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Mike Schiller

  • OUT OF CONTROL
    6 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Written By Mike Schiller Plastic boxes save me from confusion The world around me seeming so unreal They told me this was all just an illusion I wish it were but that’s not how it feels The data may not change the situation Alarming but I’m calm and I can see Persistent and intense exacerbation This isn’t how it’s really supposed to be Big brother’s not my brother They’re watching but not over The power’s out of hand Big brother’s not my brother Our nation made a blunder We’ve got to (…)

  • Caulking For Change
    25 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mike Schiller
    There are many issues where I find myself in agreement with John Kerry, and many issues where I find myself in disagreement with him. Overall, I obviously agree more with his philosophies than with Bush’s philosophies, but my views are usually much closer to those of Howard Dean’s. Then again, there are times when I find myself to left of Dean, and times when I take a position which liberals think of as conservative, but which I still consider liberal. We’re all (…)

  • Finally Some Common Sense
    15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Schiller
    New York Times journalist Eric Schmitt reported today (December 14, 2004) that the Air Force is finally taking control of supply transportation in Iraq via airlifts. For months now, U.S. troops had been expected to transport supplies via ground transports through dangerous terrain where they were regularly attacked and killed. It was bad enough that they had been asked to travel on these routes at all for such routine and non-combat related missions, and without armor for (…)

  • EVERY VOTE WILL COUNT
    31 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Schiller
    2 days from today, we will finally get to do something we have not done since 1996... pick a President. It’s been a long wait, but the moment is about to arrive. During the summer of 1999, I was living in a different world than the one I live in now. My life revolved only around my needs, my goals, my ambitions, my desires and my pains. Around that time, a person said to me, "In another year, Bush is going to be President", and I laughed. I said, "This is 1999, not 1989, (…)