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Please: NO COMMERCIAL REGISTRANTS!!!!You will be removed as soon as I discover you have joined. This is NOT a site for commercial transactions of any kind! Also, NO PORNOGRAPHY!!! Please do not add this kind of material to this site. VMSShort FAQThe best ways to view this site by category are to either click on the black-lettered subject headings at the top of each message, which will bring you to all the messages in that category, or by clicking on the Past Articles at the bottom of the right hand side of the front page, which will display all the articles on the site in the order they were placed there all the way back to 10 February, 2004, in groups of ten. The lower the number of the folder, the more recently they were placed. If you click on a number, it will display the ten articles in that particular folder - if one clicks on the subject heading (at top) or on the black subject header within any article, again one can go to all the articles in that subject heading. There are fifty topic headings, and work is in progress to update the entire collection of essays with the proper topic headings. Clicking on the title in either mode will bring the reader just that article. If you go to Top List, you can see the 25 most read articles on the site. If you are a member, use Submit News to submit a piece of your own, or use the Comment section at the end of any piece to offer thoughts to that particular piece.To all newcomers ...One hopes that in the essays, poetry, reviews, replies and snippets you find here that you can find something of interest or enjoyment. I would ask folks who join to adhere to the same rules that exist on the list Val-L - no discussion of abortion, and all replies, comments, and other observations be made in a civil, polite and reasonable manner. Please explore and hopefully enjoy, and definitely let me know what you think. If you join the site, and I hope you will, you can make comments on the essays and other work you see here. VMSWelcome to VAL-LVAL-L is the online home of the subscribers of VAL-L, a listserv created for Valentine Michael Smith, located at the listserv vm.marist.edu, to discuss topical issues of the day. Feel free to join and add your contributions. If you wish to comment to me directly, e-mail me at cedell@earthlink.net.Family : Pat Enright Dell 1944-2008Posted by: admin on Monday, March 17, 2008 - 07:25 PM
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The mother of my sons James and Christopher
lost her fight against cancer this a.m. She had battled for five years, and only in the last couple of weeks did it gain an edge on her. Although we were divorced 35 years ago, we had managed to be friends these past twenty years even though I rarely ever saw her. Note: Written 17 March, 2008
Cross reference to Eulogies. Poetry : Whispered Curses, Secret Invocations...Posted by: Masdwe on Monday, March 17, 2008 - 07:23 PM
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A small clippit for the rest of the universe....
Note: Written 9 January, 2008 by Charles Dell the Youngest
Books : _The World Without Us ...Posted by: admin on Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 11:06 AM
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_The World Without Us, written by Alan Weisman, was published 1 September, and I had acquired and read it by 7 September after hearing Weisman interviewed that day on NPR's "Talk of the Nation." The book is a fascinating look at what would happen to houses, nuclear plants, cities, forests, fauna, climate, the oceans, bronze, petro-chemical complexes and plastics, amongst even more than that, over time (stretching out to three or four million years for plastics and the 441 nuclear power plants extant in the world). Note: Written Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:02:23
Unedited as of 13 October, 2007 Russia : Russia #35 (second series)Posted by: admin on Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 11:04 AM
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President Putin's dismissal of his entire government just under three months before parliamentary elections on 2 December is eerily like Yeltsin's manuevers in his last years in office. His choice for Prime Minister was startling to both Russian political insiders and observers of the Russian political scene outside the Federation - one Viktor Zubkov, presently the head of the agency that investigates money laundering (hard to say how well he's been at *that* job, as a sizable amount of money coming out of Russia is laundered somewhere by somebody). Note: Written Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:52:28
Unedited as of 13 October, 2007 Iraq : Bush to Iraq, Cost Benefit?Posted by: admin on Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 11:01 AM
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I read this morning that President Bush had made his third visit to Iraq, and it imeediately struck me, how much did that cost the American taxpayer? One has to think that such a visit runs into millions of dollars in costs, mostly for security, to what end? Such a visit gives the pResident a platform to continue his fallacious reasoning that the war is going well? His visit will buoy up troop morale? Is that worth the costs involved? Note: Written Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:09:10
Middle East : Postulating About Iran, Again ...Posted by: admin on Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 10:59 AM
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Over the months of this year and last, I've taken a fair amount of heat for repeating stories by a variety of folks about US (and/or Israeli) plans to get at Iran by one process or another, usually ending with those critics blasting the source as full of so much bushwa. I saw another one today out of the Sunday Times (UK) by a lady named Sarah Baxter claiming that the US Pentagon had a plan that they weren't too far from activating to destroy in 1200 similtaneous sorties over three days *every* military installation in Iran. Note: Written Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:01:57
Unedited as of 13 October, 2007 Iraq : Iraq Once Again ...Posted by: admin on Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 10:55 AM
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Yesterday, bitter fighting broke out in Karbala, one of the Shiite "holy cities" presently full of several "hundreds of thousands" of pilgrims. Apparently, from fragmentary reports both yesterday and today, the clashes were started by a tussle between members of Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army and members of the Badr Brigade, a rival Shiite militia. The fighting reportedly spread quickly, not only in Karbala with at least fifty plus killed, but elsewhere in the country, most notably in Baghdad. This morning, al Sadr reportedly "commanded" his militia to "stand down" for six months, although whether this will really happen remains in doubt. The leaders of the Badr Brigade, whoever they are, made no such call. Note: Written Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:45:37
Unedited as of 13 October, 2007 Iraq : Afterthought on Iraq ...Posted by: admin on Monday, September 03, 2007 - 11:06 AM
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The bombing last Tuesday against the Yazidi minority that killed 400-500 has been described by some commentators as Al Qaeda's "last gasp," and an "act of desperation," and this writer believes that could be a misreading of what happened. I do not believe that either the insurgency, Al Qaeda or the various militias are"'weaker," despite losses that I know have occurred. Note: Written Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:24:04
Iraq : Another Look at the "Good News From Iraq" Reports ...Posted by: admin on Monday, September 03, 2007 - 11:03 AM
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My friends on the American right continue to insist that the war in Iraq is going well. However, there are certain signs that continue to make me wonder how true that it is in the larger scheme of things. The New York Times is reporting today that al-Maliki has lost considerable support from the "Sunni bloc," his Shiite allies, the tribal leadership, and the Kurds. He is also reported to be quite "paranoid." The last leaders I've heard described in that manner were the late Shah of Iran, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, the late Mao Zedong and the late Joseph Stalin - not exactly sterling company. It also suggests that very few actually support the guy. Note: Written Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:09:06
Music : "Elvis is Dead! Elvis is Dead!"Posted by: admin on Monday, September 03, 2007 - 10:59 AM
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This was the breathless report from a local reporter in Lincoln NE thirty years ago this afternoon, which is where I was living when Elvis' death was reported. I was both shocked and saddened by the news, especially when it was reported he had died of a drug overdose. I didn't know that much about his personal life, although musician friends had reported that he lived as much on the edge as the Rolling Stones, and I knew that he was tremendously overweight but didn't know why. *The* pop singer of my youth was gone, and he wasn't much over 40 when he died. What a waste. Note: Written Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:01:32
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