Mover Mike

Come on! Comparing Ann Romney to Hitler or Stalin! Have you forgotten your history. Stalin killed upwards of 50 million people and Hitler, at least 12 million. Ann Romney is a fine mother and wife.

Is Terry Bean Happy?

MoverMike — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:30:08 +0000

Open Secrets.org has a list of Obama bundlers.

Bundlers are people with friends in high places who, after bumping against personal contribution limits, turn to those friends, associates, and, well, anyone who’s willing to give, and deliver the checks to the candidate in one big “bundle.”

I checked the list for bundlers in Oregon. There’s only one:

Bean, Terry Portland OR Bean Investment Real Estate (Contributed) $208,621

Bean is a longtime Portland-based gay activist and philanthropist slash real estate mogul. I suspect he’s happy that Obama came out for gay marriage, even though Congress passed a bill that states that marriage is between a man and a woman. I would note that Terry Bean is no better or worse off than he was before Obama made his statement, but it should make it easy to bundle money.

It’s Very Troubling!

MoverMike — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:46:00 +0000

Lara Logan On “60 Minutes” Sunday

MoverMike — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:32:59 +0000

A former top CIA covert officer who ran one of the spy agency’s secret domestic networks says there are now more foreign spies on U.S. soil than at the peak of the Cold War. The former officer, Hank Crumpton, who also served as deputy director of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center and led the U.S. response to 9/11, speaks candidly to Lara Logan about his life as a spy on 60Minutes, Sunday, May 13 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

Marriage Is NOT About Funding

MoverMike — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:43:07 +0000

Problem by George Bilgere

MoverMike — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:22:21 +0000

Another walk in the neighborhood, another poetry offering:

Problem

by George Bilgere

Jerry is at his usual table this morning
with his cup of coffee and his laptop,
working on his science fiction/fantasy novel.

In every café in America
men and women are hard at work
on their science fiction/fantasy novels.
Perhaps you are one of them. If so,
I salute you; it’s a very competitive field.

Forty years, says Jerry, I sold life insurance.
Now I can do what I really want to do.

The planet where his story takes place
has three suns, and the problem he’s working on
is how do the aliens there tell time.

I suggest having everyone wear three watches,
which Jerry doesn’t think is funny.
This is a serious novel, he’s taking it seriously,
and he’s wants to get everything just right.

Forty years I sold life insurance, he says.
Now I can do what I really want to do.

George Bilgere (born 1951) is an American poet.

Quake Off Oregon Coast

MoverMike — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:11:14 +0000

3.3

240 km (149 mi) W of Bandon, OR