tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64798333582290680602024-03-20T03:49:38.976-04:00Welcome! To BobKat's Lair ®...BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.comBlogger307125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-31900699214301030682022-10-29T15:30:00.003-04:002022-10-29T15:30:17.134-04:00"WHY PAY FOR THE MILK WHEN IT CAN BE GOT FOR FREE?" <p>Maybe more precisely, my father would have said, "why pay for it when you can get it for free?"</p><p>This quote is in reference to the so-called loose mores back in the 1970's; and I rather doubt that even today, 2022, that has changed overall. <span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">This quote in reference, directed at the woman a bit more than the man, although, since there are far more derogatory things to say to a woman, this one was actually directed towards 20-something me. It was for the benefit of my mother, who within hearing range when said, was meant to spur me on towards getting married. So for my father to say it was rather, <i>tongue and cheek</i>, as it's said, meaning, he had to pretend he was waving me on. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">All for what? To define acceptable, moral behavior being consenting adults? I will also admit that within reason my father was cheering me on... his reality of what was expected was pretty much in line with my mother. Accepted behavior, proper behavior, our code of behavior, rules of behavior and rules of conduct between women and men? What is morality? How does our morality today differ from that from a hundred years ago? </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc"></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">The title of this post is derived from actual experiences circa the 1970's. Lessons in proper etiquette between women and men. Sexual stereotypes. Morality.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">There is no easy or good way, from my perspective, to begin any such discussion... many persons already know what they firmly believe. And if the idea of "women's liberation" or "equal rights" is part of the discussion, where are we, truthfully, in regards to that kind of discussion? <br /></span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">The year is 2022 and our society likely believes that we as a civilization are living a modernistic lifestyle. But even if this is true it is, in my opinion, a tenuous grasp towards a wise, fair and enlightened kind of civilization.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">The title of this post comes from an experience my sister experienced/suffered back in 1985. I suppose it's easy to imagine but harder to practice, a sense of liberation and freedom, to choose how we wish or want to live our lives. I also think in large part that we as a society believe, not just that we are now civilized, but that we have also overcome much prejudice and discrimination between the sexes. </span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">All one has to do is turn on our TV to experience what we think of today as our modernized society. But before we do that... let's look back to the "way things were", so that we can figure out, maybe, exactly how far we think we have come.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">I think we've all heard about the term, "a shotgun marriage". When we do so we likely think of hillbillies... an illicit affair between a man and a woman that results in a pregnancy or even perhaps the simple discovery that a woman is found to be involved in having premarital sex or in being an adulteress. </span></span></p><p>Is it a sin to have sex before marriage?</p><div aria-level="3" class="LGOjhe" data-attrid="wa:/description" data-hveid="CAwQAA" role="heading"><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">To engage in premarital or extramarital <b>sex</b>, <b>before</b> or outside of <b>marriage</b>, is to <b>sin</b> in God's sight. That is precisely the point of Hebrews 13:4, a verse often referred to in this kind of discussion.</span></span></div><a data-ved="2ahUKEwjh_cDt8PPuAhWNY98KHUwZAewQFjADegQIChAD" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornication"><br /><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md"><span>Fornication - Wikipedia</span></h3><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md"><span> </span></h3><h3 class="LC20lb DKV0Md"><span>edited 10/22 <br /></span></h3></a>BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-49877357129568929402021-03-19T16:17:00.003-04:002021-09-10T11:32:17.266-04:00Brianna Maitland - Missing 17 Years - Important Updates<p>It's been 17 years today from when Brianna Maitland disappeared under very strange circumstances. Evidence in the case indicates that she was seen leaving work that evening at approx. 11:35 PM. She had been working at a restaurant/tavern named "the Black Lantern". Her car was discovered the morning of March 20th 2004 backed into the stone foundation of an old farmhouse - an abandoned farmhouse called "the Dutchburn Place". </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjohaBoLNuTz_2bxxI-keSTluXFqYJNp9tEa84BzHLEIKhawbZoflthHUCtvMigEYLl4eZMcIajxV7eYFGQ_kfiOaJnc5AujH9Gr50VZFid1WXn5jg9jKb6LtWy7L3F3m67sZ22t5XB8ho/s2048/DCP_4630.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjohaBoLNuTz_2bxxI-keSTluXFqYJNp9tEa84BzHLEIKhawbZoflthHUCtvMigEYLl4eZMcIajxV7eYFGQ_kfiOaJnc5AujH9Gr50VZFid1WXn5jg9jKb6LtWy7L3F3m67sZ22t5XB8ho/s320/DCP_4630.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Photos of the car's odd accident recorded that morning are courtesy of a group that went by the name, "The World Travelers". They were an out of state group of three persons, in Vermont that winter to ski. Early that morning they were driving by the Dutchburn Place and thought "how odd it was, with that car backed into that house". </p><p style="text-align: left;">Several months later, sometime in November of 2004, I was at work reading up on the news. I fell upon this story, of Brianna missing... and two things emerged in my mind, from reading the article.</p><p style="text-align: left;">1) That the police were considering her a runaway at the time, of "questionable character", a suspected drug abuser and drug dealer. The police at the time speculated that she had gotten herself into a bind with the local area drug distributors and had either run away or was the victim of foul play because of it. The former theory was the favorite at the time and the website the family had put together was full of speculations and accusations regarding the drug dealer angle; and 2) that her car keys were missing. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Briefly, I'm one of those people interested in mysteries and missing persons. At the time I was around 50 years old and I felt like I was in my prime. I found the phone number for the family, called, spoke to her father and volunteered my time, using a metal detector to try and fine her car-keys, maybe at "the scene of the crime". The keys it was finally revealed several years later were not found. </p><p style="text-align: left;">It was a cold day in November with a cold drizzly rain when I drove the more than 3 hours to get to that part of Vermont. Afterwards I sat with her father at a local tavern and discussed the disappearance. Her father asked for my help speaking with friends and the private investigator on the case at the time.</p><p style="text-align: left;">I have written previously about this case multiple times and one of the things I have tried to make clear is that my enthusiasm and excitement was short-lived... it is one thing to read mysteries and true crime stories of missing persons, but it's a whole different experience when actually being involved. The seriousness of the case combined with the despair and fear her family and friends felt was striking and when a case such as this is not solved, it is extremely heart-breaking and becomes very discouraging. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Whether I liked it or had wanted it, I became "an expert" on the case... beginning with posting on the website established by the family, steering the discussion away from Brianna the "drug lord" to something more realistic, that being that she is most likely a victim of foul play. For at least a year or more I drove up weekends to help the family search. Private Investigators changed and I changed with them. I became a guest writer on a blog called "Slamdunks" around 2008-09 writing some 13 posts and bringing out at least a few leads. I also began my own blog, this blog here around 2009. </p><p style="text-align: left;">The focus of this post, 17 years after the fact, is is to inform my readers that whatever timeline we thought we had completed and mapped over the years is incorrect. Many of the rumors seem to have built up over these many years. Many rumors. In fact so many rumors that this case takes on a whole life of it's own on top of what may have happened. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I would suggest that this post is not a minor post... again, whatever was believed to be the timeline at the time is now ruled to be incorrect... and I'm going to provide the "correct timeline"... as to who I am and how do I know this stuff, like I said, I got involved in this whether I liked it or not and I guess you'll just have to have faith that I have my sources.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Most notable 17 years later are the destructive sum totals of all the local rumors that have suffocated efforts to find out what happened. Even today we can't really discount or wave away any of the many rumors. Primarily that either one of two things occurred. That there existed a hateful lover's triangle at the time or that she owed drug money and was kidnapped and murdered. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Although both rumors have potential merit, neither one is actually considered all that likely or viable... Then again, hatred between "friends" over a love triangle has gained some additional traction. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Documentation recently surfaced suggesting that a fight 3 weeks before Brianna disappeared may have been more relevant than originally thought. However the documentations origin is unknown and it uses information which plagiarizes my own "Profile of Brianna" without giving me credit (it's not so much the fact that my documentation was used without my permission but the way in which the writer combined my info with his making it difficult to distinguish who the source of the information is). Basically it is my timeline expanded to include "information" from this other source. </p><p style="text-align: left;">This other (unidentified) source states that the fight Brianna was in three weeks prior was not a simple assault. The author claims to know that the girl Keallie (the name of this person is well documented and so is not slandering anyone)... was not solely responsible for the bruising Brianna suffered... that multiple persons were involved and rather than suffer a punch or two through a truck window, as she sat there, that instead she never made it to the truck, but rather, she was seized by the group, thrown to the ground and assaulted by many persons. </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY9D9_KBy_qw93HPqoxidrs3QAczAugOazKk-qKOCQi3RJ521qMQy5AWAWOgL8Mg21RAL0_6r-EEaSCQ06_VUtinKxRsfO1pG-eZnHCA9P51BLw6cCaDyNzmwffvVxamM6IEstFa8JLz0/s2048/20150208_180747.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY9D9_KBy_qw93HPqoxidrs3QAczAugOazKk-qKOCQi3RJ521qMQy5AWAWOgL8Mg21RAL0_6r-EEaSCQ06_VUtinKxRsfO1pG-eZnHCA9P51BLw6cCaDyNzmwffvVxamM6IEstFa8JLz0/s320/20150208_180747.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: left;">Alleged charges she filed with the VSP a week or so after the event were originally considered to be Brianna's own decision but it has now been suggested that her parents were instrumental in this decision. These charges as filed were witnessed by a friend who is said to have accompanied her, are significant as they became unenforceable when Brianna disappeared, providing motive to whoever was named in the report. As to who were the parties were, motivated to file the charges, it would make a difference in my opinion, between if Brianna decided to file charges on her own or she was of encouraged to do so. As there's no proof either way, my only thought is why would conspirators hold it against a teen-aged girl if she filed charges with the police based on the demands of her parents? Well, I guess they could if they didn't know the reason behind the charges, and for God's sake, look at the picture of Brianna's face again and tell me she didn't have every right to file charges? </p><p style="text-align: left;">The above describes one potential motive for Brianna's disappearance and again the theory has been widely disseminated and hashed about. </p><p style="text-align: left;"> What follows however may change everything.</p><p style="text-align: left;"> It is unlikely that many of those people Brianna were acquainted with even knew she was working at the Black Lantern that night. The possibility that Brianna's disappearance was the result of people she knew becomes more remote. Here again, from whatever source the rumors have evolved, whether it be the truth or simply small town hysteria, it complicates finding out what did happen to her. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Originally and for all these years I had been led to believe that Brianna had been working at the Black Lantern when the assault took place at what's called the "pallet factory". I had reported a rather simple setting... That Brianna had not been living in the Montgomery area until a short time prior to her disappearance. That from wherever she had been living that sometime in February of 2004 she "moved back into the area". That she had gotten her job at the Black Lantern and that there were actually two party's of significance that took place. </p><p style="text-align: left;">March 05, 2004 was the date at which Brianna got her job at the Black Lantern. The fight at the pallet factory, where it's now said she was held down and beaten up, was the week before - Saturday, February 28th, 2004. As you see above, her picture with her bruises, this is likely pretty much how she looked on the first Friday night she worked at the Black Lantern. </p><p style="text-align: left;">These dates create a major problem with the timeline as I have believed it all these years. For example, I had believed, that early on, the week before the pallet factory party, that she had been discovered by a childhood friend to be at a party held at the "Crossing" in Richford VT., a "wild, drug-fueled" party and that she had gone to her friend's house later and stayed the night. In the morning I had believed she had been picked up and brought to work at her job at the Black Lantern. </p><p style="text-align: left;">This is important as it would have been the way that her friends learned of her new job. Problem is, it would be another two weeks before her first night. She also didn't work days, so this information becomes inaccurate pretty quickly. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Brianna was beaten up at the pallet party a week before she started at the Black Lantern.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Two paychecks were found in Brianna's car - these were for work done March 05 and March 12. She had worked two Friday nights and on the third Friday she vanished. </p><p style="text-align: left;">The problem raised with this new timeline becomes the limited time by which her friends (and those whom she had angered) would know she worked Friday nights. Whoever these people are they would have had to know what time she started work and even more problematic what time she finished working. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Assuming she was targeted by a jealous person, that person, would have had to have had quite a commitment to causing Brianna harm, to have known she was working, to the waited untold time before Brianna left work. Then, if we are to believe that a jealous party followed her, caused her to backup off the road where she got hung-up that night, we have to consider the formidable effort and odds of such a coordinated effort to succeed.</p><p>What we know:</p><p>1) The widespread rumors, friends crying or claiming they saw her die, that she had been kidnapped, that she owned a major debt in drug money makes whatever happened to Brianna nearly impossible to figure out... that there are those friends who know things about the case and they are not telling, if for no other reason than they are afraid... small town hysteria could be the cause of many of the rumors. One rumor for example is one where after work that night she goes to a party house and overdoses... her friends see her die, panic and dispose of her. </p><p>The biggest problem with this rumor is that any friends alleged to have been involved at the time or especially today, with an overdose, are not criminally liable for her death. Even considering that they panicked and then buried her, the statute of limitations for illegal body disposal are expired. There is absolutely no consequences now in 2021 for any friend or person to come forwards and disclose any truth. If there was an accident, which is what the primary theme here is, that whatever happened was an accident. If this is true, please come forwards because there is no liability now to disclosing the truth.</p><p>Under the circumstances, given the updated timeline, a crime of opportunity, a stranger abduction becomes a more likely possibility. There are leads, for many possibilities. A jealous rival for example, not off the table but if so, why such a strange abduction... ? ... why run her off the road at the Dutchburn Place? Why not abduct her where she was living at the time? </p><p>We are burdened by all the rumors... burdened by confessions... by lies... her friends these days sounding so sympathetic and committed to the task, yet these friends seem to still embrace a lot of the misinformation that has been spewed forth since the beginning.</p><p>Brianna's disappearance likely, in my opinion, should have been solved soon after it happened... we now have a new timeline so the next step is getting those "in the know" to talk. And unless you're talking about 1st or 2nd degree murder, most any crime committed at the time is well beyond any statute of limitations.</p><p>Please let's stop the hurt and let's bring Brianna home. We need all her friends to come forwards and explain away all the lies and rumors. Do people really want to live out their lives knowing what they know about Brianna, leaving the family in pain, when those in the know don't even have a need for fear to come forwards. It's been 17 years.<br /></p>BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-20542370649292008812021-02-05T16:14:00.004-05:002021-02-05T16:15:04.342-05:00Amazon.com Hidden Agenda<p> Whether it's E-Bay or Amazon, the two largest online retailers, they have problems with providing for their clients.</p><p>E-Bay... my last post was the story of how a perfectly good coin was rejected. It was determined by E-Bay that the coin was a copy or counterfeit and not listed as such. Considering it's a legitimate coin listing it as a copy or counterfeit is not an option. Their suggestion is to get it professionally grade. However, from the client/consumer POV doing so is not cost effective. It's not! </p><p>It's expensive to get a coin graded - a membership fee is required. Depending on the value of the coin this may be prohibitive. So what if, E-Bay accuses a person of posting a "bogus something"? Well, no criminal charges - gee thanks... but that's it for the item... find someplace else to sell it. </p><p>That someplace else is not a simple option within our society of monopolies. Whether it's Walmart, Amazon or E-bay, we are at their mercy.</p><p>My newest issue or concern... this time with Amazon.</p><p>Please understand... about me... I'm 66 with cancer that is in remission. Having cancer is a lifesaver but that's beside the point. The point is the change a person goes through finding out they have cancer and what they have to endure to be in remission. It changes a person.</p><p>I need to sell stuff I own like books. Old comics. Graphic novels. All collected over the past 45 years. Why? Having cancer is a good indicator one will die... even if in remission, one knows the end will come.</p><p>Apparently several years ago I had a seller account on Amazon. Apparently the account expired. Well, it did expire. Now I want to start it up again. I get an error about my account when I try to do that. "Account already exists - setup a new one."</p><p>Setting up a new one requires a change of address! There are three things, okay, maybe four, that define legally who one is. They are address, phone #, e-mail address and of course social security number. Recently I needed to update my phone # with my bank. They consider that a threat to a persons identity and as such the process to change it is pretty involved.</p><p>Amazon is now telling me that because my seller account has expired, I will need to setup a new seller account under a different e-mail address. I explained to them that my e-mail address is me, part of my identity. Too bad they said... you'll need to provide a new e-mail address. I refused. Which screws ME! But I will not submit to validation as a human being by changing any of the four primary criteria about myself. </p><p>They are: 1) physical address 2) phone # 3) e-mail address 4) social security number</p>BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-46310449891446121412021-01-08T13:57:00.003-05:002021-01-08T13:57:28.009-05:00How to identify a replica or copy of a coin - in this case a San Diego Pacific Exibition commemorative coin; or how to avoid listing an authentic coin on E-Bay that E-Bay incorrectly determines is a copy or replica.<p>In this post I am going to share an experience I had when listing a commemorative coin for sale on E-Bay. The coin was de-listed/removed when E-Bay determined it was a replica or a copy of a coin. They don't prohibit the sale of a replica or copy of a coin but when listed it must be described as such. And technically, selling a coin that is a copy or replica without disclosing it as such is fraud, something which is against the law. <br /></p><p>In this case the coin was authentic. So what went wrong? Could I call them to clear up any misunderstanding and to allow me to re-list the coin?</p><p>I received an e-mail shortly after the listing went live informing me of their decision and with the following information:</p><p><i>"We
had to remove your listing because it didn’t follow our Replica coins
and currency policy. Replica currency that follows our rules can be
listed on eBay, but replica coins and counterfeit currency are not
allowed."</i></p><p><i> </i><b>What is their policy?</b><i><br /></i></p><p><i>- Only one-sided replica paper currency that follows these rules can be listed:<br />-- Size is less than 75% or greater than 150% of the genuine currency<br />-- The listing includes a photo of the actual replica paper currency being sold<br />-- The listing includes the word “replica” in the title and description<br />- Replica coins are not allowed<br />- Counterfeit or altered coins and currency aren't not allowed, nor is equipment designed to make them</i></p><p><i> </i><b>What happens next?</b> </p><p><i> "You can't relist items we've ended. Please ensure your current and future listings follow this policy."</i></p><p><b>What did happen next? </b><br /></p><p>I called customer service and I was told,<i> "no you cannot re-list the coin. In order to re-list the coin you must have it professionally graded."</i><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i>*****</i></p><p style="text-align: left;">Not good news. The coin in question wasn't that valuable. In MS65 it would be worth about $140.To get the coin professionally graded by PCGS or NGC would be costing more than I could earn selling it. Part of the cost is an annual membership before I could submit the coin. After that is a cost per coin. In my case that's not particularly a bad thing as I have plenty of other coins that I could submit. Getting a coin graded is a good way to validate the authenticity of the coins. However, my goal was not to go to all that trouble. My goal was to simply sell off what coins I have,<i> as is</i>.</p><p style="text-align: left;">It should be noted that I have been a member of E-Bay since November 2003 without any negative feedback.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>What went wrong?</b> Why did E-Bay determine that my listing was <i>fraudulent</i>? </p><p style="text-align: left;">I consider myself to be very knowledgeable when it comes to identifying coins and knowing whether they are authentic. So of course I was upset when they determined I had posted a <i>fraudulent listing</i>. I argued with the customer service rep. I told them to <i>arrest me then</i>, if they were going to accuse me of of committing fraud. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was wrong and I assured them, to no avail, that the coin was authentic and that they were wrong.</p><p style="text-align: left;">After I hung up the phone, got over being angry and offended, I calmed down and proceeded to figure out what went wrong. I first considered my listing, the words I used to describe the coin. I found nothing wrong there. The coin is in exceptionally good condition and though not a professional grader I would consider it to be MS 65 or better. It is actually quite flawless and that is what really confused me. Did it look so great that it was too hard to believe it was authentic? I mulled that idea over a bit and then decided that was a ridiculous thought. So what then?</p><p style="text-align: left;">When taking photos of things to sell I have several options. I will use a scanner - a flat screen scanner which will give me a resolution of 1200 dpi or higher and I generally will use 600 dpi which, if the coin isn't slabbed (encased in plastic) and lays flat, will render the coin in exceptionally good detail. Or I will use a digital camera - my being 20 megapixels; or I use a USB digital microscope. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Here are the images of the coin I listed taken with my USB digital microscope:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8poRdcOWxQcPhJjmfQhz68aPjQKfi0aOwUCxc7Yvd0VqABFv2gTgiPd_KzJO3x1E_2zu9IckE8sYEsugsi20rufV96qmzpyL7s6cGgNIRHyxvosycLEvOOEm7L09nrsBOVxSsV4irUYk/s640/1936-D+San+Diego+OBV_Single+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8poRdcOWxQcPhJjmfQhz68aPjQKfi0aOwUCxc7Yvd0VqABFv2gTgiPd_KzJO3x1E_2zu9IckE8sYEsugsi20rufV96qmzpyL7s6cGgNIRHyxvosycLEvOOEm7L09nrsBOVxSsV4irUYk/s320/1936-D+San+Diego+OBV_Single+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvJoGynJoG-wIyfnDgPnm0h-EpYhHHFnhyphenhyphenREpM4zmzgO4z-t6c8DUBZzqXk7LbXs4Bgek5geew-MPbENo5IPz-kwAEdpza6fqzbZCOoWenVDe82YMFNSMmaIbp-LpV-q9aPZmYsRP7p5g/s640/1936-D+San+Diego+REV_Single.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvJoGynJoG-wIyfnDgPnm0h-EpYhHHFnhyphenhyphenREpM4zmzgO4z-t6c8DUBZzqXk7LbXs4Bgek5geew-MPbENo5IPz-kwAEdpza6fqzbZCOoWenVDe82YMFNSMmaIbp-LpV-q9aPZmYsRP7p5g/s320/1936-D+San+Diego+REV_Single.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;">They look pretty good, don't they? Too good to be true?<br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Here are two images of similar coins, one stamped as a copy and one that is listed as a "restrike". Technically a coin that is a <i>restrike </i>is a coin that was restruck by a government mint for whatever reason it happened; it is a <i>tricky way</i> to describe a coin as having been created as a copy or replica after the fact, as a <i>restrike</i> of a legally minted coin.</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-S6gkwu3Tbb56jlof-2P2ttjLfcjBrb6DpBHq380PLoU0OBs-43Cw_5PP9dBeOvsdWzTe5WXZZtqBeetXkUdsvorCoD6AbrICVMFOKhdBYph1ko2nEMk1-PFc1gXuamjraGDaGBhOHbo/s1080/San+Diego+Commemorative+-+COPY.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1069" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-S6gkwu3Tbb56jlof-2P2ttjLfcjBrb6DpBHq380PLoU0OBs-43Cw_5PP9dBeOvsdWzTe5WXZZtqBeetXkUdsvorCoD6AbrICVMFOKhdBYph1ko2nEMk1-PFc1gXuamjraGDaGBhOHbo/s320/San+Diego+Commemorative+-+COPY.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>STAMPED "COPY"<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigyr0Jud_FIdQiCCfkDgsnz76XCjvgee0SKCZVO5U7FlBiPoBQW93lI9QLFma_roI9lJCxKgoHRDTHA060GZv9fcf39W9sQWhfIIfXU2FbLK4zcyD_tLJ5_IW9unT-hw4fZsXDktJu8XM/s1080/San+Diego+Commemorative+restrike+-+copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1069" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigyr0Jud_FIdQiCCfkDgsnz76XCjvgee0SKCZVO5U7FlBiPoBQW93lI9QLFma_roI9lJCxKgoHRDTHA060GZv9fcf39W9sQWhfIIfXU2FbLK4zcyD_tLJ5_IW9unT-hw4fZsXDktJu8XM/s320/San+Diego+Commemorative+restrike+-+copy.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>RESTRIKE<br /> <br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">I was confused. To make things even more difficult to understand, I didn't simply post the two images of my coin; I posted the following close-up images, again using my USB digital microscope.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRUg7WL-PLjoLsyireROsJQS30KpCy7UhOWH0qhTx3iueg6oSQ7GwxlrBeOR8xzMrZWpo3gr7MjgwzlkVZScRmajZNu_kc5QcAX0XoqQdoXDdH4LLwmQxvTyzwJhRGs0Hm33MfDtGRhk8/s640/1936-D+San+Diego+OBV_CU3_Single.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRUg7WL-PLjoLsyireROsJQS30KpCy7UhOWH0qhTx3iueg6oSQ7GwxlrBeOR8xzMrZWpo3gr7MjgwzlkVZScRmajZNu_kc5QcAX0XoqQdoXDdH4LLwmQxvTyzwJhRGs0Hm33MfDtGRhk8/s320/1936-D+San+Diego+OBV_CU3_Single.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Q3OEH3NKh4c_H5gmMd_E-FroZmAbNH_ZsRAbtFQcmM0anlWf8Tp4wY4FET2AF0tC0orS2pu16LNq6OqmGFGRnbxx-zQnfgOdQFbU5bUci3umH3ta4dS4rEe7e2-3Ej1YzgvYBsXFc5A/s640/1936-D+San+Diego+OBV_Single.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Q3OEH3NKh4c_H5gmMd_E-FroZmAbNH_ZsRAbtFQcmM0anlWf8Tp4wY4FET2AF0tC0orS2pu16LNq6OqmGFGRnbxx-zQnfgOdQFbU5bUci3umH3ta4dS4rEe7e2-3Ej1YzgvYBsXFc5A/s320/1936-D+San+Diego+OBV_Single.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpLDzgecm8TsSp_yD4xlhIIviVYQTmEPeA6Gr9yE_lZw6Bu1F-VN6KVqBy-peuTbZgF_zJOP7RYjZ-q1vlccIF20iUDR8t7rW8u3mKBeX6XSLhFFV6knDpznJH2b7tKzQn7RBwWDxBpU/s640/1936-D+San+Diego+REV_CU1_Single.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJpLDzgecm8TsSp_yD4xlhIIviVYQTmEPeA6Gr9yE_lZw6Bu1F-VN6KVqBy-peuTbZgF_zJOP7RYjZ-q1vlccIF20iUDR8t7rW8u3mKBeX6XSLhFFV6knDpznJH2b7tKzQn7RBwWDxBpU/s320/1936-D+San+Diego+REV_CU1_Single.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdSvHcsiyicS3nWW2aTGN49W6kIJL20T8nh-qOI9Kls6YJwJLkS_lqsNkfgV0nwzlafBzCSf61i16AUlZJ-44o52FjsCOpMDQNuQqKjNEAhJSxbYKYRvK3H99faSiiKZ56VHoOgDgwNE/s640/1936-D+San+Diego+REV_CU2_Single.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdSvHcsiyicS3nWW2aTGN49W6kIJL20T8nh-qOI9Kls6YJwJLkS_lqsNkfgV0nwzlafBzCSf61i16AUlZJ-44o52FjsCOpMDQNuQqKjNEAhJSxbYKYRvK3H99faSiiKZ56VHoOgDgwNE/s320/1936-D+San+Diego+REV_CU2_Single.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">CLOSE-UP PHOTOS of AUTHENTIC COIN</p><p style="text-align: left;">The more I compared the images the more dumbfounded and annoyed I became with E-Bay. I was even more annoyed as E-Bay flat-out offered no other options with regards to validating my claim. It wasn't until I decided to use my flat-screen scanner at 600 dpi that I realized what the problem was. Compare the following images to the ones I took with my microscope and you will see, I believe, that to E-Bay my previous images looked fake. Again, the images are not fake, but simply put, unexpected as most images of coins posted are done using a flat-screen scanner or camera, though when considering that older digital cameras may have been rendered at less than 10 megapixels, or even less than 5 megapixels, how fake could the ones using the microscope really appear?<br /><br />You can be the judge of that I suppose. The images are of the same coin I was trying to sell and personally although they do appear to be strikingly different, I do believe E-Bay is on drugs! I think the problem is that those taken with the digital microscope look, well, too shiny. 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I was born in 1954 at the height of nuclear testing, the cold war, civil rights reforms, McCarthyism and especially during the age of abundance and entitlement for the (artificial) middle class, I consider myself not just fortunate, but gifted too, born into a reasonably prosperous family. How much I wouldn't know otherwise, today, the history from the 50's, 60's and 70's... the collision that in my opinion has changed the world of several million years into something else, something many consider the "modern age of civilization".<br />
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So, 1954 is actually the age at which a middle class came to be. Prior to that, including during WWII, there was no middle class, only the wealthy, the "well to do" and the poor. There were distinct differences between them.<br />
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The wealthy were extraordinarily wealthy in general and quite distinct from the well to do. The wealthy generally had ancestry, wealthy ancestry with roots in big business. The well to do got lucky, cashing in on opportunities but without any family legacies. And the poor... not only were they numerous but they deserved to be where they were - poor. That is how it always was...<br />
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There was a great deal of "pride"... that to be "well to do" meant proof of living a life of virtue, better yet if one was wealthy. God rewarded the well to do and the wealthy... provided for them, this based on the perceived notion that they were devoutly worshiping God. God frowned upon the poor as there was a reason for it... they were undeserving. They were poor for good reason. To be something of a success meant being good in the eyes of God. Religion was everything, even into the 1960's.<br />
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I consider myself hugely grateful I was born in 1954. I almost consider it proof that things are not as they seem and there is a bizarre reason why I came to be in 1954. But let's ignore that for now.<br />
After WWII and because of it, America became the world's Superpower. We had the modern factories, the experts, the motivations.The world was about to go through it's first massive reformation.<br />
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Two World Wars provided the incentive for extreme product development and experimentation. The United States with it relatively new infrastructure was ideally poised to accommodate extremes the world may encounter. WWI was only the beginning... a war we didn't want to involve ourselves in, but ultimately had to. WWII on the other hand, we initially saw ourselves as peace-makers, believed even as warplanes from Japan were approaching Pearl harbor, that we we in the business of world-peace.<br />
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After the horrors of WWI this was to be expected. The world had been brought order. Germany was punished. Never again would the world experience such an atrocity, such a devastating loss or life at the hands of a madman.<br />
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But such did happen, WWII happened. The United States was involved from the start and it produced extraordinary obligation, involvement, work and patriotism as to slap and nearly knock the US unconscious, only to have the US rally and crush the opposition, the enemy, the evil with countries it considered allies.<br />
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The result was the origin of the age of entitlement, the origin of suburbia and term Middle Class.... war hero's home to celebrate victory, to enjoy being the victors (unlike when soldiers returned from Viet Nam) amidst factories and businesses that evolved to confront the needs of a world war that was a direct threat to this country!<br />
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My parents went through the Great depression, food lines, desperation and fear of the future. Then came WWII. My dad was approximately 7 years old then. More rationing ensued... women went to work at factories and businesses. Ironically, they had no choice as all the eligible men were overseas and fighting Nazi's or Japs, and the women had to man the factories.<br />
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Women of course at the time were considered unable to do what they were doing, however such prejudice and misunderstanding was put aside... and how odd... women succeeded and some never left the workforce, but overall, many got swept up in the New Age of Suburbia...<br />
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Suburbia is a huge understatement. Or poorly defines the times.<br />
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Woman had, prior to WWII, achieved the right to vote, had made some gains into being on "equal terms" with male counterparts, to work otherwise male jobs, yet in general Victorian mores still ruled.<br />
The New Suburbia provided the perfect balance between returning war vets and their factory forced women... technological improvements made suburban sprawls possible; social mores required Victorian rights of passage, where woman marries man and sells her soul in the process.<br />
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But all of this was great!! Really, really great. There seemed to be a limitless amount of resources and the expertise to put them in the American Suburban home. Not only to put them there but also the people to enjoy it all. This was the Middle-Class. Husbands by the millions got great jobs, often without having any college experience. These men had wives that produced 2.5 children per suburban household, sent those children to public schools, brought them in for regular checkups, had good food on the table, a future and essentially paved the way to America being Great.<br />
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Of course you had to tow the line, avoid being too smart, like reading "weird, anti-American" news or books, seeming to be open to liberal, socialistic, communistic views or simply being accused by your neighbor who really wants to seduce or rape your wife, that you are a communist, and as such, being simply strange or subversive meant you were going to jail or your life was in ruins.<br />
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But let's get back to the new Suburbia... "Leave it to Beaver", Dennis the Menace", "Lassie"... good "wholesome television.<br />
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What's really weird is that didn't come about until many year after I was born. There was no TV when I was born. There were electric refrigerators, but to my knowledge no such washer/dryers, dish washers, etc.<br />
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We got milk delivered to our milk-box outdoors, milk in bottles with cream on top, mail delivered twice a day including Saturdays. Life was viewed differently to, and again some of this I only came to understand when I was older... but i remember what I do. Electrocutions were for some odd reason a common reason for death. But we had Polio, smallpox, Scarlet fever, leprosy... i recall walking by houses with notices on the doors that the house was under quarantine.<br />
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Still, much of the environment was wonderful... lots of woods, and I lived in a city of 30,000, creeks, areas to bike, to hunt to explore. All gone now - developed.<br />
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I remember, my elementary school had a field - to the east I think, where first there was a baseball field, then a football field. A cross street divided the end of the football field from woods. The woods were thick with a creek passing through it. There were roads on each side but they were quite a ways apart. As a child until 10 at least I or some friends would explore these woods that led into a deeper woods.<br />
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The town razed the whole woods and creek across the street from the football field where I grew up. Left a huge grassy divider with no creek. To the south where there were thousands of acres of wooded hill, all the was razed and developed too.<br />
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The woods that began a half mile from my grandmother's house were razed, thousands of acres again.<br />
The hard part to share is not just the environment, but what it was like to be born in the age when the "Great Age" began. The age referred to when politicians say "Let's make American Great Again".<br />
As long as your family was middle class you basically had everything. You even got an allowance. You lived in a nice house and life was not only pretty simple, but especially "normal".<br />
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I could leave at 7 AM and come home before dark, alone. I wasn't always asked where was I going, and this was quite normal. I spent a lot of time exploring the woods, but also exploring town. There were no supermarkets, superstores, fast food restaurants then. It was a town, with hard earned and often inherited businesses.<br />
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I often took a bus... and lets say IMPORTANT NOTE: this is all from before I was 10, which would have been late 1964.<br />
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I loved the coin stores, which usually had gizmos like tiny cameras... I bought a couple with film a quarter inch wide but never used it. But I saw some great old coins for sale, especially gold coins often for $10 or so.<br />
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You could get a lot of candy for a dime.<br />
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Great times to live - if you've gotten this far with my dissertation. But in hindsight, deplorable years... except if you happen to be the kid, until you reach 18.<br />
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I turned 18 in 1972. The draft for the Vietnam war ended 3 days before my 18th birthday. Simple trivia. Although with a draft lottery in place and my number being sweet 16 I was sure to have been drafted to fight in Indonesia., as Vietnam had somewhat ended.<br />
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These are great times to be alive. Remember, I was born and there was no TV. Medicine was on the verge, but not quite there for some astounding developments. Civil Rights was big news, considering the rights of minorities and what it means to be a minority, to be Black, a negro back then. Magazine, newspaper subscriptions to "keep up with the news", which now I wish I never had.<br />
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I was bullied as a child... fuck that...I get bullied now and I stand up for myself. The difference is that as a kid you don't necessarily know that or how to do it. In fact, it's a life-long lesson. To me, that's a blow to reincarnation, getting it right the next time, as I doubt I will remember I need to be assertive and as much in their face as they are mine.<br />
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Such technology today, making it possible to play awesome, realistic computer games, watch awesome TV and movies. Have knowledge of the world at my finger tips when for most of my youth and older a library was where I had to go.<br />
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But still, how fortunate I've been to see myself go from milk at the door to milk through the internet.<br />
None of the latter is why I just shared my story...<br />
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I'm retired, I like to write... soon I may be dead and the only thing left behind are these words... courtesy of technology in the 21st century.<br />
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What I really would like to address here is "cruelty to animals". That is, if I knew where to start. Perhaps the religious believe that humans, man, possess dominance over wild-life, not to mention, women, Blacks, and again, the poor.<br />
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Extinctions of wildlife. Extreme climate change.<br />
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Climate change which affects us all. Which seem to be shunned by the so called, intelligent people.<br />
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Cruelty to animals... decimating their natural environment. The Monarch butterfly, so pretty, is near extinction... did you know that? It migrates to the Amazon forests in South America, or at least it tries now - much of it's habitat has or is being destroyed.<br />
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We can put information at our fingertips, a man on the Moon and soon, Mars, yet we let our world be destroyed and die. We are... some have compared humans to parasites, and I believe in many ways that is true.<br />
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Which is odd as humans can pretty much become super-hero's if they really want to, starting with sane solutions to humanities future.</div>
BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-33536053479469521292020-05-12T17:29:00.003-04:002020-05-12T17:29:55.326-04:00WELCOME ALL TO 2020 :)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Greetings...<br />
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For those wondering why the long duration since my last post I can answer that.<br /><br />In January 2019 I was diagnosed with cancer; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Mine was pretty dire, however I responded to chemo and currently I am in total remission.<br />
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Major chemo lasted between Feb. 2019 to July 2019. I went on disability from work, and then and now am on SSDI.<br />
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My life has changed.<br />
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Adding to the "mess" we now have the COVD pandemic. Due to ongoing maintenance chemo I am particularly at risk. I'm restricted to self-isolation for who knows how long.<br />
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The purpose of this post is just to let you know I'm still here and plan to post more soon.<br />
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These are trying times. Hope you look out for your friends and neighbors...<br />
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BobKat<br />
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BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-43173596357913206112019-03-13T07:55:00.000-04:002021-09-10T11:33:10.918-04:00BRIANNA MAITLAND - MISSING 15 YEARS - THE "SYMPATHIZER'S" THEORY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
15 years have passed since Brianna Maitland, 17 years old, vanished under mysterious circumstances on the night of March 19, 2004, in Montgomery Vermont. She had been working at a nearby restaurant until about 11:30 that night when she'd left to go home (she'd left her housemate a note, earlier that day, saying she'd be home after work). Her car was found the next morning crashed into the side of an old, abandoned farmhouse. The following pictures exist thanks to the curious eyes of three visitors to the area who had been skiing, were driving by the house around 7 AM and saw the car and thought it looked very unusual.<br />
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The police had seen the car also, with varied accounts of when that was. In the early morning hours a news-crew took photos and collected video of the scene. The video showed the driver's side of the car; of interest is the fact that early (and for a couple of years) on the family wasn't aware that video existed of that side of the car.<br />
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The police returned and and did a cursory inspection of the scene, noting the license plate (registered to Brianna's mother), and had the car towed to a garage, where it sat for a few days. The police did not follow up with the registered owner of the car, although their theory at the time was said to have been, that the driver was drunk, spun off the road into the farmhouse. </div>
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That was the theory, but the scenes above seemed not to look anything like that of a drunk driver having an accident, in my opinion and that of others.</div>
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My role in all of this was unexpected and I generally recount this as people like to know how I got involved in all of this and how I know what I know. </div>
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I recall it was November of that year that I was at work over a hundred miles away, browsing the news on the internet, when I saw her story. The police at the time had chalked up Brianna's disappearance as drug related, strongly suggesting Brianna was fine and had run away. They described her to be of "questionable character" which upset me - bit premature to state that I felt. And why had police jumped so eagerly to a theory that it was drug related? Nothing in the article suggested such a thing and a young woman was missing. Her car keys were missing.</div>
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I looked up her parent's phone number and called, something I'd never done before. I offered my services to try to find those keys. With over twenty years experience metal detecting (as a hobby), I offered to see if I could find the car keys, which I never did. However, after my search ended on that cold, rainy day, her father invited me to a local tavern where we could sit down and talk, have something to eat and drink. Brianna's father, encouraged by my communication skills asked me if I would talk to her people, like her friends, persons who felt they had information, and work with a PI/profiler from Texas. I was 50 years old at the time.<br />
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Of all the "True Crime" cases I'd ever read about this missing person case was the most bizarre and convoluted ever. One of the worst aspects were the rumors that spread almost immediately, of which I've written about in previous posts. They all mostly involved the people who knew Brianna, some of whom were friends. One such rumor was a confession made to one of Brianna's friends stating that "he had watched the life drain out of Brianna". The person was questioned and I was told denied ever saying it. One can watch the interview with Brianna's friend, Katie Manning, here on CrawlSpace:<br />
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=tightropetb&p=brianna+maitland+youtube+crawlspace#id=1&vid=b5502cf73ca9dcd19a7713b5ee4baf2f&action=view<br />
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Chloe, CrawlSpaces' psychological profiler, also has a Blog I would highly recommend:<br />
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In my last post about Brianna which you can find here: https://bobkatlair.blogspot.com/2018/03/ I pose and review various theories, some of them are my own. It's no surprise that one of the earliest theories focused on a friend of Brianna's, a girl named Kealie, who grew upset with Brianna while at a party three weeks earlier. Apparently Brianna was flirting with her boyfriend. The consequence of which was that as Brianna left with her ex-boyfriend James, Kealie followed her out into the parking lot and beat her up pretty bad - Brianna didn't fight back and her explanation was that "Kealie was a friend".<br />
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It was little wonder that Kealie became a person of interest undergoing intense interrogation and scrutiny; in addition Brianna had gone with a friend to the police to file charges against Keallie, something that in this post - "The Sympathizer's Theory", has significant importance. Eventually police allegedly clear Keallie from having any involvement.</div>
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My theory suggests we paid far too much attention on Kealie while ignoring others present at the party. For Kealie's part, yeah she beat Brianna up pretty badly. She admits that and showed remorse. It's others that were at the party that night that concern me. Did one or more of them feel Brianna deserved it?</div>
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Based on interviews with her friends it was clear Brianna was actually the "new girl in town". Yes she had grown up in the area, however she went to a school that didn't include many of the people she would befriend in 2004. Brianna changed high schools near her senior year and began to meet some of these people. She met more people after moving out of her parent's house, moving closer to Montgomery VT. However, though she had time to date the boyfriend she was with when the fight happened, she broke up with him and for a short time moved away from the area. </div>
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Weeks before she disappeared, and shortly before the fight she moved again, got the job at the Black Lantern restaurant in Montgomery VT. She was back! And it would turn out this would make some people unhappy. Brianna thought she finally found a life, with friends after being isolated as she saw it for so long. That new life included sex, drugs, rock & roll, literally. Along with marijuana, which Brianna was not shy to admit she loved, there were harder drugs, like crack cocaine. Information varies as to just how involved she became with these harder drugs, however it may have provided a medium for what ultimately happened to her. That and the fact that in a small town, relationships and friendships could change often, resulting in feelings of resentment and jealousy. As a result there were those who likely didn't much like Brianna.</div>
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Persons who likely were at the party three weeks previously when Kealie beat up Brianna. Of those persons there were those who likely sided with Brianna, and those who didn't. Perhaps those who didn't were annoyed that Brianna didn't lift a finger to defend herself. To them it may have been just one more thing that annoyed them about Brianna. I call these person(s) "the sympathizers", who sided with Keallie.</div>
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It's a sad fact that where there are serious drugs being passed around, people are paranoid. Anyone involved is expected to avoid the police - for any reason. Brianna violated this unwritten rule by filing charges against Keallie, which it's likely certain persons found out about before she disappeared. As the saying goes, "a rat is a rat". It's my theory, person(s) at the party three weeks earlier felt motive enough to cause Brianna's disappearance.</div>
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I remember back in the 1960's being with my grandmother who at the time must have been in her 50's; a Beatles song was playing and she was freaking out - " Crazy", she said. " What's wrong with the younger generation"?<br />
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I'm 64 and to this day I have no idea why the Beatles freaked out my grandmother. If it was their long hair it wasn't even long in the early 1960's, and the music, was it that crazy?<br />
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Fast-forwards to 2018...<br />
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1) A 20 year old goes semi-naked to a pancake house and shoots several people dead. Why? As this person put it, he was " involuntarily celibate". Meaning he wasn't able to find a person who wanted to have sex with him. Sorry guy, but that's not a benefit without a price - it's more like magic.<br />
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2) Another shooting - the person claimed he wanted to go to jail. Yeah, so the guy shot people?? Well, I guess that's not too strange as we all know the story of the person that just wanted to feel the life drain out of another person. Well, the feelings count, but are misplaced; at least unlike poachers killing off elephants, rhinos and other endangered animals, who have zero feeling, Mr. or Ms. drain the life had an orgasm... much like rape, when you feel you're involuntarily celibate, only in this case you have a god-complex. Ever heard of respect for others?<br />
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3) Serial killer says - "I didn't kill people, I eradicated losers that only wanted drugs, marijuana, and to me that is sick, so I killed them. Ended their suffering".<br />
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More god complex. Like President Trump and his constant attacks on the media and "FAKE NEWS".<br />
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Just curious Mr Trump... what sort of news would you prefer? Separating immigrant children from their parents? How about executing all immigrants because to you they are all terrorists and that is the FAKE NEWS you are spreading that is riling up the rednecks and skin-heads. Yeah, you have quite the sense of reality and good luck to you, not. As you said, you have the money and the power... "I can do anything I want with any woman". Oh, and now an Executive Order eliminating the 14th Amendment. Hey, what a guy? What planet are you from??<br />
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4) Adolescents concoct a plan to arm themselves and go in Rambo style to shoot as many people as they can.<br />
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5) Man is upset that his girlfriend dumped him so he uses a motor vehicle to mow down as many people as he can along sidewalks.<br />
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6) Police shoot unarmed civilians and claim self-defence. The victims are Black.<br />
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Meanwhile our planet is dying. We're currently experiencing the 6th Great Mass Extinction event... 60% of animal diversity has died out since only 1970. Makes me sad as the 1970's were good years and at the time we could have created the structures to contain and prevent global warming, but we didn't. Corporations bought off the politicians with fake stories - their own FAKE NEWS.<br />
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It's not limited to the extinction of mammals which is expected to be around an 80% loss - we're nearly there and the end will come quickly... though maybe 100 years is a FAKE estimate.<br />
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Storms, typhoons and hurricanes are getting worse. Fact or Fake news?<br />
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The planet is changing for the worse due to human behavior. Fact or Fake News.<br />
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It's about the planet itself, all of life and how disrespectful so many people are, myself included, I grew up to take advantage of my God given right to dominate the planet, and enslave myself to the system to survive. Wow... all that FAKE NEWS out of Washington sans Jimmy Carter, I admit, it was effective. Between Watergate, the Kent State Massacre, the insane War on Drugs that actually may have worked if Nixon hadn't ignored the recommendations of his Blue Ribbon Committee on Drugs, aka the Shaffer Committee. But he did. He had his own agenda.<br />
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Deforestation, the death of the oceans, coral, plastic pollution.<br />
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Years ago I visited Ackley PA. Fossil hunting. 100,000 years ago or so, +or - 10 million years, the ocean extended to South Dakota. Likely prior to the Ice Age. All that water eventually got sucked up into the Ice age or later in glaciers. And now we are releasing it. Killing the planet. Our attention diverted to an immigrant caravan. Yeah...while President Trump dances around like a naked clown.<br />
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Death laughs on my shoulder while my angel taunts me from my other shoulder. Seriously people... the world is in danger. The recent violence shouldn't be a surprise. More than ever people grow up institutionalized in schools and a society that over protects and controls it's children. I know that is true as it was different growing up in the 1950's. I and many others like me survived. We formed our own baseball and football teems. We went off into the world and rode our bikes anywhere we chose.<br />
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We were controlled even then, but not like today. It is very likely everything about you and your children are known to the state you live in. All this while the planet dies.<br />
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Brianna Maitland, from Montgomery Vermont, was 17 years of age and disappeared under mysterious circumstances, a bizarre accident, on the night of March 19, 2004. The time is estimated to have been around 11:35 PM. Something happened at an old abandoned farmhouse called the Dutchburn Place as Brianna was driving home from work that night.<br />
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Recently I was contacted by a co-host of a show called <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/podcasts-from-the-past/crawlspace">Crawlspace</a>, asking for an open dialogue regarding Brianna's disappearance. I have published numerous posts about Brianna which the co-host referenced, making me something of a expert. </div>
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In late fall of 2004 I was at work and was browsing the news and saw the story. There were two things that caught my attention: 1) the fact that VSP (Vermont State Police) considered her a drug addict, who owed money to drug dealers, had an accident and ran away; 2) her car keys were missing. </div>
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In a few days it will have been 14 years that Brianna disappeared under suspicious circumstances. I was 50 at the time, and my hobby was metal detecting - yeah, that thing you see some people waving across the sand at the beach. My experience was not at the beaches, but rather woods, fields and ghost-towns. I also had an interest in "true crime" and empathy for the victims. I've been told I have the ability to see into mysteries as I have the ability for being objective. </div>
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I found her parent's phone number online and called, offered my services metal detecting to find her car keys which were considered important in the case. I never did find the keys, though I did find a couple quarters, a dime or two at the scene where her drivers door would have opened. </div>
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A theory is that she backed into the farmhouse by accident, trying to avoid being abducted and worse. That she had fore-warnings about going to work that night from earlier in the day when she went to the mall with her mother. That she left a note for her housemate that she "would be home later". The note wasn't something that Brianna would normally write. So why did she write it?</div>
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The phone call I made that day, whereby I met Brianna's family, turned into a meal at a local tavern with her father, Bruce. That was around the early part of November 2004, several months after she vanished. Her father was in his early 40's, and completely distraught over the events surrounding his daughter's disappearance. He was upset with the attitude held by the VSP. They wouldn't help him. They insisted she ran away for the drug reason I'd read about in the news which honestly, made me upset also. There was no proof behind their assumptions. </div>
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At least two years I spent travelling 3 hours to go to her parent's house, staying there on weekends, going out searching for any trace of what happened to her, talking with friends and those less friendly. When I wasn't in Vermont I was in New Hampshire making phone calls. There was the family website and Monday night forum where people chimed in regarding ideas, opinions and information that might be helpful. When I first joined much of the discussion revolved around Brianna's drug use, an obsession with it really, that she overdosed, got in over her head buying crack, and essentially she made a victim of herself, was responsible for what happened. </div>
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I didn't see it that way at all and considered the whole drug angle a red herring and still do. Gradually by offering alternative ideas to the group the topic changed and she was finally seen as the victim of others. There was even a change of authority at VSP and the new officer in charge was more inclined to help and have an open mind. Yet despite all our efforts nothing led to either a brick wall or more nothing. Everything stayed a theory. Rumors couldn't be proven one way or the other. The possibilities simply seemed to keep expanding with nothing solid to go by.</div>
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Four years into it, with another PI working the case, the family moved away and the case went cold. A possible sighting of Brianna took the headlines for awhile, that she was photographed at a casino in Atlantic City. The sighting was officially termed erroneous within a year. I became a guest-writer in a Blog operated by a person also interested in the case, whom I knew from the family website, who happened to be a retired police officer. In 2009 I started my own Blog. </div>
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I have spent a lot of time going over the possibilities in my mind. I have considered the possibility she was abducted by those wanting to traffick her, that during her abduction she was given crack and overdosed. Or she lived and was actually sold into slavery. I've been over the fact that two uncashed pay-checks were left in her car, that any money she had the drug dealers would want. </div>
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It's a known fact Brianna liked marijuana, so do I and although we are told there is a connection between marijuana and hard drugs like crack, I've never been interested in the hard stuff, and friends haven't been either. Then I received this e-mail from NORML (National Organization for Marijuana Reform) that rather got me thinking with a whole different perspective:</div>
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After 14 years it came to me. The thought of "hot blooded vengeance". What would make someone so angry and hostile to another human being? "She got what was coming to her..." But what did she do? Steal someone's boyfriend or girlfriend? Happened all the time. Owed drug money? No, I don't buy that either. But what if? What if Brianna was working undercover as an informant? Now that would bring out the kind of rage I witnessed coming from Lil' John. Maybe someone simply spread a rumor and group paranoia took hold. Afterall, she did go with a friend to VSP to file charges against her ex-friend.</div>
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Oddly, I'd never heard, or remember hearing the term, "Mercy Among Men" before.<br />
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We had an overnight snowstorm this past Sunday and I woke up to about 8 inches of snow. Although the day warmed up to about 40, I was none too happy about having to snow-blow. But around 1PM I got out there.<br />
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I had finished clearing in front of the mailbox across the street, had crossed the street to begin my driveway, a truck started to go by, then slowed and stopped. The driver backed up so I was at his door, an older man, likely my age, about 60.<br />
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He was interested in buying a house in my area, the general area of my town I live in. I have some idea of what the houses on my road are worth, as I bought mine a few years ago. He had $75,000 and needed a house yesterday. He asked if the half acre across the street with a condemned house and a long, mobile home looking like shed was for sale. I told him I doubted it - the owners were planning on building a house there in the future.<br />
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I gave him the phone number of the realtor who helped me buy my house.<br />
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At some point he pulled the truck off the road and got out to talk. I wasn't comfortable talking to this stranger but the chat so far had gone well, and was when I asked him why he needed a house now? Did he not have a home? I mean his truck was new, with a plow, and he didn't look too unwell-off, especially having $75k in cash to buy a house. I was intrigued, though nervous.<br />
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He shook his head slightly recalling things and said, "I can't stay where I live".<br />
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To summarize, he claimed to have Tourettes syndrome. I asked if he meant he has sudden out-bursts of speech, as I had worked with a man with the condition. He shook his head again. "No stereotypes", he said. "It is different for everyone who has it."<br />
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He had been in a grocery store, had heard of a new diet of certain nuts and vegetables. He said he was talking with the produce manager and that before he knew it he'd gotten too excited, his brain reated and his legs fell out from under him. Firemen were shopping and next thing he knew he was in an ambulance hooked up to IV's receiving Nacann. The fire chief was present and his condition had been determined to be a drug overdose.<br />
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He claims he tried to explain his condition, but the chief wasn't going to buy it. He became angry, fueled by whatever his Tourettes was doing. He pulled off the IV's and was bound.<br />
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Needless to say, he was bitter that things had gone so poorly and felt he could not live in the area any longer and had decided he wanted to move to Maine.<br />
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I asked, but can't you work things out with the fire chief, the town? He said no, he had hoped for "mercy among men", but there was none.<br />
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Now it was my turn to shake my head, and I said, well, "mercy among men" seems to be a thing of the past". He said not at all, I can show you how easy mercy among men can be. He walked to his truck and got a new teddy bear out of it. "This is for you", he said, "a gesture of mercy among men". He asked if he could plow my drive-way as a thank-you for my help, I said sure and he left. I gave the teddy bear to my neighbor's daughter.<br />
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The whole thing, the timing was rather good, as I was struggling with a fairly long time friend who got upset with me for a minor disagreement, who wanted nothing more to do with me. Mercy among men. And it got me thinking more. Mercy among humankind - stopping the hurt.<br />
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Recently there was the shooting in Parkland Florida, at the Marjory Douglas HS. I've been thinking a lot about the mass killings for the past few years, and why. What is different now than back in the 60's when I was in high school? Then realized, countries have been committed genocide and there was Hitler, the Holocaust, and the KKK and the world seems to seeth with hate, prejudice, domination and greed.<br />
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I thought of the missing person cases I'd helped with, written about on my blog, Brianna Maitland and Maura Murray. The thought that comes to my mind is we lack the ability to show mercy, as not doing the above mentioned heinous acts shows mercy. Easy for me to say as I feel I lack the gene, if it is a gene that causes such lack of respect for others, and a show of mercy.<br />
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I strongly believe we need to learn not to be naive, or overnight start trusting strangers or stop what we're doing to make the planet safer to live in. But I think perhaps sometimes all it takes is a gift teddy bear. Listening to others and having empathy. If only someone pent on destruction or mayhem would instead buy a teddy bear and give it to whoever is in charge, and admit, I want to hurt you, but I'm giving you this teddy bear as an example of mercy among men.<br />
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BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-52757137640599594512018-01-07T11:16:00.000-05:002018-02-01T17:30:01.557-05:00THE SAFE PLACE FOR MARIJUANA HAS BECOME OUR HOME; LEGALISED MARIJUANA. Part One<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As of this reading 8 states have legalized the use of marijuana for adults, age 21 or older; 30 states have some variation of legalised medical marijuana. Since this may be confusing for some people my hope is to clarify what it all entails.<br />
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First, what is marijuana, briefly what's it's history, where does it come from, is it a manufactured drug or is it a plant that grows naturally??<br />
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Marijuana is a plant. It is not manufactured despite claims otherwise. Some consider it an herb, but technically it doesn't fall within that classification; it is not Rosemary, basil or thyme. It is more like a dandelion. A weed. It has a variation that's called hemp that was used for thousands of years to make rope. During those thousands of years other strains were used for medical purposes that could include simple stress reduction. The world depended on hemp until the end of WW2. At that time synthetic ropes hit the market making hemp obsolete. Problem is, we all know the difference between organic and synthetic.<br />
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1) Cannabis sativa<br />
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More can be found about the above here: http://www.ilovegrowingmarijuana.com/types-of-marijuana/<br />
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It comes from nearly everywhere. It does favor certain environments, that I need not go into. It is grown in "housed structures", more on that in a bit.<br />
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Humans have used it for many purposes for thousands of years. Several of those purposes were medical use.<br />
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Technically I don't see how it can be considered a manufactured drug as it grows in the ground. There are those who say their God put it on the earth. However the US federal government has believed for at least 75 years that it is made from concrete. Meaning it comes from nothing, is nothing and is extremely dangerous. President Nixon hated the stuff and defied his own Blue Ribbon Committee he hand picked to study marijuana in the late 60's: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafer_Commission">Shafer Committee</a>. Pres. Ronald Reagan described use of marijuana as being like "setting off a nuclear bomb in your head". President Jimmy Carter legalised it in 1978... (look it up :) Last less than a day before the DEA filed some sort of law-suit over turning it.<br />
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Fast forward to 2017. Happy 420, because 8 states have now legalised adult use of marijuana and 30 for medical use, according to my latest updates from <a href="http://norml.org/">NORML</a>.<br />
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Specifics of the details of the law are mixed, where some states have finalized the regulations while others are still undergoing development. I live in Maine and our governor just vetoed the regulations for 2018 approved by the House and Senate. Won't get my vote. However medical use of marijuana in Maine goes back to the early 2000's. And new conditions like PTSD get added each year it seems.<br />
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One of the more frustrating sorts of regulations is when a state legalizes medical marijuana but with strict conditions. Like you can't grow your own, can't buy the plant or buds, can't buy edibles (candy, cookies or brownies), only pen sized vaporizers. Or they legalize CBD oil, which contains no THC. For some plain CBD works well, especially for pain. But it's been found that a blend of CBD and THC actually increases the efficacy of the product.<br />
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But what if you're here, reading all this and the real question you have is "how could this happen??"<br />
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"How could marijuana be legalized or even beneficial for anything? The federal government lists it as a Schedule One drug, which dictates it has "no medical uses and it is extremely addictive. The way the federal government, the DOJ sees it is obviously the research being quoted by so many so-called professionals must be bogus and a lie!"<br />
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Ironically, the federal government secured a patent on THC for medical benefits it can provide. <a href="http://www.safeaccessnow.org/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=2084" target="_blank">patent # <b>6630507 - </b>a link available HERE.</a> If marijuana has zero medical benefit and THC is derived from it isn't that a contradiction? Doesn't that raise the spectre of hypocrisy? And what king of government governs based on hypocrisy? A dictatorship does, just like ol' England. A tyrannical government and do we really want to go there?<br />
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None of the propaganda fed to us for the past 75+ years has had any real scientific basis. It is only true that if you burn something like a cigarette or a joint that the heat from the burning ember is not good for you. It should also be noted that there is no comparison between the "tars" in tobacco, compared to the "tars" in marijuana. Their chemical make-up is completely different.<br />
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In the 15+ years that marijuana has been legal to buy and use in various states people are not jumping out of windows, eating people's faces or laughing like a total lunatic. Crime rates including major crimes like murder have gone down in states that have legalized.The black market has all but disappeared in states where it's legal.<br />
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Persons that use marijuana are not going to go berserk. Recently, in the news for the start of 2018 is Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Jeff has decided to rescind the <a href="https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/what-is-the-cole-memo">Cole Memorandum</a> which essentially provided for the the Justice Department to accept Article 10 of the Bill of Rights and let states regulate marijuana, as they are doing, without federal interference. AG Sessions declared he intends to begin a 2nd War on Pot.<br />
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Why? The answer in perhaps another post. Will this potentially severely impact legal marijuana in this country after all this time? We may see headlines where the feds raid and seize and arrest people at a marijuana grow facility in California. But that will be it. There are far more pressing problems in this country than going after state legal marijuana facilities.<br />
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To conclude, use of marijuana does not impact intelligence, make people stupid or cause maniacal behavior. We can accept the fact that 75+ years of propaganda leading us to believe otherwise is going to take some time to accept. Those using marijuana actually are benefiting and they are using a plant to do so, not a manufactured narcotic.<br />
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BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-18786731334688880652017-03-12T18:33:00.000-04:002017-03-14T18:33:12.472-04:00THINGS CAN BE GOOD OR MAYBE NOT... Also WINTER STORM STELLA, LIVE FROM MAINE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I begin sadly with news that my partner, Kramer the cat, pictured at the top of my blog, a Maine Coon cat, passed away February 28, 2017. He was around 16 - 18 years of age. R.I.P. Kramer.<br />
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I have a new cat now I adopted from a local humane society. His name is Henry, 7 years old, 10.5 pounds, and although all black, looks very much like predominately Maine Coon cat too. </div>
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Winter isn't over in Maine. Yeah, I live in Maine, same state as Stephen King. Yes, there's something strange about my town. Let's just say at present it's a good strange.<br />
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Winter storm Stella is more than a storm, it's a blizzard. From what I have found out, it is centered over MA, DC, NH, much of PA NY, and ME. It's 6PM and there's probably about 15" with drifts as high as 3 feet or more. It's supposed to continue throughout the night, into tomorrow.<br />
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My whole office of 20 worked from home today. Works for me and the company.<br />
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My friend down the road, if there is a road, went out to snow-blow. The temperature is 26 degrees, humidity 99%. Winds around 40mph and higher. Not the day to work on a snow-blower. He'd made it through 3 major storms this winter, and now this.<br />
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Another friend, a member of a FaceBook club, espied a found relic, dog-tags from the civil war, in the form of a coin. A quote from my other friend, identifies the Civil War soldier: "William W. McClary served in the New Hampshire Volenteer Militia in the Civil War , Died in 1864 at 17 years 1 month , he is buried in Alexandria , NH ..." Which just happens to be a stones throw from my friend's house. It's going up for bid on E-Bay -starting bid, $999. My friend is upset as he believes it should be donated to the Historic society. Anyone who buys is encouraged to donate it to the Alexandria Historic Society in NH.<br />
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My new cat must be part vampire, and the rest is Maine Coon cat. That would explain him sleeping all day, and here it is, 6:20, still not up. Waiting for me to feed him. And rolls around at night chasing his pet mice.<br />
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BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-75385639042183923962017-02-19T00:49:00.002-05:002022-10-29T15:07:15.650-04:00BRIANNA MAITLAND - STARTING FROM THE BEGINNING... <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Brianna Maitland lived west of Montgomery VT. Her parents owned a modest home far into the woods. Very secluded. Brianna's parents learned from their parents... off the grid.<br />
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That they were, and for Brianna at 17, she had complained about feeling isolated from everyone and everything.<br />
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The Christmas of 2003 was an example. Her father, Bruce, moved out of the house. That left her and her mother, Kelly alone and together - and she didn't get along with her mother.<br />
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She begged her father to let her move in with him. He said "no". Her mother left, for Christmas and, visited her mother. Brianna was left on her own with her brother.<br />
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It looked like the family was over.<br />
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Brianna was seeing a guy at the time, Shawn, if I recall correctly; but he drank too much alcohol. She wrote him a letter but never gave it to him. She wrote that "...he drank too much and this isn't going to work". The letter was discovered later by her parents.<br />
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During the Christmas of 2015 there was a lot of crack available. Dealers needed a market and the NW Kingdom of VT was a perfect place to set up shop. For Brianna this was secondary... she had plans for herself. True, she liked pot/marijuana, how happy she would be today to discover in VT, ME, MA it's legal for adult use. [Well, maybe not totally for VT].<br />
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Perfect place to set up shop and push crack. And from what I learned, Brianna tried it several times. Where things get fuzzy is how much did she need it? Did she?<br />
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Based on interviews with her then housemate, Jillian, she was seeing an alleged crack dealer up from NYC. On the night of her "abduction" I was told he got a phone call, visibly upset from it, according to his then girlfriend Stephanie, he stormed out of the house. This was, if I understood it correctly, about 8 PM, March 19, 2004.<br />
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Earlier in the day she was shopping at the mall with her mother, a friend approached her...<br />
I know who, but can't share it. He warned her based on what another person said. He warned her, "...don't go to work tonight".<br />
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Brianna finished shopping with her mother and met her in the car. Brianna was to Kelly, her mother, she visibly shaken. But Brianna said nothing - <i>everything was fine</i>. <br />
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She wouldn't miss work. She wouldn't call in sick. She left her housemate a note clearly stating she would be home that night after work. She never returned. Due to bumbling by VSP the family didn't know until Tuesday of the following week that she was missing. That's when they suspected something might be wrong, and filed a missing person's report.<br />
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An officer happened to be there and overheard the proceedings. He said, are you asking about an old green Oldsmobile? They were - a car that was registered to Brianna's mother... who was never notified that it was discovered that past Saturday - empty and crashed into the side of a farm-house.<br />
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Except for the fore-sight that the World Travelers had in photographing the scene of the "accident", Brianna would have vanished completely. Fact is she hasn't.<br />
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Based on recent analysis it's estimated upwards of 15 people know something or were involved in her disappearance. It is likely it was drug related, but not because she owed money, but rather because she wanted out and away from it all - kind of hard to do when you like pot, and the pot dealers push crack.<br />
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Brianna was ambitious, and was able to adapt. She got her GED the day she disappeared. She quit High School, frustrated with petty bullying. She attended courses instead a a community college.<br />
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Opinions differ... some believing she was living an end-game on crack, while others believe it was a phase that she was trying to extract herself from. I'm in with the latter.<br />
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Biggest mistake yet by anyone in the know, in my opinion, was when we (Brianna's father and I) were to meet with the person who warned her not to go to work. It was at the same farm where VSP searched a manure pit for her remains. I had arranged to speak with this person, who wasn't there, but a puffer fish was... John-Boy, who threatened my life and Brianna's father's life, who said "Brianna deserved what she got!" I filed the threat with the VSP.<br />
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Looking for the weakest link in a chain of people who have knowledge of a serious crime. I'd say I just told you about two of them; the guy who warned her and the guy who threatened my life, and clearly had knowledge of a crime.<br />
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BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-20895748118022668702017-02-13T20:33:00.003-05:002021-09-10T11:34:42.482-04:00BRIANNA MAITLAND - 2017 - BRINGING IT INTO FOCUS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I seriously didn't think I had another post about Brianna Maitland in my future, however as it turns out, I do.<br />
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Brianna Maitland, for those new here was 17, female, lived in Montgomery Vermont and disappeared under more than unusual circumstances March, 19, 2004. She has never been found and continues to be connected/disconnected from the disappearance of Maura Murray, February 09, 2004 in Woodstock NH, about 100-150 miles distant. Gradually the cases are growing individualist, with most experts now in agreement the cases are unrelated.<br />
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The story about how they really became related is quite interesting, and in a moment I'll share a glimpse of the connection. But first, who am I in regards to this case(s).<br />
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In a moment I will post three YouTube videos, 3 of many on the cases. In the 3rd post, the one that's not from CrawlSpace, a private investigator mentions me briefly... I am the guy who around Nov. of 2004 spent many hours with Brianna's father, an investigative org. called MJA, while I thoroughly searched for anything metal, like her car keys, with my metal detector. At the time I had more than 20 years experience using a metal detector. In Epi 38, Greg Overacker, the PI, discloses the fact the keys have never been found. It is information I withheld while the investigation continues.<br />
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I had something to eat with her father after the event and he asked me to help more, interview her friends as he felt I had a talent for that. So I did. In reality for about the next three years I was involved in searches, strategies, and plans every weekend. I often stayed with the Maitlands at their house in Montgomery.<br />
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I have a BA and am a journalist also, though I don't do that as a job. However Brianna was different, and at about 45 I was ready to shed light on the case and bring Brianna home.<br />
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Within a year the family setup a website for Brianna, and despite many unfortunate events like hackers bring the site down, it maintained a steady pace for those years, provided a lot of discussion and included a Monday night forum meeting.<br />
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It's safe to say that as far as who the first investigative journalist was, involved with finding Brianna, it is me. In the first couple years I worked with another private investigator from Texas, named Orville, ex-law enforcement for the Texarcana police force. In his later years and when I met him he held a government job and did criminal profiling, often for the FBI. We did select a suspect after arduous work, but that unfortunately remains confidential.<br />
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Later I met and have worked with another PI, Greg Overacker. In Episode 38 especially he nicely bring the facts to focus, though I disagreed with some of the facts which we've discussed.<br />
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So how did Brianna Maitlands case become entwined with Maura Murray's? You'll have to read between the lines on this answer, but consider to disappearances happen within about a month apart. Now consider that independently, both cases are being hindered by a lack of understanding within law enforcement that any foul play had occurred. Brianna was stated in the newspapers by police as having a serious drug problem, owing a huge debt and either she ran away to avoid paying it or simply ran away. Maura had her own past, and although the family was confused about why she would simply take off and vanish, law enforcement in NH determined she had driven to Woodstock NH, crashed her car while intoxicated, and run off into the woods where she committed suicide.<br />
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The reality soon became clear that neither theory held much water. Yet law enforcement from both NH and Vermont planned a news conference for 2PM to discuss both cases and rumors were there was a serial killer involved. The serial killer theory however was lame at best, however law enforcement considered it, but at the news conference that happened at 1PM, not 2PM, allowed them to disqualify the serial killer idea and focus more on the questionable character of each women.<br />
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By the time family arrived for the 2PM conference, law enforcement was wrapping it up. That meant, there then existed two "plausible" theories: 1) they ran away or committed suicide or 2) a serial killer was involved.<br />
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Neither is likely to be the reality.<br />
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More likely, both were abducted.<br />
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In Episode 38, PI Greg Overacker ever states that considering the number of persons who likely have indirect or direct info in Brianna's disappearance, there are upwards of 15 people. He mentions two persons in particular, Nathanial Low Jackson, sometime boyfriend to Brianna according to interviews with a friend she lived with, and Ramon Ryans, where the news reports Ryans was allegedly involved in a past murder case in Vermont of which he was cleared of any charges. Both persons were from out of state and according to Episode 38, allegedly supplied the locals with crack and cocaine.<br />
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Now Brianna liked to use marijuana. So do I, to be honest. Actually it's legal now for adults in my state of Maine. However, at the time, indications to police that she used marijuana was a red flag, and they flagged her. The investigation into her disappearance got filed, under "she'll turn up".<br />
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In the meantime police were still busy trying to discredit the "serial killer" idea and so could not close the cases completely. Eventually after many years by many dedicated persons, both cases took on the seriousness they deserved. Both the run away, suicide and serial killer ideas went past and both cases are now still being actively investigated. In Maura's case, her case was selected among a few in a newly formed Cold Case Unit the NH Attorney General setup. In Brianna's case, LE changed and today have evolved to see it for what it was - an abduction.<br />
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Enjoy or learn what you like from the following YouTube videos about each case.<br />
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BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-32841890452271366982016-11-23T12:35:00.002-05:002021-09-10T11:35:16.395-04:00MELISSA BAUER PETERSON - INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, IS MISSING - PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A woman local to me here in Maine asked me to post this Missing Person post - the woman is a volunteer who helps relocate teens living in abusive families. She asked me to share her post from FaceBook.<br />
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<span style="color: white;"><u><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Okay my friends....</span></span></u></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><u><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This is my friend Kelly Bauer Snow....</span></span></u></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><u><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">She is one of "MY" girls, once living here in Seabrook, NH and now living in Indianapolis, Indiana.</span></span></u></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><u><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I last heard from Kelley on Friday night, 11/18/16. She was distraught over several things in her life and asking for help. I offered to help her get somewhere safe for a bit, and she was to call me after a meeting with another friend of hers.</span></span></u></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><u><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Kelley never went to the meeting, and she never arrived home that evening, le</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">aving her beloved dog, Reggie, alone, locked in her apartment with no food or water, (100% not like Kelley).<br />Please note Kelley was last known to be in her vehicle, a Red Hyundai, with Indy plates "JAZZY74". (car in photos below).<br />Please note that Kelley has red streaks in her hair, a nose ring, and large tattoos on her right forearm....<br />A Missing Persons Report has been placed with the Indy PD by her sister, and many people are out searching for Kelley.<br />If you see Kelley Bauer Snow, please contact me, her sister <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1570296857" href="https://www.facebook.com/mbpeter70" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Melissa Bauer Peterson</a>, her best friend <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=709549648" href="https://www.facebook.com/biblepoet" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Brian Hoffmeyer</a> or Detective Gold with the Indianapolis PD at (317)-327-6917.<br />Please call with ANY sighting. We are all very worried about Kelley at this time and we just want to know she is safe.<br />PLEASE SHARE EVERYWHERE until Kelley is FOUND.<br />Thank You.</span></span></u></span><br />
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BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-34252986649366030402016-05-06T19:09:00.001-04:002016-05-06T19:09:29.464-04:00BOBKAT'S STATS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Every so often I enjoy sharing my stats for my blog. One of the reasons is apparent in the following image. For this past week Brianna Maitland has been the top 5, with hundreds of views. Not just views in the hundreds, but across the world!<br />
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BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-19892722277813509202016-04-23T16:31:00.001-04:002016-05-04T18:36:57.004-04:00BRIANNA MAITLAND AND MAURA MURRAY, REVISITED - 12 YEARS LATER - PART TWO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mysteries are intriguing, aren't they? Until you get too close.<br />
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Raised on books about mysteries it's no wonder I developed an interest in true crime genre. Being a sensitive, emphatic person it's no wonder I would want to help, in any way I could. Leave it to me to be the kind of person who can talk to most anyone and have a broad experience with many different people.<br />
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I have a BA in English and consider myself a journalist. I invoke my 1st Amendment rights. A technicality :)<br />
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After an interest in several murder cases, via books, going online, I ended up reading one day where a woman had disappeared in Haverhill. Initially I was thinking Haverhill MA, which I knew somewhat about at the time. It turned out it was Haverhill NH, totally different scenario. Rural, isolated area in the White Mountains. All I knew at the time was a young woman had an accident, early evening in Haverhill NH. She had been seen, but then walked away and disappeared. Feb. 9, 2004.<br />
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A month later on March 19th another young woman would disappear under mysterious circumstances. Brianna Maitland, 17 years old.<br />
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Initially virtually nothing happened for weeks or months in either case. It was a good five days before the car Brianna was driving, which had been found smashed/backed into a house in rural Vermont, registered in her mother's name, was acted upon. </div>
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Ironically, Maura Murray who disappeared in Haverhill NH, was deemed of questionable character also, as "a lot of booze was found in her car" and when assistance was offered by a local resident, a school bus driver, she refused. He claimed she smelled of booze, though he admits she was seated in her car and he was talking to here seated in the driver's seat of the bus. That was after she ran straight into a snow-drift (as shown in the following 3 images), that set off her air-bag and likely gave her a bad head-ache, along with shock and possibly a concussion.</div>
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The police arrived, and near as I can tell, or recall, a considerable amount of alcohol was found both contained and splattered about her car, like wine - yet the images of her car don't show that. Again, near as I can gather the police decided she was on the run. A "drunk driver who'd had an accident". Allegedly the officer and the bus driver when driving up the same road claiming to look for her. Foot prints leading from her car go just beyond the bus driver's house. Then vanish. No coordinated search for her took place for at least two weeks. </div>
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No, not as a super hero. No, simply was sitting at work browsing the news. Months after the disappearance. And I read an article about it. I said before, as an person experienced using a metal detector, I called the family whom I looked up online, offered to find Brianna's missing car keys. </div>
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After the search, which included a 3+ hour drive to the Dutchburn place, and a good 6 hours detecting, her father invited me to a local tavern for something to eat and drink. We talked. We agreed - he asked me essentially to become Brianna's advocate. Assist in a coordinated effort to find out the truth. Which at the time law enforcement was unconcerned about.</div>
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The latest WCAX news story paints a pretty grim picture to me. I believe at one point (see my last post) it describes VTSP as throwing up their arms in frustration. A fractured case, one that now appears to be in part, hung on law enforcement mistakes from the beginning.<br />
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There's no making up for what is in the past however.<br />
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It's what it is.<br />
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Thing is, there are people who know things. Myself included. VTSP know things, PI's know things, journalist know things - one contacted me a couple weeks ago and knew a lot about the case, fishing for more, and of course her family knows things, along with Bri's friends.<br />
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12 years have passed and for about 4 years I was actively assisting the Maitlands. In the eight years that have followed certain facts seem apparent. That at least 4-6 people know what happened to Brianna that night Friday night, March 19, 2004.<br />
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1) Jorge S. aka the Joker has bragged many times about being involved.<br />
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2) A former boyfriends friend posted a comment, on http://theslamdunktrove.blogspot.com/ where both of us wrote about Brianna's disappearance back around 2009. The commenter insisted the ex-boyfriend was torn apart with grief knowing what had happened, and the commenter claimed no one would listen. Slam and I got her in contact with the people who could help most. He wasn't believed.<br />
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3) An alleged close compatriot of Jorge S', a Donald S., is rumored to have committed suicide after being pulled over by VTSP shortly after Bri vanished.<br />
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4) Though perhaps rumor only, several persons have heard the story of another acquaintance of Bri's who failed to commit suicide but tried and left a note implicating himself.<br />
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5) Her mother reported that Bri seemed visibly shaken after shopping at a local mall, and again rumor has it that she was given some kind of warning by a "friend" that day.<br />
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6) While with Brianna's father we sought interview one of Bri's friend only to be accosted and threatened with death, with a multitude of derogatory comments being made by a tenant of the farm where police originally excavated a manure pit.<br />
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These are but 6 examples of anecdotal or better reason to believe more than one person, and not a stranger knew what was going on. But getting much that is solid is what I suppose VTSP is experiencing.<br />
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With reward of $20,000 expiring in 2017, it appears no one at present gets the reward, and all those in the know will carry this burden to their grave.<br />
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What possible motivation is behind no one speaking up is puzzling to me. To be quit frank, though a certain tenant called her a slut and a whore Brianna was anything but. She was a woman with dreams, aspirations, a urge to bond with others and live a good life. She proved concern for others with a letter to a previous boyfriend that she was concerned about his drinking. She was a teenager who had become a woman, in an isolated area where friends meant everything. What surprises me now is how few of her friends are still there, and how perhaps 4-6 otherwise friends can say nothing.<br />
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Those 12 years found many of us older... 48 hours may have passed and even a year or two. Even 12 years. Doesn't change the fact that there are those younger, those who won't forget, that knew Bri and who will continue, won't stop.<br />
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The truth is out there and I believe if it was one person responsible, I would give up. Stop. <br /><br />How do I describe it other than if one person was responsible, there is way too much energy flowing though the area, arcing the truth.<br />
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There are several out there who know and I ask you to speak up. Please.<br />
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Another year of a Feb. 09 and March 19th have passed. With no indication to explain how two women just vanished, within a month of each other, under extremely mysterious circumstances, roughly 50 miles apart, in 2004.<br />
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Maura Murray vanished around 6:45 PM Feb. 09, 2004 in North Haverhill NH.<br />
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Brianna Maitland vanished less than a month later from Montgomery VT, around 11:45PM, Friday, March 19th, 2004.<br />
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In March of 2004 I read the story about Brianna, how she had disappeared, saw picture of "the accident" and heard the media say police believed her disappearance was likely related to drug abuse, that she was a child runaway.<br />
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Maura Murray, oddly, similar outcome. Police allegedly believe she wanted to disappear, made the plans, and carried them out. Former AG Kelly Ayotte, from the intel I have, also denounced Maura's disappearance as a crime. She gave the family back everything of Maura's they had, then abruptly turned around and took it all back, computer included, but were shy of saying they believed there was any foul play.<br />
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The only person to have seen Maura Murray that Feb. 09 was a bus driver and local nearby home-owner. He drove the school-bus, and was returning home that night, just after "the accident" happened. He spoke with her. Offered to help and says she refused.<br />
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Locals believe she was determined to disappear on her own. Other's are none too sure.<br />
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A few years ago NH formed a Cold Case Division and despite Maura Murray still not being classified as foul play, was added to the division's list of cold cases, based on media reports I've read.<br />
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The meeting didn't happen, but something else did. There was a young, dar-haired, well-toned guy in the front of the house when the father and I arrived. I got out of the truck. The guy asked me "what business do you have here?" I said "We would like to talk with..." </div>
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In a lot of ways we as humans take the easy route to satisfy ourselves. For example I just ordered a pizza, to be delivered. Why, so I don't have to leave my house. I give the driver a $5 tip and pay $20 for the large pizza. Pretty good deal it would seem.</div>
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She was going shopping with her mother. She had to work two jobs. She got notice she'd passed her GED in the mail - YAY! She met someone shopping who warned her about going to work that night. As she went to work instead of staying home it tells me it was easier for her to face someone than call in. She left a note for her housemate whom she didn't know was gone for a few days saying she'd be home after work that night. She wasn't. </div>
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The revenge theory is somehow gone by the wayside, the fight with the friend 3 weeks earlier. I'm not sure I agree.</div>
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That she owed money for drugs like crack and couldn't pay up, so was murdered? Doesn't add up with uncashed paychecks in her car - two of them. Why two?? But still, she had money and drug dealers who are owned money, would want it. There are those that would murder you for one dollar!</div>
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Elaborate traps to catch her have been theorized. I mean what a perfect place to car-jack someone! A deserted old house along the main drag outside of town. But why?? Remember, this isn't Hollywood. Only those who knew her would have had an idea of what time she would be done working - somewhere between 11:00 PM to midnight. Whoever was involved had to have had patience.</div>
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Well of the several months I sent helping the family the encounter with the blow-fish keeps me coming back. Mr. Hothead that gave myself and Brianna's father a load of his opinion. And what do you know... I find out through sources Mr. Blowfish was there the night Brianna was abducted and it wasn't for a party.</div>
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BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-73459537536656336762016-03-16T20:26:00.001-04:002016-03-27T22:18:53.529-04:00BobKat's User Guide for Using Chantix to Quit Tobacco<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
PfizerLabs, the makers of the drug, Chantix, isn't paying me for this. This is from personal experience. A check from Pfizer for $100,000, in gratitude for this post to clarify their product would be nice :) Just saying.<br />
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Disclaimer: I am not a doctor or licensed to practice medicine. The following is not intended in any way to assist a person using Chantix. It is posted primarily as personal experience and to share what i personally learned and experienced.<br />
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I started smoking tobacco cigarettes when I was 15. I'm 61 now. Of the possible 46 years smoking I was a non-smoker for 8 - 12 years. I've quit tobacco many times, sometimes for a month, up to 3 years.<br />
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I have quit "cold-turkey", and it can work, but I was younger then. I have used the gums, the patches, etc. Thing is I really don't want to smoke tobacco. Hate it!!<br />
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Getting off from it for most people is a terrible nightmare that can last for months. That's where the gum, patch and such are the solution. They provide nicotine to your body that curbs nicotine withdrawal symptoms associated with smoking.<br />
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However, you quit now!<br />
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That's correct. When using the gums, patches, etc. you don't want to smoke. You set a date and adhere to it.<br />
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Eventually after hundreds of $$'s you ween yourself off cigarettes. If it doesn't work you're out the $$ for the gums, patches, etc. and subscribing $7 a day to smoking when it could go to much more important goals.<br />
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Enter Chantix, made by Pfizer.<br />
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Of late I was starting to get to 2 packs a day. I have a new doctor and he was concerned about my smoking. Understandable. He recommended Chantix a year ago and I ignored it. Him.<br />
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20 days ago I took him up on the offer. I had nothing to lose, but my tobacco habit!<br />
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Chantix is apparently a very strong drug. The packaging is precise, made so you know which day you're taking what. Like for example you start out very slow with a min dose and escalate to the desired dose.<br />
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You can continue to smoke, if fact for the first few days it's encouraged... I went to day 8 before I quit.<br />
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Here's where the lack of education and plurred facts occur.<br />
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There are two "complaints" about Chantix that come to mind:<br />
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RE: Question 2, cannabis users, CB1 and CB2 receptors are not affected from what I've read. What limited experience I can share, no problem..<br />
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RE: When to quit?? Yeah this is a question I didn't have an answer to for days. I recalled my doctor said "you can smoke using it". But what he didn't say is when to quit.<br />
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So I was flummoxed. When to quit?<br />
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Again, Chantix must be pretty powerful considering the care in which taking it is represented. I call it a non-opioid opiate...<br />
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You quit any time!! I'd suggest the 8th day or longer. Is it expensive? My insurance covers it 100% for 180 days. I pay nothing. I'm around Day 20.<br />
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Chantix is quite simple. Understanding what it does is essential to quitting tobacco and I'm surprised with so much confusion.<br />
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The reason tobacco users love it is nicotine, and receptors in our brain that let the nicotine attach, and dopamine is released into out body making us feel good, for a moment. We spent approximately 10 minutes smoking, and that's 10 minutes of a dopamine/good feeling. Then we go back to work and enter withdrawal. That can make us depressed, anxious, unfocused.<br />
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Chantix blocks the nicotine from attaching to the nicotine receptors. Further releasing a lower amount of dopamine than the nicotine. Still, it's dopamine - the feel good hormone.<br />
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So, once you feel the Chantix is in effect you can quit tobacco. You can cheat to as none of the nicotine gets to your brain. All you may satisfy by "cheating" is a temporary psychological satisfaction, at best.<br />
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My insurance covers this drug for 180 days. I'll not be a smoker after that and likely well before.<br />
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There is still the psychological withdrawal to go through - the need to smoke. But seriously, if you do it does very little. Except perhaps kill you with toxins, give you a head-ache, make you nauseous.<br />
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I trained myself over many years to have lucid dreams, so perhaps I am better prepared - yes, my dreams are more lucid after starting Chantix, and seriously it could be that I stopped smoking - cold turkey. The effects of Chantix on my dreams hasn't been significant. I am able to better remember them however.<br />
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The benefit of using Chantix for me was I could smoke and stop when I felt ready to do it. Totally up to me. And when I did stop, I experienced hardly any of the nasty physical withdrawal effects I remember from the past.<br />
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Good Fortune :)<br />
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Update, Mar. 18:<br />
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I'm somewhere around Week 4... I have bought one pack of cigarettes and smoked them in two days. They were to quell the psychological need, but did nothing to help. 3 days later I am home sick, couldn't sleep and several nasty problems, Fact is I have no interest now in tobacco and I just want this physical torment to end. The torment comes not from nicotine, but from the cigattes. My opinion, the tobacco industry adds addictive chemicals. As these chemicals likely do not touch upon nicotine receptors, what i did by smoking a pack was trigger other addictive receptors. So, today and for the past several days I've felt no withdrawal from nicotine, but I've felt like I had a cold - sinus problems, been nauseous, and even vomited two days ago, after awakening and drinking my coffee. I had taken my pills, including Chantix 15 minutes earlier. Sudden nausea and vomit on the floor.<br />
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So the good news is I'm off tobacco for good. The bad news is I feel terrible 4 weeks in. And this stuff - tobacco is legal and cannabis is not. Makes no sense!!<br />
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The psychological anxiety has become too much several times. Meaning I've bout 4 pacts and smoked them in some 45 days.<br />
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But I think I'm beginning to see, do see how it can work. It's a head-drug. It will change how a lot of things we imbibe in will work. They still work, but let me cut to the chase...<br />
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Chantix works by blocking the nicotine from attaching to my nicotine receptors. My doctor told me I could smoke. Why? Because while on Chantix it's not the nicotine you deal with when you stop. It's the psychological.<br />
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I now believe setting a date and time can work, but it's not necessarily the best approach. The cigarettes I smoke do nothing for me, except to sooth my habitual tendency.<br />
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My doctor was actually surprised when I called and asked him exactly how does one stop taking Chantix? Is it a step-down or does one just stop? I explained I was thinking I might be ready to stop taking it. I told him he had mentioned people taking it for a couple months. Stopping.<br />
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What he answered was sobering. You can smoke on Chantix because I have this habit. A habit that is not providing benefits. One that has been hurting me.<br />
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So now, yes, I'm still smoking, but learning to feel the smoke as undesirable. Like would I want an addiction to Spam? No offense to Hormel, love Spam... but do you see?<br />
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Without the nicotine what is a cigarette?<br />
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You might likely expect this process of smoking and finding it both rewarding and lacking difficult. There are other addictive chemicals in cigarettes. Short lived however. But for me these caused fatigue, hot flashes, confusion. As time goes on the symptoms are diminishing.<br />
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I'm fairly certain the effects on dreaming come from the Chantix. My doctor told me three studies found it was nicotine withdrawal. I've quite cold turkey and never had the kind of lucidity I'm experiencing now. I don't find dream enhancement to be a bad side-effect.<br />
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One co-worker shared that the the person she knew taking said it was messing with his mind. I can see that, but a slight twist of the dial you'll let go and realize you were likely fighting it. Yeah, it can play some tricks with your head, but so does packaged cigarettes.<br />
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I'm continuing the Chantix, will smoke when I feel like it, until I get bored of inhaling noxious smoke.<br />
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BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-64691438448933457272016-02-08T19:44:00.001-05:002016-02-08T19:44:09.485-05:00STOPPING AT THE CONVENIENCE STORE...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So the boss told us to go home about 2PM to work due to the winter storm. I live a half hour away in Maine. I needed cigarettes so I stopped at the local gas station that has everything at high prices.<br />
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I passed a smartly dressed, attractive brunette in her 30's I guessed as I was entering the store and she was leaving.<br />
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I went up to the counter to buy my cigs however there was a heated debate going on. The woman had bought tubes that people use to pack somehow with marijuana. A couple of customers had asked about them as the woman I passed had bought some.<br />
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"What are those for", the customer (lurker) asked?<br />
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The woman behind the counter was likely in her early to mid- 60's, my age, answered, "they use them to smoke marijuana".<br />
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The customer was aghast. What cave she crawled out of I do not know,<br />
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"Her partner, an man in his 60's also along with the other customer said "I wonder where they get it?" The cashier says, "they have a state facility right in town".<br />
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"OMG", the female customer said... "drugs are legal now"?<br />
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I politely interrupted and asked the cashier, "could I please have a pack of cancer sticks?"<br />
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BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-55389737813380717912016-01-30T12:08:00.001-05:002016-01-30T12:08:18.856-05:00HOW I GOT TO WHERE I AM NOW<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Everyone considered individually - how did we come to be where we are now? You might well imagine, given statistics, at any given moment an infinite number of things are happening.<br />
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I ponder how I got here now all the time. I shouldn't. But I have my reasons. Before I provide those reasons, a friend of mine just provided me with an epiphany. An old friend - we go back to the 70's. You may need to read it a few times. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>If we have free will the future is open to a myriad of possibilities and if we don't it's not worth worrying about."</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It doesn't matter what job I work, how I'm doing, how successful I am, how depressed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Right now my major stress is my job. I've been there 16 years, full time doing technical support for computer software. I got there because in the 90's I got to love computers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fast forwards and frankly it's a nightmare. What was a well defined though chaotic job has become a circus where us employees are the circus animals. Finding a new job is the only out, and playing along doing what one can to add sanity is all one can do. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But it goes deeper, into the whole concept of Work/Life management. Age doesn't matter. However age does factor in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When younger the tendency is to weigh one's life towards thyself. Work 20 hours a week overtime, but it's nothing compared to what one does when they not working. Get older, you're more likely to sleep when not working. I'm 61. </span></span></div>
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BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-63304262131500997832016-01-18T19:25:00.000-05:002016-01-18T19:25:10.486-05:00BOBKAT'S INTRODUCTION TO 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Good News:<br />
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Gas prices are way down from where they were! Gets me wondering what happens when the other shoe drops?<br />
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Other good news:<br />
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Marijuana is now legal in 4 states and several cities for whatever use they choose to use it for, if 21 years old or older.<br />
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Gosh... must be more good news, but rare these days.<br />
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Bad News:<br />
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ISIS<br />
Turkey (the country)<br />
Syria continues to be a threat.<br />
Bad outlook for this year's economy<br />
Increase in questionable deaths by police initiated shootings<br />
No raise for over two years<br />
Trump as the Republicans leading candidate<br />
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Need I go on?<br />
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I thought not. Yeah so Christmas and all the holiday stuff/crap is over. Time to start doing out taxes. In the north shovel snow.<br />
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Our human exposure to the Sun becomes limited leading to all sorts of maladies. Depression in particular. Just remember, you're not alone and this too will pass.<br />
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Careful as always what you wish for! Don't keep all your eggs in one basket. And remember, "love is perennial as the grass".<br />
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2016, here we come...</div>
BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-2352757569991264972015-12-31T20:11:00.001-05:002015-12-31T20:11:23.854-05:00HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET'S WELCOME 2016 !!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wow! What a year!! 2015 was.<br />
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Started the year off with two friends, who are still friends, threatening to call the sheriff to evict me from my room. I had lived with my friends in that room for about 8, maybe 10 years.<br />
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Bought a house - my first at age 60. Same state as Stephen King.<br />
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Wonderful summer that found me learning to sit outside in my yard and enjoy that, along with my cat.<br />
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A year unlike any other. My mother, whom I have a jaded past with, diagnosed with cancer only to find out now it's not cancer and they don't know what it is. My mother with a mysterious illness. Of course.<br />
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And I have my illnesses... matters not, not that it matters.<br />
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A full year on FaceBook. Maybe not something to write home about. But at 61, looking back, it's extraordinary how things have changed. No more phones. Chat online or even make a call with video online. Had a video Christmas in fact with my family. 700 miles a part and we were together while unwrapping presents.<br />
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A difficult year.<br />
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New Year Goals:<br />
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1) Get exercising.<br />
2) Resolve issues at current job of 16 years or find a new one.<br />
3) Relax while still being productive.<br />
4) Get out and meet people. Or decide to become a recluse.<br />
5) Work on improving the new house.<br />
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I would like to write again, like fiction to publish, and found a place to do that: <a href="https://algren.submittable.com/submit" target="_blank">Nelson Algren Literary Awards</a>. It would be a good thing to write again.<br />
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Have a Hppy new year :)<br />
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BobKat</div>
BobKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591749929142963330noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479833358229068060.post-6363165733958461492015-10-21T19:56:00.002-04:002015-10-21T19:56:47.824-04:00REFLECTIONS BEGINNING AGE 20<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm 61 now. I was born in 1954. Milk was delivered to your door. Phone numbers were composed of 5 numbers and a Phone company operator. Much of the area that is now heavily over-run with construction and houses was then woods. That's where I often went, there and many places by age 8.<br />
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Age 20 I was renting a room with 6 others my age in a rooming house. We shared the bathroom and the kitchen. Overall not a bad experience... great women, music and good drugs in those days. The house was at the edge of the campus for the local city community college. I got a job with the college as custodian at the Fine Arts Building, called "FACE". As an artist myself, or interested at least, it was the cornucopia of my life. I worked 3PM to 11PM. A 3 story old brick building. I was responsible for the top floor, and one half of the basement.<br />
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Often I feel myself back then. I feel the confusion, the unknown sense of uncertainty. I discovered magic - true magic.<br />
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I took courses there too, and began to write a lot. Two alliances I call my mentors happened. Both happened to be English professors. Actually they became my surrogate parents, as my own were acting nuts. Doug turned me onto Henry Miller - "The World of Sex", like "The Rosy Crucifixion", a trilogy. Most know or have heard of the author from writing "Tropic of Cancer", which Jimmy Steward famously used in one of his movies.<br />
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Then there was Virginia. I had a crush on her though she was 10 years older. What the reason was why she became my mentor, was I heard rumor she was a "white witch". Religion fascinated me, as I'd been brought up by a devoted mother. But I wanted to know something and more about all religions. Virginia helped me learn all I could. Enough to satisfy my craving to understand.<br />
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There would be a year I'd have a lot of sex. Every time it mystified me and seemed paranormal. Feeling awkward, except during the actual sex, was beyond enduring. Blue balls are real... yeah I know you women think it's a myth, but at that age many men suffer aching balls, called blue balls, and there's only one real remedy. Sex. So a lot of time goes into what today are called "hook-ups".<br />
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I'm still single. I remember it all.</div>
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