Hey Jake
Thanks for sending along your Common Sense Business Pamphlet, all excellent ideas & I wish there were a way I could help you make them happen. I’m not the person, though, am out of politics, stay close to home & my local business as the world goes to hell w/ Round-up on its ditches seeping into its drinking water but what the heck it doesn’t taste bad, does it?
Meanwhile. Frack & blast. Drill, baby, drill.
But for us it’s liquefaction. Martin Marietta is destroying my home & church, our business buildings & our streets & infrastructure, twice a week, in small earthquakes but MM says they ain’t doing it, they are good corporate citizens & wouldn’t do anything to harm anyone or anything, so who does the state believe, them or me? (When their Armani-suit wearing shill came to town in his shiny Jaguar he made the country boys quake in their boots and, said Huh? when I said liquefaction.) State won’t come stand on our ground for those rumbles; where would the rocks for our roads come from if we weren’t bleeding Earth of all its core elements? Sometimes I slow count nearly to 4 measuring the blast as it enters my house, shakes & rumbles it and the horsehair plaster crumbles & falls in the walls (20 years this has been going on) cracks in the house widening all the while, and the house shudders and pauses and then shakes again as the blast gets done with its brief travel through it & goes on its way. And I write the date & time on a calendar, adding my version of a relative scale as to that particular blast’s shake rattle rumble pause & fall attributes.
Town of Fountain poisons our ground water with its Roundup (ti’s really a Roundup knockoff) despite what Pitt County gov calls “best practices for use of glyphosates”; still daily truckloads of chickens & pigs fly by our crossroads en route to their execution or maybe their bigger cell but at least it don’t stink like it does in summer when Lord you hope one of those trucksfull won’t get stopped at our stop light.
I’m glad that you are staying with your projects & ideas; I keep mine going, too, but they are all historical. Present world is a mess & it’s only been 2 weeks since the last frigging election.
We have sponsored two Ukrainian refugees but now they will be sent home though their home was in Donetsk which will be part of the new USSR by the time they get there and of course their home won’t be there either. [Update: their status has changed & they may now be able to extend their stay for another two years; the young man’s parents’ application process has been halted by the slow closing of our borders & the beginning of the end, it seems, of Welcome.US— the refugee assistance program that had so far been quite successful.)
Don Davis ought to be interested in your work. But he may also have become too much the politician. Greg Murphy is a Repiglican elitist who long ago drank the Trump tea like most of his colleagues: don’t bother. Josh Stein might do better if he won’t get vetoed into irrelevance. No one that I know of is paying much attention to East Carolina which I have wanted for years to secede, become the 51st state, put a toll up for anyone wanting to come east of I-95 make em pay to use our beaches which is all they want us for anyway but that ain’t happening either. We are their dumping ground; too bad (for us) our water table is so high, some places it pops through the earth, table becoming surface. And our pitiful dirt!
I wish I could offer you more hope but I think elections have shown the world what US really is, all that crap about freedom & equality & opportunity just a ruse to get cheap labor to move here & now we don’t even want those laborers any more. Who’s going to pick our crops?
Well, I didn’t help your day much, did I?
All your ideas are excellent & ought to be the Law but my wishing doesn’t help push em forward at all & I’m sorry for that.
I miss Tom Douglass terribly but I don’t miss the university at all.
Thanks for writing & I was glad to hear from you & to know you’re still engaged in the fight & I appreciate your taste for it.
yep.
Alex/
Vladyslav Karp, at left, and his buddies from the 3rd Independent Assault Brigade. If you look close at the missile you will see who’s sending it. Vladyslave got to spend his leave in Greenville with his friends in our house there but is back at war now.
3rd Assault Brigade patch
