H Paul Garland

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

Monday, February 02, 2009

Zimbabwe

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I read in the news today that Zimbabwe's central bank has again revalued the Zimbabwean dollar to compensate for the country's hyper...
Sunday, February 01, 2009

Juarez Lawlessness

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The number of intentional homicides registered during January in the city and the valle de Juarez reached 153 victims, indicating an average...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Health Care in America

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Even when the economy was booming along in its various Republican party “bubbles” many millions of Americans had no health insurance and no ...

Déjà Vu

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It felt like déjà vu all over again this morning. It was sort of like I was walking down Boulevard de Clichy in the Montmartre district of P...

Disgusting Republicans

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The Republican National Committee is made up of spin artists and completely incompetent liars. - In the news from America we learn that the ...
Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Lunatic Right Wing Fringe

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In America there is a fairly large group of hard core locos who are strongly into conspiracy theories. Their politics generally lean towards...

Davos, Switzerland

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The World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos, Switzerland right now. Davos is located in the eastern part of the country, about 10 mile...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Republican Party Decline

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The Republicans remind me of the Jethro Tull song "Living In The Past." - In America the Republican Congressmen and Senators appea...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

American Television

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Much of my life I didn’t watch hardly any TV. Like maybe once a month. Now that I’m retired I have more time, so I have started watching som...

Homer Land Security

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While I was out walking the dog this morning this fellow with the Border Patrol was checking me out. I guess that an old white guy out walki...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Worldwide Financial Crisis

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What has caused the financial meltdown? -- We have to understand this if we are going to fix the problem and then make sure that it doesn’t...

Juarez, Mexico

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The newspaper Norte de Ciudad Juarez has reported some comparative murder rates. The Juarez murder rate is 11 times the national average in ...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Exodus

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If you have compassion for all of the Mexicans who try to get to America just to improve themselves and their families, you should read the...

Freedom Of Speech

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Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan the U.S.A. has backslid terribly on basic human rights and adherence to the rules outlined in the Amer...

CAPITALS, lower case letters, and Proper Punctuation

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Many young people (and some old geezers too) nowadays think that it makes them seem cool or hip if they refuse to capitalize the first lette...

Fascism In America?

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Several weeks ago someone who I have a great deal of respect for told me that he thought America had become a fascist country. Thinking of t...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Predatory Lending

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Government Deregulation = Predatory Lending - to the very most vulnerable people in our society. The old, the sick, the unemployed, and the...

The Pope on You Tube

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The Pope has his own channel on You Tube now. I am not a Catholic. Even though I was raised as a Christian it would be a real stretch now to...

President Obama's New PDA

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Mr. President has been issued a new NSA certified PDA to replace his tired old lame civilian Blackberry. - This is really James Bond stuff. ...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Who Is Visiting This Blog?

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---------------------------------------------------------- (click on the map or the pie chart and it will enlarge) The internet is just so ...
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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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