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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Faithful readers might recall my painful story of sev-
eral years ago regarding my tremendous lack of me-
chanical/building/fixing objects talent. But I type well.
I have built a few items in the past. Some of them
actually stayed together long enough to stand up before
collapsing in a pile of twisted nails, oozing glue and
sawdust. Some of us have no aptitude for such matters.
Fortunately, my wife and three children all have engi-
neer-type brains, and can figure out stuff. Good thing.
Still, it took me years to let Jan take the lead after
we’d buy an item and the box had the dreadful, fateful
words (for people like me): “Assembly Required.” Yikes.
I’d break into a cold sweat and start trembling. Not to
worry though, as Jan has the genius to figure out any-
thing. But I used to try first to “show her” how to do it.
Perhaps a bit too much machismo? Didn’t work. Almost
went to divorce court a few times over those “Assembly
Required” items.
Anyway, this brings us, strangely enough, to last
week when we got some new light fixture shades. I can
handle this project, I thought. So much for thinking. But
wait -- I was able to get the tall ladder into the bedroom,
climb it and figure out how to remove the glass shades
to replace them with the fabric ones. It was exciting to
be way up near the ceiling and discover that at least two
of our four cats had climbed the ladder from the other
side and were having some sort of Cat Game called,
“Let’s Scare Dad by Shaking the Ladder.” They also
enjoyed, “Try to Trip Him While He’s Climbing Down.”
It took five separate ladder round-trips, with help
from our herd of felines, to remove the old shades and
bulbs. Then on my sixth excursion, I discovered that the
new shades wouldn’t clip over the light bulbs because
the bulbs were too large for the clips. Off I went to get
new, smaller lights. Jan had me take one of the old
lights to be sure I got a proper size.
That was a mistake, as I thought of one dimension,
and she was thinking three-dimensionally.
Because although I got smaller bulbs, it wasn’t until
I made another creaky trip up the ladder, with my cat
escorts, that I realized the bases were too small. I had
gotten bulbs with Christmas tree bases, when I needed
bulbs with regular bases. Arghh. Off I went again for
more bulbs.
Could not find bulbs of the right wattage. Phoned
Jan, who advised me to wait until the next day and try
another store with more variety. That worked.
Meanwhile, we left the ladder in our bedroom over-
night. The cats loved it. Played games nearly all night.
Next time, I’ll have them do the job. I’m sure they could
handle it better than I. Did I mention though that I am a
really good typist?
* * *
P.S. The day after the complicated installation pro-
cedure we decided to put back the glass shades. And
you don’t even want to hear about the problematical
situation we encountered. It was because of my replac-
ing the plastic rings for them so far down on the light
base the day before that it took extreme dexterity and
patience to remove them. But the mission was accom-
plished. Again with help (she took over) from my wife.
Some days life is just full of twists and turns.
(Disclosure! June 28, 2006 is when Bob originally ran the
preceding.)
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Ideology trumps science
From Gregory Anderson
Cave Junction
I never thought I would
live to see the day that ideol-
ogy trumps science. Until
something is proven, it is
nothing more than an idea or
a theory.
Obama and his fellow
geniuses in Congress are feel-
ing the pressure from realists
throughout the world that
man-caused global warming
is the biggest con job in his-
tory. Speaker “Polemic Pe-
losi” was able to perform a
“cram-down” to narrowly
pass another bill that will cost
our economy and our children
and our grandchildren dearly.
Again, before even one
House member had an oppor-
tunity to read the 1,300 pages
of tripe. In fact it was re-
ported that there was not even
a copy of the legislation on
the House floor when it was
passed.
Humming the tune of
“Yes we can,” they are bring-
ing the change we can believe
in -- much to the detriment of
our economy, our society,
and our country. Remember
the promise of transparency
and 48 hours to know what is
in a bill? That obviously
never came to pass. That dis-
appeared with our audacity to
hope that our president was
telling the truth.
The Obama/Algore wor-
shippers refuse to admit that
they lose ground, as scientists
and other skeptics become
more educated to the real
science. They need the ideo-
logical fervor of the global-
warming hucksters to pro-
mote this rubbish. Currently
more than 700 scientists dis-
agree with the U.N. position
on global warming. This is 13
times the number that au-
thored their 2007 climate
summary.
Last year the newly
elected government of New
Zealand immediately sus-
pended the weeks-old cap-
and-trade program. The Aus-
tralian Parliament is prepar-
ing to kill its own carbon-
emission scheme. This ex-
plains why the Obama-Reid-
Pelosi team is trying to jam
the carbon tax ploy through
before the voters learn of the
real scientific facts.
Recently, one of the fore-
most experts on polar bears
was “disinvited” from a con-
ference in Denmark. Why?
Because his knowledge and
evidence runs opposite to the
liberal group’s ideological
beliefs.
The EPA has been trying
to suppress a study that shows
there has been no global
warming for a decade and
that the CO2 levels are no-
where near what they would
have to be to be a danger to
the planet’s inhabitants. The
only danger is the cap-and-
tax pushers causing huge out-
sourcing of jobs and taxing
the country to match Califor-
nia’s fiscal destruction.
This will make Con-
gress’s corn ethanol fiasco --
which is producing higher
food prices and lower gas
mileage without affecting
CO2 emissions -- look like
child’s play.
‘Checking out’ business
From Ellis Couron
Cave Junction
Last Saturday “Old Bud”
pulled into a local business
and bought some 30 dollars
worth of merchandise and
tried to pay for it with a per-
sonal check that was from a
banking establishment across
the street.
Then I discovered that
this place of business had a
check list, not of those who
had written bad checks, but of
only the trustworthy and al-
lowed to write checks. I
asked how did one get his
name on that list, only to be
told that no new names were
being accepted when clearly I
could see that there had been
new names added at the bot-
tom.
Now, I don’t know who
all is on that check list, but I
have lived here for more than
30 years and have done most
of my business with checks
that don’t bounce, and I have
bad feelings about anyone
who apparently believes that
my checks are not as good as
someone else’s.
And anyone who be-
lieves that “Old Bud” will
ever spend another nickel in
that place of business is, as
we say down in the Holler,
“whistling up a gum stump.”
Of rights & privileges
From Raymond Ronald
Karczewski©
Cave Junction
With regard to Christo-
pher Smith, perhaps we can
clear up the confusion which
exists in our respective posi-
tions. When I responded to
his letter, I did not put a face
to the name. I responded to
words on the screen, words
on the printed paper.
I respect him as a man of
integrity. My use of the word
“ignorant” was not meant as a
personal attack, but as a word
denoting “unawareness” of
facts existing beyond one’s
understanding.
I live by God’s Law, and
Common Law; I recognize
the U.S. Constitution to be a
contract between the Sover-
eign People and its Servant
Government. My Unalienable
Rights are derived from the
Creator. The Right to Life,
Liberty, and the Pursuit of
Happiness. The Right to Life
includes the right to Self De-
fense. The Right to Liberty
includes the Right to Travel.
No man-made govern-
ment can rescind those rights.
Such rights cannot arbitrarily
be converted into privileges,
as when one is told they must
be licensed, must seek per-
mission from government in
order to travel from point A
to point B via the normal
travel conveyance of the day.
In years past, that
“normal travel conveyance of
the day” was the horse. To-
day it is the automobile.
In Common Law, a
crime is committed only
when one damages another
man or causes damage to
another man’s property, or
infringes upon another man’s
rights. It is the Law of Re-
sponsibility. If no Claim of
Damage to another person or
property, or infringement of
Rights exists, no crime exists.
That is Law.
Unfortunately, modern-
day man has been psycho-
logically conditioned to think
that victimless “Color of
Law” legislation creates a
crime when it does not. That
is the illusion of law that ex-
tracts power from the people
and bestows it upon bureau-
crats, legislators, judges,
prosecutors, and policemen
via a mountain of “corporate
policy” masquerading as law.
Such victimless offenses
are founded in contract law,
between corporate “persons.”
It is gained by government
through one’s consent, mis-
guided or otherwise. Today’s
modern-day courts are not
lawful Article III courts, but
operate as unconstitutional
Administrative Courts which
gain their power and control
via Maritime Law, adminis-
tering contract law. The aver-
age tax-paying citizen is com-
pletely unaware of the decep-
tive system they support with
their tax monies.
I am a living, breathing,
flesh-and-blood, sentient,
natural man. I am not a
“person,” a corporate entity
as defined in the vehicle code.
Therefore its rules and regula-
tions, merely corporate pol-
icy, have no jurisdiction over
me unless I waive my rights
or consent to them.
The limited Administra-
tive Court operating in Amer-
ica today is based in Maritime
Law, Contract law has no
jurisdiction over me unless I
grant it jurisdiction through
my consent or waiver of
Rights. The law states:
“There, every man is inde-
pendent of all laws, except
those prescribed by nature.
He is not bound by any insti-
tutions formed by his fellow-
men without his consent.”
(Cruden v Neale, 2 N.C. 338
(1796) 2 S.E. 70.)
It was after many years
of ignorance, some as a po-
lice sergeant carrying out the
training provided by the Cor-
porate State, that I under-
stood the significance of
binding oneself to a contract
which on its face was invalid
for lack of disclosure, that I
took the measure of rescind-
ing my license in 1999.
Since I am not engaged
in commerce since 1999
while using public roads, and
I use them solely for travel,
the Police Powers granted
government via the U.S. Con-
stitution to regulate commerce
and traffic do not apply to me
as a non-person in the ver-
nacular of legalese as long as
I do not commit a Common
Law crime.
I am a responsible man. I
understand Smith’s concerns
for the irresponsibility for the
drunk driver who took his
grandmother’s life, but even
Smith must see that a license
was irrelevant to the issue.
It is only when man will
act responsibly that our soci-
ety will change. That is a tall
order for those who have al-
lowed others to do their
“thinking” for them.
God bless Holger
From Ali Madjdi
Grants Pass
Holger Sommer inspired,
infuriated and confused a lot
of people in our county,
where in some ways
“Business as usual” has
meant back-room dealings for
more than a century.
He wasn’t always right,
or get the law right, or the
right law, or win his appeals,
but he was always there if
there was so much as a whiff
of chicanery in the air. On his
own time and dime.
A saint he wasn’t -- he
had a big ego -- but a hero he
was. A stickler for rule of
law, Holger was a thorn on
the side of legal tricksters.
Holger Sommer reminded us
all, that our county is still a
part of America, the land of
freedom and rule of law,
though at times it may seem
like Josephinistan. God bless
Holger.
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