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Harassment Continues and Grows Worse by the day…

Oh, man! It’s been like a week since I was last here, sorry guys, but real life has kept me offline for a bit, the harasment has increseased at an alarming rate, as has the daily bouts of vandalism we have to content with. It’s down right sickening coming home to this every day. As usual we came home tonight to find pack-boxes now unpacked and strewn all over the yard. Once again, the vandls tore stuff out of the tent and just threw it. Stuff, like usual is broken. More items have been stolen.  This time, not only did they tear the lock off the front door, but they tore the front door off the house. They tore the door off the outhouse as well. I think today’s round of vandalism has to rank at the most destructive yet.

We still do not know who is behind this. All we do know for certain is that it is obviously someone who knows when we are and are not home and that the police well do nothing for fear of loseing there jobs as a result of threats from the town manager.

We are not gone from home on a regular schedul… one day we well leave at 7AM and get home at  noon, another day we will leave at 4PM and get home at 5PM… other times we leave at 9PM and get home around midnight… there is no set pattern, no work schedule, every day is differant, sometimes we leave in the monring, sometimes noon, sometimes  night… some times we gone 20 mins, sometimes we are gone for hours… who ever it is that is doing this vandalism, they live in seeing distanct from our comings and goings otherwise they would not know the exact time we are gone each day, and we only have 3 neighbors in seeing distance. One a peacful eldery man who I could not see doing anything like this… the others… related and one of them on the  town counsel, and works closely with the Town Manager… uh-huh! alarm bells are ringing on that one! but, as I said we have no  proof as to who is doing this, so we do not know who to sue for the damages.

~~EK

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Update on The Lockdown & More Harassment & Vandelism

We spent the last 2 days calling everyone under the sun, trying to find out what the hell is going on, but we can’t get through to anyone; they are just giving us the run around again, putting us on hold, directing our calls to someone else who in turn directs them to someone else, who has no idea why we were directed to them and hangs up with a “Sorry”.

Well, since no one well tell us what’s going on, we just went ahead and broke down the barricade. Well wonders never cease? Now that we’ve gotting back in to see the damage, I can honesty say I hope these jackasses die a long slow death. The bastards stole my grandmother’s stamp collection. They tore the pages out of a second stamp book, keeping the pages that had stamps on them. They also stole the comb my dad’s uncle brought back from PNG when he was one of the soliders who was there and discovered that people lived their back in 1937. They also stole the photos of the uncle. They smashed my other grandmother’s gold and glass anniversay clock that she brought to America with her from Germany. To top it all off the bastards took my records and it looks like they used them for frisbies, they are strewn from one end of the house to the other, several of them broken.

We still don’t know who is behind this, but who ever they are I hope they die soon, so that they well have a longer time to burn in hell.

~~EK

Update: The Stolen House of Maine

Interesting thing happened today. We got home about 2 hours earlier than usual. We may now have a suspect in for who has been moveing stuff around the yard and opening the hen gate these last couple of weeks.

For those of you who remember the “Stolen House of Maine”  Our house, the one that so long ago was the start of the years of harassment that our family has had to withstand. It all started in 2001 with a house. Our house, the one that made front page news the day we came home to find an empty lot: our house as my long time readers already know, was cut in half and than moved 50 miles away where it was sold to a man who in turn sold it to something else. This resulted in a grueling 3 year court battle between us and the pastor who stole our house: Pastor Bernard Elliot of The Arundel Christian Tabernacle. Since the court battle we had not heard from him, but today, his wife Evelyn, stopped out front of our “still houseless” yard. We do not know why she was here, she drove off when I started down the driveway to see what she wanted. It dose raise the question, of just who exactly it is behind the harassment we have recieved from our very “religious” town manager,  Jim Thomas . (and ours is not the first they have done this to, they have a long history of doing this!)

I just have to wonder why are the Elliot’s back? What do they want with us? Haven’t they done enough damage already? Why won’t they leave us alone? These people are the ones who lefts pictures of guns on our door, way back in the summer of 2002. The Elliot’s are the ones who paint balled our car. They are the ones who took an axe to signs that stood on our land. They are the ones that caused us to need police protection for 3 long and terrifying years. Three years that my family spent in such terror that we dared not go to the store, because these people were stalking us, we meet them everywhere we went. That was yearws ago. We thought they had stopped, but when they did, that’s when the town manager and his crew started harassing us instead. We had thought that the two things, these two very differant episodes of unexplained harassment had been two seperate incedents. Now it seems that they are together, one and the same that the harssment from the town has been nothing more than an extention of the harsement from the Elliot’s.

Why? Whay are they doing this? What reason could they possibly have for this torture?

National TV-Turnoff Week, April 23-29

Today is the first day of  National TV-Turn Off Week, April 23-29

I have decided to write a list of 101 things for you to do during this week of no TV, should you decide to take on the challange.

1. Go for a walk on the beach.
2. Read a book.
3. Write a book in 7 days.
4. Volunteer at the local  animal shelter.
5. Do a crossword puzzle.
6. Dress up like a pirate.
7. Buy a camera and use it.
8. Play an hours-long game of Monopoly.
9. Grow a crystal garden.
10. Catalog your book collection useing the Dewey Decimal System.
11. Plan a family budget.
12. Go on a camping trip.
13. Plant a vegetable garden.
14. Watch the stars.
15. Sew, knit, or crochet a blanket for a cause (Snuggles, Linus Foundation, etc.)
16. Raise a family of sea monkeys.
17. Answer all those unread emails.
18. Pay your bills.
19. Start a petition.
20. Take your family out to a fancy resturant.
21. Look for BigFoot.
22. Take in a foster pet.
23. Spend a few hours browsing in your local library.
24. Donate pet food to a local shelter.
25. Take a walk around the block.
26. Have a chat with your mom or dad.
27. Go fishing.
28. Organize your DVD collection.
29. Build a personal website.
30. Write a short story for a fiction magazine.
31. Volunteer at the local  soup kitchen.
32. Go sight-seeing.
33. Put the pictures into the photo albums.
34. Throw a “Just-As-You-Are” party.
35. Attempt to prove aliens are real.
36. Visit a local museum.
37. Take your family to an all you can eat buffet.
38. Invent something new.
39. Start to tackle the list of projects that has been getting longer.
40. Head to an amusment park.
41. Take a cruise.
42. Sew a new dress.
43. Get a family photo taken.
44. Take a child to the zoo.
45. Write a letter to someone you haven’t seen in a while.
46. Attend an art show.
47. Vacuum the car.
48. Refinish an old piece of furniture.
49. Write an article for a non-fiction magazine.
50. Go boating.
51. Start a blog.
52. Attend a book reading.
53. Solve a mystery: play a game of Clue.
54. Visit with someone in a nursing home.
55. Go to the circus.
56. Head to your local swamp to pick fiddleheads.
57. Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.
58. Take a hike in the woods.
59. Visit an art gallery.
60. Open an online store (Zazzle, CafePress, etc.).
61. Take swimming lessons.
62. Quit smoking.
63. Plant a tree.
64. Cook a gourmet dinner.
65. Help your child with his/her homework.
66. Play a game of basketball.
67. Go birdwatching.
68. Wash the windows.
69. Get a makeover.
70. See a play.
71. Repaint your living room.
72. Read a story to a child.
73. Paint a masterpiece.
74. Go on a picnic.
75. Read a comic book.
76. Start a new career.
77. Organize a family reunion.
78. Study up on your family history.
79. Go on a diet.
80. Sing a song.
81. Write a poem.
82. Bake a cake.
83. Go horseback riding.
84. Set up an aquarium.
85. Write a letter to a prisoner.
86. Take up a new hobby, such as stamp collecting.
87. Spend the week looking for UFO’s.
88. Go rock climbing.
89. Dye your hair blue.
90. Wax your car.
91. Redecorate your bedroom.
92. Play video games with your child.
93. Write a business plan for your dream job.
94. Take dance lessons.
95. See a ballet.
96. Buy a box of crayons and draw.
97. Design your dream-house.
98. Make home-made ice-cream.
99. Dress-up and go to the opera.
100. Take you family out to a movie.
101. Visit a haunted house.
102. Write a list of a 101 things you can do.

Quote: “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” —Groucho Marx 

pet food recall update: HUMAN FOOD BEING RECALLED!!!!!!!!!

Remember when I wrote this post and questioned what would happen; the effects of farm animals eating tainted food ; being a poultry farmer, my post focused on chicken not pork, but news that corn was now effected, and chickens eat corn one thing lead to another and I started questioning what we feed our chickens…. PORK from pigs that have eaten tainted food, has now been added to the recall!!!
Reading this post lead me to:
Pet Food Contamination Scandal Spreads to Pork, FDA Opens Criminal Investigation.

You know what this is staring to sound like? Biological warfare.

Business Plans: Moonsnails Magazine: We’re Back!

In fall of 2005 Twighlight Manor Press announced that it was planning the release of a new magazine, which at that point was untitled and it‘s genre unknown. Our original idea was to keep it local; local writers, local sales, local flavor to the stories. Market research, however showed us that that would be a very unprofitable venture that would doom our magazine to failure before it’s fifth issue. We had to rethink out plan.

Over the next several weeks we threw around ideas and finally decided that the magazine would be a fiction “literary journal”. At first we planned on “all good fiction”, but than after studying the market, realized that this was virtually a bottomless pit, that would result in more manuscript submissions than our tiny staff of four would be able to handle.

Another thing we decided early on, was that, we wanted to stand out on bookstore shelves. Looking at other magazines sold at a local bookstore, Nonesuch Books in Saco, I discovered something. Rack upon rack of magazines, where all the same: 8×11” glossy and flimsy issues, that would not stand the test of time on a bookshelf, given them a shelf life of just 3 weeks. (This short shelf life was according to a study I found online.) According to that study, only a few magazines would be shelved and saved to be read again and again for several years. These magazines had good content and a sturdy binding. I went to Nonesuch Books looking for magazines with good content and study bindings, and was amazed at how few there actually were. In the end I found only three, out of the hundreds of magazines the shop had on the racks. By the end of this stage in our study we came to one conclusion: this magazine, was NOT going to be a 8×11” glossy; instead it would read like a book, with crisp white paper and a square bound “paperback” cover.

After some more market studies, we came to the conclusion that rather than focusing on fiction in general, we would instead use the same rule we use for writing: Write what you know. In our case it would translate into: Publish what you read. All four of us are sci-fi buffs. Sci-fi movies, sci-fi TV, sci-fi comics, sci-fi books… well it seemed only natural that we would thus choose sci-fi as the genre for the new magazine.

By January of 2006 we had a pretty good idea of what we wanted to do with the magazine. On Space Dock 13 (the website) we announced that the magazine was a defiant go, and we were planning it’s release later that year.

With our genre in mind, we set out the name our new magazine. After several weeks of debate, only one thing was agreed upon: that the magazine must have a sci-fi sounding name and that it should reflect our local home base, namely that we are on the world’s most beautiful beach: Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

In April 2006 we introduced the world to two new websites. The first was the message board for writers: A Writer’s Desk. It was our hope that through here we would find new talent seeking to be published in our magazine. A message board built entirely to promote the magazine, today it stands on it’s own and has no connection to the magazine at all.

Our second Website was of course the homepage for our magazine. We had finally decided on a name, and that name was: Moonsnails. After a walk to the beach that cold April, me and my three brothers returned home with tote bags filled with Old Orchard’s most beloved seashell: the Atlantic Moonsnail. Later that day, while sorting the shells on the lawn, it hit me: Moonsnails was the perfect name for our magazine, it kept the local flavor and it sounded sci-fi. Later that week Moonsnails homepage went online.

By the end of April 2006 we were getting quotes from various printers, both local and online. Announcement went out with the news that Moonsnails would see its public release in September of 2006. We were off and running, and than came May 9, 2006 and the flood that washed away all of our plans, destroying everything we owned and bringing Twighlight Manor Press to an instant standstill. We lost everything, the building was condemned, and nothing survived. As far as the business was concerned, we were back at ground zero.

That same day, as a result of the flood, my dad went into a coma. In July of 2006, my dad awoke from the coma and returned home disabled and in my care. In September of 2006, instead of releasing Moonsnails, we found ourselves in the midst of fight to save our land from a local land shark. The result was my dad’s return to the hospital. In October of 2006, a fire swept through. What little we had that survived the flood, was destroyed in the fire and we were faced with fighting out Maine’s frigid winter in a tent, a fate that did not sick well with my disabled dad’s rapidly failing health.

In January of 2007, things took a turn once again, this time in our favor, and we found our selves with electricity, heat, and a roof over our heads, for the first time since May 9, 2006.

Reunited with my computer, I was amazed to find, that in spite of the flood, in spite of the fire, the hard drive remained intact, and with a few minor repairs, it runs as good as new. It looks like hell, a bent mangled mess, but who cares, all my files are still here! All my plans and templates, all those months of research and market studies: they had survived! With that knowledge in hand I set out to pick up the pieces, and once again, plans are underway, full speed ahead, to bring Moonsnails into production.

And that brings us to today. Nether flood, nor fire, nor cold of winter, could stop Moonsnails. Moonsnails rises once again.

~EK

Spring In Maine

It’s a nice warm spring day in April in Maine. I bet you can tell, that is if you can see through the driving snow outside your window. Yep, it’s April, and right on schedual is our annual snowstorm. Jim Thomas and Ken Shoop must be ripping their hair out right now.  More snow mean longer snow on the ground and a longer time we got to stop them from stealing the Goldeneagle (my 1964 Dodge 330 which they have said must be junked as soon as the snow melts, otherwise the town of Old Orchard Beach well fine us $2,500 a day for each day we refuse to remove it.)

For those of you who do not know The Goldeneagle is the heart and soul of The Twighlight Manor series. If not for this car, none of the books would ever have been written. Back in 1978 when the first volum was written their were 4 characters: EelKat, Sir Roderic, Emporer Blue, and Captain Goldeneagle a.k.a Etiole. Captain Goldeneagle was the character based on this car, the character that would go on to be the most celebrated and most contraversal of the entire series: Etiole. The car itself has been featured again and again thoughout the series. It is an icon with fans of the series. An icon who is now threatened on the latest method of harassment that Jim Thomas and Ken Shoop have brought down on our family. (and ours is not the first they have done this to, they have a long history of doing this!)

First they put my dad in the hospital in a coma.

Than they force us to live in a tent during Maine’s sub-zero winter.

Than they threaten our pets.

Now they threaten my car.

And I continue to wonder: when well this end? When well someone put a stop to this man’s reign of terror? Why does everyone turn a blind eye to what they are doing?

~~EK

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Church VS Christian

I was just out chatting on another forum, and came across a discution about being a Christian and going to church or not. Well of course, you know me, I just had to join in a give my 2 cents worth right? Well, I got to thinking… It’s a good topic, why not have it on my forum as well?So, here it is: The original post that started the other topic on the other forum, and my answer to it. Add what ever you feel needs adding.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sept 18, 2006, 6:07am, pulse2 wrote:

Ok, I am a christian, I portray christianity in my life, I harm no one (Mainly because I’m pretty peaceful and avoid fights, just use words, usually more harmfull ), I don’t steal, I have never injured let alone murdered someone, I don’t go around lying and cursing people, I respect anyone and everyone, I love my family and pretty much everything needed to be a christian, however, I don’t go to church as often as a lot of Christians who go every Sunday, I’m just too busy, people say I can’t be a real christian if I don’t go to church every Sunday, huh?Do I need to? Its not as if I have never been before, I make and effort to go when I can, honestly? But how is it that many that do go to church can cheat on thier partner, betray someone, kill someone (Not likely but still happens), maybe rape or rob or even commit some other kind of sin, not once, but maybe several times and still be classed as more of a christian then me? I find that kind of hypocritical.Does this happen to any of you? Can you answer it? Does it happen to any other religeons?

I am a Christian. I grew up in a very strict Christian home.

When I say strict, I mean VERY: not only were the things you mentioned grave sins, but so to were the following:

women were forbidden to:

• cut their hair
• wear pants
• wear skirts above the knee
• wear short sleeves
• wear makeup
• wear jewelry
• be over 16 years of age and not be married
• be over 18 years of age and not have at least 4 children
• work or get jobs

things forbidden to all, both men and women included:

• drinking
• smoking
• coffee
• tea
• soda
• swearing (and you’s be surprised the things that are considered a swear!)
• public school
• meat

Those are just the major biggie sins, there are lots of little ones as well, stupid ritual like things… hand washings, wearing special underwear you have to wear, and stuff like that

giant sins like adultery, rape, murder, divorce, etc… those things you can’t be forgiven for EVER.

at least accourding to my family….

me, today, as an adult… I look at them and think… they are nuts!

today, I am still a Christian, I stll wear long dresses, I have long hair, and I don’t eat meat, but beyound that, I do not believe the same things my family does… I do not believe that the idiosicesies and rituals make you a Christian

today, my family shuns me, I am “the evi one”l, “the child of satan”, “the fallen one”, and other such titles they have given me. Why?

Because:

• I drink tea
• I drink soda
• I am 31 and not yet married
• I am 31 and have no children
• at age 31 I am trying to get a job and finding it very difficult as no one well hire a women age 31 with no schooling or prviouse job experiance
• I do not attend church
• I do not attend temple
• I do not wear special underwear

What is a Christian? By deffanition, a Christian is one who obeies the practices of Christ.

What did Christ do?

• He heal the sick
• he helped the poor
• he preached love thy neighbor
• he taught AGAINST eye for an eye
• he said to pray to The Father
• he did not wear fancy clothes
• he was condemded for working on Sabbth
• he made a whip and beat people in church
• he not only drank wine, he turned water into it

there are a whole list of things that Chriist taught, said, and did, he rarely went to church on the Sabbeth and was constantly ridiculed for it, by the Pharasies and the Saducies

I believe that a Christian does the things that Christ did…

I have known men and women who go to church every Sunday (or Saterday, depending on their faith), and I have known those same men and women to lie, cheat, steal, swear, drink, commit adultry, 3 went to prison for rape, a few were excumunicated for child abuse, and one even went to prison for murder.

All of them claimed to be Christian, all of them never missed the Sabbath.

I have meet many people who were not Christian. Where I live the Jewish faith is quite strong, there is even a synagog a mile from my house, and another 2 towns away. Musliums are becoming quite common here latly as well. There is a hindu community 40 mins away, and several Asia communities, with tradition relgions, that I do not understand or know the names of. After the Jews, Wiccans are prob’ly the largest non-Christian religion in the area. I’ve known MANY of them.

Than there are those who believe nothing, atheists and agnostics. My best friend’s dad is one of these.

Well, the point is, these non-Christian, live their lives quite peacefully, they go about their daily business, they do not try to convert people to their faith, they just go about their daily lives….

• in spite of the Christian groups who organize protests and camp out on their front lawns or business steps,
• in spite of the Christians who smash car windshield and storefront plate glass…
• in spite of the Christians who spray paint swatica’s on front doors of homes and synagogs….
• in spite of Christians who throw pigs heads in synagogs and mousques and drip pig’s blood and pig fat on car door handles. (yeah… I live Maine, right near the one that’s been on international news all summer, the pig head incedent that everyone was talking about on national news, it was local news here for months before the media got ahold of it… the one they had to call the FBI in on, because the Christians are so uptight against Jews and Muslums around here)

My question is…

• wasn’t Jesus a Jew?
• and when did Jesus do things like this to other faiths?
• how are these “good Christians” condoning this as something Jesus would do?
• and how can they sit in church each Sunday knowing what they did?

In answer to your question, I have this to say:

Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian anymore than sitting in a garage on Saterday makes you a car!

It is what you say, that makes you a Christian.
It is what you do, that makes you a Christian.
It is how you treat others, that makes you a Christian.
It is what is in your heart, that makes you a Christian.
It is love for one another, that makes you a Christian.

It is who you are,
not where you are,
that makes you what you are!

i think the average Christian (of which I am) is okay… they are living by what they believe in and are overall good people…it’s the fanitics that bug me, you know, the type that say “You go to my church or I’ll kill you.” those type. They bug me cause, that wasn’t Jesus way. He gave people the freedom to choice or not, he didn’t force people to follow him against their will.

Town Begins Investigation of Manager

What follows is a copy of a news article from a Maine newspaper: Portland Press Herald. If you haven’t done so already, please read last month’s post: Government Corruption: Town’s Harasment of Disabled Senior Goes Too Far!for more information regarding the series of events in the lives of just one of the families that this man has tormented.

Town Begins Investigation of Manager

Jim Thomas’ management style has led to complaints in Old Orchard Beach

By Seth Harkness;Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald York Edition March 15, 2007 copyright 2007 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.

OLD ORCHARD BEACH_ The Old Orchard Beach Town Council voted Wednesday night to hire a lawyer to examine complaints against Town Manager Jim Thomas.The councilors did not name the employee under investigation when they voted unanimously to hire Brunswick attorney Martin Wilk “in connection with a personal matter”, and no councilors would publicly confirm the town manager was involve. But in the last six weeks the town council has held two closed door meetings to discuss personal issues, neither of which were attended by Thomas. The Old Orchard Beach town charter requires the town manager to “attend the meetings of the Town Council, except when the Manager’s removal is being considered.”

Before the meeting, Town Council Chairmen Joe Klein was asked whether the personnel matter on Wednesday night’s agenda involved Thomas. “That’s a logical deduction,” he said.

As recently as last fall, the council extended Thomas’ contract and gave him a raise. Many people also credit the town manager, a Lewiston native who was hired in 2003, with helping to improve the appearance of downtown and attracting a new wave of economic development.

However, what some describe as Thomas’ headstrong style of dealing with town employees and members of the public has credited conflict, both in Old Orchard Beach and at his previous manager’s job in Sterling, Colo.

Thomas was fired from the Colorado position in December of 2002 after four months on the job, according to Frank Gower, a city councilor in Sterling for the past nine years. “He didn’t get along with employees and it was like his way or the highway,” said Gower. “He’s a good visionary man, but I think his management style left a lot to be desired. It was a conflict type management style like I’ve never seen before.”

Some former town employees in Old Orchard Beach said they had similar experiences while working for Thomas.

Tim Braun was director of Public Works in Old Orchard for six years and is now town engineer in Gorham. Braun left his position in Old Orchard one year after Thomas arrived, he said, because he could not tolerate working with the town manager. Braun described Thomas as a temperamental boss, prone to delivering orders and threatening employees with the loss of their jobs.

“He uses the authoritarian model,” Braun said. “I was reminded that I was an employee at will. There wasn’t any mincing of words.”

Thomas did not respond to requests for an interview Wednesday.

In September of 2005 the Town Council discussed residents’ complaints that the town manager had shown a lack of respect toward individuals and a disregard for public opinion. The council took no action at that time and Thomas said that his efforts to improve the town were bound to upset some people.

One recent controversy involving Thomas occurred last week when two town councilors, Jim Long and Robin Dayton, questioned the legality of a closed-door meeting in which they said Thomas urged the council to extend a contract with Poland Spring.

Thomas also was accused of running afoul of freedom of information laws during his tenure in Colorado. In October of 2002, the Journal Advocate, a daily newspaper in Sterling, published an editorial that chastised Thomas for refusing to release a copy of minutes from a city staff meeting. The paper also criticized Thomas for a policy requiring city employees to answer questions from the press only in writing.

Despite the controversies, a majority of the Old Orchard Beach Town Council voted in October to extend Thomas’ contract through June 2008 and raise his salary to $92,000.

Contact Staff Writer Seth Harkness at 207-282-8225 or at: sharkness@pressherald.com

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This Day in History: March 13

March 13 is an interesting day; here are a few examples:

On March 13 in 1781, German born English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered the seventh planetfrom the sun, Uranus.

On March 13 1887, Chester Greenwood of Maine recieved a patent for earmuffs.

On March 13, 1964 Catherine Genovese was killed in the Kew Gardens Community of Queens, NY, while 38 of her friends and neighbors, “not wanting the get involved” watched for nearly 30 minutes as the girl was repeatedly stabbed by her 29 years old attacker. Others, outraged by her friends’ testamony declared March 13 “Good Samaritan Day”, a day to emphasize the importance of unselfish aid to those who need it.

What happened to this girl reminds me of our family. Dozens of people, possibly hundreds, know what has been happening to our family, and yet, no one well help us, no one well do anything to stop it, even when we have begged and pleaded for help from everyone we can think of, still no one well help us and thier reason is always the same: “It’s not my place to get involved.” Most of those would say this claim to be Christians. Now I ask you, in view of this being Good Samaritain’s Day, “What would Jesus do?”

Causes EK Supports: Animal Rights

I support many causes, esp those dealing with chickens, poultry, and farm animals. Other causes I support are animal rights, children’s rights, anti-elder abuse, breast cancer, endangered specices, anti-fur, vegan, the environment, and other such causes.

I was one of the original protestors of Proctor & Gamble, back in the early 1980’s, and am now entering my 18th year of active and ongoing protest and boycott of Proctor & Gamble and it’s masive and shameless support of the Draize Eye Test.

My home is currently the refuge of over 200 stray, abandoned, etc. animals, includeing 9 cats, 2 dogs,  and 200+ roosters and hens.

Listed below are many (though not nearly all) the causes I currently support.

Animal Welfare:

 

300+ Geese to be Slaughtered!

A Cessation to the Illegal Brutal Practices of Farra-do-Boi in Brazil

An Ordinance For Pinellas County Prohibiting the Trapping or Killing of Peacocks

A Petition to Protect the Animal Victims of Hurricane Katrina

AllAboutAnimals.org.uk

AnimalActivist.com

 

Animal rights group to protest KFC

AnimalSavingsClub.com

www.animalwelfaresociety.org – The Animal Welfare Society (were 2 of my dogs came from)

Another Chance Animal Rescue Home Page

Antifreeze is Deadly to Children & Animals – Help Make it Safe

Are You Taking Good Care of Your Pet?

Australian and South Pacific Whales Under Renewed Threat From Whaling

Ban the Export of Live Horses for Slaughter

Be an Angel for Stray Animals

BruceFriedrich.com

CaringConsumer.com

Carrot2004.com

ChuayChangThai.com

 

 

Chickens blow-torched to death, frogs blown up

 

Chickens and Turkeys Deserve Humane Treatment, Too

Circuses.com

CircusWatch.com

 

 

Click daily to make a difference!

 

Click free to help the Wildlife Conservation Society protect big cat territory now!

CLICK HERE TO JOIN LCA’S MAILING LIST!!!!

Cockfighting

CommandoChicks.com

CompassionateCitizen.com

CowsAreCool.com

Crack Down On Canned Hunts!

Cruelty to Pet Shop Animals

Danger! Endangered Species Act Threatened

Dissection

Don’t Abandon Pets in Disasters

DON’T ALLOW THE MORINI FARM TO SELL ANIMALS FOR VIVISECTION. …

Don’t Be Cruel

Dog-Fighting

End Canada’s Merciless Seal Hunt

END CRUELTY TO KFC CHICKENS

European Union allows sadistic torturing of animals because it’s tradition

Factory Farming

Federal: Fight Puppy Mills! Urge Your Representative to Support the Pet Animal Welfare Statute (PAWS)!

Federal: Urge your Representative to Protect Downed Animals! Support H.R. 3931!

Feral Cats in Philadelphia need your help!!!

FishingHurts.com

Fur

FurIsDead.com

FurisDead.co.uk

Fur Killing for Commerce

GoVeg.com

GoVeg.co.uk

HB 497 Alternatives to Dissection

Have the AKC stop registering puppies from puppy mills

***HELP BAN THE CRUELTY OF BATTERY HEN EGGS*** Petition

HELP BAN THE HORROR OF BATTERY HENS !!!

 HELP BAN THE HORROR OF BATTERY HENS !!!

help pets in need with your free click!

Help Protect Endangered Great Cats and Rare Canines

Help Stop Puppy Mills!!!

HelpingAnimals.com

HelpingAnimals101.com

Hunting

IamsCruelty.com

Incarcerate Kitten Killer!

Intern at LCA

JesusVeg.com

JesusVeg.de

Join PETA’s Activist Network

JustChoices.com

Keep Pets Safe During Disasters – Ask Red Cross to Adopt National Program

KFCCruelty.com

KFCCruelty.co.uk

KFCGrausam.de

 

 

KFC, Improve the Lives of Animals!

 

KFC IS EVIL TO CHICKENS

Leather

LettuceLadies.com

Links To Rescue Leagues, Humane Societies, Animal Shelter, Pet…

LobsterLib.com

Maine Pet Shelters and Animal Rescue Organizations

Make Aggravated Animal Cruelty a Felony  

Make Animal Abuse Punishments More Severe

 

 

Make animal testing a thing of the past.

 

 

Make Cars Safe for Cats and Other Small Creatures

Make Penalties for Animal Abuse More Severe! 

Make pet “owners” into pet “guardians”

MarchofCrimes.com

MeanGreenies.com

MassKilling.com

Masskilling.co.uk

NewPet.com Animal Shelter Search

 

NO MORE LEG TRAPS USED ON WILDLIFE IN ALASKA!

Non-Pet Animal Protection

Pet Overpopulation

Pet Theft

PETA.org

PETAAuctions.com

PETACatalog.com

PETAKids.com

PETALiterature.com

PETAMall.com

PETAPSA.com

PetaTV.com

PETAIndia.com

PETAIndiaKids.com

PETAenEspanol.com

PETAKids.com

PETA-Kids.de

peta.org.uk

PETA.de

peta2.com

PETA2.co.uk

PETA2.de

PETA.nl

PINELLAS COUNTY FREE SPAY/NEUTER PROGRAM

Please support the bill for new Animal Welfare Act of Croatia

Please take further action today:  (avian flu)

PleatherYourself.com

Pledge to boycott Procter & Gamble products until they cease testing on animals!

Premarin

 

 

Protect Colorado’s Female Cougars and Their Kittens

Protect Livestock in Texas

 

 

Protect the Wolves of Norway

 

Prevent the Misuse of Antibiotics Petition

Puppy Mills

Repeal Philadelphia Bann on Farm Animals PetitionSAVE 53-YEAR-OLD ELEPHANT IN EMERGENCY CONDITION

Save baby seals with a FREE click now!

SAVE CATS, DOGS, AND RABBITS FROM TORTURE MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

Save The HeadStart Turtle Program!!

SAVE MORE THAN 100,000 ANIMALS! Stop Fur-Farming Complex From Being Built in Norway

Save rain forests with a FREE click now!

Save Scottish Hedgehogs from Annual Cull

Save the Great Bear Rainforest

Say “No” to Japan’s Plan to Kill Humpback Whales

SaveTheSheep.com
ShedYourSkin.com

SeaVegetariano.com

ShareTheWorld.com

Sign LCA’s petition to help
the LA Zoo Elephants

Start an Animal Rights Club at Your School

www.stolenpets.com

 

 

Stop Aerial Gunning of Wolves in Alaska 

 

Stop Animal Abuse!

StopAnimalTests.com

STOP the barbaric, inhumane killing of Akron, Ohio’s cats, NOW!

Stop Congress from gutting the Endangered Species Act!

Stop Cruel Seal Hunt

Stop Dissection in the Classroom

Stop Kentucky Fried Cruelty

Stop KFC Cruelty 

Stop the Horrors of Factory Farming Now

Stop Nauticalia Ltd Making Real-Fur Cat Trinkets!

Stop Overfishing in New England

Stop Premarin and Pregnant Mare Abuse

Stop Slaughter of Downed Animals for Human Consumption!

STOP TORTURE AND KILLING OF HORSES

***STOP USING BATTERY HEN EGGS IN SUPERMARKET PRODUCTS! …

Support Alternatives to Dissection and Students’ Right to Choose!

Support Cruelty-Free Charities

Support the Jane Goodall Institute with your free click today.

Support for the “Friends-In-Need” rescue center

TeachKind.org

TeamPETA.com

 

 

Tell Bush: Stop the importation of endangered species!

 

Tell Congress: Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

TELL IAMS TO CEASE CAT AND DOG EXPERIMENTS

Tell Trader Joe’s ITS CUSTOMERS Want Cage-Free Eggs ONLY!

Threatened Oceans: Help Save the Striped Bass

torturing animals for amusement

TrueFriendsMemorials.com

University of Arizona Kills Dogs

Urge KFC to end cruel slaughter, use CAK Petition

Urge the March of Dimes to stop wasting money on Animal Testing!

Urge tobacco companies to end smoking tests on animals

Veganism

VegCooking.com

VegKids.com

VegetarianStarterKit.com

VeggieVisitors.com

Vivisection

We Demand Justice for Tiger Killer!  

welcome : The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

 

 

Worldwide Petition to stop animal testing by cosmetic companies

 

You Can Help Animals!

Not Homeless Anymore!!! WOO~HOO!!!!

Every day has something good about it. No matter how much the day sucked or how mant bad things happened… at least one good thing happened somewhere, somehow, and it happened to you.So, what was it?  

today’s good thing:We have been approved for an apartment by HUD, FINALLY!!!!! We have been living in a tent since May 2006, it took them until January 2007 to get us indoors again, and only because someone called DHS to complain that people should not be living in a tent in below zero temperatures… well, I agree, but since the flood/fire we had no choice, I don’t make enough money to pay rent, let alone build a new house, no family or friends would help us and of all the charities and churches and such (even Red Cross!) the only place that has done anything to help us since last May was the Salvation Army, who gave us a bag of food each month…. a bag of food a month, can’t feed a family of 5, nor does it help us get indoors again, what else was we supposed to do? The tent was our only option. Well, DHS was furious that even our town manager (who we also went to for help) had done nothing, so now DHS is on the asses of the Town officials from Old Orchard Beach, because they are the ones that wouldn’t let us back in the house, and told us that if we intended to stay on our own land the only thing the town would approve was a tent… well DHS contacted HUD, where we were on a waiting list with over 600 names ahead of us, and they moved us up to the #1 slot and now as of today we have a roof over our heads, phone, and electricity for the first time since May of 2006!

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Prayers Needed For EK’s Dad: Update

{{{{{{{hugs everyone}}}}}}}}}}

got all your messages… thanks guys!

update:

they are trying to ween him off the vetalator today, they say it still may be a while before they can actually take it off entirly, but they are lowering the oxegan level from 100% to 55% and they are gonna try to keep lowering it every day.

he woke up for a short while, and was able to nod yes and no, but they have him sedated now, cause being awake again was too stressful on his system, cause he’s so weak now

they are also starting him on a feeding tube today, cause they think his system is ready to handle it now

other stuff happening, but still homeless so using someone elses computer and have no time to explain… well try to keep you updated

~~EK

What Is Success?

What is success?

How do you describe the word success?

What would it take for you to feel successful?

I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone thinks on this.

Of course it would help get the discusion moving if I posted my feelings on it, so here I go…

I’ve known several people who thought that they weren’t successful until they earned so much money a year, owned a certain make car (Jaguar or BMW for instance), owned a vacation home, or a big boat. I always looked at these guys and asked them why they thought that money and items were success and they really didn’t have an answer. That always bothered me. It made me sad and I felt like they were missing out on the joys of real success.

I live on a beach, where lots of millionaires vacation each year, and I see these so called successful people every day. They have a lot of money coming in, they have the second house on the beach, they have the boat, they have the car, and they look around and say they still want more, but than they also have the mortages, the bank loans, the lease, and the sky rocketing property taxes. They have the “things” but they also have the debt and stress that comes with them. They tell people that at last they are successful, but than they are sad and depressed and end up with counseling bills on top of everything else, cause they need counseling to find out, why if they are so “successful” why than are they not also happy?

These same summer folks often look at me and my family…5 people and 200+ pets, living in a cabin just under 700 squ feet, on an income of less than $20,000 a year, and with a car that gets towed home several times a year cause it’s so old and beat up. They often ask us, how we can live like this and be happy. Why aren’t we stressed out like they are? Why aren’t we striving to be “successful” like them?

My answer is always the same. What is success? Is it money? Is it big houses and fancy cars? No. It is a family that loves you. It is haveing a job that alows ou to stay home with your family, even if it doesn’t make you rich. It is taking care of animals that were abandoned by their previose owners and knowing that they are now happy and safe. It is being able to walk to the beach each day and see the sunrise or the sunset, even if our house is the smallest one in town. It’s going to the movies with our children and talking about why we liked it on the drive home. It’s the weekly pizza nights, when we sit around talking and laughing in a tiny local pizza parlor, where we are so regular that they save our seats and know what to order without our seeing the menu.

No, success can not be counted in dollars and cents; success is counted in hours and minutes, laughter and tears…success in when you have a family that loves you, that you enjoy spending time with, and no amount of money can ever buy that.

Public School: Dumbing Our Future?

What is the world coming to these days? I look at the idiosy of the young people today and I wonder, what the hell are they teaching in public school these days, or are they even teaching anything at all may be a better question?

you’d be shocked at how many people I’ve met who didn’t know that pork and ham came from pigs or that hamburger started out as a cow, or how many I’ve meet who thought that Maine was a providance of Canada, not a US state or that New Mexico was a part of Mexico, also not part of the USA, I’ve yet to met a single person that knew roosters/hens/chickens were birds before I told them of that fact, 9 out of every 10 people I’ve met belive that Ben Franklin was a President of the US. I once meet someone who actually believed the moon was made of cheese!!!! My experiance with most young Americans (fresh out of high school age) hadsled me to believe that the education in public schools has failed beyound belief and serves no real purpose when it comes to an actual education.

With minds like that destined to be our future, what possible future can our planet expect to have? And note, that I do not blame the students. It’s not thire fault that their parants were too dumb to teach them how to think. It’s not their fault that public schools are too worried about political correctness and sex education to teach history and science. Students are getting jipped. They are the ones getting the short end of the deal. Students everywhere should band together and demand that schools shape up or ship out, before the mind that can think becomes any more of an endangered speicis.

My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ).  Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell,  and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad  example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is  setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!! 

 Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now. 

 I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.