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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, August 11, 2004
It’s difficult for me to find anything I’m looking
for these days. This likely is linked to the fact that I
am a disorganized person, besides the fact that re-
membering where I put stuff is darn near impossible.
This means that when I need to find a tape meas-
ure, it’s not where I think I might have put it the last
time I used it. My first move is always to go to the
catch-all drawer in the kitchen, although I’m a little
afraid to open it because of what might pop out.
If what I seek is not in the clutter drawer, I look in
the top drawer of the dresser in the bedroom. After
that I mutter a few incoherent words, follow this up
with a prayer, and then try to think. When my brain
hurts from too much thinking about where the item is
that I must have or die trying, I head for the garage
and the dreaded Cabinet of Clutter. This is a bit scary,
so the faint-hearted should stop reading now.
First, I have to move several items from the doors
in front of The Cabinet to be able to look inside. Next
come more incomprehensible words, which we will
not talk about here. At last, if I haven’t melted from
the heat inside the garage, I gingerly open the doors
and quickly jump back. This is because I enjoy having
10 toes, all attached to my feet. At various times,
heavy or sharp items, or sharp and heavy items, have
leaped from inside The Cabinet and attacked parts of
my body, primarily my toes. So I’m wary.
The reason this topic arose is because last week-
end I was searching for a tape measure. Historically,
and hysterically, I have periodically purchased items
that I knew I already had, but couldn’t find. There-
fore, in checking the Cabinet of Doom last weekend,
actually taking the time to sort through the debris,
here is what I found, besides three tape measures:
*Twenty-four screwdrivers of varying lengths,
some of which should be in a museum, and most of
them appearing as though they had been used as
weapons in a medieval war.
*Nine hammers, generally rusted and a bit beat
up, but quite usable (as long as they stay away from
my toes). Some have wooden handles; some have
plastic handles; a couple have rubber handles; and the
handle on one is cracked and looks quite dangerous.
*Six partially used rolls of duct tape; three rolls of
plumber’s tape all tangled together; and a large roll of
sticky tape of unknown origin or use.
*Nine paint scrapers, two of them never used.
*Two large coffee cans overflowing with bent,
rusty and flattened-head nails and screws, all of them
unusable unless you want to sink something in the
middle of the Pacific Ocean.
*Several odd bits of metal, sort of like special
tools, that look as though they have great uses if I
could just figure out where they came from.
*A sack full of nuts, bolts and washers that would
have been great for assembling a wheelbarrow, except
I misplaced the sack after getting the wheelbarrow
and bought another sack of nuts, bolts and washers
that worked, although they didn’t come with the
wheelbarrow.
*A collection of half-empty paint cans, none of
them labeled.
Yard sale anyone?
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American rights
From George Leverett
O’Brien
It’s easy to be discour-
aged since Sept. 11, 2001.
We are on continual alert
by our government for ter-
rorist activities, and we get
daily reports of our sons
and daughters being at-
tacked and killed in Iraq.
Not to mention the
budget deficit and strug-
gling U.S. economy. Even
though things seem bad,
my fellow citizens should
take heart. It is my pleas-
ure to report that there are
many good citizens here in
Illinois Valley who
proudly proclaim and exer-
cise their rights as Ameri-
cans.
To begin, I was in a
valley hardware store
around the 4th of July
when I overheard a cus-
tomer describing his ex-
perience setting off fire-
works throughout that
week. He complained bit-
terly that his neighbors in
O’Brien were voicing con-
cerns about his activities.
He also told the cash-
ier that he “put his
neighbors right back in
their place” saying, “I’ll
set off all the fireworks I
like; it’s my right as an
American!”
I live in O’Brien and
did notice a brush fire or
two around that time. As I
watched the fires being
doused frantically with
water, I thought of that
proud fellow, and my heart
was glad for his patriotism.
One of my other good
patriot neighbors exercises
his rights each and every
evening by turning up his
car stereo in front of his
house. Even though there
are several acres between
us, I have the good fortune
of being able to enjoy the
constant thumping of the
bass as it rattles my win-
dows for hours on end.
One of my less-
patriotic neighbors
(probably in league with
Osama) once questioned
this person’s listening hab-
its at a yard sale - to which
he replied, “I have the
right to listen to my mu-
sic!” My own wife has
even shown some commu-
nist tendencies on occa-
sion, when she repeatedly
sets off our car alarm to
protest our good American
neighbor.
Two of my neighbors
were canoeing around their
pond recently when a
shower of bullets came
raining down on them.
They quickly fled to their
home, where the woman
called the police.
She was informed that,
unless the bullets actually
hit them or damaged their
property, the person firing
the gun was within their
rights.
I can recall several
occasions where I have
been doing yard work, and
one of my good neighbors
exercises his right to dis-
charge guns. My heart
sighs with patriotic pride
every time I hear a bullet
go whistling by me.
As I sit here with my
windows rattling, bullets
whizzing by, and fires in
the distance, I can’t help
but pity those less-
fortunate folks in other
countries where the only
rights afforded them are
common sense.
Slavery?
From J.D. Freeman
Cave Junction
Those who wish to be
free should read and un-
derstand the following.
A driver’s license is a
revocable privilege from a
state. If you have one, you
are a slave. You have been
deceived into giving up
your right to travel.
“The enumeration in
the Constitution of certain
rights, shall not be con-
strued to deny or disparage
others retained by the peo-
ple.” (Article IX, Bill of
Rights.)
Also, state laws requir-
ing the registration and
licensing of your private
car are rendered “null and
void” by the U.S. Constitu-
tion.
“This Constitution …
shall be the supreme Law
of the land … any Thing in
the Constitution or Laws
of any State to the Con-
trary notwithstand-
ing.” (Article VI, para-
graph 2.)
“The Senators and
Representatives before
mentioned; and the Mem-
bers of the several State
Legislatures; and all ex-
ecutive and judicial Offi-
cers, both of the United
States and of the several
States, shall be bound by
Oath or Affirmation, to
support this Constitu-
tion.” (Article VI, para-
graph 3.)
Why are these govern-
ment people violating their
Oath of Office and failing
to support the National
United States Constitu-
tion? The answer is - We
the people are ignorant.
We have been deliberately
deceived.
People need to wake
up, study the Constitution,
and learn to enforce it.
By the way, to help,
stop using toothpaste with
fluoride in it. The Germans
used fluoride to tranquilize
prisoners during World
War II. Today it is used to
tranquilize vicious bulls.
We need to stop allowing
the government to deceive
us and our dentists. This
fluoride tranquilizer is
turning us into sheep.
‘Corruption in county’
From Raymond Ronald
Karczewski©
Cave Junction
Josephine County gov-
ernment officials (judges,
district attorney and sher-
iff) had no compunction
about destroying my repu-
tation and jailing me for
128 days arising from a
high-beam headlight viola-
tion; then labeling me a
Paper Terrorist (under the
Patriot Act.)
Yet they released me
from jail with no charges
after undergoing my two
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