Long days journey into night - Mel King

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Rip Snorter — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:13:47 GMT

Thanks for the comment. Mel and I spent countless hours over campfires and coffeepots discussing those exact matters. We were forever shocked with the repeated realizations of how parallel our lives had run, how similar we were in so many ways in our pasts and our challenges later in life. It was Mel who introduced me to the wonders of affirmations. One of the things we were most puzzled by was the fact that our two lives, his and mine, seemed to differ so much from the l... [ More ]

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konane — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:00:02 GMT

Lots of question could be answered if we could easily time travel back to the root cause, dilemma or outright misunderstanding which precipitated through time to a present lifetime. Seems we all might benefit from that knowledge saving us all lots of drama on the way.

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Rip Snorter — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:36:51 GMT

Mel wasn't a complainer. Took things as they came. I'd guess he'd just say, "It don't mean nuthun'" about all this. "It's just life." He hated the war on drugs because he believed it was destroying this country, eating away at the bowels in a hundred different directions. What was done to him wasn't something abstract, such as a war. It was human beings acting consciously and deliberately. It don't mean nuthun. It's just life. Jack<br... [ More ]

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LOTTOMIKE — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:34:56 GMT

ronald reagan i think was the first one to get real tough with his "just say no" thing he had going on back in the 80's.i remember being in school back then and having this stuff taught to us constantly.the ironic thing is i think its what first got me interested in "mary jane" lol.those days are behind me and i don't do those things anymore anyway.we all experiment and learn from our experiences.society needs to be more tolerant and give people chances to correct their mistakes.its sad that mel was looked at for his past instead of how good he had been doing......... [ More ]

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LOTTOMIKE — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:03:48 GMT

i just got through reading at work a fairly long book on the failed war on drugs since the reagon administration during the 80's started its crackdown.there are many reasons it failed.i read some very shocking things.it seemed that most of the leaders of mexico and countries in south america were involved in making and selling cocaine for huge amounts of money and were kept in power by the people responsible for the drugs.a mexican high up in the mexican army was about to busted only to be warned by someone high up in the dea here in the US ahead of time because we needed him for more sensitive "information" later on in some other situation.every time there would be a major case about to come down on some high general in some foreign country in south america all the sudden it was dropped or that person got off the hook.all we succeeded in mostly was putting some guy on a street corner selling a couple dollars worth of dope in jail for a few nights.they never accomplished the goal of cutting these drugs off at its source and where it was coming from.look up mike levine he has a great book on this.he was with the dea for decades and saw firsthand how it failed.the whole thing got bungled and badly mishandled.... [ More ]

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