fine reproduction hats and garments from ...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

The Mayor of El Paso, Texas

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- - It is easy to look at our national elected politicians and become discouraged. So many of them are only concerned with raising money and...
Saturday, September 29, 2007

Screw Children Who Don't Have Health Insurance

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This apparently is what George W. Bush believes. Opposing poor children having health care shows just what a genuienly evil bastard he is at...

Kermezaar 2007

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- click on the pictures and they will enlarge Every year in El Paso, Texas there is an arts and crafts fair called the Kermezaar. This year ...
Friday, September 28, 2007

Criminal Charges against ASARCO?

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- The El Paso County Attorney is looking into the possibility of filing criminal charges against ASARCO for past environmental violations. h...

El Paso Mineral and Gem Society

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The El Paso Mineral and Gem Society had a fund-raising auction last night. - From my collection I donated a nice amethyst geode, the petrifi...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

American Housing Mortgage Market

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- One would think that with all the problems in the market right now borrowers would be requiring a 10% to 15% down payment. - This house is...

Taser this... F--- Bush

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- The editor of a college newspaper is in hot water for publishing an article that said "Taser this... F--- Bush" - Other than not...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Youngite

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- - - Earlier this week I acquired a nice piece of Youngite which is about 18 cm long. It is beautiful both under normal light and also unde...

Gunfighters of The Old West

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I am a member of the Concordia Cemetary Heritage Association. Concordia is a really large, old, burial place in El Paso, Texas. The earthly ...
Monday, September 24, 2007

Political Demonstrations

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Yesterday afternoon I got to go to a concert by Guitar Slim. Good heavens, this man knows how to play the Blues! Really good. If you like Bl...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Apple Phreaks

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- I am not an Apple phreak. I am certainly very disenchanted with Microsoft, but that doesn’t mean I think apples are good. - On the other h...
Saturday, September 22, 2007

New Mexico USA

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- I drove about 700 kilometers (400 miles) yesterday. The dog and I went up to a history event at the old Army Fort near Silver City, New Me...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

Who Is At The End Of The Rainbow

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- When I got home this afternoon I took my little black doggie Inu out in the desert for a little walk. It had just rained. - It sure looks ...

It Is A Small World

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Over the course of one’s life you encounter an amazing number of “Wow, what a small world” experiences. Here is my latest. A few weeks ago I...

Iranian President

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- - This seems pretty self explanatory to me. 9 9
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Peter's Friends

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- The 1992 British film with Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and others is really wonderful. - I just finished watching it for the f...

ASARCO Protest

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- This coming Sunday evening there is going to be a community protest against re-opening the massive and highly polluting copper smelter in ...

Blackwater

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- The private security company which guards American diplomats and the top military brass in Iraq is in hot water for behaving like out of c...
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Like the Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, I went to Austin High in El Paso, Texas. I moved to California right after high school. Graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1971 with honors. Worked on a master's degree, then to avoid going to Vietnam I joined the U.S. Army to be at 3rd Armored Div HQ in Frankfurt, Germany. I was there for almost 3 years. Bicycled and backpacked a lot in the Swiss Alps. Had some good times, saw some of the world, and grew up a little. I went to law school at U.T. Austin for a while, raised a family, got elected to a minor political position in El Paso, had 3 great wives, owned a Corvette then later a Prius, became a scuba diver, got my private pilot's license including multi-engine and instrument ratings, and lived in the Cajun country of Louisiana for a few years. For 15 years I was the general manager for a food procesing company in Europe. I really enjoyed living in Europe. I'm now retired, and to quote from Martin Luther King, I'm finally "free at last, free at last." I've moved out to the wonderful high desert in the Southwestern city of El Paso, Texas USA.
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