Dad has come to live with us. He has some dementia and some aphasia. So now there are two brain-damaged people in the house-- me, and Dad.

Now I know that the official words for my brain damage is "t.b.i." or "traumatic brain injury." The reality is that traumatic brain injury equals brain damage. My brain damage was acquired after the age of 21 in a motor vehicle accident. It is brain damage nonetheless. One physical therapist from Sunnyview Hospital in Schenectady tried to tell me that "brain damage" sounds like one is "damaged" somehow. Yes, my brain is damaged. Why not just call it what it is?

Dad has some restlessness and is wanting to do housework and fix up the house when he is not sleeping in front of the television set. Last week, we decided to stain/waterproof the back deck. First we had to locate the two buckets of stain and the brushes. That wasn't any problem as my friend Ed had given us those things and they were sitting by the back door. Then we had to wait for a sunny day. That happened.

It was a very sunny day. And hot, considering that we live next door to Alaska. So Dad insisted that we wear long-sleeved shirts. The stain getting on our skin would ?eat it? stain it? At any rate, on went the hot shirts. Then there are the latex gloves-- same reason. We started working out of one bucket but then that went to, "Here's another bucket spike. You use your own."

There was lots of staining, doing and redoing. I redid some of Dad's area and he redid some of mine. Two half-gallons were left when we got done. Between us, the stained deck was definitely personalized. There are some drips and dots from my work. And some heavier stained areas from Dad's work. With two brain-damaged people staining a deck, the results will be interesting. A guarantee.

Yesterday, Dad decided that we should put together a clothes rack with vinyl bag hooked onto it for the clothes he has that he no longer wears. This particular clothes rack/vinyl bag thing was manufactured in mainland China. And I swear whoever wrote the instructions hit the "from mandarin to english" button on babelfish. To complicate things further, Dad dumped all of the numbered poles out of their respective bags. The first attempt came out with two longer sides and two shorter sides. There was a break then during which I hoped in futility that Dad would forget about this particular tortorous clothes rack/vinyl bag thing. Didn't happen.

After some "Divorce Court" on teevee, we went back upstairs for a second go 'round. This time we managed to get the vinyl bag installed but then the poles kept pulling out of their holes. And so this clothes rack/vinyl bag thing stands loosely in a corner looking more like a modern art structure than anything remotely functional.

Because of my difficulties with multi-tasking, perhaps I would have had a shot at putting the thing together if left alone in a cave far away from human civilization. No chance of success yesterday. Dad kept up a running commentary as we were working. And between my t.b.i.-related perception problems and Dad's dementia-related perception problems, shoving poles into holes at flush 90 degree angles was not a task destined for fantastic results. Husband said he will "look at it" today.

I think there is something to be said for joining a nudist colony and forgetting about clothes and things like that.

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From $cientology: Church of the Holy Censor Available at: http://www.whyaretheydead.net/mirror/xenu.ca/pickets/leaflets.html

One of Scientology's preferred sayings is "Think for yourself". Why, then, does Scientology censor its own members?



It all started on March 13th 1998, at the L. Ron Hubbard birthday celebration in Los Angeles. Mark Ingber, a Church


of Scientology official, announced that Scientologists would be given an opportunity to sell Scientology books and


recruit for Scientology through nearly-identical promotional websites (getting 10% of the money that these recruits


end up spending in Scientology, but that's another story). To put up one of these sites, a Scientologist has to sign a


contract. Here's a short excerpt from that contract:


"If you wish to use this authorization regarding the Marks and the Works, you must:


...


(6) agree to use the specific Internet Filter Program that CSI [Church of Scientology International Incorporated] has


provided to you which allows you freedom to view other sites on Dianetics, Scientology or its principals without


threat of accessing sites deemed to be using the Marks or Works in an unauthorized fashion or deemed to be improper


or discreditable to the Scientology religion;"


"Deemed improper or discreditable", eh? Boy, aren't Scientologists lucky to have someone there to decide for them


what facts about their religion they can and cannot see. If they didn't use this filter, they might find out about the


suspicious deaths in Scientology and the uncomplimentary things that judges have said about Scientology. Can't have


Scientologists finding out the ugly facts behind Scientology, can they? So, Scientology tries, through this internet


filter, to prevent its members from reading negative information about Scientology on the internet.


This internet filter does 4 things to words and websites that Scientology doesn't like:


The filter blocks a list of websites. Anyone with the filter installed can't access these websites, AT ALL. Examples of


blocked sites include: http://www.xenu.net, http://www.entheta.net, http://www.lermanet.com, all websites


containing information the "Church" of Scientology doesn't want its members to see.


The filter blocks a list of newsgroups. Anyone with the filter installed can't access these newsgroups, AT ALL. Some


of these blocked newsgroups include: alt.religion.scientology, alt.support.ex-cult. Since scientology claims it's not a


cult, why would it need to block an ex-cult newsgroup?


The filter blocks a list of words, that will be removed from a web page or email message. Some words blocked lead to


odd combinations: NOTs and Anima are blocked, so "I'm not sure that animal is healthy" gets changed to "I'm ure that


l is healthy". Other words blocked are peoples' names: Deana Holmes (a critic of Scientology), Bob Minton (another


critic of Scientology, who appeared recently on NBC's Dateline). Why does Scientology try to prevent its members


from reading about these people? What does Scientology have to hide?


The filter has another list of words, that will stop an internet page from loading, or kick a user from an IRC channel


(remove him from the discussion). If the filtered computer sees one of these words, the computer will stop receiving


data through the present connection. These words include: Entheta (refers to http://www.entheta.net), xenu, Fishman


Affadavit, Bare Faced Messiah (a critical book on Scientology, in the Books on the Net section at


http://www.xenu.net).


These words and websites are only some of the terms blocked by the Scientology internet filter. The whole list can be


found at: http://www.taniwha.com/crack.list.html


Some information sources, for further reading:


Operation Clambake: http://www.xenu.net (Lots of information!)


Canadian Critical Scientology Information: http://xenu.ca


Occupied Clearwater: http://www.xenu-city.net


Deaths in Scientology: www.b-org.demon.nl


Church of Scientology Censors Net Access for Members: http://www.xenu.net/archive/events/censorship/

[end of copy and paste. N.B. this docu is available as a pdf download and is meant for distribution.]

In case any of you have been dead, drugged beyond recognition, or doing mundane things like working-- as a public service-- I am providing a brief synopsis of recent events. The Church of Scientology is considered to be a cult by some [including Germany] and has been blamed for a handful of deaths. A vid of Tom Cruise (remember him?) appeared on You Tube briefly. The Church of Scientology or someone over there didn't like this. Believing the appearance of this vid to be a violation of copyright, a takedown order was issued. Some pissed-off hactivists known individually and collectively as Anonymous or Anon declared a sort of internet war. This internet war apparently involved D.D.O.S attacks, faxes, and phone calls. Leafleting has also been carried out in select cities and more actions protests are slated for February 10th or thereabouts.

Warren Buffett approves of these goings-on and so do I. Sure, I am anti-censorship. And the folks of scientology have a legal right to publish their ideas. Protesting has a noble history. It is through protesting that some things get done. The message gets out. The meme gets around. The stuff gets to go surfing electronically. Well, okay some of the stuff that Anon is doing might border on illegal or might be illegal. I am not a cop, lawyer, or judge. Some other folks will have to decide all of that stuff later on maybe. Meanwhile, in retaliation at least one site where Anon hangs out was attacked in turn by an organization calling itself "The Regime." That particular site is now back up and in service as of this posting.

My sources are below. Many of them support Anon. At least one doesn't. And several are official scientology sites, as far as I can tell. Adding .nyud.net/ to the url will cause any that are loading slowly to speed up. spike

http://cominganarchy.com/2008/01/25/is-the-war-on-scientology-4gw/ http://partyvan.info.nyud.net/index.php/Project_Chanology

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,972865,00.html <----5/6/91

http://whyaretheydead.net/ http://www.factnet.org/Scientology/memorials.htm

http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9857666-57.html http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9858436-57.html http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9858603-57.html http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9858956-57.html?tag=recentPosts

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141839-c,hackers/article.html

http://www.xenu.net/
http://www.xenu.net/news/20080122-OC_pressrelease.html

http://www.scientology.org/
http://www.scientologyreligion.org/sitemap.html http://www.volunteerministers.org/seminar/index.html
http://www.lronhubbard.org/

http://factnet.org/?p=240 http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/PROJECT_CHANOLOGY http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5476#comments http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com.nyud.net/

http://tinyurl.com/2zvstv


All of the words below are either businesses which may be associated with Scientology or owned outright, or terms associated with Scientology.

Dianetics. Sterling Management Systems. The Way to Happiness Foundation.
Applied Scholastics. Fair Game. Old Mayo. Citizens Commission on Human Rights. Concerned Businessmen's Association of America. HealthMed. Foundation for a Drug-Free World. The Drug-Free Marshals of Seattle. The Drug-Free Marshals of Los Angeles. Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life. Volunteer Ministers Corp. Religious Technology Center. E-Meter. Clear. The Bridge. Operating Thetans. Engram. Lead the Way to a Drug-Free U.S.A. Drug-Free Ambassadors. Golden Era Productions. Bridge Publications. New Era Publications. International Hubbard Ecclesiastical League of Pastors. Scientology Missions International. Narconon. Criminon. Feshbach "stock busters." Flag Service Organization. Fort Harrison Hotel. Field Auditor groups. Class V Churches. Celebrity Centre Churches. Saint Hills. Advanced Organizations. Freewinds. The Drug Busters. Food for All. Hands of Hope Quilt. Sea Org. The National Commission on Law Enforcement and Social Justice. Koenig photometer. Purification Rundown. Effective Solutions. Suppressive person. Disconnection. Linksfield House. Emotional Tone Stress Test.

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