H Paul Garland

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

Thursday, July 31, 2008

TV Commercials

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- I like to watch TV in the evening after I go to bed. I prefer PBS for a lot of reasons, but especially because of the lack of commercial...

Happy Birthday J.K. Rowling

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- Happy birthday J.K. Rowling! Joanne Rowling (who actually does not have a middle name) is an amazing writer and person. Her Harry Potter s...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Hurricane Dolly

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- In August 1992 I was living in South Louisiana. My house sat right next to a bayou and was about 5 miles (8 km) from the Gulf of Mexico. T...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Photography Exhibition

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- Twenty of the finest photographers from the southwest are joining together to host a photography exhibit from November 7, 2008 through Jan...

Randy Pausch

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- (CNN) -- Randy Pausch, the professor whose "last lecture" became a runaway phenomenon on the Internet and was turned into a best...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Obama in Berlin - No. 44 Has Spoken

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American presidential candidate Barack Obama gave a speech in Berlin, Germany today at the Tiergarten Park. At the east end of the park is ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Senior Moments

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- John McCain the 71-year-old Republican candidate for president of the United States is showing his age. - McCain referred to the "Ira...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Clinton Loaned Self Another $1 Million

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- The Washington Post has an article today entitled "Clinton Loaned Self Another $1 Million." - LINK: http://blog.washingtonpost.c...
Sunday, July 20, 2008

Medium Format Cameras

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In most good digital still cameras which cost less than about $5,000- the lens projects the image onto a digital sensor which is much smalle...

Materialist Spiritual Desert

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- The head of the Christian Catholic church, Pope Benedict XVI is in Australia attending World Youth Day celebrations. Prior to being electe...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Smelling The Roses

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- There were a lot of good photographers in the early 20th century. Of the three hhat I know the best, two lived at almost exactly the same ...
Friday, July 18, 2008

The First Rule Of Business

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The free market capitalist economy is popular all over the world right now. Under this system private corporations provide service and produ...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Checks And Balances

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The founders of America were very intelligent, well educated men. They had a great deal of experience in real life, and they certainly were ...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Io

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For years I had a close friend named Kathy. She was smart, very nice, and she had a great figure. We travelled and did a lot of things toget...

The New Yorker

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- For years I subscribed to the New Yorker, but I gave it up about 10 years ago. Maybe I'll start again. - My forecast is that their cov...
Monday, July 14, 2008

Speaker Phones

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I know several people who use their speaker phones most of the time. They seem to think that this makes them special somehow. Thirty years a...

Dismantling The New Deal Reforms

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America and the whole world underwent a horrible economic depression in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s. Wikipedia says that The New Deal w...

Financial Melt Down

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- Yesterday for the first time I read in a mainstream publication an article that described what it happening to the Amercian financial syst...

Bloated American Pig Cars

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A close friend of mine likes to pretend to himself and to others that he is a Buddhist. I guess in one part of his mind he is. In addition t...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

New Religious Tablets Found

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A New York Times article on 6 July 2008 says, “A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades...
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H Paul Garland
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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