"It's not your body to abort!" is on the left bank of windows of my truck's cap. I had a Planned Parenthood Northern New England plastic box containing a condom gratuitously left in the windshield wipers' well - what was the point of that? I've also had a note taped to the driver's door of my truck that read "I bet you're a man sexist." The jerk was still hanging around when I went to my truck and read it. He began tooting his horn in short beeps taunting me. There was no self-defense involved so approaching him was a no-go. Also I had my notes and my index for my black panther book inside the restaurant. I couldn't turn my back on them to walk into the back of the parking lot to confront this idiot sitting in his car beeping at me.
I told the the Brattleboro Selectboard about theses two events because I think they are soft on the beggars in town (they won't even tell them that threatening is illegal), and I suspect they really don't support diversity, only their approved diversity. Except for Brandi, all I got were poker-faces. She was upset. Maybe the rest were against all Americans having free speech or maybe they were just ewes and werthers. Or maybe they figured a guy who said he lifted weights three hours a day and could rip the head off a man didn't need any verbal coddling. I didn't get a word from them after I finished even though they had just hypocritically approved the U.N. resolution for civil rights! So much for my civil rights. Civil rights for a Trump-voting, American, big, white male? Perish the thought! You can see my performance on the video from that meeting. Of course it will not covered in the local pro-violence, socialist paper unless they devise a way to make me look bad.
Today, I was having coffee at a restaurant when the manager came to my table and said, paraphrasing here, "A man came in and asked that I take that anti-abortion sign off your truck. I told him I couldn't be taking people's signs off their vehicles. He then said I should refuse to serve you. I told him that I couldn't do that either. Then he said he was going to report me to my superiors. He also said you had a sign about guns on the other side of your truck and you were big and wore camouflage, and he was scared."
What a clever little, totalitarian, baby-killer. Having been called a baby-killer during the Vietnam War, it gives me great pleasure to give back. When I found the note on my truck, I responded by drawing a little stick-figure of a baby with a halo next to my antiabortion sign. Today, when I found out about this third incident, I decided it was time to make a little step toward organizing some support for myself. I went to the Catholic Church to talk to a Father. No Father there but a nice, quiet lady. At that point, all I wanted was a prayer for the safety of my truck and courage for myself. I'm on the spectrum from frightened rabbit hiding in my bed to charging, happy lion. The quiet lady said she'd pray for me.
Besides being on my rabbit to lion spectrum, I am also a lonely, old man so what I'd like from Christians and other non-babykillers is a thumbs up when you see me on the road. My truck is very distinctive. I've never seen one like it- 04
Colorado, sunburst orange, with a cap with a "Have you seen Bigfoot" sign on the back. Just give me a thumbs up. I could use your support. Hell, I'm so lonely I'd enjoy hearing from you baby-killers. Just give me the bird as you go by! At least have the balls or ovaries to face me. Your head is safe as long as you don't attack me.
Nick Nickerson, Philosophy Major.
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Kill The Infidel?
No God, if he were God, would require others to kill the infidel. He would just go poof! and the infidel would be gone. You say he does it to determine who are going to earn passage to paradise and the seventy-two virgins? Rubbish! If God wants to find out who would go to battle for him and die for him, all he has to do is think of that person, and he can immediately see if that person would do that. If God is God, he is all-powerful and therefore omniscient. You don't have to prove or do anything for God. All he has to do is think of you, and he can see what you would do. God does not need man to do anything for him.
The idea that you have to prove yourself or do something to earn something like seventy-two partly-human virgins would have to come from man. Man is not God, and man is not omnipotent. Man cannot think of you or look at you and know what you would do. He has to require you to show him, to do something for him. The requirement that you be or do something is a man-issued directive not God's directive. The requirement that you kill infidels to earn seventy-six virgins in paradise is a man-issued requirement, not God's. God doesn't need anything of man.
Peter "Nick" Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 1968
The idea that you have to prove yourself or do something to earn something like seventy-two partly-human virgins would have to come from man. Man is not God, and man is not omnipotent. Man cannot think of you or look at you and know what you would do. He has to require you to show him, to do something for him. The requirement that you be or do something is a man-issued directive not God's directive. The requirement that you kill infidels to earn seventy-six virgins in paradise is a man-issued requirement, not God's. God doesn't need anything of man.
Peter "Nick" Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 1968
Thursday, October 5, 2017
The Brattleboro Selectboard Candidate #41
"Evidence is God, and every individual is a King or Queen." At last Tuesday's Selectboard, I asked if I had heard correctly John Allen saying that plastic bags were "were all over the place." I pointed out that contradicted by statement to the board several months ago that I had looked for plastic bags gone wild in Brattleboro and had only found one in about a month of looking for them. I noted that I had been working on my panther book at the board meeting and may not have heard correctly. I asked, if correct, that John tell me where his "honey hole" was. John forthrightly said he remembered saying that, they were all over the place, and I should look at Fairview and the Price Chopper. I replied, "I'm there!" and I was as soon as the mercifully short meeting- about three hours- was over. I drove into Fairview Village and over to the Price Chopper. No bags. The next day, I stopped at a nearby gas station and explained what had gone at the selectboard meeting. The worker said they checked the grounds daily and there were no bags around. She didn't see bags.
I asked a resident at Fairview Village and she said there were no bags, and that management kept the place immaculate. I saw a woman parked at the back of the Price Chopper shopping strip, and she hadn't seen bags either. I went all the way up Fairview Street seeing no bags. I asked a man dressed in black formal clothing and a tall hat if he had seen any. He was directing traffic on a side street. He said in the morning there had been a bag caught in a bush several feet from us, but it had disappeared. I went back down Fairview still seeing no bags.
I look for Bigfoot, panthers, moose, and bear out in the boonies so not being able to find bags that are "all over the place" in Brattleboro bothers me. I found myself wondering if John was also seeing women from Salem, Massachusetts, flying on their sticks too. Or was the postmodernism's disdain for evidence and reason. Or were Vermonters, being Vermonters, cleaning up the bags?
To the writer of the letter to the Brattleboro Reformer asking if a certain person opposing the ban on plastic bags had his head in the sand or elsewhere about the dangers of bags, I was moved to go to the library - my budget doesn't permit TV or the Internet- and enter "problems animals have with plastic bags."
We have been so horrible to the animals in taking their land and now to see what plastic is doing to the few left! I now don't think we should afford people the luxury of deciding individually whether to use plastic bags. I'm down with banning them. For the animals.
I believe next Monday is Indigenous People's Day. Let's not be shallow about this: We're all Ancient Africans and indigenous to Africa. To Rich Holsuch's Reformer letter saying we shouldn't celebrate or emulate what Columbus did to the natives in South America, I say this: From knowing their customs - slavery, torturing, raping, and seizing land and property of others, I think its safe to say they would have done the same as Columbus did to them if they could have been able to sail to Spain and overwhelm the Spaniards with their technological superiority. Everyone and everything can be made to look just horrible (!) until you start making realistic comparisons and not living in your head.
"Hold the line for civilization, brothers and sisters. Hold the line!"
Peter "Nick" Nickerson
I asked a resident at Fairview Village and she said there were no bags, and that management kept the place immaculate. I saw a woman parked at the back of the Price Chopper shopping strip, and she hadn't seen bags either. I went all the way up Fairview Street seeing no bags. I asked a man dressed in black formal clothing and a tall hat if he had seen any. He was directing traffic on a side street. He said in the morning there had been a bag caught in a bush several feet from us, but it had disappeared. I went back down Fairview still seeing no bags.
I look for Bigfoot, panthers, moose, and bear out in the boonies so not being able to find bags that are "all over the place" in Brattleboro bothers me. I found myself wondering if John was also seeing women from Salem, Massachusetts, flying on their sticks too. Or was the postmodernism's disdain for evidence and reason. Or were Vermonters, being Vermonters, cleaning up the bags?
To the writer of the letter to the Brattleboro Reformer asking if a certain person opposing the ban on plastic bags had his head in the sand or elsewhere about the dangers of bags, I was moved to go to the library - my budget doesn't permit TV or the Internet- and enter "problems animals have with plastic bags."
We have been so horrible to the animals in taking their land and now to see what plastic is doing to the few left! I now don't think we should afford people the luxury of deciding individually whether to use plastic bags. I'm down with banning them. For the animals.
I believe next Monday is Indigenous People's Day. Let's not be shallow about this: We're all Ancient Africans and indigenous to Africa. To Rich Holsuch's Reformer letter saying we shouldn't celebrate or emulate what Columbus did to the natives in South America, I say this: From knowing their customs - slavery, torturing, raping, and seizing land and property of others, I think its safe to say they would have done the same as Columbus did to them if they could have been able to sail to Spain and overwhelm the Spaniards with their technological superiority. Everyone and everything can be made to look just horrible (!) until you start making realistic comparisons and not living in your head.
"Hold the line for civilization, brothers and sisters. Hold the line!"
Peter "Nick" Nickerson
Thursday, August 31, 2017
The Brattleboro Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #40
I sent an email to David Schoales, John Allen, the Reformer, Fox Cable News, WMUR , and family members in regard to the Reformer running my letter today but snobbily and uncourageously not responding to it. The next step will be to ask the Selectboard if they suppport violence against free speech. I don't want to see this town government namely Kate O'Connor, chairwoman of the selectboard, act like the craven college presidents and mayors who have held their police off when their preferred groups are injuring people and destroying property. That's not Kate as I know her after many hours spent at selectboard meetings, sometimes the only citizen still remaining. But I want this to be public for all the violent people to know in advance. Police are constitutional officers of the court and shouldn't have to risk being fired if held back by thuggish college presidents and city mayors and the like. In an ideal world, they would respond to the crime, and their thug bosses be damned. Surely, the American people would support them if they acted lawfully as constitutional officers. Nick Nickerson
"The measure of a man [woman or child] is not what he says, but what he does, and what he allows others to do in his presence." - Navy Seal Instructor
"The measure of a man [woman or child] is not what he says, but what he does, and what he allows others to do in his presence." - Navy Seal Instructor
Friday, August 25, 2017
The Brattleboro Selectboard Un-Candidate #38
What evidence do you have that fills you with such hate for the white supremacists at Charlottesville and then for the free speechers at Boston?
If you are one of the above haters, please contact me at 352-359-0850 or peternickerson12@yahoo.com and give me the evidence to justify your furor.
My budget does not allow the internet or television so I have to depend upon what little I see of Fox News and other news stations while I'm at the gym. I also have a radio for The John Bachelor Show and read the Wall Street Journal and the Reformer. So I'm not blind but all I have seen at Charlottesville was leftist collectivists calling themselves antifascists but acting just like them and rightist collectivists calling themselves white supremacists fighting each other with sticks and poles. Specifically, what little I saw was of a group of leftist collectivists going after the rightist collectivists who seemed to be defending the confederate flag. I hear that the leftists also had an improvised flame-thrower and at Boston they threw rocks and urine filled bottles at the police. Why the criminal behavior in Boston at the police? What did they have to do with anything but enforcing law and order?
An obvious white supremacist ran over with his car about thirteen people, killing one. Is that your evidence for wanting to injure, perhaps kill, others for expressing their ideas? Obviously, you want your ideas to prevail and apparently think they are perfect as you want to shut down other ideas. Are all of you radical Muslims? Convert or die? Is that what's going on? You can't stand the challenge to your ideas, so you have to shut down free speech? What cowards you are and how un-American you are! What has driven you to such cowardice and tyranny? Is it all mental illness that suddenly happened to thousands. Is there something driving it beyond lies, shallowness of thought, and denial of information and context? Are we have another wave of hysteria like seeing witches riding sticks in the colonial skies? It sounds like it.
My theory is the massive hysteria is caused first by the alienation from nature and therefore reality that is caused in city living. Too many of us are city dwellers but don't move to the woods and take what little woods are left for the other twenty-two thousand species of plants and animals who want to live too. Secondly, I think Trump is literally driving the leftists into crazed hysteria because he's still there as president and still tweeting. Nothing yet has worked to get him out of office. Indeed, the stock market is booming, more jobs are being filled than in fifty years, and he is trying to strengthen our military before North Korea, Iran, and Red China nuke us. That is the third reason for your hysteria: we have two countries - collectivist communist North Korea and collectivist fundamentalist Muslim Iran- openly saying they are going to nuke us as soon as they have the capability. In that the collectivist leaders are still alive in these two countries is enough to make anyone hysterical with fear. To add to the third reason, we have collectivist communist Red China becoming increasingly war-like. And they already have the nukes. To top that, the collectivist leftists in America have changed from lovers of the Soviet Union's slave state and are now becoming increasingly belligerent to their former lover. This is not good as the collectivist mobster Putin has plenty of nukes. It's enough to drive anyone insane with worry as none of our American leaders have the guts to recognize the hard truths and reassure us something is being done about it. We can assume Trump has woken up to the reality that we cannot let the fundamentalist Muslims have Afghanistan. and we must build up our Obama-ravaged military if we are to survive the booming Red Chinese military.
Hey, if you like what I've written, send or call me with some love. There's got to be some freedom lovers (for the individual not the self-serving government employees or the mobs of criminals or the collectivists who want to vote their way into every wealthy person's pockets) out there. No? Then please send your hate instead. It's time I toughened up, especially when running for selectboard in a town almost exclusively leftist. Try to give any evidence you have for causing your violent, freedom-hating, free-speech hating thoughts or emotions (I was never fooled by the left's phony love of diversity. It was all just for blacks, females, and alternatives to heterosexuality.). Evidence is God and every woman a Queen and every man a King. Or the other way around if you prefer. Thanks, Peter "Nick" Nickerson 352-359-0859 or peternickerson12@yahoo.com P.S. To the guy who yelled at me "I see shit!" be strong enough to tell me what your evidence is so I can have something to work on and won't think you were just on your way to the Retreat and couldn't restrain your emoting until you got there. Little boy, call or email me. P.P.S. Look, haters, I'm a frightened rabbit trying to become a charging lion. Give me your hate and toughen me up! Naaa-na-na-na-na! Tell me what you've got! Even if it sounds like a physically mature, two year older! Naaa-na-na-na-na! Get down, brothers and sisters and tell me what's eating you! Get down!
If you are one of the above haters, please contact me at 352-359-0850 or peternickerson12@yahoo.com and give me the evidence to justify your furor.
My budget does not allow the internet or television so I have to depend upon what little I see of Fox News and other news stations while I'm at the gym. I also have a radio for The John Bachelor Show and read the Wall Street Journal and the Reformer. So I'm not blind but all I have seen at Charlottesville was leftist collectivists calling themselves antifascists but acting just like them and rightist collectivists calling themselves white supremacists fighting each other with sticks and poles. Specifically, what little I saw was of a group of leftist collectivists going after the rightist collectivists who seemed to be defending the confederate flag. I hear that the leftists also had an improvised flame-thrower and at Boston they threw rocks and urine filled bottles at the police. Why the criminal behavior in Boston at the police? What did they have to do with anything but enforcing law and order?
An obvious white supremacist ran over with his car about thirteen people, killing one. Is that your evidence for wanting to injure, perhaps kill, others for expressing their ideas? Obviously, you want your ideas to prevail and apparently think they are perfect as you want to shut down other ideas. Are all of you radical Muslims? Convert or die? Is that what's going on? You can't stand the challenge to your ideas, so you have to shut down free speech? What cowards you are and how un-American you are! What has driven you to such cowardice and tyranny? Is it all mental illness that suddenly happened to thousands. Is there something driving it beyond lies, shallowness of thought, and denial of information and context? Are we have another wave of hysteria like seeing witches riding sticks in the colonial skies? It sounds like it.
My theory is the massive hysteria is caused first by the alienation from nature and therefore reality that is caused in city living. Too many of us are city dwellers but don't move to the woods and take what little woods are left for the other twenty-two thousand species of plants and animals who want to live too. Secondly, I think Trump is literally driving the leftists into crazed hysteria because he's still there as president and still tweeting. Nothing yet has worked to get him out of office. Indeed, the stock market is booming, more jobs are being filled than in fifty years, and he is trying to strengthen our military before North Korea, Iran, and Red China nuke us. That is the third reason for your hysteria: we have two countries - collectivist communist North Korea and collectivist fundamentalist Muslim Iran- openly saying they are going to nuke us as soon as they have the capability. In that the collectivist leaders are still alive in these two countries is enough to make anyone hysterical with fear. To add to the third reason, we have collectivist communist Red China becoming increasingly war-like. And they already have the nukes. To top that, the collectivist leftists in America have changed from lovers of the Soviet Union's slave state and are now becoming increasingly belligerent to their former lover. This is not good as the collectivist mobster Putin has plenty of nukes. It's enough to drive anyone insane with worry as none of our American leaders have the guts to recognize the hard truths and reassure us something is being done about it. We can assume Trump has woken up to the reality that we cannot let the fundamentalist Muslims have Afghanistan. and we must build up our Obama-ravaged military if we are to survive the booming Red Chinese military.
Hey, if you like what I've written, send or call me with some love. There's got to be some freedom lovers (for the individual not the self-serving government employees or the mobs of criminals or the collectivists who want to vote their way into every wealthy person's pockets) out there. No? Then please send your hate instead. It's time I toughened up, especially when running for selectboard in a town almost exclusively leftist. Try to give any evidence you have for causing your violent, freedom-hating, free-speech hating thoughts or emotions (I was never fooled by the left's phony love of diversity. It was all just for blacks, females, and alternatives to heterosexuality.). Evidence is God and every woman a Queen and every man a King. Or the other way around if you prefer. Thanks, Peter "Nick" Nickerson 352-359-0859 or peternickerson12@yahoo.com P.S. To the guy who yelled at me "I see shit!" be strong enough to tell me what your evidence is so I can have something to work on and won't think you were just on your way to the Retreat and couldn't restrain your emoting until you got there. Little boy, call or email me. P.P.S. Look, haters, I'm a frightened rabbit trying to become a charging lion. Give me your hate and toughen me up! Naaa-na-na-na-na! Tell me what you've got! Even if it sounds like a physically mature, two year older! Naaa-na-na-na-na! Get down, brothers and sisters and tell me what's eating you! Get down!
Thursday, August 24, 2017
The Brattleboro, Vt., Selectboard Un-Candidate, #37
Earlier this week, I was driving north up Putney Road, just beyond the stoplight at Hannaford when the driver in an approaching car yelled as he went by me, "I see shit!" The most plausible explanation I have for his behavior is that he has seen my Bigfoot sign on the back of my truck and doesn't like it. Another one of the hysterically intolerant.
Taking a large view, there are good reasons for such hysteria. First, we are faced with Iran and North Korea openly building nuclear bombs and missiles in an attempt to destroy America and more importantly for the collective mental health of America, we are doing nothing about it. Thus, we have threat met with passivity: the perfect mix for hysteria. We know we are about to die, and no one has the chutzpah to do anything about it. Who wouldn't be hysterical or seeking other forms of escape such as drugs and alcohol? Secondly, there is not only Iran and North Korea trying to get the weapons and platforms to destroy us, but also the hostile countries of Russia and Red China. And they already have the means for our annihilation. Third, we have the radical Islamists who are trying to destroy everybody and everything that is not seventh century Muslim. These highly intelligent -except when it comes to their faith- people are also racing to use any means including the nuclear bomb to destroy America. The fourth reason for our hysteria is that most Americans are living in cities and are losing their grip on reality because there is very little reality in urban life that is not anthropogenic - made by man. Their reality is all man-made, artificial and rigidly controlled by man. City man and women are living in a solipsistic world. Testing is showing that the newest generation, the iGeneration, comprising 25% of the population, would rather have a virtual relationship than a person to person one. Due to that, this generation has unprecedented depression and suicides because the young people have chosen to live in bell jars. Like all hysterics, they fear for their safety in spite of America being far safer than in the past. Like all hysterics, they seek strong people to order them around. Like fearful hysterics, they are very threatened and intolerant of any idea or person who doesn't agree with them. They are so fragile that they even fear having feelings because feelings can hurt! In a perennial state of agitated depression, these late teen and early twenty-somes find it difficult to read or study. With kids like these, we Boomers can't afford to die and leave our country in their weak, trembling hands!
As I tried to make plain in my articles about college kangaroo courts for so-called sexual abuse, parents have to start acting as more than money milk cows for their children. Look into these issues, and make judgements that these kangaroo courts and allowing your child to grow up on smart phones are evil, and stop them. You parents are going to have to devote some effort to raising your children beyond earning money. Children need and profit from good discipline. Doesn't the Millennials and the iGeneration's desire for authoritarianism tell you that? Kids that age should be rebelling from authority and exploring the world and all its ideas. Instead, they want to remain babies so someone will discipline them and make them feel loved and safe. They want boundaries because you parents didn't raise them with any. Do your jobs, parents and be parents. Not buddies or best friends. Don't listen to the perverted, weak experts, professionals, and mainstream media.
When I was doing a lot of fishing on the Outer Banks, North Carolina, the best advice I got was to watch what the fisherman who was catching fish was doing and do exactly that. Then you'd start catching fish too. My advice to you is to find parents raising strong and healthy children and do what they did. I have another word of advice for promoting reality, critical thinking, and good judgement in your children, and it is something that can be done as a family: Take up birding or bird study. Buy Nikon Monarchs, 8 power, for about $300 unless you want the very best, like Leica at $1,000. Make sure each person has a good bird book with actual pictures to refer to. This is where reality is taught, by using the bird books which teach you not only what the bird looks like but his distinctive markers.
Encourage discussion with respect for the bird guide as the deciding authority. You will be teaching your children to seek evidence and decide on the basis of evidence not emotionality. Leave all phones in the vehicle except one for highly unlikely emergencies. Treat your kids to ice cream or something they like after each birding expedition for positive reinforcement. Now go do it! Good luck!
Peter "Nick" Nickerson, 352-359-0850
"Evidence is God and every woman a Queen and every man a King"
Taking a large view, there are good reasons for such hysteria. First, we are faced with Iran and North Korea openly building nuclear bombs and missiles in an attempt to destroy America and more importantly for the collective mental health of America, we are doing nothing about it. Thus, we have threat met with passivity: the perfect mix for hysteria. We know we are about to die, and no one has the chutzpah to do anything about it. Who wouldn't be hysterical or seeking other forms of escape such as drugs and alcohol? Secondly, there is not only Iran and North Korea trying to get the weapons and platforms to destroy us, but also the hostile countries of Russia and Red China. And they already have the means for our annihilation. Third, we have the radical Islamists who are trying to destroy everybody and everything that is not seventh century Muslim. These highly intelligent -except when it comes to their faith- people are also racing to use any means including the nuclear bomb to destroy America. The fourth reason for our hysteria is that most Americans are living in cities and are losing their grip on reality because there is very little reality in urban life that is not anthropogenic - made by man. Their reality is all man-made, artificial and rigidly controlled by man. City man and women are living in a solipsistic world. Testing is showing that the newest generation, the iGeneration, comprising 25% of the population, would rather have a virtual relationship than a person to person one. Due to that, this generation has unprecedented depression and suicides because the young people have chosen to live in bell jars. Like all hysterics, they fear for their safety in spite of America being far safer than in the past. Like all hysterics, they seek strong people to order them around. Like fearful hysterics, they are very threatened and intolerant of any idea or person who doesn't agree with them. They are so fragile that they even fear having feelings because feelings can hurt! In a perennial state of agitated depression, these late teen and early twenty-somes find it difficult to read or study. With kids like these, we Boomers can't afford to die and leave our country in their weak, trembling hands!
As I tried to make plain in my articles about college kangaroo courts for so-called sexual abuse, parents have to start acting as more than money milk cows for their children. Look into these issues, and make judgements that these kangaroo courts and allowing your child to grow up on smart phones are evil, and stop them. You parents are going to have to devote some effort to raising your children beyond earning money. Children need and profit from good discipline. Doesn't the Millennials and the iGeneration's desire for authoritarianism tell you that? Kids that age should be rebelling from authority and exploring the world and all its ideas. Instead, they want to remain babies so someone will discipline them and make them feel loved and safe. They want boundaries because you parents didn't raise them with any. Do your jobs, parents and be parents. Not buddies or best friends. Don't listen to the perverted, weak experts, professionals, and mainstream media.
When I was doing a lot of fishing on the Outer Banks, North Carolina, the best advice I got was to watch what the fisherman who was catching fish was doing and do exactly that. Then you'd start catching fish too. My advice to you is to find parents raising strong and healthy children and do what they did. I have another word of advice for promoting reality, critical thinking, and good judgement in your children, and it is something that can be done as a family: Take up birding or bird study. Buy Nikon Monarchs, 8 power, for about $300 unless you want the very best, like Leica at $1,000. Make sure each person has a good bird book with actual pictures to refer to. This is where reality is taught, by using the bird books which teach you not only what the bird looks like but his distinctive markers.
Encourage discussion with respect for the bird guide as the deciding authority. You will be teaching your children to seek evidence and decide on the basis of evidence not emotionality. Leave all phones in the vehicle except one for highly unlikely emergencies. Treat your kids to ice cream or something they like after each birding expedition for positive reinforcement. Now go do it! Good luck!
Peter "Nick" Nickerson, 352-359-0850
"Evidence is God and every woman a Queen and every man a King"
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
The Brattleboro, VT Selectboard Un-Candidate #36
and women, an inferior human, know that men are rapacious yet still go on dates with them, just as moths are drawn to their fiery deaths by a naked light bulb. Other lies are that as women are inferior to men, they are too fragile emotionally to withstand answering questions during a cross-examination, and are too weak to tolerate the mere presence of their accused in the same hearing room. Unlike men, they are not expected to face their supposed victimizer.
As students become habituated to this delusional system being pushed by men-hating feminist Title IX coordinators and college administrators and put into motion by President Barrack Obama, these delusions will permeate our culture as waves of emotionally disturbed seniors graduate and began the "adulting" world. Hysteria is contagious, and the adult world will catch it as former students tell about their "victimizations" on campuses. Adults already cowed by political correctness from the leftists will generally not have the courage to ask for evidence. Instead, the groundless allegations and stories of men's unrestrainable sexual bestiality will be accepted because they are so awful. Therefore, they must be true. A hysterical groundswell will ensue in which Western Civilization will accept Muslin barbarity and irrationality and demand complete segregation of the sexes. Women will be kept at home (haram) or in rigidly controlled dormitories. If allowed in public, they will have to do what the women slaves to Muslim already do in many countries: they will be required to wear portable tents to ensure that not a piece of flesh or hair is visible to inflame the uncontrollable male lust. The world will be sharply divided into roosters and hens, with hens subservient to roosters for their survival.
Men, as the superior of women, will run the world and keep a rooster's eye out for "loose" women they can legitimately rape and even seize for continued sexual pleasure. Welcome to the seventh century and Sharia law!
Peter "Nick" Nickerson 352-359-0850
"Evidence is God and every individual King."
As students become habituated to this delusional system being pushed by men-hating feminist Title IX coordinators and college administrators and put into motion by President Barrack Obama, these delusions will permeate our culture as waves of emotionally disturbed seniors graduate and began the "adulting" world. Hysteria is contagious, and the adult world will catch it as former students tell about their "victimizations" on campuses. Adults already cowed by political correctness from the leftists will generally not have the courage to ask for evidence. Instead, the groundless allegations and stories of men's unrestrainable sexual bestiality will be accepted because they are so awful. Therefore, they must be true. A hysterical groundswell will ensue in which Western Civilization will accept Muslin barbarity and irrationality and demand complete segregation of the sexes. Women will be kept at home (haram) or in rigidly controlled dormitories. If allowed in public, they will have to do what the women slaves to Muslim already do in many countries: they will be required to wear portable tents to ensure that not a piece of flesh or hair is visible to inflame the uncontrollable male lust. The world will be sharply divided into roosters and hens, with hens subservient to roosters for their survival.
Men, as the superior of women, will run the world and keep a rooster's eye out for "loose" women they can legitimately rape and even seize for continued sexual pleasure. Welcome to the seventh century and Sharia law!
Peter "Nick" Nickerson 352-359-0850
"Evidence is God and every individual King."
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Brattleboro, Vt. Selectboard Un-Candidate #35
Dear Future Constituents,
You may know I have been very worried about you young people, their parents, friends, and community regarding the college kangaroo trials. In case you don't watch Fox News, the young man accused by the Columbia University mattress girl has just settled with Columbia on civil charges that Columbia was biased against him. Betsy DeVos is reviewing these wholly unjust, un-Western kangaroo courts. Let's hope she hasn't been neutered by the howl of demeaning things said about her by the leftists when she was nominated for Secretary of Education. For the record, I am an individualist and belong to the Evedentist Party - ''Show me the evidence." Beginning with the next sentence, I want you to read what I sent the Wall Street Journal about Title lX being Obama's Trojan Horse for Sharia Law, and since it hasn't appeared in the WSJ, here we go!
Barack Obama may have the last laugh with the Affordable Care Act, but he has also left behind Trojan horses filled with Sharia soldiers on American campuses. He has done this through his "Dear Colleagues" letter and his man-eating, feminist Title IX Coordinators. Obama has created, by using fundamentalist Islamic, and therefore, berserk ideas about human beings, a terrifying and simplistic delusional system. University students are being ruled by these delusions and becoming increasingly habituated to them. These ideas include: the college campus is a rape culture; all men are by nature rapists ...TO BE CONTINUED. In the meantime, may you be healthy, prosperous, strong, and evidence- seeking. It's a hard world. Good luck! Peter Nickerson, 352-359-0858
You may know I have been very worried about you young people, their parents, friends, and community regarding the college kangaroo trials. In case you don't watch Fox News, the young man accused by the Columbia University mattress girl has just settled with Columbia on civil charges that Columbia was biased against him. Betsy DeVos is reviewing these wholly unjust, un-Western kangaroo courts. Let's hope she hasn't been neutered by the howl of demeaning things said about her by the leftists when she was nominated for Secretary of Education. For the record, I am an individualist and belong to the Evedentist Party - ''Show me the evidence." Beginning with the next sentence, I want you to read what I sent the Wall Street Journal about Title lX being Obama's Trojan Horse for Sharia Law, and since it hasn't appeared in the WSJ, here we go!
Barack Obama may have the last laugh with the Affordable Care Act, but he has also left behind Trojan horses filled with Sharia soldiers on American campuses. He has done this through his "Dear Colleagues" letter and his man-eating, feminist Title IX Coordinators. Obama has created, by using fundamentalist Islamic, and therefore, berserk ideas about human beings, a terrifying and simplistic delusional system. University students are being ruled by these delusions and becoming increasingly habituated to them. These ideas include: the college campus is a rape culture; all men are by nature rapists ...TO BE CONTINUED. In the meantime, may you be healthy, prosperous, strong, and evidence- seeking. It's a hard world. Good luck! Peter Nickerson, 352-359-0858
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #34
Kate O'Connor introduced the panhandling issue by saying we were not to discuss "spin-offs," and we were to be" compassionate". I should have asked her to define spin-offs and compassion as I, as a literalist, felt shutdown. For example, the crazy college children and their crazy-makers -university professors and administrators- claim that any views different from theirs are "violence." What then does "compassionate" mean here in Brattleboro?
The chief of police suggested a team consisting of a cop and a social worker approach each beggar and try to find out why she is begging. Then the team will suggest options to panhandling to get what she wants. This is not to be intimidation, and I hope it remains that way. I see the main problems of beggars as addiction, poverty, and mental/emotional problems and believe in re-opening the state mental hospitals which were ostensibly closed because of hysteria that they were "warehouses of people." I wonder if their closings were a scheme of the Republicans to have the government spend less money so taxes could go down and government could get smaller. Forget the mentally ill and the addicted!
Groundworks made a survey of eight beggars out of eleven contacted and found they were only making twenty dollars a day. Kate has promised future discussions about panhandling.
Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850
The chief of police suggested a team consisting of a cop and a social worker approach each beggar and try to find out why she is begging. Then the team will suggest options to panhandling to get what she wants. This is not to be intimidation, and I hope it remains that way. I see the main problems of beggars as addiction, poverty, and mental/emotional problems and believe in re-opening the state mental hospitals which were ostensibly closed because of hysteria that they were "warehouses of people." I wonder if their closings were a scheme of the Republicans to have the government spend less money so taxes could go down and government could get smaller. Forget the mentally ill and the addicted!
Groundworks made a survey of eight beggars out of eleven contacted and found they were only making twenty dollars a day. Kate has promised future discussions about panhandling.
Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Brattleboro Selectboard Un-Candidate #33
I've asked where Betty DeVos is with allowing the Title IX college kangaroo courts to persist. Apparently, she is hors de combat from the leftist hissy fit over her nomination to the Secretary of Education job, and any hope of strength and morality will have to come from the acting head of the Office of Civil Rights, Candice Jackson. She has reversed a secret decision by her man-hating predecessor, Catherine Lhamon, who ordered that whenever an accuser appealed a finding of not guilty (that can't be - all men are rapists!) the school where that appeal took place would have all its previous sexual assault cases reviewed to make sure that as many men got found guilty as possible. In other words, double, triple, and on and on, jeopardy.
Just like the seventy-two year old man in 1692 Salem was pressed to death with stones because he was accused by "the girls" of being a witch because five of the girls -the core accusers in Salem- saw him riding his dog in the sky. As soon as he admitted his guilt, the rocks would be taken off. This man, as fate would have it, was an extremely rare individual. He had never felt frightened in his life so he endured the torture of barely being able to breathe under the stones for three days until he physically weakened and was suffocated by the weight on his chest. The judge was counting on the old man becoming terrified and "confessing." The old man didn't do terrified. Imagine that! Should have been a Seal. The godly Puritans gave him four pieces of the worst bread they had on the first day, and on the second, he got three handfuls of water from a puddle. All in the name of righteousness! The dog was summarily shot for being a witch. You wouldn't dare not believe the child, would you? You wouldn't dare not believe the victim, would you? Are you sane or sumpthin? Just keeping slouching down to Gomorrah, comrade.
Hot on the trail of witches dancing in their empty heads, thirty-four Democrat senators have sent a letter to the Department of Education protesting not digging up old hearings to see if there isn't some way to declare male teenagers and young men guilty of sexual assault so they can be kicked out of school, be labeled sex perverts, and never get into another college or have a job. This is America? I think it is a precursor to Sharia, which is why Obama pushed it on us, and I think it is why, though abhorrent to Western civilization and to American ideals specifically, the college kangaroo courts are sticking around. They have a lot of despicable, but extremely powerful, supporters. I hope to develop this more with you.
Peter Nickerson, 352-359-0850 Philosopher
Just like the seventy-two year old man in 1692 Salem was pressed to death with stones because he was accused by "the girls" of being a witch because five of the girls -the core accusers in Salem- saw him riding his dog in the sky. As soon as he admitted his guilt, the rocks would be taken off. This man, as fate would have it, was an extremely rare individual. He had never felt frightened in his life so he endured the torture of barely being able to breathe under the stones for three days until he physically weakened and was suffocated by the weight on his chest. The judge was counting on the old man becoming terrified and "confessing." The old man didn't do terrified. Imagine that! Should have been a Seal. The godly Puritans gave him four pieces of the worst bread they had on the first day, and on the second, he got three handfuls of water from a puddle. All in the name of righteousness! The dog was summarily shot for being a witch. You wouldn't dare not believe the child, would you? You wouldn't dare not believe the victim, would you? Are you sane or sumpthin? Just keeping slouching down to Gomorrah, comrade.
Hot on the trail of witches dancing in their empty heads, thirty-four Democrat senators have sent a letter to the Department of Education protesting not digging up old hearings to see if there isn't some way to declare male teenagers and young men guilty of sexual assault so they can be kicked out of school, be labeled sex perverts, and never get into another college or have a job. This is America? I think it is a precursor to Sharia, which is why Obama pushed it on us, and I think it is why, though abhorrent to Western civilization and to American ideals specifically, the college kangaroo courts are sticking around. They have a lot of despicable, but extremely powerful, supporters. I hope to develop this more with you.
Peter Nickerson, 352-359-0850 Philosopher
Brattleboro Vermont Selectboard #32
I called the town's garbage collector, Triple T, and found that our plastic bags do not end up in the ocean, contributing to outnumber the fishes. No such drama. Sorry. Instead, the bags go to either of two landfills, one in Vermont, and the other in New Hampshire or they go to an incinerator. They are not recycled because they are too light for the Triple T machinery. We could ask Triple T if they can afford to purchase that equipment or we could try another garbage collection. That addresses Kate O'Connor's objection to plastic bags.
David Scholes' objection was about the bad things that went on in the production of plastic bags. Pending finding out about hideous things going on, I going to say that all production has its costs. Producing reusable bags has its costs too.
I've also heard from a school administrator that there is a damning film about plastic bags that students must see year after year. If this is a brainwashing thing, I don't know if facts and logic make any difference. If facts and logic do contribute to your sacred feelings, then I would be against this totalitarian ban. Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850
David Scholes' objection was about the bad things that went on in the production of plastic bags. Pending finding out about hideous things going on, I going to say that all production has its costs. Producing reusable bags has its costs too.
I've also heard from a school administrator that there is a damning film about plastic bags that students must see year after year. If this is a brainwashing thing, I don't know if facts and logic make any difference. If facts and logic do contribute to your sacred feelings, then I would be against this totalitarian ban. Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850
Friday, June 30, 2017
Brattleboro Selectboard Un-Candidat #31
I told Patrick, the assistant town manager, " I live on the Connecticut and have never seen a plastic bag flying into it."
"Really?"
"Yes, I have an estate there (an efficiency apartment). So there's no problem of Brattleboro bags in the ocean."
"Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder."
He said something else which I didn't catch so I just thanked him and said walked away. As I walked, I regretted that I had made my conclusions in front of Patrick. It was asking too much of him.
What was he going to say, "I agree with you completely, Pete. We're not dumping plastic bags into the ocean, outnumbering the fishes. It was hysteria, just like the hanging of "witches" and the shooting of two dogs as witches in Salem, on the part of the selectboard. Now why don't I walk out of this building with you, as I am now fired?"
That's the cognitive part of my reaction. The emotional part had to do with my experience as a protective service worker. I'd investigate a complaint of child neglect, try to work with the parents, and upon finding that they couldn't care less, go to court with the evidence and ask for temporary custody. I would present my evidence to the judge and commonwealth attorney. They would consider it honestly and directly with me and all the other parties, if there were any, and the judge would give me temporary custody. Everything, as far as I knew, was transparent and logical. We were all united in wanting to know the truth, wanting to protect the child, and wanting him to have parents who would act as parents. It was all professional.
That was the past. Now I had investigated the chairwoman's case for banning plastic bags being that the ocean was full of plastic about to outnumber the fish. I had found out that our town's plastic bags were buried at a landfill. Rationally, ethically, professionally, that should have ended the issue of our plastic bags in the ocean. They weren't.
But this wasn't professionalism, this was politics. The currency wasn't the truth. The currency was power -implied violence- and the printing press for the currency of power was the selectboard. Seeing that power overruled truth and rationality is what set me back into morose musings for my next two workouts at the gym and got me to thinking about Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea. Not happy places. Not happy thoughts. Not good government.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68
Next time, I will try to discuss my conversation with the town's garbage collector. I'd also like to make a suggestion. If I have time, I will discuss one businesses' reaction to hearing that the widening of Putney Road will take off the front of his store.
"Really?"
"Yes, I have an estate there (an efficiency apartment). So there's no problem of Brattleboro bags in the ocean."
"Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder."
He said something else which I didn't catch so I just thanked him and said walked away. As I walked, I regretted that I had made my conclusions in front of Patrick. It was asking too much of him.
What was he going to say, "I agree with you completely, Pete. We're not dumping plastic bags into the ocean, outnumbering the fishes. It was hysteria, just like the hanging of "witches" and the shooting of two dogs as witches in Salem, on the part of the selectboard. Now why don't I walk out of this building with you, as I am now fired?"
That's the cognitive part of my reaction. The emotional part had to do with my experience as a protective service worker. I'd investigate a complaint of child neglect, try to work with the parents, and upon finding that they couldn't care less, go to court with the evidence and ask for temporary custody. I would present my evidence to the judge and commonwealth attorney. They would consider it honestly and directly with me and all the other parties, if there were any, and the judge would give me temporary custody. Everything, as far as I knew, was transparent and logical. We were all united in wanting to know the truth, wanting to protect the child, and wanting him to have parents who would act as parents. It was all professional.
That was the past. Now I had investigated the chairwoman's case for banning plastic bags being that the ocean was full of plastic about to outnumber the fish. I had found out that our town's plastic bags were buried at a landfill. Rationally, ethically, professionally, that should have ended the issue of our plastic bags in the ocean. They weren't.
But this wasn't professionalism, this was politics. The currency wasn't the truth. The currency was power -implied violence- and the printing press for the currency of power was the selectboard. Seeing that power overruled truth and rationality is what set me back into morose musings for my next two workouts at the gym and got me to thinking about Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea. Not happy places. Not happy thoughts. Not good government.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68
Next time, I will try to discuss my conversation with the town's garbage collector. I'd also like to make a suggestion. If I have time, I will discuss one businesses' reaction to hearing that the widening of Putney Road will take off the front of his store.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Evidence Islam Man-Made #4
Azar Nafish in her Reading Lolita in Tehran says that according to the Iranian Revolution's version of Islam, individual freedoms are "decadent." page 108.
Now I ask you: Does this sound like God speaking or Man?
Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68.
Now I ask you: Does this sound like God speaking or Man?
Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68.
Brattleboro, Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #31
After the last post, I walked over to the Municipal Building to see a person I heard could tell me where Brattleboro's plastic bags ended up. If it was really in the oceans, outnumbering the fishes. However, I encountered the assistant town manager, Patrick, as I asked around, so he got the question. Patrick thought Brattleboro's trash went to a landfill, so I ventured, " So there's no problem then. Our plastic bags are not landing up in the ocean."
To paraphrase, Patrick said, "Oh, I don't know. There could be some blowing into the Conneticut River."
"And from there into the Atlantic Ocean. But I've never seen any plastic bags blowing into the Conneticut River," I said.
Patrick shrugged. I haven't even seen a plastic bag by itself in Brattleboro. For a month last winter, twice a day I drove the Mountain Road on the other side of the river from Brattleboro, using my binoculars trying to see the snowy owl who had been photographed there earlier. I never saw a plastic bag blowing into the Connecticut out of Brattleboro or New Hampshire. I never saw the snowy owl either. Just in case, I am asking that you keep an eagle's eye out for plastic bags whirling about Brattleboro, and if you see one please call me at 352-359-0850. Please try to arrest that whirling bag before it jumps into the Connecticut, swims out to the ocean and outnumbers the fishes! Also, if you see any women on sticks flying around please report them too. That way I can resolve two hysterias for the price of one.
Tomorrow, I will try to tell you about my conversation with the people who pick up our wicked plastic bags and take them to their final resting place. Hint: It's not the ocean, competing with the fishes.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68
I am trying to grow an overwatch of amusement since I found it extremely hard to be assertive if I am not enraged. The nothing confrontation with Patrick was difficult for me, and it was a good reminder of just why I have been so non-assertive all my life. It's a long, if not impossible, journey from a frightened rabbit to a charging, but partially amused, lion.
I was actually able to do that with someone the other day while discussing bags. He got so worked up that he got up and walked away, but I found it amusing. Usually, I would be shaking with anger. Patrick, though, was more difficult because he was an authority figure, and I was in his lair, surrounded by his allies (if they wanted their paycheck).
To paraphrase, Patrick said, "Oh, I don't know. There could be some blowing into the Conneticut River."
"And from there into the Atlantic Ocean. But I've never seen any plastic bags blowing into the Conneticut River," I said.
Patrick shrugged. I haven't even seen a plastic bag by itself in Brattleboro. For a month last winter, twice a day I drove the Mountain Road on the other side of the river from Brattleboro, using my binoculars trying to see the snowy owl who had been photographed there earlier. I never saw a plastic bag blowing into the Connecticut out of Brattleboro or New Hampshire. I never saw the snowy owl either. Just in case, I am asking that you keep an eagle's eye out for plastic bags whirling about Brattleboro, and if you see one please call me at 352-359-0850. Please try to arrest that whirling bag before it jumps into the Connecticut, swims out to the ocean and outnumbers the fishes! Also, if you see any women on sticks flying around please report them too. That way I can resolve two hysterias for the price of one.
Tomorrow, I will try to tell you about my conversation with the people who pick up our wicked plastic bags and take them to their final resting place. Hint: It's not the ocean, competing with the fishes.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68
I am trying to grow an overwatch of amusement since I found it extremely hard to be assertive if I am not enraged. The nothing confrontation with Patrick was difficult for me, and it was a good reminder of just why I have been so non-assertive all my life. It's a long, if not impossible, journey from a frightened rabbit to a charging, but partially amused, lion.
I was actually able to do that with someone the other day while discussing bags. He got so worked up that he got up and walked away, but I found it amusing. Usually, I would be shaking with anger. Patrick, though, was more difficult because he was an authority figure, and I was in his lair, surrounded by his allies (if they wanted their paycheck).
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Evidence That Islam Man-Made #3
Evidence that Islam is man-made or worse #3: Did you know that according to Islam the Ayatollah Khomeini is has God-given - that is, infallible- knowledge and sense of justice. This is a man who orders and allows beatings, rapes, torture, dismemberment, and murder. May I also point out that he is a man, a human being of some sort. Man, humans, homo sapiens sapiens, are not perfect. They are not God. Khomeini admits he's not God.
Now if you were from another planet and were visiting here, trying to understand this world, would you say that the Ayatollah Khomeini came from God or Satan or Man? Could Satan be playing tricks on us by pretending to be God or even Man, but we see by his evil work that he is not God? Think, people!
Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68.
Now if you were from another planet and were visiting here, trying to understand this world, would you say that the Ayatollah Khomeini came from God or Satan or Man? Could Satan be playing tricks on us by pretending to be God or even Man, but we see by his evil work that he is not God? Think, people!
Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68.
Brattleboro, Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #31
Just for perspective, Hezbollah, the terrorists, now have 150,000 missiles aimed at tiny Israel. Thousands of them are medium-range that can reach Tel Aviv. How would you like living in Israel under those conditions, soft, apathetic, narcissistic Americans? You know who you are.
The Wall Street Journal ran an article on page 3 about the plastic bag backlash. Minnesota has joined five other states in making bag bans unlawful anywhere in the state. Pennsylvania has cities moving to ban bags but Democrat Governor Tom Wolf will veto such a bill saying he wants to protect the constituents obviously referring to 14 businesses in the state who employee 1,500 people making bags.
There was no discussion of the virtues and vices of plastic, paper, or reusable bags. That would have been most helpful as the Journal has a reputation for honesty and completeness in its stories. For instance, the weekend article about Venezuela was terrific.
Still, the question remains - how many Brattleboro bags are getting into the oceans, and secondly, how? I'm not putting any there. Are you? I'd love to see the ocean though. Are they getting there because the barges are dumping them illegally? Then clean that up. Force those employees to clean up their act or fire them. Don't force the people of Brattleboro to do without bags because barges dump bags into the ocean. That's immature and power-mad! Go where the problem is instead of kicking the people around. Give me the authority to do something about this problem, and I'll damn sure try and you'll get some straight talk from me for feedback too.
Stand up, Vermonters!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68
The Wall Street Journal ran an article on page 3 about the plastic bag backlash. Minnesota has joined five other states in making bag bans unlawful anywhere in the state. Pennsylvania has cities moving to ban bags but Democrat Governor Tom Wolf will veto such a bill saying he wants to protect the constituents obviously referring to 14 businesses in the state who employee 1,500 people making bags.
There was no discussion of the virtues and vices of plastic, paper, or reusable bags. That would have been most helpful as the Journal has a reputation for honesty and completeness in its stories. For instance, the weekend article about Venezuela was terrific.
Still, the question remains - how many Brattleboro bags are getting into the oceans, and secondly, how? I'm not putting any there. Are you? I'd love to see the ocean though. Are they getting there because the barges are dumping them illegally? Then clean that up. Force those employees to clean up their act or fire them. Don't force the people of Brattleboro to do without bags because barges dump bags into the ocean. That's immature and power-mad! Go where the problem is instead of kicking the people around. Give me the authority to do something about this problem, and I'll damn sure try and you'll get some straight talk from me for feedback too.
Stand up, Vermonters!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68
Monday, June 26, 2017
Bigfoot Hunt #102
Today, I was camera-hunting Bigfoot in the Putney, Vermont area where I have received some sightings. I coordinated the hunts around a doctor's appointment. I have received hundreds of panther and some Bigfoot sightings in Florida and Vermont, but today I received a sighting, a repetitive one, of my first apparition. According to my source, an agricultural worker, another agricultural
worker at the same place, has seen the apparition often too. It is a Caucasian dressed to look like an Indian. The people call it the "Buckskin Man." This person also said there were nine sightings of black bears on the property last year. Pretty wild place! The Buckskin Man has brown hair with blonde highlights- probably from being in the sun, eh?
I went to see my doctor, she examined me carefully, and suggested that buckskins could have been worn by white people of an earlier era. Like the mountain men. If anyone sees the Buckskin Man, Bigfoot, or a panther, please call me after I find my phone. It's still working. Somewhere.
Peter Nickerson, Bigfoot Camera-Hunter Extraordinaire
worker at the same place, has seen the apparition often too. It is a Caucasian dressed to look like an Indian. The people call it the "Buckskin Man." This person also said there were nine sightings of black bears on the property last year. Pretty wild place! The Buckskin Man has brown hair with blonde highlights- probably from being in the sun, eh?
I went to see my doctor, she examined me carefully, and suggested that buckskins could have been worn by white people of an earlier era. Like the mountain men. If anyone sees the Buckskin Man, Bigfoot, or a panther, please call me after I find my phone. It's still working. Somewhere.
Peter Nickerson, Bigfoot Camera-Hunter Extraordinaire
Brattleboro Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #30
My sources tell me that the owner of the Hannaford's property doesn't believe the State will take so much of his property from him as detailed in the expansion of the proposed Putney Road. Surely, he is being sarcastic.
I've also heard that some opinions at Brattleboro Tire about the proposed road expansion taking away much of their parking space is: "There's a difference in being flexible and being walked over." Like in "Don't tread on me?"
My sources also say that Hannaford is nonplussed about the authoritarian ban on plastic bags proposed by the selectboard, having computed that paper bags will be cheaper.
But what about the reaction of the tree-huggers, including me? What happens when the bags get wet on the way out to your vehicle? Answer: Everything in them falls out. Even an amoeba can fight his way out of wet paper bag. Also, what about people like me, who hold several plastic bags together in one hand to walk from the vehicle, up the stairs, and into the apartment? You're not going to be able to do that with paper bags. They won't hold up, and they're not amenable to being grouped together.
The question came up of what happens when someone forgets his re-usable bags and walks into the store without them. The chairwoman answered that he could just walk back to his car and get them. Easy for her to say; she's a young woman. What about us people over seventy? You going to make us hobble and totter back to our vehicles? That is, if we even remembered to bring them. You going to make us hobble and totter back to our homes?
All this begs the question of what is the big effing deal about plastic grocery bags? The selectboard chairwoman said that by 2035 -I think it was- there would be more plastic in the oceans than fish. So what does that have to do with Brattleboro plastic grocery bags? Do she think there are Brattleboro plastic grocery bags floating around in the oceans? Don't we already go to enough pain in the asses sorting all our garbage and putting it into the "proper" containers.
Is the selectboard getting addicted to the power of pushing us around?
Finally, why shoot ourselves in the foot with our tourists coming to Vermont and spending money by making it inconvenient and insecure putting their purchases into flimsy paper bags that everybody but the politically elite know is waiting for an excuse to tear? People come here to pay attention to the beauty of Vermont's wild lands -when they can see them through the turbines of the bird killing wind mill paddles! They want some release from the continual regimentation of modern, urban life. They did not come here to get pushed around by the Brattlebo selectboard!
Stand up, Vermonters! You do have a spine!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68
I've also heard that some opinions at Brattleboro Tire about the proposed road expansion taking away much of their parking space is: "There's a difference in being flexible and being walked over." Like in "Don't tread on me?"
My sources also say that Hannaford is nonplussed about the authoritarian ban on plastic bags proposed by the selectboard, having computed that paper bags will be cheaper.
But what about the reaction of the tree-huggers, including me? What happens when the bags get wet on the way out to your vehicle? Answer: Everything in them falls out. Even an amoeba can fight his way out of wet paper bag. Also, what about people like me, who hold several plastic bags together in one hand to walk from the vehicle, up the stairs, and into the apartment? You're not going to be able to do that with paper bags. They won't hold up, and they're not amenable to being grouped together.
The question came up of what happens when someone forgets his re-usable bags and walks into the store without them. The chairwoman answered that he could just walk back to his car and get them. Easy for her to say; she's a young woman. What about us people over seventy? You going to make us hobble and totter back to our vehicles? That is, if we even remembered to bring them. You going to make us hobble and totter back to our homes?
All this begs the question of what is the big effing deal about plastic grocery bags? The selectboard chairwoman said that by 2035 -I think it was- there would be more plastic in the oceans than fish. So what does that have to do with Brattleboro plastic grocery bags? Do she think there are Brattleboro plastic grocery bags floating around in the oceans? Don't we already go to enough pain in the asses sorting all our garbage and putting it into the "proper" containers.
Is the selectboard getting addicted to the power of pushing us around?
Finally, why shoot ourselves in the foot with our tourists coming to Vermont and spending money by making it inconvenient and insecure putting their purchases into flimsy paper bags that everybody but the politically elite know is waiting for an excuse to tear? People come here to pay attention to the beauty of Vermont's wild lands -when they can see them through the turbines of the bird killing wind mill paddles! They want some release from the continual regimentation of modern, urban life. They did not come here to get pushed around by the Brattlebo selectboard!
Stand up, Vermonters! You do have a spine!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68
Saturday, June 24, 2017
Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #29
Two acts of intolerance have surfaced this week. The first was a show of intolerance to plastic bags that your purchases are put into at retail stores like grocery stores or sporting goods stores. The Brattleboro Selectboard voted last Tuesday to ban the bags. The only reasons I heard given were that soon there would be more plastic in the oceans than fish. Another board member said that bad, toxic things were happening to the earth in the production of these bags. It was obvious that plastic bags are evil according to the board's gospel because that was it regarding the need for such draconian legislation. Now it goes to public comment before being sealed in shackles for the common man.
Since I don't have TV and my only paper is the Wall Street Journal, bags may be an ecological catastrophe and not the latest socialist hysterics now that it seems the witch hunt for Trump and the Russian's collaboration is over, and people who think are asking what did Obama do about his knowledge that the Russians were snooping around electronically into our election procedures, and why didn't he tell the common man? Because he's an elite, and we're not? So I need to learn more about bag pollution, but I intuitively don't like having my freedom of choice taken away by the local, state, and federal government employees. It's like death from a thousand piranha bites!
The other intolerance came by way of a man in Stoddard, New Hampshire, charged with a public nuisance, I think the overblown charge was. His crime?
He had been feeding the black bears. We humans take away almost all their land, and expect there's enough food left for them to survive unless they're subsidized by generous humans? That's crazy thinking!
Also, this man is a half a mile from his nearest neighbor. How can he be creating a public nuisance when there is no public. More craziness! In addition, there have been no complaints from his neighbors.
We must help the other species we are killing off. In addition, the poor man was also charged with not being cooperative with the game warden! Did he forget to kiss the game warden boots? Just how cooperative do you have to be with someone you think is doing you harm and wrong? You going to beat the man who struggles at his hanging? What kind of human would do that? It sounds like the Soviet Union! Let's remember that these are the people who laughed at the everyday man's reports of panthers until trail cameras came out. There is nothing wrong with feeding wildlife. It is the right thing to do. It is horrible what we are doing to the wild plants and animals. They need all the help they can get.
I camera-hunt for Bigfoot so I hope there's no going to be any low retribution for what I've written here. Are we professionals or thugs?
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
Since I don't have TV and my only paper is the Wall Street Journal, bags may be an ecological catastrophe and not the latest socialist hysterics now that it seems the witch hunt for Trump and the Russian's collaboration is over, and people who think are asking what did Obama do about his knowledge that the Russians were snooping around electronically into our election procedures, and why didn't he tell the common man? Because he's an elite, and we're not? So I need to learn more about bag pollution, but I intuitively don't like having my freedom of choice taken away by the local, state, and federal government employees. It's like death from a thousand piranha bites!
The other intolerance came by way of a man in Stoddard, New Hampshire, charged with a public nuisance, I think the overblown charge was. His crime?
He had been feeding the black bears. We humans take away almost all their land, and expect there's enough food left for them to survive unless they're subsidized by generous humans? That's crazy thinking!
Also, this man is a half a mile from his nearest neighbor. How can he be creating a public nuisance when there is no public. More craziness! In addition, there have been no complaints from his neighbors.
We must help the other species we are killing off. In addition, the poor man was also charged with not being cooperative with the game warden! Did he forget to kiss the game warden boots? Just how cooperative do you have to be with someone you think is doing you harm and wrong? You going to beat the man who struggles at his hanging? What kind of human would do that? It sounds like the Soviet Union! Let's remember that these are the people who laughed at the everyday man's reports of panthers until trail cameras came out. There is nothing wrong with feeding wildlife. It is the right thing to do. It is horrible what we are doing to the wild plants and animals. They need all the help they can get.
I camera-hunt for Bigfoot so I hope there's no going to be any low retribution for what I've written here. Are we professionals or thugs?
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
Friday, June 23, 2017
Why Islam Is Man-Made #2
About a year ago, the second-best bodybuilder in our gym came back from his first year at Berkeley. As expected now, he was now very critical of the Western World. It wasn't long before I heard him denigrating Europe for the Crusades because they killed so many Muslims. Deciding that if I could hear him, I was going to participate in the discussion. I said something about the West was simply recapturing land the Muslims had taken. That comment was not appreciated, though this year, when he came back from Berkeley and saw me still there lifting, the bodybuilder quickly offered his hand and said it was good to see me.
Nonie Darwish in her extraordinary Cruel And Unusual Punishment writes that 150 million people in the Middle East and another 120 million people in Africa have been killed by the Muslims since the Muslim Conquest began in the seventh century.
The Muslims contend that this has been a Holy Conquest demanded by God and can cite several passages in the Koran that the infidel must convert or be killed. But doesn't that make you wonder if God wanted the Infidel to be killed, why did he create the Infidel? You say He did it as a test. A test of what then?
Man's faithfulness to God, you say. Then why didn't He just make Man faithful to God? Wouldn't that be far more fair to all concerned, rather than testing Man's faithfulness to God by demanding Man rape, pillage, torture,dismember, and kill to prove himself? Wouldn't you be more of a Man if you said to God, "First God, I have no evidence that you said I had to kill or convert the Infidel and no one has offered me evidence, just the threat of death if I even doubt - which makes me doubt even more since I have at least two brain cells to rub together. On top of that, I don't understand why I or anyone should have to rape, pillage, torture, dismember, and kill to further Your religion. If it's so good, let it speak for itself. Don't use the sword but the word, like Christ and everyone else seeking to promote their particular religion has done. Well, except the Communist Socialists and the Nazi Socialists. I'm sorry, God, but since I have no evidence beyond Muhammed and the Koran, that you personally want me to act in such an un-Manly way, I'm going to take a pass for now. To tell you the truth, even if You appeared to me and told me to do these things and then took me to a Notary Public, wrote down your orders, and had them stamped and sealed, I still would not go on jihad because, God, I wouldn't think it would be You, but the Devil impersonating You. Because God does not stand for raping, pillaging, torturing, dismembering, and killing people including women and children because they aren't Muslims. That's not godly outreach, God. That's Satan's outreach.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68.
Nonie Darwish in her extraordinary Cruel And Unusual Punishment writes that 150 million people in the Middle East and another 120 million people in Africa have been killed by the Muslims since the Muslim Conquest began in the seventh century.
The Muslims contend that this has been a Holy Conquest demanded by God and can cite several passages in the Koran that the infidel must convert or be killed. But doesn't that make you wonder if God wanted the Infidel to be killed, why did he create the Infidel? You say He did it as a test. A test of what then?
Man's faithfulness to God, you say. Then why didn't He just make Man faithful to God? Wouldn't that be far more fair to all concerned, rather than testing Man's faithfulness to God by demanding Man rape, pillage, torture,dismember, and kill to prove himself? Wouldn't you be more of a Man if you said to God, "First God, I have no evidence that you said I had to kill or convert the Infidel and no one has offered me evidence, just the threat of death if I even doubt - which makes me doubt even more since I have at least two brain cells to rub together. On top of that, I don't understand why I or anyone should have to rape, pillage, torture, dismember, and kill to further Your religion. If it's so good, let it speak for itself. Don't use the sword but the word, like Christ and everyone else seeking to promote their particular religion has done. Well, except the Communist Socialists and the Nazi Socialists. I'm sorry, God, but since I have no evidence beyond Muhammed and the Koran, that you personally want me to act in such an un-Manly way, I'm going to take a pass for now. To tell you the truth, even if You appeared to me and told me to do these things and then took me to a Notary Public, wrote down your orders, and had them stamped and sealed, I still would not go on jihad because, God, I wouldn't think it would be You, but the Devil impersonating You. Because God does not stand for raping, pillaging, torturing, dismembering, and killing people including women and children because they aren't Muslims. That's not godly outreach, God. That's Satan's outreach.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #28
First, a word to my fans; Bigfoot apparently picked my pocket up in Hancock, New Hampshire because I haven't been able to find my cell phone since that camera-hunt. My budget doesn't allow me to replace it until next month. Will check my email at peternickerson12@yahoo.com. Be sure to leave me your address.
I did participate at the selectboard meeting last night. The Reformer apparently didn't publish my letter to the editor so I made copies of it, dropped off a couple of them at the town clerk's office for their reading enjoyment and then gave copies out at the town manager's office for him and the five selectmen.
I then got to my safe spot by the doorway and waited for the meeting to begin. "Diversity" advocates came in, less this time, but still with little signs that they didn't flourish. Because, I was worked up and generally have CRS, the rest of the diversity even is sketchy, but I did stand up and note that diversity didn't seem to be so diverse since all I had heard was black, female, and lesbian diversity. I said that I had phobias and so did nine percent of the population. I ended with saying, "I am old school. What is the definition of diversity?"
Peter, the town attorney, answered first by saying that it was defined in the memo handed out at the previous meeting and then defined it. He mentioned "protected" classes, which seemed so un-American that fat cat senators owned by international corporations would dare to divide Americans by legislation to make some groups more "protected" -which is doublespeak for more privileged- than others. So I arose from my seat, went back to the mike, my speaking phoba already beginning to close down my throat- and said that I was "galled" about only hearing about black, homosexuality, and females. Then I turned, pointed at my empty seat by the door, and croaked, "I have to sit by the door! I can't go to the front of the bus!" and retreated to the safety of said seat.
Selectman John Allen then said that the board was aware that there were many diverse groups, and the three that were being talked about were the only ones that had come forward.
For the individualists, not the groupers, diversity has been a hated word since it recognizes groups, not people. Individualists know that there is no such thing as a group in reality. It is a man-made term, a mental construct. Groupers love the term because they dislike individuals and reality and much prefer to operate in the la-la land of groups. That way groupers can also hide their contempt for the individual too- by displaying love for groups (that don't exist).
In addition to hating the grouper's ostentacious worship of diversity, I propose we individualists, be the adults in the room and point out how diverse, diversity is. It's not just black, homosexuals, and females. It's any group. Count the groups; they're endless. Insist on their recognition as well as the tired old threesome: blacks, females, and homosexuals. For my part, since I take two antidepressants, I am going to find out about the depression group. That's what ninety-five percent of the population?
The kids with the diversity cards need a wider perspective on life. I found it repugnant that kids in the pink of health can be wailing about "microagressions" and other psychiatric symptoms when I can barely get into the room. Hold the line, adults!
Peter Nickerson, peternickerson12@yahoo.com Yes, Two-Guns is alive and firing with both guns!
I did participate at the selectboard meeting last night. The Reformer apparently didn't publish my letter to the editor so I made copies of it, dropped off a couple of them at the town clerk's office for their reading enjoyment and then gave copies out at the town manager's office for him and the five selectmen.
I then got to my safe spot by the doorway and waited for the meeting to begin. "Diversity" advocates came in, less this time, but still with little signs that they didn't flourish. Because, I was worked up and generally have CRS, the rest of the diversity even is sketchy, but I did stand up and note that diversity didn't seem to be so diverse since all I had heard was black, female, and lesbian diversity. I said that I had phobias and so did nine percent of the population. I ended with saying, "I am old school. What is the definition of diversity?"
Peter, the town attorney, answered first by saying that it was defined in the memo handed out at the previous meeting and then defined it. He mentioned "protected" classes, which seemed so un-American that fat cat senators owned by international corporations would dare to divide Americans by legislation to make some groups more "protected" -which is doublespeak for more privileged- than others. So I arose from my seat, went back to the mike, my speaking phoba already beginning to close down my throat- and said that I was "galled" about only hearing about black, homosexuality, and females. Then I turned, pointed at my empty seat by the door, and croaked, "I have to sit by the door! I can't go to the front of the bus!" and retreated to the safety of said seat.
Selectman John Allen then said that the board was aware that there were many diverse groups, and the three that were being talked about were the only ones that had come forward.
For the individualists, not the groupers, diversity has been a hated word since it recognizes groups, not people. Individualists know that there is no such thing as a group in reality. It is a man-made term, a mental construct. Groupers love the term because they dislike individuals and reality and much prefer to operate in the la-la land of groups. That way groupers can also hide their contempt for the individual too- by displaying love for groups (that don't exist).
In addition to hating the grouper's ostentacious worship of diversity, I propose we individualists, be the adults in the room and point out how diverse, diversity is. It's not just black, homosexuals, and females. It's any group. Count the groups; they're endless. Insist on their recognition as well as the tired old threesome: blacks, females, and homosexuals. For my part, since I take two antidepressants, I am going to find out about the depression group. That's what ninety-five percent of the population?
The kids with the diversity cards need a wider perspective on life. I found it repugnant that kids in the pink of health can be wailing about "microagressions" and other psychiatric symptoms when I can barely get into the room. Hold the line, adults!
Peter Nickerson, peternickerson12@yahoo.com Yes, Two-Guns is alive and firing with both guns!
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #27
To help me with my phobias of attending meetings and public speaking, I started attending "Saturday Night Live" at the Methodist church next to my apartment. My phobias can be lessened by exposure to the phobia causing situation, but they've never been extinguished with the exception of my tunnel phobia. I hardly look forward to being in tunnels, but, so far, the panic has been gone for a long time. It went soon after appearing and probably didn't have a chance to be hard-wired.
This reminds me of the disservice universities may be doing by building "safe spaces" for the coddled college students. They are enabling even encouraging the too sensitive. You students and you parents should be aware that coddling the fearful only helps the fear to become hardwired and could promote even greater fear. We are never static; things are either getting incrementally better or worse. Another thing for both groups of people to consider is that fear is contagious. You can be socially conditioned to be fearful, paranoid, and hallucinative. In looking at the un-American, totalitarian ways the crazed feminist male-hating Title IX bureaucrats are holding kangaroo courts on universities across the country and causing unconscionable mental, vocational, and cultural harm to men, their families, and friends, and ultimately to the nation, I have read Schiff's The Witches. As the hysteria widened from a core group of accusers, seven girls from eleven to seventeen, to include the entire town and village of Salem, Massachusetts, everyone seemed to be suddenly seeing witches. Even two dogs were accused of being witches and were unmanly shot. The only exception to the craziness was the solidity of father and son relationships. None of them, either way, accused the other of being witches. I believe that was a function of testosterone which inhibits emotional instability.
I would suggest you hysterical students or since you are probably getting too much attention to give up your hysteria, you parents of skeered, hysterical daughters- sons too- consider testosterone supplementation. As far as I know, this suggestion originates with me. Be calm and measured about this instead of fashionably hysterical, loud, and hyperbolic. I'm making a lot of sense, if you even want sense instead of cheap emotionality.
To return to the crazed campuses where teenage girls and young women are encouraged to see male rapists instead of witches flying around on sticks, I am
emotional myself about the absence of Betty Devos, the new Secretary of Education, from this fight over the lives of teenage boys and young men falsely convicted of sexual assault. What is she doing more important than this? I was led, editorial after editorial, in the Wall Street Journal that this was a woman of courage and high principles? Where the hell is she? She is an effing no-show!
Even I, the frightened rabbit, show up for Socialist Selectboard meetings in spite of double phobias. I haven't said anything about the discrimination they want to make in hiring the preferred race and sex, but I've shaken my head no, and made faces at the testimony of racists and sexists. I'm attending AA trying to work up the courage to verbally confront the selectboard tyrants. And I'm a nobody, DeVos!
Why hire a woman who is going to be a no-show, who's going to break down and cry, and blame others? Talking about testosterone!
Peter Nickerson, 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, VT 352-359-0850
Don't call me. Lost cellphone. This is not cheap emotionalism. I have put in hours reading several books and the Journal editorials, other magazines and newspapers, and watching Fox News at the gym. I've got to be in the top five percent in preparation on this subject. This is dearly bought emotionalism. If you are mature about something, you can be emotional about it to a depth that shallow emotionalism, feeding on ignorance, cannot begin to reach. Dearly purchased emotionalism is good - the best- while easy emotionalism is a two year older having a tantrum.
This reminds me of the disservice universities may be doing by building "safe spaces" for the coddled college students. They are enabling even encouraging the too sensitive. You students and you parents should be aware that coddling the fearful only helps the fear to become hardwired and could promote even greater fear. We are never static; things are either getting incrementally better or worse. Another thing for both groups of people to consider is that fear is contagious. You can be socially conditioned to be fearful, paranoid, and hallucinative. In looking at the un-American, totalitarian ways the crazed feminist male-hating Title IX bureaucrats are holding kangaroo courts on universities across the country and causing unconscionable mental, vocational, and cultural harm to men, their families, and friends, and ultimately to the nation, I have read Schiff's The Witches. As the hysteria widened from a core group of accusers, seven girls from eleven to seventeen, to include the entire town and village of Salem, Massachusetts, everyone seemed to be suddenly seeing witches. Even two dogs were accused of being witches and were unmanly shot. The only exception to the craziness was the solidity of father and son relationships. None of them, either way, accused the other of being witches. I believe that was a function of testosterone which inhibits emotional instability.
I would suggest you hysterical students or since you are probably getting too much attention to give up your hysteria, you parents of skeered, hysterical daughters- sons too- consider testosterone supplementation. As far as I know, this suggestion originates with me. Be calm and measured about this instead of fashionably hysterical, loud, and hyperbolic. I'm making a lot of sense, if you even want sense instead of cheap emotionality.
To return to the crazed campuses where teenage girls and young women are encouraged to see male rapists instead of witches flying around on sticks, I am
emotional myself about the absence of Betty Devos, the new Secretary of Education, from this fight over the lives of teenage boys and young men falsely convicted of sexual assault. What is she doing more important than this? I was led, editorial after editorial, in the Wall Street Journal that this was a woman of courage and high principles? Where the hell is she? She is an effing no-show!
Even I, the frightened rabbit, show up for Socialist Selectboard meetings in spite of double phobias. I haven't said anything about the discrimination they want to make in hiring the preferred race and sex, but I've shaken my head no, and made faces at the testimony of racists and sexists. I'm attending AA trying to work up the courage to verbally confront the selectboard tyrants. And I'm a nobody, DeVos!
Why hire a woman who is going to be a no-show, who's going to break down and cry, and blame others? Talking about testosterone!
Peter Nickerson, 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, VT 352-359-0850
Don't call me. Lost cellphone. This is not cheap emotionalism. I have put in hours reading several books and the Journal editorials, other magazines and newspapers, and watching Fox News at the gym. I've got to be in the top five percent in preparation on this subject. This is dearly bought emotionalism. If you are mature about something, you can be emotional about it to a depth that shallow emotionalism, feeding on ignorance, cannot begin to reach. Dearly purchased emotionalism is good - the best- while easy emotionalism is a two year older having a tantrum.
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Why Islam Is Man-Made #1
Islam is man-made because there are four schools of Sharia thought. That shows you that it is not God directing this situation as there would be only one school. There are four demonstrating that man is in charge, and can't get agreement on only one school. Sharia is the body of Islamic law based upon the Koran, the Hadith, and debate, interpretation, and precedent. There are thousands of Shria laws in every aspect of your life even how many times you are to wipe yourself. It is totalitarian. Complete slavery. To live under fundamental Islam you must be completely submissive. But to whom? Men! Though they might claim God whispers to them. Hate is endemic in fundamental Islam as you must kill the infidel. Says men. By killing innocent Muslims when fighting Dash and the like, we are sewing justified hate and reaping more recruits against our freedom fighters - at least the Westerners are freedom fighters. The better alternative to bombs, including by drones, is special ops raids where mistakes are minimized by highly skilled, discriminating fighters. Also we should be putting into perspective our mistaken killings compared to Dash's and their ilk's accidental killings and purposeful murders of innocent civilians. War is hell, but the alternative is a life of hell as the poor University of Virginia student learned in communist North Korea. American lefties are willing to live that life of hell rather than fight, but they aren't in control at the moment.
The four schools are Hanafi, Shaf'i, Maliki, and Hanbali. Hanbali is the strictest, and is observed only in Saudi Arabia. Hanafi is the most liberal and is observed by the most Muslims.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, VT. 05301, 352-359-0850 I thank the courageous Nonie Darwish and her book Cruel and Usual Punishment for most of the Islamic information above.
The four schools are Hanafi, Shaf'i, Maliki, and Hanbali. Hanbali is the strictest, and is observed only in Saudi Arabia. Hanafi is the most liberal and is observed by the most Muslims.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, VT. 05301, 352-359-0850 I thank the courageous Nonie Darwish and her book Cruel and Usual Punishment for most of the Islamic information above.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Bigfoot Hunt #101
There are other Bigfoot hunts deep in this blog so I will start anew with #101. Having read of three to five Bigfoot growling at a family at their sliding back door and shaking trees at the wood line in the back, I went to Hancock, New Hampshire to look around last Sunday. The lady at the country market claimed she had no idea where the two game management areas were. I eventually found them less than five miles from her store. Was she telling me the truth? Wouldn't you think hunters especially duck and goose hunters as both areas had marshy ponds would be coming into her store? Both places appear to be ideal for a square stern canoe with an electric trolling motor, something my budget doesn't allow for. But I do have a spotting scope and understand I can put an adapter kit and an I phone 6 onto the scope for a camera. But again, there's not room in the budget for an I phone. But I do have the spotting scope. Let's see if I see any Bigfoot first, though such things are a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I did see a small flock of turkeys at the side of a road. They were about six of them, all toms, some with long beards, being led by a little, old hen. I imagine she was barren. Since I stopped, she led the toms away from the road at an acute angle. I also saw at another place a single hen, apparently coming off the nest long enough to feed.
Today, I tried to work on Black Panther at Wendy's, but my apartment is apparently so hot, the laptop wouldn't start. Again, my high-end budget doesn't allow for air conditioning, I am on the second floor, and Vermont was 95 at the bank on the way to Wendy's.
I have written " Ever Seen A Bigfoot. Yes, Please Tell Me. 352-359-0850" on the back window of my truck cap. A young woman was looking at it in an animated manner with her friend today, so when she walked into Wendy's I asked her if she had seen one. "No," she replied." But my husband is a contractor, and his buddy showed him pictures of huge footprints in the snow at his site. They went into the woods."
I told her I was looking around Hancock, and she said he did work there. I gave her my card, and maybe her husband will call me.
Peter Nickerson 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, VT 05301
I did see a small flock of turkeys at the side of a road. They were about six of them, all toms, some with long beards, being led by a little, old hen. I imagine she was barren. Since I stopped, she led the toms away from the road at an acute angle. I also saw at another place a single hen, apparently coming off the nest long enough to feed.
Today, I tried to work on Black Panther at Wendy's, but my apartment is apparently so hot, the laptop wouldn't start. Again, my high-end budget doesn't allow for air conditioning, I am on the second floor, and Vermont was 95 at the bank on the way to Wendy's.
I have written " Ever Seen A Bigfoot. Yes, Please Tell Me. 352-359-0850" on the back window of my truck cap. A young woman was looking at it in an animated manner with her friend today, so when she walked into Wendy's I asked her if she had seen one. "No," she replied." But my husband is a contractor, and his buddy showed him pictures of huge footprints in the snow at his site. They went into the woods."
I told her I was looking around Hancock, and she said he did work there. I gave her my card, and maybe her husband will call me.
Peter Nickerson 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, VT 05301
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #26
Report about Selectboard meeting continued: "After everyone had a chance to speak at least once, some more, the red line of professionalism began collapsing with Kate O'Connor and Brandie Starr [selectboard members] wanting to move the town policy toward affirmative action and quotas. Kate also said she wanted to see a firewoman hired. Since the fire chief was present and asking for more money from the selectboard and Kate was the chairman of the selectboard, I am sure Kate will get her firewoman. You see the politicization happening immediately? Two meetings ago, David Schoales [selectboard member] wanted a black cop. I'm sure he will get one. What a blow to the professionalism of both occupations!
There's also a major hypocrisy at play too for blacks and homosexuals have been cruelly and even murderousy discriminated against. But now that they have gained much more acceptance and have some power, they -but not all- use it to discriminate against others."
And do it goes. America has always been the land of opportunity. Freedom of opportunity was defined as discrimination due to race, sex, or sexual orientation being illegal. Now the socialist groupers are turning America on her head by discriminating for their preferred groups which, at the moment and at their whim, are blacks and women.
Let's stop this ugly politicization and group preference choosing
by finding some strong people who will come to the selectboard meetings and speak out against this discrimination. I shouldn't be there by myself trying to overcome my phobias long enough to speak out against this tyranny! Freedom lovers who will speak out pledge to yourself right now that on the third Tuesday of June, you'll be at the selectboard meeting at 6:15.
Peter Nickerson, 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, VT 05301 352-359-0850
There's also a major hypocrisy at play too for blacks and homosexuals have been cruelly and even murderousy discriminated against. But now that they have gained much more acceptance and have some power, they -but not all- use it to discriminate against others."
And do it goes. America has always been the land of opportunity. Freedom of opportunity was defined as discrimination due to race, sex, or sexual orientation being illegal. Now the socialist groupers are turning America on her head by discriminating for their preferred groups which, at the moment and at their whim, are blacks and women.
Let's stop this ugly politicization and group preference choosing
by finding some strong people who will come to the selectboard meetings and speak out against this discrimination. I shouldn't be there by myself trying to overcome my phobias long enough to speak out against this tyranny! Freedom lovers who will speak out pledge to yourself right now that on the third Tuesday of June, you'll be at the selectboard meeting at 6:15.
Peter Nickerson, 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, VT 05301 352-359-0850
Friday, June 9, 2017
Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #25
First, I failed to stand up to the crowd of "diversity" - that is," my preferred diversity, excuse my lying." I will try to stand up to these hypocrites and hysterics next meeting. It's not easy to change from a frightened rabbit to a charging black panther. Here's my report of the meeting: "The red line of professionalism was broached by ugly politicization last night, June 6, at the Brattleboro Selectboard meeting. I arrive early and told a lady that we owed it to our citizens to employ the most qualified job applicant. She assured me that was the policy [not for long!]. Everyone but me was there for promoting diversity, and many had little signs that they politely parked at the doorway. When the diversity discussion was over, I was the only one left in the room who was not a town government employee. As a phobic, I found the "diversity" discussion not diverse at all; I only heard about black people and lesbians. There are many other categories of people who struggle to be in the mainstream but can't because of limitations. For example, nine percent of the population suffers from phobias which is fairly close to the twelve percent of blacks and way above the four percent of lesbians. Why put lesbians above phobics? Can you see the endless bickering and grouping people can engage in when there is an attempt to prioritize one group above another? It will be a lawyer's dream come true, paid by the Brattleboro taxpayers." To Be Continued
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 62 Town Crier Dr., Apt. 12, Brattleboro, VT 05301 352-359-0850 We are engaging in this narcissism, selfishness, and grifting while our soldiers are losing limbs, minds, and even lives fighting for our safety and freedom? Disgraceful! If you want to see a black or lesbian become a cop, help him to become qualified, and then if he's turned down, ask why. If not satisfied, fight like hell for him based on evidence not your precious, highly self-esteemed feelings.
Don't use your political muscle to ensure that your preferred type of candidate is chosen over more qualified candidates. That is not what America is about, and I hate your trying to make it that way!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 62 Town Crier Dr., Apt. 12, Brattleboro, VT 05301 352-359-0850 We are engaging in this narcissism, selfishness, and grifting while our soldiers are losing limbs, minds, and even lives fighting for our safety and freedom? Disgraceful! If you want to see a black or lesbian become a cop, help him to become qualified, and then if he's turned down, ask why. If not satisfied, fight like hell for him based on evidence not your precious, highly self-esteemed feelings.
Don't use your political muscle to ensure that your preferred type of candidate is chosen over more qualified candidates. That is not what America is about, and I hate your trying to make it that way!
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Vernont Selectboard Un-Candidate #24
First, a mistake: I meant Wendy's not Hardee's yesterday. I got my third day's coffee today without a hitch. I also noted that the floor beneath the urinal didn't even look wet. At McDonald's there's usually a pool of urine there, probably because so many more men pee there. It was nice not having to stand in pee while you peed.
Recently, I had a hard-working Trump voter -there is another one in Brattleboro besides me- tell me that one of his workers had complained that she had to get food stamps. He asked her or wanted to ask her why she had two kids if she couldn't afford them. He thought this was a bad example of people being on welfare. I wondered if he would have denied her welfare if he had the power, and next time I will. Instead of asking that question after the the fact when of course, you aren't going to deny the kids help, we should establish a norm, like it used to be, that you don't have children if you can't afford them, even if you can get on welfare. But as long as people walk around saying, "I don't judge" no norms are going to be established. People, if you don't judge, you are the only species that doesn't. Judging is all important. Let me see you cross the street without judging. The British and French citizens are learning they had better be able to judge terrorist quickly. Their lives depend on it. They also need to be able to judge an Islamofascist who's trying to convert their children as one of the latest London terrorists and machete-killers was doing. They need to judge it as dangerous and report it. And get any other affected parents to report it too so maybe the police will leave their doughnuts and investigate.
People are social animals. They are influenced by people around them. Don't let terrorists get to your children because you don't want to "judge them." Besides being stupid, you're falling into the hands of the terrorists, and those hands will mutilate and kill you and your children because of their crazy, evil, totalitarian religion that Muhammed made up, like all religions unfortunately, so he could rule the world as his Caliphate. Why else would he demand, "Convert or die" and sentence to death anyone who gave up Islam? If he didn't, who would buy his product or use it for long? That is why radical Islam hates capitalism- because it is based on the free choice of the individual. There's no freedom in radical Islam. The very word islam is Arabic for submission.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, Vt. 05301 352-359-0850
Recently, I had a hard-working Trump voter -there is another one in Brattleboro besides me- tell me that one of his workers had complained that she had to get food stamps. He asked her or wanted to ask her why she had two kids if she couldn't afford them. He thought this was a bad example of people being on welfare. I wondered if he would have denied her welfare if he had the power, and next time I will. Instead of asking that question after the the fact when of course, you aren't going to deny the kids help, we should establish a norm, like it used to be, that you don't have children if you can't afford them, even if you can get on welfare. But as long as people walk around saying, "I don't judge" no norms are going to be established. People, if you don't judge, you are the only species that doesn't. Judging is all important. Let me see you cross the street without judging. The British and French citizens are learning they had better be able to judge terrorist quickly. Their lives depend on it. They also need to be able to judge an Islamofascist who's trying to convert their children as one of the latest London terrorists and machete-killers was doing. They need to judge it as dangerous and report it. And get any other affected parents to report it too so maybe the police will leave their doughnuts and investigate.
People are social animals. They are influenced by people around them. Don't let terrorists get to your children because you don't want to "judge them." Besides being stupid, you're falling into the hands of the terrorists, and those hands will mutilate and kill you and your children because of their crazy, evil, totalitarian religion that Muhammed made up, like all religions unfortunately, so he could rule the world as his Caliphate. Why else would he demand, "Convert or die" and sentence to death anyone who gave up Islam? If he didn't, who would buy his product or use it for long? That is why radical Islam hates capitalism- because it is based on the free choice of the individual. There's no freedom in radical Islam. The very word islam is Arabic for submission.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, Vt. 05301 352-359-0850
Monday, June 5, 2017
Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #23
I told a Navy Seal about being screamed at by men in authority once upon a time. It was a fearful situation as they had guns and I didn't, and they were unhinged, but deliberately so, trying to frighten me. I was quivering with rage, not fright though. If only they had been man enough for a fair fight! Still, I was upset about the incident, feeling like I had come out being the loser. The unflappable Seal merely said, "I would have found it funny -them being all so upset." Spoken like a true Seal!
Next time I am not only going to find it funny, but they will be the loser because I am going to say, "I'm so sorry to see you upset and screamy (and so pitifully unprofessional and unmanly)."
This vignette is what I will keep in mind if there is any strident righteous racism at the Selectboard meeting tomorrow.
I heard a black man on the Tom Some-Socialist Show this morning saying he wanted white people in America to suffer for the slavery they put the black people in. I said to him - he didn't hear me, thank God!- "Go ahead! Dig 'em up and punish them." How ignorant! He didn't utter a peep about the 39 million people still in slavery worldwide. I wonder why.
How is the rest of Brattleboro faring without McDonald's? I tried going to the Co-op which is most pleasant and refined but was paying almost four dollars for coffee and a plain bagel. My budget can't support that so I'm turning to Wendy's which is a disaster. I've ordered coffee -just coffee- and you'd think it was Baked Alaska. First time, they had run out of half and half. At least they carry it; McCafe can't seem to bring themselves to do that. Today, they had to brew coffee. I went to my table, paid a bill and addressed an envelope. I then went back. They had forgotten the order. Hardee's is only one building away from McDonald's. You'd think they would have learned something about McDonald's system and copied it by now. They are in another world, a slow, constantly snagged up one. But their dollar cup of coffee with half-and-half is better - when you get it the day after ordering it!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, Vt. 05301, 352-359-0850
Next time I am not only going to find it funny, but they will be the loser because I am going to say, "I'm so sorry to see you upset and screamy (and so pitifully unprofessional and unmanly)."
This vignette is what I will keep in mind if there is any strident righteous racism at the Selectboard meeting tomorrow.
I heard a black man on the Tom Some-Socialist Show this morning saying he wanted white people in America to suffer for the slavery they put the black people in. I said to him - he didn't hear me, thank God!- "Go ahead! Dig 'em up and punish them." How ignorant! He didn't utter a peep about the 39 million people still in slavery worldwide. I wonder why.
How is the rest of Brattleboro faring without McDonald's? I tried going to the Co-op which is most pleasant and refined but was paying almost four dollars for coffee and a plain bagel. My budget can't support that so I'm turning to Wendy's which is a disaster. I've ordered coffee -just coffee- and you'd think it was Baked Alaska. First time, they had run out of half and half. At least they carry it; McCafe can't seem to bring themselves to do that. Today, they had to brew coffee. I went to my table, paid a bill and addressed an envelope. I then went back. They had forgotten the order. Hardee's is only one building away from McDonald's. You'd think they would have learned something about McDonald's system and copied it by now. They are in another world, a slow, constantly snagged up one. But their dollar cup of coffee with half-and-half is better - when you get it the day after ordering it!
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, 62 Town Crier Drive, Apt. 10, Brattleboro, Vt. 05301, 352-359-0850
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Brattleboro, Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #22
I picked up some meat at Hannaford and saw two managers walking by. I had talked to one about the Putney Road widening but without a map. I walked over and showed them the map, asking if they were interested in seeing how the widening would affect their land. "It's not our land. We lease it," the other manager said. I am quoting as accurately as I can.
"Then would you like to see how your leased land will be affected," I asked.
At another point, I got a "yeah, yeah, yeah," and almost mimicked that back, but bit my tongue. But the manager warmed to the task, looked closely at the map, understanding it better than me, and said, "This is not good. It comes way into our parking lot, almost up to the store. I think it's going to be dangerous for the pedestrians - our customers- walking from and to their vehicles. I see what they're trying to do with this road widening; they're trying to make it so you don't have to go off the road (into the bike lane) to get around vehicles making a left turn."
He got the other manager to take some pictures. "I want to send these to corporate and to the owner. I don't think they'll be happy with this."
"I don't want to see businesses suffer," I said. "Please keep me in the loop."
"I will. I have your card."
Twice, during our conversation, he shook my hand.
As I drove away, my thoughts turned back to the Reformer letter to the editor.
I finally found some humor to it, "It took six of them to write a letter," I mused.
Still, I was worried about attending the meeting. It was extra hard going to the meeting and facing David Schoales after I wrote the Civil Rights Commission about his discrimination against the other races in preferring blacks for employment. I knew mentally that he wouldn't dare say anything to me because then he'd really be in trouble with the Civil Rights Commission when I reported that back to it, but once I got to the board meeting, fear paralyzed reason. I decided I'd steel myself in any confrontation he brought and simply say, " Tough s____ ! You said it, not me." But nothing happened at the meeting besides David, it seemed to me, being nicer and more engaged.
Now I had to steel myself for six or so strident racists who were inviting their friends to come too. In addition to trying to get through four hours of phobic hell! Poor me! I delved into the pages of cognitive therapy and came up with an idea. There was a part of me that was an unafraid watcher even when I was panicky. He wasn't easy to access, but he was there. In the selectboard meeting, I would try to go to this fearless overwatcher. I would even think of him as Christopher Kyle, the Seal and the American Sniper. This is where I would try to be as much as possible. With the Seal.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major and winner of three degrees in spite of my phobias. I can walk through hell!
"Then would you like to see how your leased land will be affected," I asked.
At another point, I got a "yeah, yeah, yeah," and almost mimicked that back, but bit my tongue. But the manager warmed to the task, looked closely at the map, understanding it better than me, and said, "This is not good. It comes way into our parking lot, almost up to the store. I think it's going to be dangerous for the pedestrians - our customers- walking from and to their vehicles. I see what they're trying to do with this road widening; they're trying to make it so you don't have to go off the road (into the bike lane) to get around vehicles making a left turn."
He got the other manager to take some pictures. "I want to send these to corporate and to the owner. I don't think they'll be happy with this."
"I don't want to see businesses suffer," I said. "Please keep me in the loop."
"I will. I have your card."
Twice, during our conversation, he shook my hand.
As I drove away, my thoughts turned back to the Reformer letter to the editor.
I finally found some humor to it, "It took six of them to write a letter," I mused.
Still, I was worried about attending the meeting. It was extra hard going to the meeting and facing David Schoales after I wrote the Civil Rights Commission about his discrimination against the other races in preferring blacks for employment. I knew mentally that he wouldn't dare say anything to me because then he'd really be in trouble with the Civil Rights Commission when I reported that back to it, but once I got to the board meeting, fear paralyzed reason. I decided I'd steel myself in any confrontation he brought and simply say, " Tough s____ ! You said it, not me." But nothing happened at the meeting besides David, it seemed to me, being nicer and more engaged.
Now I had to steel myself for six or so strident racists who were inviting their friends to come too. In addition to trying to get through four hours of phobic hell! Poor me! I delved into the pages of cognitive therapy and came up with an idea. There was a part of me that was an unafraid watcher even when I was panicky. He wasn't easy to access, but he was there. In the selectboard meeting, I would try to go to this fearless overwatcher. I would even think of him as Christopher Kyle, the Seal and the American Sniper. This is where I would try to be as much as possible. With the Seal.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major and winner of three degrees in spite of my phobias. I can walk through hell!
Friday, June 2, 2017
Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #21
I was dispirited after the last selectboard meeting. It was too hard sitting on the verge of panic, trying not to bolt out of the room, for four hours. The only thing comparable to it was working with my social services board once a month for about one and a half hours. Even then, I took a Valium before the meeting. But there were rewards for going through that hell; I had a job, some prestige and power, and was attractive to beautiful women. What are my rewards for enduring a four hour hell twice a month? I lost track of dates and thought the Tuesday after Memorial Day was selectboard day. I woke up that morning with my stomach twisted. That decided it. I was not going. At almost six, only about twenty minutes before I thought the meeting was to start, I had an epiphany. There was strong reward for going: I got to live in the present instead of having the harpies of my endless mistakes taunting me like harpies. This was how I got out of my Manchester By The Sea. I hurried downtown and realized I had the date wrong.
While I was being so brave, I decided that if I were elected and found the seating arrangement too stressful, I would sit with the people by the door or even stand in the doorway. The rest of the board could adjust to that. It was no skin off their teeth.
The Reformer eventually published their copy of my complaint about what I believe was David Schoales' racism and discrimination against all other races but blacks which I sent to the Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C. The newspaper masked it as an "Open Letter" which was fine. Their editorializing seemed fair and helpful even. Everything was included.
Yesterday, I was on my way out of the library with two bags strapped to me, hurrying for one more errand before my time ran out in parking. I stopped in midstream to glance at a Reformer on a coffee table. I saw a letter written by maybe six people praising Brandy's short concerns and David's racist rant for not having blacks employed by the town government. The letter urged everyone to come to the next board meeting and promised the topic was high on the agenda. It was a strident, self-righteous, guilting, racist letter. I could picture myself being loudly attacked at the board meeting by the liberals' sacred race, blacks. I was scared, cowardly, gutless, whatever. But I also saw myself there and attempting to say something that was not racist and was not discriminating for blacks. Could I do it with my double phobia- being in meetings and public speaking.
My errand was to try to get a map of the Putney Road widening to show business owners who were going to have their property seized by the state and see if they were going to suffer as a result. The finance director walked me around until one of the very nice people there gave me a beautiful copy, almost as delicious looking as a chocolate cake! I was still so upset by the prospects of dealing with loud, righteous, guilting people at a board meeting that I had difficulty explaining what I wanted to the very professional, warm staff.
In the town manager's office, I ran into the eloquent Abanaki Indian, Rich Holsuch. I wondered if he was there to urge the town manager not to hire blacks, but Indians instead.
With map in hand, I started toward Hannaford to talk to the managers.
To Be Continued
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
While I was being so brave, I decided that if I were elected and found the seating arrangement too stressful, I would sit with the people by the door or even stand in the doorway. The rest of the board could adjust to that. It was no skin off their teeth.
The Reformer eventually published their copy of my complaint about what I believe was David Schoales' racism and discrimination against all other races but blacks which I sent to the Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C. The newspaper masked it as an "Open Letter" which was fine. Their editorializing seemed fair and helpful even. Everything was included.
Yesterday, I was on my way out of the library with two bags strapped to me, hurrying for one more errand before my time ran out in parking. I stopped in midstream to glance at a Reformer on a coffee table. I saw a letter written by maybe six people praising Brandy's short concerns and David's racist rant for not having blacks employed by the town government. The letter urged everyone to come to the next board meeting and promised the topic was high on the agenda. It was a strident, self-righteous, guilting, racist letter. I could picture myself being loudly attacked at the board meeting by the liberals' sacred race, blacks. I was scared, cowardly, gutless, whatever. But I also saw myself there and attempting to say something that was not racist and was not discriminating for blacks. Could I do it with my double phobia- being in meetings and public speaking.
My errand was to try to get a map of the Putney Road widening to show business owners who were going to have their property seized by the state and see if they were going to suffer as a result. The finance director walked me around until one of the very nice people there gave me a beautiful copy, almost as delicious looking as a chocolate cake! I was still so upset by the prospects of dealing with loud, righteous, guilting people at a board meeting that I had difficulty explaining what I wanted to the very professional, warm staff.
In the town manager's office, I ran into the eloquent Abanaki Indian, Rich Holsuch. I wondered if he was there to urge the town manager not to hire blacks, but Indians instead.
With map in hand, I started toward Hannaford to talk to the managers.
To Be Continued
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Brattleboro, Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #20
There is a lot of noise over Trump "revealing" to the Russians that laptops on planes could contain explosives. Big deal! Wouldn't anyone with a half a brain know that after the shoe bomber episode? BFD! Empty-head screamers. The question I have is why think that laptops are safe in cargo? Couldn't they easily be detonated by a passenger with a concealed remote control? Couldn't they be easily detonated by a timer? I can't afford TV, but I hope some of those pretty heads on it are asking these questions.
The last selectboard meeting went quietly. I am blocking on the name of the female selectboard member; it's not the chairwoman. But she was the only one in the meeting room when I got there and unlike me with her, she knew my name and made some conversation which made me feel accepted. Am I the only person living in Brattleboro who voted for Trump? I had my phobia demons to deal with during the meeting, and I did. The only contribution I was considering making was to point out that the assistant town manager hadn't mentioned the possibility of wood pellets increasing in price. He was proposing changing the oil burner at the transportation center for a wood burner. However, selectboardman John Allen made the point before I could.
Since that meeting, I've realized I need to ask if the enviromental impact study the state is going to make around the widening of Putney Road includes the impact on homo sapiens sapiens in that area. Specifically, how many businesses say they will go out of business due to the widening, and how many jobs will be lost? Also, how much will remaining businesses have to spend to make adjustments to the seizure of their land? I can't believe these questions haven't occurred to the selectboard. Even one or two businesses being destroyed is a big deal in this little town. I was surprised that the town manager painted such a rosy picture of city finances since we constantly seem to be loosing businesses. Maybe we people of Brattleboro don't care. We've got our checks, our drugs, beer, and TV. Why worry if we have to go out of state to get the products we need? At least we don't have to pay sales tax, and we keep Vermont green.But we need enough revenue to finance basic services. People in this town seem to be living off a government check or serving those who do. They don't have money for extra taxes.
Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850
The last selectboard meeting went quietly. I am blocking on the name of the female selectboard member; it's not the chairwoman. But she was the only one in the meeting room when I got there and unlike me with her, she knew my name and made some conversation which made me feel accepted. Am I the only person living in Brattleboro who voted for Trump? I had my phobia demons to deal with during the meeting, and I did. The only contribution I was considering making was to point out that the assistant town manager hadn't mentioned the possibility of wood pellets increasing in price. He was proposing changing the oil burner at the transportation center for a wood burner. However, selectboardman John Allen made the point before I could.
Since that meeting, I've realized I need to ask if the enviromental impact study the state is going to make around the widening of Putney Road includes the impact on homo sapiens sapiens in that area. Specifically, how many businesses say they will go out of business due to the widening, and how many jobs will be lost? Also, how much will remaining businesses have to spend to make adjustments to the seizure of their land? I can't believe these questions haven't occurred to the selectboard. Even one or two businesses being destroyed is a big deal in this little town. I was surprised that the town manager painted such a rosy picture of city finances since we constantly seem to be loosing businesses. Maybe we people of Brattleboro don't care. We've got our checks, our drugs, beer, and TV. Why worry if we have to go out of state to get the products we need? At least we don't have to pay sales tax, and we keep Vermont green.But we need enough revenue to finance basic services. People in this town seem to be living off a government check or serving those who do. They don't have money for extra taxes.
Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Brattleboro, Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #19
Before I go to the selectboard meeting tonight, let me tell you that I wrote a letter of complaint to the Civil Rights Office, Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C. about selectboardman's David Schoales discrimination against me and all the other races in favor of the black race - remember we are all immigrants from Africa unless you are Neanderthal!- in his remarks at the last selectboard meeting. I left him a copy of my letter at the town's manager's office as well as a copy for the town manager. I took a copy to the Reformer to try to see just what they were trying to reform. I saw no mention of the letter in the paper though winning a ticket for free town parking got headlines and a front page picture on three different days. So I guess they are still reforming democracy into totalitarianism. Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850 It will be interesting to see what reception, if any, I get at the meeting in three hours. Will there be any difference? Now who's fighting for fairness for all in Brattleboro? I am!
Brattleboro, Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #18
The meeting finally ended, and it had almost been the longest on record. I got up feeling stiff, awkward, and out of place. My nerves were shot, and when I got home, I kept thinking I couldn't do this anymore. I felt alienated and alone. Like I was living a nightmare. I wondered if I would be shunned for my pro-individual, pro-business and employment views. I had trouble relaxing enough to get to sleep. I wondered if I would fall apart and had to go to the ER for an anti-psychotic, promising all that I would be an ingratiating, spineless, socialist sheeple the rest of my life.
I was no better the next morning except for a brief thought that said, "Now you're fighting." With that thought, came a brief feeling of self-respect. I had just about finished a day of alienation and tension, when I happened to speak to someone about the selectboard meeting. This person said, "Yeah, I know about them. My friend had a restaurant on the river, and they took his parking lot, telling him take it or leave. He had no parking lot so he left. They don't care."
So this taking parking lots so businesses will close and people will be unemployed is a pattern for the selectboard. And there were other people besides me who cared.
To my knowledge, and I can't afford to subscribe to the Reformer, that paper has never shown a map of that mile and a half on Putney Road being widened to show lines where the widening with encroach on the fifty private properties. All that paper has to do is show that mile and a half of Putney road plus the side roads and a line on each side of the road showing where the widening will encroach on property. Very simple and very plain. If this hasn't been done for the people, I ask the Reformer why not? Is it because you're lazy or is it because you don't want the people to know? You want people uninformed so they don't know what's going on and thus will have no say over it? You are not democratic, but totalitarian? Just what are you trying to reform - democracy to totalitarianism?
Sure looks like it!
Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850 Who's fighting for you, Brattleboro? I am!
I was no better the next morning except for a brief thought that said, "Now you're fighting." With that thought, came a brief feeling of self-respect. I had just about finished a day of alienation and tension, when I happened to speak to someone about the selectboard meeting. This person said, "Yeah, I know about them. My friend had a restaurant on the river, and they took his parking lot, telling him take it or leave. He had no parking lot so he left. They don't care."
So this taking parking lots so businesses will close and people will be unemployed is a pattern for the selectboard. And there were other people besides me who cared.
To my knowledge, and I can't afford to subscribe to the Reformer, that paper has never shown a map of that mile and a half on Putney Road being widened to show lines where the widening with encroach on the fifty private properties. All that paper has to do is show that mile and a half of Putney road plus the side roads and a line on each side of the road showing where the widening will encroach on property. Very simple and very plain. If this hasn't been done for the people, I ask the Reformer why not? Is it because you're lazy or is it because you don't want the people to know? You want people uninformed so they don't know what's going on and thus will have no say over it? You are not democratic, but totalitarian? Just what are you trying to reform - democracy to totalitarianism?
Sure looks like it!
Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850 Who's fighting for you, Brattleboro? I am!
Brattleboro,Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidacy #17
My next contribution to the people of Brattleboro was to ask the people and the town manager presenting a proposal that Brattleboro signed onto a Charter for Compassion a question.It seemed odd signing onto endorsing a human trait because people had the right to not be compassionate if that was their individual pursuit of happiness. Let the individual, the people, decide what they wanted to be, not the town. Also, the charter was strange because Brattleboro is already the most compassionate town in the U.S. of A.
Knowing how crazy it is becoming on the campuses, and that writing a critical review in a journal had cost Professor Laura Kipnis at Northwestern a hateful charge of creating a "hostile enviroment from some psychopaths using Title IX and also knowing that on some campuses criticism was ludicrously being yelled at as "violence" by other paranoid hysterics, I ask if the Charter for Compassion encouraged dissent. This question was met by a long pause until the town manager assured me that dissent was a part of democracy. At least, he wasn't a crazy. I thanked him with a thumb's up.
But it got worse, much worse, and that is why I referred to this meeting as an ethical hell. Not only were we going to see a road unnecessarily widened and businesses and jobs lost as a result - as the Venezuelan pig farmer said, "They're not interested in people and the products people have to make to live, but socialism" - we were going to see one race favored over another. It happened with David Schoales delivering a gratuitous speech at almost ten o'clock at night, almost four hours after the meeting started. It was much too late for showboating, but that's what we got from Mr. Schoales. He wanted special outreach for Race A to make sure they got town government job opening ads. He also said that the town had to hire a cop from Race A to show children from Race A that they could become cops too as if you can't turn on the TV and see Race A cops all over the screen.
Some people in the audience who were still remaining got excited about Mr. Shoale's speech. I was horrifed, just horrified- to use the language of the hysterical- that he could be so racist! He wanted to advertise and hire in discrimination of Races X,Y, and Z. That's wrong and illegal! But I did not plan a rebuttal as it was too late at night. I could see the woman next to me was getting excited. She said she was going to say something. I whispered
back, "It's 10 o'clock!"
"I don't care."
"Oh, my god!" I moaned.
When Mr. Scholaes finished showboating, I shook my head no while other applauded. The lady next to me got up, but she was short: She said her father was the first person of Race A to be born in Brattleboro. TO BE CONTINUED
Knowing how crazy it is becoming on the campuses, and that writing a critical review in a journal had cost Professor Laura Kipnis at Northwestern a hateful charge of creating a "hostile enviroment from some psychopaths using Title IX and also knowing that on some campuses criticism was ludicrously being yelled at as "violence" by other paranoid hysterics, I ask if the Charter for Compassion encouraged dissent. This question was met by a long pause until the town manager assured me that dissent was a part of democracy. At least, he wasn't a crazy. I thanked him with a thumb's up.
But it got worse, much worse, and that is why I referred to this meeting as an ethical hell. Not only were we going to see a road unnecessarily widened and businesses and jobs lost as a result - as the Venezuelan pig farmer said, "They're not interested in people and the products people have to make to live, but socialism" - we were going to see one race favored over another. It happened with David Schoales delivering a gratuitous speech at almost ten o'clock at night, almost four hours after the meeting started. It was much too late for showboating, but that's what we got from Mr. Schoales. He wanted special outreach for Race A to make sure they got town government job opening ads. He also said that the town had to hire a cop from Race A to show children from Race A that they could become cops too as if you can't turn on the TV and see Race A cops all over the screen.
Some people in the audience who were still remaining got excited about Mr. Shoale's speech. I was horrifed, just horrified- to use the language of the hysterical- that he could be so racist! He wanted to advertise and hire in discrimination of Races X,Y, and Z. That's wrong and illegal! But I did not plan a rebuttal as it was too late at night. I could see the woman next to me was getting excited. She said she was going to say something. I whispered
back, "It's 10 o'clock!"
"I don't care."
"Oh, my god!" I moaned.
When Mr. Scholaes finished showboating, I shook my head no while other applauded. The lady next to me got up, but she was short: She said her father was the first person of Race A to be born in Brattleboro. TO BE CONTINUED
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #16
It was obvious that the Vermont transportation official and the three engineers had been caught flat-footed on the driver-less vehicles issue or they would have mentioned it in their presentation to show the audience they were comatose. Or was it more Machiavellian than that? Were they deliberately withholding self-driving vehicles from the discussion because they knew that self-drivers were widely expected to ease congestion problems and their precious project would not be needed? Then there would be no big money going to the highway construction company, and the Vermont transportation official's job would become less important. Maybe less remunerative too? Got to spend the people's money any way we can, especially when it benefits us!
By this time, I was reeling because of my audacity. I wasn't honoring my phobias, and my nervous system was rebelling. I believe someone else got up, maybe not, but when the Chairwoman asked for more comments, I went back to the mike. I asked two questions: How many businesses would the widening of Putney Road impinge upon and how many businesses would close because of the widening.
No one wanted to answer until the transportation official got up and said, with a little spirit in his voice, "I'll take that."
"Thank you," I said, trying to mirror the same spirit in my voice as I returned to my seat.
The transportation official made a vague statement, twice repeating that he didn't want any businesses to go out of business. He seemed to be uttering platitudes, and I twitched my pen side to side between two fingers to demonstrate my impatience. When he stopped, I said, "You still haven't answered my questions - how many businesses will be impinged and how many will go out of business?"
This act of verbal assertiveness really rocked my emotional homeostasis. What was I, a frightened rabbit, doing growling?
The transportation official made a short reply, and I made a short reply back. I have no idea what either of us said. Then the chairwoman intervened, saying something about not wanting an argument. The two of us went back to our corners. The selectboard voted unanimously to endorse the Putney Road widening. I shook my head no. To Be Continued Read me, not the papers of the elite establishment, to find out what really happened to the people. My motto is
"Freedom, evidence, and reason. Humor too, aye?"
Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850
By this time, I was reeling because of my audacity. I wasn't honoring my phobias, and my nervous system was rebelling. I believe someone else got up, maybe not, but when the Chairwoman asked for more comments, I went back to the mike. I asked two questions: How many businesses would the widening of Putney Road impinge upon and how many businesses would close because of the widening.
No one wanted to answer until the transportation official got up and said, with a little spirit in his voice, "I'll take that."
"Thank you," I said, trying to mirror the same spirit in my voice as I returned to my seat.
The transportation official made a vague statement, twice repeating that he didn't want any businesses to go out of business. He seemed to be uttering platitudes, and I twitched my pen side to side between two fingers to demonstrate my impatience. When he stopped, I said, "You still haven't answered my questions - how many businesses will be impinged and how many will go out of business?"
This act of verbal assertiveness really rocked my emotional homeostasis. What was I, a frightened rabbit, doing growling?
The transportation official made a short reply, and I made a short reply back. I have no idea what either of us said. Then the chairwoman intervened, saying something about not wanting an argument. The two of us went back to our corners. The selectboard voted unanimously to endorse the Putney Road widening. I shook my head no. To Be Continued Read me, not the papers of the elite establishment, to find out what really happened to the people. My motto is
"Freedom, evidence, and reason. Humor too, aye?"
Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #15
I walked into the selectboard meeting and immediately felt like I had fallen down a rabbit hole into an ethical hell. I looked at the plans on one wall to radically change Putney Road for a new highway, then glanced around me and saw that everyone else was unconcerned. I felt so out of place, and that feeling continued for four hours at the near record length meeting. My eyes got misty and red. I was hardly the near-fearless Seal about to enter battle for the good of America and to help his brothers get through the ordeal and back to base alive. No brothers at this meeting. It dawned on me that this was old business much like the Indigenous Day for everyone but me. I kept checking the map, trying to make out the lines of the new highway. New England is famous for being cramped but quaint because of its painted wooden buildings. It looked like this road was going to take all the parking away from the tire and vehicle repair company and a store. It was seriously going to encroach upon other businesses. I was, as unmanly as it is, horrified. For years, I have been noting the number of businesses failing and wondering how the town was going to get the money to fund its operations.
It appears to me that most of the town is made upon of people on government programs. How are you going to get more money out of them when your businesses fail? Surely someone must know something I don't know. Were we going to open the town to marjuana use or prostitution to bring in money? Are we all just True Believers and don't care? I looked around for a table with the Kool-Aid cups.
The presentation was headed by a state transportation official and backed by a couple of men from some green highway building company. The official said that there were fifty parcels of land to be affected by widening the road and most of them were commercial. During the short talk, he repeatedly used the shield word "safety." Reasonably enough, he discussed traffic flow.
In spite of my phobias and general cowardice -or maybe because of them- I couldn't say nothing. I got up to the mike and cameras and tried to be "inclusive" by saying I had noticed in our discussion we hadn't mention an important factor in safety and traffic flow: self-driving vehicles. It really surprised me that these four or five engineers hadn't at least mentioned self-drivers just to show us they were alive and awake. The question seemed to stun them so you could tell they hadn't considered it. How do you miss something so obvious and revolutionary? The spokesman asked me to say more. I admitted I couldn't, that neither he nor I knew what was going to shake out, but it would be "revolutionary." I could see the Reformer making fun of that if the staff doesn't just decide to ignore me like a bad smell in polite company. The spokesman pressed me again - see I was getting the pressure as if I were the presenter, not him. Again, I sounded lame, simply saying it would be more efficient, effective, and something else. He then pointed at the map and asked something like,"Then you think that may not be necessary?"
"Yes," I replied.
Peter Nickerson, 352-359-0850, peternickerson12@yahoo.com, philosophy major.
Motto of my un-campaign: "Evidence, reason, and freedom. Humor too, aye?"
It appears to me that most of the town is made upon of people on government programs. How are you going to get more money out of them when your businesses fail? Surely someone must know something I don't know. Were we going to open the town to marjuana use or prostitution to bring in money? Are we all just True Believers and don't care? I looked around for a table with the Kool-Aid cups.
The presentation was headed by a state transportation official and backed by a couple of men from some green highway building company. The official said that there were fifty parcels of land to be affected by widening the road and most of them were commercial. During the short talk, he repeatedly used the shield word "safety." Reasonably enough, he discussed traffic flow.
In spite of my phobias and general cowardice -or maybe because of them- I couldn't say nothing. I got up to the mike and cameras and tried to be "inclusive" by saying I had noticed in our discussion we hadn't mention an important factor in safety and traffic flow: self-driving vehicles. It really surprised me that these four or five engineers hadn't at least mentioned self-drivers just to show us they were alive and awake. The question seemed to stun them so you could tell they hadn't considered it. How do you miss something so obvious and revolutionary? The spokesman asked me to say more. I admitted I couldn't, that neither he nor I knew what was going to shake out, but it would be "revolutionary." I could see the Reformer making fun of that if the staff doesn't just decide to ignore me like a bad smell in polite company. The spokesman pressed me again - see I was getting the pressure as if I were the presenter, not him. Again, I sounded lame, simply saying it would be more efficient, effective, and something else. He then pointed at the map and asked something like,"Then you think that may not be necessary?"
"Yes," I replied.
Peter Nickerson, 352-359-0850, peternickerson12@yahoo.com, philosophy major.
Motto of my un-campaign: "Evidence, reason, and freedom. Humor too, aye?"
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #14
Game Warden Kelly called me back this morning. I phoned back and left a message about the turkey gobbler. I didn't see him yesterday or today so he has left or died.
This leads me to Plank #2 of my selectboard platform: I would like to see a mandatory marksmanship level necessary for hunting. Animals deserve the most humane shooting with shotguns, rifles, bows, muskets, and crossbows. One of my brothers and I had to qualify in marksmanship with a bow to hunt the sika deer- actually Japanese elk- on Assateague Island in Virginia.
I envision these tests being given by the National Rifle Association. Not only is your marksmanship tested, but also your ability to function under the pressure of being tested. This is important because there will be pressure when you shoot an animal. In the hunting culture, it's know as "buck fever" and varies from the shakes to paralysis. This would also be a good venue for people having guns for self-defense: the pressure of being tested could simulate the pressure you're under when it's necessary to shoot a human animal.
I am beginning Unwanted Advances by the feminist Laura Kipnis who found herself reported to the authoritarian Title IX coordinators on her campus for the hysterical charge of creating a hostile enviroment by writing an article in a scholarly journal. So far, she has supported professors dating students, saying none of the many women she knows who did it had any problems. I guess not. I'll be they got As from the professors and had a faculty advocate and a great recommendation when they applied for a job. I don't support someone in a position of authority having access to sex with a subordinate because of the power the superior has over the subordinate. I would think a feminist would support that. Laura Kipnis is too breezy for me at this point. It's like she's knocking back a few as she writes her book.
I went by the "Take Back the Night Event" on the Commons and my first thought was "This was why the Reformer didn't publish my letter about great concern for the innocent young men found guilty of sexual assault at campus kangaroo courts. Just and normal procedures like timely notice, information favorable to the defendant and cross-examination are being denied to the accused based on the delusion by the Title IX coordinators that all men rape.
Therefore, why give them any procedures (that might establish the truth) to get out of the charge? As Ayn Rand famously said, "Check your premises." The premise that all men rape is either delusional or a knowingly evil lie. I think it is the latter. You can't be that delusional and still drive a car or find your way back to your comfortable Title IX office. But why are people accepting that lie? Have we all become invertebrates? Surely, there are men on the Reformer staff. Do they think of themselves as rapists? Do their wives or significant others? Surely there are mothers of sons on the Reformer staff. Do they think of their sons as rapists? There are no witches flying around on broomsticks, there are no male day care providers in underground chambers engaging in ritualistic sex, and all men are not rapists. Get over the hysteria before you make yourself a paranoid schizophrenic! Speak out against these delusions, and make yourself a vertebrate!
"Freedom, evidence, and reason. Humor too."
Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850 peternickerson12@yahoo.com Philosophy Major
This leads me to Plank #2 of my selectboard platform: I would like to see a mandatory marksmanship level necessary for hunting. Animals deserve the most humane shooting with shotguns, rifles, bows, muskets, and crossbows. One of my brothers and I had to qualify in marksmanship with a bow to hunt the sika deer- actually Japanese elk- on Assateague Island in Virginia.
I envision these tests being given by the National Rifle Association. Not only is your marksmanship tested, but also your ability to function under the pressure of being tested. This is important because there will be pressure when you shoot an animal. In the hunting culture, it's know as "buck fever" and varies from the shakes to paralysis. This would also be a good venue for people having guns for self-defense: the pressure of being tested could simulate the pressure you're under when it's necessary to shoot a human animal.
I am beginning Unwanted Advances by the feminist Laura Kipnis who found herself reported to the authoritarian Title IX coordinators on her campus for the hysterical charge of creating a hostile enviroment by writing an article in a scholarly journal. So far, she has supported professors dating students, saying none of the many women she knows who did it had any problems. I guess not. I'll be they got As from the professors and had a faculty advocate and a great recommendation when they applied for a job. I don't support someone in a position of authority having access to sex with a subordinate because of the power the superior has over the subordinate. I would think a feminist would support that. Laura Kipnis is too breezy for me at this point. It's like she's knocking back a few as she writes her book.
I went by the "Take Back the Night Event" on the Commons and my first thought was "This was why the Reformer didn't publish my letter about great concern for the innocent young men found guilty of sexual assault at campus kangaroo courts. Just and normal procedures like timely notice, information favorable to the defendant and cross-examination are being denied to the accused based on the delusion by the Title IX coordinators that all men rape.
Therefore, why give them any procedures (that might establish the truth) to get out of the charge? As Ayn Rand famously said, "Check your premises." The premise that all men rape is either delusional or a knowingly evil lie. I think it is the latter. You can't be that delusional and still drive a car or find your way back to your comfortable Title IX office. But why are people accepting that lie? Have we all become invertebrates? Surely, there are men on the Reformer staff. Do they think of themselves as rapists? Do their wives or significant others? Surely there are mothers of sons on the Reformer staff. Do they think of their sons as rapists? There are no witches flying around on broomsticks, there are no male day care providers in underground chambers engaging in ritualistic sex, and all men are not rapists. Get over the hysteria before you make yourself a paranoid schizophrenic! Speak out against these delusions, and make yourself a vertebrate!
"Freedom, evidence, and reason. Humor too."
Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850 peternickerson12@yahoo.com Philosophy Major
Monday, May 1, 2017
Vermont SelectBoard Un-Candidate #13
There's about thirty yards of woods between the parking lot of my complex to Putney Road. I like to scan it hoping to see squirrels, chipmunks, and maybe a bobcat. Bear have even been seen, like twice in thirty years. Yesterday, I made out a turkey. He wasn't moving much and I didn't want to push him so I got into the truck and drove off. Three hours later, he was still there, so I knew he was in trouble. I got the glasses to make sure he wasn't one of the turkey vultures who roost at the far end of the parking lot. Indian Mary was walking Billy Jean, a Jack-Rat mix, and I had her look. She said he was a wild turkey. I thought I saw a beard and glassed him in a good position and saw that it was three inches long and very thick. We pressed him so he went over a high spot and disappeared.
Today, I was telling a buddy about it who suggested medical help. Why didn't I think of that? I called around and ended up leaving a message for game warden Kelly to call me. My first impression of the gobbler was to wonder if he had avian flu, which would be a catastrophe because it meant the flu had jumped from the farm turkeys to wild ones. Later in the day, I read the Reformer which said that youth hunting season for gobblers was underway in New Hampshire. Then I thought of the possibility that some kid had shot and wounded him, and the bird had flown the fifty yards across the Conneticut River to Vermont. I got
the game commission number at the library, called them, and the speaker brought up youth hunting week and he could be a casualty of that. She said no Vermont wild turkeys had been reported to have avian flu.
I looked from the parking lot for the gobbler today but didn't see him. If I hear from Kelly, maybe he'll walk the area. I'd do it but with my knee, there's going to be pain.
Great things were done for the young bobcat hit just east of Route 9 bridge over the Conneticut River. People shielded her from being hit again, helped a government employee net her, and a Keene Wildlife Sanctuary restored her to full health. The Reformer kept us abreast of the event and featured her on the front page one last time, running hell-bent for leather across a field to the woods. She had been rehabilitated and released, even being fed wild snowshoe hare meat from a road kill. Hats off to all the good people involved except for the driver who didn't stop. In some states, that's illegal. Regardless, it's immoral.
You should have known and done better, driver. You don't leave a possibly wounded animal lying on the road. Want that to be you in another life?
As an addendum to the idea of senior citizens on Social Security for their age and getting Medicaid, I'd like to modify the amount they could earn from $1,000 a month to $300. Again this is for, as I view it, car repairs, root canals and crowns, and at least one dinner at a nice restaurant before they die. Also, please remember this employment would be generating taxes. This is not a BFD; not in the amount earned and not in the frequency used. I envision this being an option for emergencies for car repairs and teeth. I can't see the general health of poor people over sixty-two or sixty-five being good enough to sustain a lot of employment. But greeter or cashier clerk, yes. Lake Raponda is going to have greeters to ask boaters what other lakes their boats have been in. A great job for the aged! At less than minimum wage because we're old and slow and need special considerations like only a few hours of work at a time.
Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850 peternickerson12@yahoo.com Philosophy Major
Today, I was telling a buddy about it who suggested medical help. Why didn't I think of that? I called around and ended up leaving a message for game warden Kelly to call me. My first impression of the gobbler was to wonder if he had avian flu, which would be a catastrophe because it meant the flu had jumped from the farm turkeys to wild ones. Later in the day, I read the Reformer which said that youth hunting season for gobblers was underway in New Hampshire. Then I thought of the possibility that some kid had shot and wounded him, and the bird had flown the fifty yards across the Conneticut River to Vermont. I got
the game commission number at the library, called them, and the speaker brought up youth hunting week and he could be a casualty of that. She said no Vermont wild turkeys had been reported to have avian flu.
I looked from the parking lot for the gobbler today but didn't see him. If I hear from Kelly, maybe he'll walk the area. I'd do it but with my knee, there's going to be pain.
Great things were done for the young bobcat hit just east of Route 9 bridge over the Conneticut River. People shielded her from being hit again, helped a government employee net her, and a Keene Wildlife Sanctuary restored her to full health. The Reformer kept us abreast of the event and featured her on the front page one last time, running hell-bent for leather across a field to the woods. She had been rehabilitated and released, even being fed wild snowshoe hare meat from a road kill. Hats off to all the good people involved except for the driver who didn't stop. In some states, that's illegal. Regardless, it's immoral.
You should have known and done better, driver. You don't leave a possibly wounded animal lying on the road. Want that to be you in another life?
As an addendum to the idea of senior citizens on Social Security for their age and getting Medicaid, I'd like to modify the amount they could earn from $1,000 a month to $300. Again this is for, as I view it, car repairs, root canals and crowns, and at least one dinner at a nice restaurant before they die. Also, please remember this employment would be generating taxes. This is not a BFD; not in the amount earned and not in the frequency used. I envision this being an option for emergencies for car repairs and teeth. I can't see the general health of poor people over sixty-two or sixty-five being good enough to sustain a lot of employment. But greeter or cashier clerk, yes. Lake Raponda is going to have greeters to ask boaters what other lakes their boats have been in. A great job for the aged! At less than minimum wage because we're old and slow and need special considerations like only a few hours of work at a time.
Peter Nickerson 352-359-0850 peternickerson12@yahoo.com Philosophy Major
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Vermont Selectboard Un-Candidate #12
I was down about being so afraid of what the Abanaki Indian and the Selectboard Chairwoman might say to me, so I went to Cognitive Therapy for help. What I mined was to ask myself two questions when I am feeling scared:
First: What am I scared of? Second: Is it really that scary?
Soo, One: I am scared of what the Indian will say. Okay, I've identified my fear. Soo, Two: The Indian isn't going to tomahawk me or even kill me over the phone. He isn't going to do anything violent. The worst he can that's somewhat reasonable is tell me he doesn't know when I made my anti-Indigenous Day spiel and not to drag him into my fight with the Reformer. That would hardly destroy me or even ruffle my feathers.
However, my feathers are ruffled by little Nazi snowflakes making it impossible for Ann Coulter to talk at Berkeley. Were more buildings and cars damaged, even destroyed? I don't have television. Where is the response to this criminality? I'd protect my building and my truck. As I said to someone, "They're just little Nazi snowflakes. Hit them a couple of times, they'll melt and run for therapists at their safe spaces. The therapists will give them a bott and blankie, put them to bed and then read comforting passages from Mein Kampf to them."
The other person said, "There was no one there to hit them. The cops just stood by and let them."
This means that the cops were acting not as constitutional officers but as political operatives. In this case, leftist operatives. This is dangerous for our democracy. I realize this is California that wants to secede from the United States, but it appears that it is receding into lawlessness. Where's the adult in the room?
Peter Nickerson peternickerson12@yahoo.com 352-359-0850 Philosophy Major
First: What am I scared of? Second: Is it really that scary?
Soo, One: I am scared of what the Indian will say. Okay, I've identified my fear. Soo, Two: The Indian isn't going to tomahawk me or even kill me over the phone. He isn't going to do anything violent. The worst he can that's somewhat reasonable is tell me he doesn't know when I made my anti-Indigenous Day spiel and not to drag him into my fight with the Reformer. That would hardly destroy me or even ruffle my feathers.
However, my feathers are ruffled by little Nazi snowflakes making it impossible for Ann Coulter to talk at Berkeley. Were more buildings and cars damaged, even destroyed? I don't have television. Where is the response to this criminality? I'd protect my building and my truck. As I said to someone, "They're just little Nazi snowflakes. Hit them a couple of times, they'll melt and run for therapists at their safe spaces. The therapists will give them a bott and blankie, put them to bed and then read comforting passages from Mein Kampf to them."
The other person said, "There was no one there to hit them. The cops just stood by and let them."
This means that the cops were acting not as constitutional officers but as political operatives. In this case, leftist operatives. This is dangerous for our democracy. I realize this is California that wants to secede from the United States, but it appears that it is receding into lawlessness. Where's the adult in the room?
Peter Nickerson peternickerson12@yahoo.com 352-359-0850 Philosophy Major
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