tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81795328297281768802024-03-12T18:17:55.156-07:002authorThe adventures of an unknown scribe.Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-1410644925613026862017-12-22T11:59:00.000-08:002017-12-22T11:59:47.531-08:00Our Bicentennial Crisis by Pete Davis <div class="MsoNormal">
Our Bicentennial Crisis<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pete Davis, Harvard Law Class of 2018, has written a
compelling book on the current crisis in our legal education system. </div>
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“Our
Bicentennial Crisis” focuses on Harvard Law School, but in greater context is
an examination of our culture and educational system.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mr. Davis breaks down our legal education situation into
historical, current, and future perspectives. His call to reform and refine the
current system is a dissection of our legal culture. A culture which has grown
to exclude citizens from the most basic of legal services due to the unbearable
cost of litigation. His solutions are workable, but will probably not win too
many converts among the legal crowd.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I highly recommend reading his book.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You can get it as a PDF download through this link:</div>
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Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-69694753542910900442017-11-18T09:31:00.001-08:002017-11-18T09:31:43.907-08:00My Favorite BelgianN<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You have one, don’t you? I
mean, how hard is it to choose? OK, this is about misperception and how you
don’t know who you think you know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">People in your life will
mislead you or you can do it to yourself. The bad guys are all around us and
some of them look like good people. Our social media doesn’t help as it
perpetuates ignorance through jingoism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You’ve got all those
Hollywood stereotypes, like Colonel Klink or Sergeant Shultz on “Hogan’s
Heroes” or maybe you like the film versions of famous Nazis. Hitler is so easy
to caricature, that funny little Chaplin-like mustache and all the
goose-stepping armies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Unfortunately, in real life,
Nazis can almost appear to be human. They have families, jobs, companies, and,
as in my case, you might work for one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">No, I didn’t know that I was
working for a Nazi. It took almost 30 years to find out. Still, it was an
experience I’ll never forget, mainly due to the discipline demanded by my
former employer. He didn’t take no shit, want to talk, or hang-out after work.
Group therapy involved riding moto-cross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I was a young, impressionable
lad, living in a foreign country. Belgium is a lovely little place that most
Americans now know for its beer. In the late 1960s it was known for NATO, the
Common Market (later to evolve into the European Union), and great moto-cross
riders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">After school was out, summer
of my junior year, 1970, I went to work for one of the local BMW dealers. Which
was beneficial in that I apprenticed at a usable trade, made a few dollars ($5
USD per week), and tried to learn French and Flemish, since English wasn’t
spoken at the shop. When working in a foreign language you have to pay close
attention, otherwise the boss is liable to do something that could injure you,
inadvertently, of course. I found this out when the maestro scorched me with
hot slag while cutting the rusted muffler off a BMW sedan with a welding torch.
Ya, ve vil make you tough, heh?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Of course, I wanted to know
how the maestro came to work on BMWs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">There was some small talk,
very little, during our afternoon tea and biscuits (cookies to Americans). The
other apprentice helped with the translation, when I couldn’t decipher the
conversation. It turned out that he had been a Luftwaffe mechanic during World
War II, working on Focke-Wulff Fw 190
fighter aircraft powered by 41liter BMW radial engines. I didn’t question how
that happened to him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">After all, Vietnam was on,
American youth were being drafted into the military. Something I knew about
first hand, as I was a military brat, attending a DOD high school, run by an
Army colonel. I figured that when the German Wehrmacht invaded Belgium, he got
drafted into service. I really don’t know how he came to join the Luftwaffe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">He was all business, even
down to his relaxation. On the weekends, a huge, 500cc Rickman Metisse
moto-cross bike was wheeled out and taken to a gravel pit behind NATO.
Christian, the Belgian apprentice, had a Husqvarna 250 to ride. That left his
retired, 1953 DKW 125 street bike, converted to run in the dirt. I bought it, a
$50 dollar deal. There went my summer earnings, all in one shot. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We would take the bikes out
to the pit and ride them on Sunday. A great experience for a kid like me. The
maestro had been the Belgian moto-cross champion in the mid-50s, so he was no
slouch on the bike. I learned a lot about riding from him. Tips and tricks that
would later save my life more than once while riding on the street. Like when I
had to go off-road into a ditch to avoid an asshole coming at me head-on,
shaking his fist at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">All things pass, the summer
ended, back to school. I rode some more during the winter, but after I
graduated my parents went back to the USA. The US Army hired me for a clerk in
1971, so I didn’t work at the BMW shop that year. The DKW went into storage,
something about not being able to take it back to the USA with our personal
goods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Twenty-five years went by. My father went to Europe on a business trip. He stopped in at the old BMW shop. It
was closed but the maestro was still there, living above the shop with his
wife. He wanted to know when I was going to get my old DKW. He had saved it for
me all of those years. The old man told me about it when he got back to the
USA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It was another couple of
years before I returned to Europe. My life was good, I was working as a
technical writer, making decent money. Before the writing job, I had worked for
a BMW dealer in Ohio. They gave me a good deal on ordering a new BMW M3 in
1998. 45 years old and I had never owned a new car, so I special ordered this
one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I flew to Munich, picked up
the BMW at the factory. Drove the hell out of it for two weeks, smoking the
Autobahn to Vienna, then back to Germany and over to the Netherlands. Where my
employer had the prospects of a new contract. I then cruised down to Brussels,
the old high school, and the BMW garage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The street had changed, shops
were gone, exteriors upgraded, new row houses built. I found the garage, parked
the car and went upstairs to the apartment. Knocked on the door. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A woman answered it. She was
older, but not the wife. I asked her about the maestro with my fractured
French. She immediately began ranting at me, screaming about “…that Nazi!” I
was shocked, blown back by her tirade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She was his daughter. I had
never heard about her. It was obvious that she hated her father and didn’t want
to discuss him. I asked about my motorcycle. She screamed some more about, “I
have nothing to do with him. It’s not here, I don’t know anything, go away!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I shook my head. All these
years. I never had any idea that the man who taught me how to work on BMWs,
ride motorcycles, and generally be disciplined in my work was a Nazi. I mean,
he was a Belgian. I thought they all hated the Nazis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You never know, someone you
know could be one. I found out the hard way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The only question I have is;
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Time to look into some World War II
records.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-32125893176666039082017-11-04T10:31:00.000-07:002017-11-04T10:31:45.690-07:00Your Favorite NaziIn this day and age, we still rant and rave about the Nazis.<br />
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I've a lifetime of experience with this political situation.<br />
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Although I'm not now, nor have ever been a Nazi, I've been accused of being one on numerous occasions because of my birthplace. I was born in Germany to an American father and German mother. When I move to the USA as an infant I grew up in Tennessee for the first 10 years, then moved to Ohio.<br />
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It didn't matter which part of the country I lived in, there was always the Nazi comments.<br />
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The sad irony is that many Americans have supported those in power who have been influenced by the Nazi movement. Yet, they wouldn't recognize it due to their education (indoctrination).<br />
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Yes, even those with higher educations are not immune to being swayed by the lure of political power. It's a false idol for them, since they never really know true power, but live under the illusion that might makes right.<br />
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In the turmoil of our current social unrest we can only hope that people begin to realize that everything they are being told is agenda driven to suit the interests of the elites.<br />
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Ignore what they say, watch what they do.Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-33153696149362104692017-09-02T08:56:00.000-07:002017-09-02T08:56:51.279-07:00Going Dutch, Trials of a Wage Slave, first videoI wrote "Going Dutch, Trials of a Wage Slave" after a lifetime of working in various industries.<br />
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It would be great to say that all employers are created equal and give their employees decent benefits, good working conditions, and pay them what they're worth.<br />
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Unfortunately, the employee, to many companies, is one of the most disposable of assets.<br />
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After all, there are plenty of people out on the street who will do the job for less.<br />
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If a company made an investment in training someone, why would they throw the employee's abilities and work experience out the door?<br />
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Too often it's a matter of short-term 'cost savings'. All done to boost the bottom line, impress investors and raise the stock price. Maybe the boss considers the employee a threat to their position.<br />
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In the end, the company usually has problems, but management is rarely to blame.<br />
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As long as the investors and upper management get to bail out with a profit, it doesn't matter that the employees lost their jobs and sometimes, their pensions.<br />
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Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-59620177318413517262017-08-19T09:27:00.001-07:002017-08-19T09:47:23.662-07:00Hate in America, Army StyleFirst and foremost, I'm a military brat.<br />
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I know, first hand, how things are on military bases.<br />
How the chain of command can become a tangle of errors.<br />
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SNAFU, TARFU, FUBAR.<br />
All those acronyms that shorthand military life.<br />
Something that civilians will never understand.<br />
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What has happened to Army Lt. Katie Ann Blanchard is beyond comprehension.<br />
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This hate has to stop.<br />
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WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfu599M5rP0">Hate in America, Army Style</a><br />
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Write, email, call your congressman.<br />
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Ask Obama and Trump how this could have happened, as they both proclaimed support for our military.<br />
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<br />Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-38214897960627572242017-08-19T09:08:00.000-07:002017-08-19T09:08:08.631-07:00Time for the Eclipse of AmericaNext week at this time, the Great American Eclipse of 2017 will be history. There will be millions of photos, videos, selfies, and commentary.<br />
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I've seen a total eclipse from the Netherlands back in 1999. Unfortunately, I didn't take off from work to see it. Totality was further south in Belgium, France and Luxembourg.<br />
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Standing in the parking lot with my co-workers it was a short but exciting event, in a geeky sort of way. Like they say, 'You had to be there'.<br />
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It also seemed to herald a death spiral to my working life.<br />
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The job I had was with an American company,doing contract work for another American company at their manufacturing plant. Everything connected with the job was a trial due to my former employer having never worked in Europe. Let's just say that conditions deteriorated rather than improved over time.<br />
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Was it due to the eclipse? Probably not, but down through history eclipses have been noted as portents of major changes. My life has changed dramatically since 1999.<br />
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I've spent the past 17 years trying to understand how and why America has been become the country we now have, one that appears to be lost, without principles.<br />
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A country where liars, cheats, thieves, and scoundrels flourish, and are admired for it.<br />
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All things rotten soon collapse.<br />
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I am think we are about to see that happen to America.Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-53178566842104868262017-04-01T09:37:00.000-07:002017-04-01T09:37:05.400-07:00April FoolsIt's that day. The one where we honor those people who are misled by those willing to mislead.<br />
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It should be a year-long event, the way politicians are acting, worldwide.<br />
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More fun and games as I deal with a claim against an estate, trying to get what is owed me.<br />
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Life can only get more interesting from this point on.<br />
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Don't be nobody's fool today.<br />
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Ask for their papers.Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-26300485436550916572017-02-24T09:02:00.000-08:002017-02-24T09:02:19.156-08:00No Early Christmas Presents, O'Neil & Associates, Inc PSA next week.Those of you who expected Christmas in February will be disappointed in me.<br />
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There will be no presents tomorrow. I have to work on a court filing which has a due date next week.<br />
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I <i>may </i>get another Public Service Announcement video in yet this weekend, but don't hold your breath.<br />
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My former employer, O'Neil & Associates, Inc. of Dayton, Ohio (ONA) still hasn't paid the Netherlands court judgment. The amount goes up in 5 days, so they should hurry and send the $.<br />
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The next ONA Public Service Announcement video will highlight Dutch court proceedings. How ONA tried to smear my name in court. They are such nice people, but I can't recommend them to anyone who's looking for employment.<br />
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Have a great weekend!Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-73507177823148376832017-02-18T09:55:00.000-08:002017-02-18T09:55:39.897-08:00Dutch Court Judgment video, Part One Public Service AnnouncementThis is a raw, unedited video I did concerning the O'Neil & Associates, Inc of Dayton, Ohio, Dutch court judgment.<br />
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I've asked President Trump to stop paying O'Neil & Associates, Inc of Dayton, Ohio any Department of Defense money for projects which O'Neil is working on for any of the branches of the United States military. <br />
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I apologize about the quality of this video, but I'm working under difficult conditions.<br />
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Found out that the video file is too large for this site. Here's the link to YouTube:<br />
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Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-41483897536553939772017-02-18T09:12:00.001-08:002017-02-18T09:17:54.879-08:00My Dutch Court Judgment Against O'Neil & Associates of Dayton, OhioI'm going to be uploading videos and photos about my attempts to enforce the Dutch court judgment I received against my former employer, O'Neil & Associates, Inc of Dayton, Ohio. I'm doing this as a public service.<br />
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It's my opinion, based on my experiences working with O'Neil & Associates, Inc. that this company needs to be investigated by the United States government. My research has included speaking with former employees who were harassed, intimidated and discriminated against by this company.<br />
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This is a company that does Department of Defense work. They are being paid with American tax dollars. It's time to ask our government to check into this company's operations. <br />
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To follow is a copy of the monthly billing that I send O'Neil & Associates, Inc of Dayton, Ohio.<br />
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As you can see, at this time this billing is for $240,974.52 US Dollars. This is the billing for the month of January 2017.<br />
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For those of you considering working for this company or hiring them for services you might need, I recommend checking their reviews on www.glassdoor.com. You might find it interesting.<br />
<br />Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-12419059704213561932017-02-04T09:50:00.001-08:002017-02-04T09:50:47.372-08:00Amazon Wage Slaves Immigrants Trump Justice Politics<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tpl14oOAyxs" width="459"></iframe>Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-51330012800662153872016-12-31T09:03:00.000-08:002016-12-31T09:03:32.492-08:00Old Year New YearOLD YEAR NEW YEAR<br />
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Tunnel of time past</div>
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Into the future coils</div>
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As ribbons of events unwind</div>
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In my mind’s eye</div>
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Ritual of New Year</div>
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Remembrance of history</div>
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Now woven tapestry</div>
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Of our lives</div>
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Such sweet-sour memories</div>
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Trod them not underfoot</div>
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Ahead lies</div>
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The new path</div>
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Build it not with old stones</div>
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Fire new bricks</div>
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Which interlock</div>
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Into a smooth road</div>
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For all who walk</div>
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Into your life</div>
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Follow your star</div>
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Through life’s night</div>
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Into the dawn </div>
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Of a new beginning</div>
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Shining sun of a better day</div>
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This New Year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thomas L. Segerson 31
December 2016 1100hrs.</div>
Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-62190859574050752262016-09-17T08:59:00.000-07:002016-09-17T08:59:01.850-07:00The More I Do, The Less Gets DoneYou would think after a few decades on this planet that a routine would be established, a rhythm, even a damn game plan to follow.<br />
<br />
I write a list of 'Things To DO' but there's always leftovers, SNAFUs and other impediments to the completion of said task list. Which leads to the old frustration situation.<br />
<br />
How the hell to pare the dreck from life while getting on with what really matters?<br />
<br />
No matter what I do, someone brings their emergency to my door.<br />
<br />
How the hell am I responsible for your screw-up? <br />
<br />
Time to move deeper into the woods.Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-11715776246971323262016-08-29T15:26:00.000-07:002016-08-29T15:26:00.593-07:00Ignornet or internet of Colin KaepernickDuring a recent review of my social networking sites I found that I'm 'ignornet'.<br />
<br />
Yes, that word is not in your dictionary. I coined it as I'm ignorant of the mainstream internet news, TV/radio chatter and otherwise important blather that constitutes 'news'.<br />
<br />
I am so disconnected that I didn't even know who the hell Colin Kaepernick is...and to tell you the truth, I really don't care.<br />
<br />
Which would surprise most of my old friends, as I was a diehard footballer back in the day. Even played for the old high school and all that...<br />
<br />
There are too many other things to worry about than an overpaid athlete. His opinions and actions are his own.<br />
<br />
If only we could get people to get this outraged over important issues. <br />
<br />
Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-36753664706284902016-03-22T10:45:00.001-07:002016-03-22T10:45:39.799-07:00The Agony of Ted Koppel<div class="MsoNormal">
It’s tough, having foresight. Knowing of the coming train
wreck before it happens. Yelling your head off, only to be ignored, ostracized
by our fearful leaders. To borrow one of their quotes, “I feel your pain.” </div>
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I read this article <a href="http://www.insidesources.com/koppel-homeland/">http://www.insidesources.com/koppel-homeland/</a> with the hopes that maybe someone is paying attention.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ted Koppel is now experiencing something with which I’m
quite familiar, disdain and dismissal by those empowered to protect us. He’s
crying out about the woeful lack of protection against cyber-attack in our
country. Join the club, Mr. K. Some of us have been writing about this for
years without getting any traction with the powers that be. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Specifically, Mr. K. is upset about the fragility of the
electrical power grid. He right, it’s not being guarded properly by those in
Washington. Then again, they really don’t care. </div>
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When, not IF, the power grid
goes down, they’ll have plenty of back-up generators and, in worst case
scenarios, they’ll escape into their underground bunkers with their supplies of
food and water to wait out the disaster. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Maybe Mr. Koppel would like to get on The List. That very
exclusive club of those ‘worth saving’ who will be allowed to partake in the
hidden supplies. It’s a very short list and you, my fellow Americans, aren’t on
it. No, my chumps in arms, we will be limited to fending for ourselves.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, look down at that cord which stretches from your
computer, TV, air conditioner, phone, etc. etc….trace it to the source. Then
realize that it’s all that’s keeping your life, as you know it, going. When the
power goes off, your party is over.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As for the solar people, yes, you’ll have a fully charged
whatever, phone, TV, computer….but who you gonna call when the main switching
center, the cell towers, all the servers are down?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Take comfort, they make handy night lights, when the power
goes out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Buy lighters, matches and candles now, before they become
scarce.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Remember the last time the folks in Washington helped you? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Yeah, me too. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I can’t recall the last time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As for Mr. Koppel, hang in there, the lights aren't out yet.<o:p></o:p></div>
Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-55983265115103660182016-02-27T09:27:00.000-08:002016-02-27T09:27:36.597-08:00Fun With Miss Snark or Janet Reid's Winter Writing ContestI don't have an agent. Have looked high and low, but no takers just yet.<br />
<br />
Do follow a couple or three of them, got to keep up on the book biz.<br />
<br />
Miss Snark, AKA Janet Reid, has always been one that has excellent advice.<br />
<br />
Had fun a few years back when I informed her that a SNARK was a US missile from the 1950s.<br />
<br />
Here's the link, get in on the contest!<br />
<br />
http://jetreidliterary.blogspot.com/<br />
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<br />Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-32291821083547571162016-02-18T15:23:00.001-08:002016-02-18T15:23:58.389-08:00<span style="font-size: large;">Time? What Time?</span><br />
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Will you look at the time...my how it's passed me by, another year gone.<br />
<br />
Great writing is timeless. So we are told. I've been busy doing all those recommended things that need to be done to become more social, as in being on social sites. Which is important to anyone who wants to be published in the Internet Age.<br />
<br />
The question is, how much time must you spend on the social sites, which multiple like rabbits, to 'get the word out' about your writing? If you spend all day working on your Facebook, Google+, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Sh**tbucket...oh, wait, that's not a social site, at least not of this posting. How the hell do you have time for writing?<br />
<br />
I won't even go into the rest of the fun and games, but I'm still kicking. The book has been rewritten, twice, in the meantime. It's ready to go.<br />
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On to the next step.<br />
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<br />Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-7716067183797936502015-02-07T09:18:00.000-08:002015-02-07T09:18:19.454-08:00To publish or not to publishIs there any question?<br />
<br />
All of these years, decades now, of writing screenplays, tech manuals, songs, novels, notes, etc. Paper piled up in 4 drawer file cabinets.<br />
<br />
The question now becomes how to publish. I've tired of the jumping through hoops, playing 'chase the agent'. Need I write my query in blood to convince thee of my will to write?<br />
<br />
So, it's to the masses I turn.<br />
<br />
Will they find me and if they do...will they read?Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-29569865660004667612015-01-10T09:17:00.000-08:002015-01-10T09:17:08.170-08:00Into the New YearLike an old car with a weak battery, I'm hard to crank over when it's cold outside. Once I get started, I can run with the best of them.<br />
<br />
The past few weeks have been taken up with research for the books I'm working on and doing the agent hunt dance.<br />
<br />
When I get away from the keyboard I've been helping a neighbor repair his barn roof. Which is not exactly the type of activity most people engage in during the winter months. It's more of a spring, summer, fall kind of job, which you don't want to fall down on. Tied to a safety rope while sliding across the 45 degree slope of a 60 year old barn is not a leisurely situation. Sure it's not mountain climbing, but then I'm not living in the mountains.<br />
<br />
I'm running roofing screws down through crusty tin and corroded aluminum panels, securing them to weathered wood which is more rot than wood in some places. It's a good thing that I'm not too heavy at this time in my life. <br />
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Anyone else might go through the roof. Which as those of you who have experienced the vertigo, acceleration and then abrupt deceleration of any fall knows that it's not how it happens, but what lies between you and the ground that can hurt you.<br />
<br />
It's good, old fashioned, physical work and it pays off in keeping me sharp plus giving my balance and muscles a work-out. My 80 year old neighbor appreciates it and it keeps his barn roof together.<br />
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Getting my mind off my writing brings me back to the computer refreshed and ready to get on with the project at hand.Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-19713032567437757262014-12-24T09:33:00.000-08:002014-12-24T09:33:37.031-08:00Out With the Old and in With the BOLDPeople who know me will tell you that I can be a bit, let's be gentle, intense, to say the least.<br />
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I have little time and less than enough patience for the routine, much less dull in life. Which is why I chafe at the amount of time and effort it takes to get an agent or a publisher for my writing work.<br />
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To say that dealing with the old school version of the publishing world is tedious would be polite on my part. I know that it has good reason to be the way it is. Truly there are many who would want to be published so as to reap fortunes and fame. Myself, I just want to write.<br />
<br />
After years of doing other jobs, some of which I was good at, I realized that living your life while doing something you don't love is not a life. It's a job.<br />
<br />
So, on into the new year.<br />
<br />
Where I will rev up the marketing campaign.<br />
<br />
You've been warned.<br />
<br />
Have a Happy Holidays, for whatever reason you celebrate this season.<br />
<br />
Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-38273833836237319672014-10-29T09:24:00.002-07:002014-10-29T09:24:45.131-07:00The Write LifeThe write life is the only life.<br />
<br />
How can you not communicate once you learn the form?<br />
<br />
I spend many hours per week writing and researching my books, screenplays and other expressions of my thoughts.<br />
<br />
Now I have to do that which I do not enjoy, but is a necessity.<br />
<br />
Marketing my work.<br />
<br />
I've been researching agents, agencies, publishers and the various new forms of publishing available to anyone with the urge to write. Then get it out to the public and hope for it's acceptance as viable entertainment.<br />
<br />
To paraphrase Elvis, "Too much talk and not enough action, I can't get no satisfaction."<br />
<br />
Wait, there might be a touch of Rolling Stones in there...or did they copy Elvis?<br />
<br />
Either way, it's time to take action.Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-8219656094499015432014-08-06T09:27:00.000-07:002014-08-06T09:27:51.586-07:00Variety is the spice of Life And trying to decipher what people are doing in Hollywood or any of the other entertainment capitals of the world is a job in itself.<br />
<br />
I've been to the Big Apple, tried on Tinsel Town, worked in Europe and came back here to the hills.<br />
<br />
Why?<br />
<br />
No matter what, your life is only as good or bad as you make it.<br />
<br />
I've done a variety of jobs in my life. All to the best of my ability. Why do shoddy work?<br />
<br />
When working for companies or even doing odd jobs for local people, I keep one thing in mind.<br />
<br />
If we make a deal, then I will keep it. Sure there are times when circumstances intervene and projects are delayed or outright cancelled. These can be adjusted for and arrangements changed to meet the problem.<br />
<br />
It's when I do a job, then get short-changed by someone who thinks that they're conning me that I try to politely deal with the situation.<br />
<br />
It could be something as simple as finding out why they think like they do or as complex as trying to enforce a written contract.<br />
<br />
If you take my time or my work, that's theft.<br />
<br />
No matter how you do it.<br />
<br />
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Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-71300837696424396602014-07-19T10:08:00.000-07:002014-07-19T10:08:31.757-07:00Return of Thor (not the movie)Thor, as in the dog, has returned.<br />
<br />
Which to most people doesn't matter, but it's a big deal with my friends and his friends.<br />
<br />
He's a popular dog. If allowed to run for political office, he'd win.<br />
<br />
Thanks to all the folks at Hardin County animal shelter, Hardin Animal Rescue Transition Team, J&J Tractor Supply and all the good people out there who helped me look for him.<br />
<br />
There's nothing worse than a German Shepherd who hates thunderstorms and runs like hell trying to avoid them.<br />
<br />
He's calmed down now that's he's back home.<br />
<br />
I guess I'll have to put bars on the windows, otherwise, he goes right through them.<br />
<br />
We all have our fears, storms are his.Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-67528589935354718932014-06-18T09:23:00.000-07:002014-06-18T09:23:37.845-07:00Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens on Slavery of all typesIt's amazing what is written in some books. <br />
Hidden away to jump out at you. <br />
Literary ambush.<br />
<br />
I expect to find a sci-fi tale of time travel into the past (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) but discover that Mr. Clemens has hidden discourses on the stock market, employment, social attitudes and military matters in the book.<br />
<br />
Would you be surprised that he's spent many pages on the various forms of slavery?<br />
<br />
Mr. Clemens would be disappointed to see our current conditions.<br />
<br />
In which slavery has been taken to a new level.<br />
<br />
Economic bondage for the majority.<br />
<br />
Can I get you a loan for that bauble you desire?<br />
<br />
You'll just love the arrangements and it'll only leave you indebted for life.<br />
<br />
Slavery without the chains is still bondage.<br />
<br />
Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8179532829728176880.post-87533276890662447562014-06-12T08:50:00.000-07:002014-06-12T08:50:00.284-07:00Colbert Nation vs Amazon BezosOh boy, now they've done it.<br />
<br />
Amazon has picked a fight with known authors, like J.K. Rowling and Stephen Colbert.<br />
<br />
What were they thinking?<br />
<br />
It was OK when they were not recognizing (and paying royalties to) minor players or even lesser authors like yours' truly, but going after a major power player like J.K. Rowling?<br />
<br />
Woe unto thee Mr. Bezos.<br />
<br />
Have you crossed the line into territory where you'll not win?<br />
<br />
This is going to be interesting, to say the least.<br />
<br />
Too bad we can't get the poor workers at Amazon to realize just how bad they're being treated and do something about it.<br />
<br />
Mr. Bezos and company may have bitten off more than they can chew this time.<br />
<br />
Thomas L. Segersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14395760965581032375noreply@blogger.com0