I woke too early and lie in bed thinking about Eugene Free Network that I believe existed where the Broadway Metro is. I became a member in 1997? It was free for a month, and then they announced they were going to have to charge $5 to cover costs. I felt I had been – fooled again!
Then I ask myself what I want to know via a computer? Here it is……I wanted to know if Mark-John was born lame, and, did Paul thrown him overboard when they had a falling out on a cruise? There it is. My dirty little secret is out. I was on my way to being a full blown heretic fooling around with a Mackintosh. I mean, the ghost of Jesus stops Sail-Paul from hunting down more of his followers, and I wondered how reformed was he. Why be disagreeable with any believer. How long was Paul put on probation? Was he given complete immunity? I didn’t know there was a detective lurking in me!
“Paul wanted to take Barnabas with him on a second missionary journey, but Barnabas wanted to take John Mark, leading to a “sharp disagreement” and separation.
EFN offered some classes on how to use a computer. but I was directed to the old library where you signed a waiting list, and when a computer was free, you went into this cramped little room where nervous adults struggled with the beast. There was a helper who taught us the most rudimental steps. You could smell the sweat. We had a half hour to learn how to get and open our e-mail. I got a free email – for a little while!
jrose@efn.com
I was asked to make a name from my surname. The instructor said I had not followed the instructions.
“How do you get ROSE from PRESCO……Moron!”
This summed up the core problem in my life. Later today, President Musketball is going to sign a Executive Order, and shutdown the Department of Education. My ex-friend, Mark Gall was the head of the Department of Education at the University of Oregon. We met though Ed Corbin, who lived across the street from me – in the alley. Mark and Ed graduated from Harvard. I dropped out of High School die to harassment. On the last day of the 6th.grade, my teacher played a game to kill the last hours. He wrote a word on the chalkboard and we made as many words as we could. It was a contest that finally pitted me against the teacher. My schoolmates went insane.
“Get him Mr, Luzmore! Get him. destroy him! Kill him!”
I will never forget the look of disgust on this great teacher’s face. I was considered the dumbest kid in class. I sat in the back, and drew pictures. I wrote a poem or two. When I read the Bible for the first time, at forty years of age – I got allot out of it! I saw – things! My monster drove me out of Bible study for asking very good questions. Below is a video of a elected official in Wyoming being asked question he did not want to be asked.
Did I ask Rena Christensen where she sat in the classes she got A+ in – which was all of them! She was skipped a grade and got a scholarship to the University of Nebraska. When we met in 1970, she said I was the first person who talked to her.
“Didn’t your teachers talk to you?”
Since we exchanged letters – how many years ago – we have been having a Range Beef Battle – that is out if control die to Old Musketball’s War on everything SECULAR. He has not attacked Christians. Remember Floyd, the Old Man Under the Blue Tarp. I had a vision of him as I lie in be, under the covers! All of a sudden – put popped Elon Musk from under the tarp.
THE BATTLE OF OREGON – IS ON!
J Rose
Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
The lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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Saying the Trump administration is sabotaging civil rights enforcement by the Department of Education, a federal lawsuit filed Friday morning seeks to stop the president and Secretary Linda McMahon from carrying out the mass firing of civil rights investigators and lawyers.
Two parents and the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, a national disability rights group, jointly filed the lawsuit. It alleges that decimating the department’s Office for Civil Rights will leave the agency unable to handle the public’s complaints of discrimination at school. That, they said, would violate the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The complaint comes three days after the Education Department notified about 1,300 employees — including the entire staff in seven of the 12 regional civil rights offices — that they are being fired, and the day after a group of 21 Democratic attorneys general sued McMahon and the president. That lawsuit alleges the Trump administration does not have the authority to circumvent Congress to effectively shutter the department.
The complaint filed on Friday argues that the “OCR has abdicated its responsibility to enforce civil rights protections” and that the administration has made a “decision to sabotage” the Education Department’s civil rights functions. That, the lawsuit alleges, overrides Congress’ authority. It names the Education Department, McMahon and the acting head of OCR, Craig Trainor.
“Through a series of press releases, policy statements, and executive orders, the administration has made clear its contempt for the civil rights of marginalized students,” the lawsuit says.
The parents’ lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It asks the court to declare the “decimation” of the OCR unlawful and seeks an injunction to compel the office to “process OCR complaints promptly and equitably.”
A Department of Education spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the department has said it would still meet its legal obligations.
The lawsuit brought by the attorneys general was filed in federal court in Massachusetts. It alleges the firings are “so severe and extreme that it incapacitates components of the Department responsible for performing functions mandated by statute.” It cites the closing of the seven regional OCR outposts as an example.
Each year, the OCR investigates thousands of allegations of discrimination in schools based on disability, race and gender and is one of the federal government’s largest civil rights units. At last count there were about 550 OCR employees; at least 243 union-represented employees were laid off Tuesday.
The administration plans to close OCR locations in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Offices will remain in Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
The lawsuit brought by the parents and advocacy group reveals concerns by students and families who have pending complaints that, under President Donald Trump, are not being investigated. There also are concerns that new complaints won’t get investigated if they don’t fall under one of the president’s priorities: curbing antisemitism, ending participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports and combating alleged discrimination against white students.
After Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, the administration implemented a monthlong freeze on the agency’s civil rights work. Although OCR investigators were prohibited from working on their assigned discrimination cases, the Trump administration launched a new “End DEI Portal” meant only to collect complaints about diversity, equity and inclusion in schools. It has said it is trying to shrink the size of government, including the Education Department, which Trump has called a “big con job.”
Trump’s actions so far have led many to wonder “if there is a real and meaningful complaint investigation process existing at the moment,” said Johnathan Smith, an attorney at the National Center for Youth Law, which represents the plaintiffs. Smith is a former deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
“They are putting the thumb on the scale of who the winners and losers are before they do the investigation, and that is deeply problematic from a law enforcement perspective,” Smith said.
The lawsuit is perhaps the most substantive legal effort to require the Education Department to enforce civil rights since 1970, when the NAACP sued the agency for allowing segregation to continue. That lawsuit resulted in repeated overhauling of the OCR and 20 years of judicial oversight, with the goal of ensuring that the division fairly investigated and enforced discrimination claims.
Students and families turn to the OCR after they feel their concerns have not been addressed by their schools or colleges. Both individuals named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit are parents of students whose civil rights complaints were being investigated — until Trump took office.
One of the plaintiffs, Alabama parent Nikki S. Carter, has three students and is an advocate for students with disabilities in her community. Carter is Black. According to the lawsuit, Carter filed a complaint with OCR in 2022 alleging discrimination on the basis of race after her children’s school district, the Demopolis City Schools, twice banned Carter from school district property.Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
When reached by ProPublica, the district superintendent said he’s not aware of the lawsuit or the civil rights complaint and could not comment; he is new to the district.
The district has said it barred Carter after a confrontation with a white staff member. But Carter has said that a white parent who had a similar confrontation wasn’t banned, leading her to believe that the district punished her because of her advocacy. She said it prevented her from attending parent-teacher conferences and other school events.
The other parent, identified by the initials A.W., filed a complaint with OCR alleging their child’s school failed to respond properly to sexual assault and harassment by a classmate.
Investigations of both families’ discrimination complaints have stopped under the new OCR leadership, according to the lawsuit.
DOGE has released a list of 657 federal real estate leases targeted for termination. Oregon appears on the list ten times:
The Last Western Show
Posted on January 7, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
Harney County Sheriff David Ward listens to concerns during a community meeting at the Harney County fairgrounds Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Burns, Ore. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
LAS VEGAS – MAY 24 : Native American man takes part at the 25th Annual Paiute Tribe Pow Wow on May 24 , 2014 in Las Vegas Nevada. Pow wow is native American cultural gathernig event.
Who could foresee the return of the Dramatic Western? My muse and I wrote the script. To discover the star of the T.V. show ‘Broken Arrow’ married the granddaughter of Rudolph Friml who composed the MUSic for ‘Rose-Marie’ tells me the Cowmuses are not done, and may be making a comeback. Being cantankerous and opposed to something is the main ingredient in a good Western. Rena is an Aries and I am a Libra, thus we are 180 degrees apart as we circle each other at the Oakie Dokie Coral. In the background is the Wandering Jesus, an alleged Dead Man walking around the wilderness for forty days and forty nights, trying to get some attention. In a history show I saw a week ago they kept showing the Sroud of Turin owned by the Rougemonts, then we saw Jesus walking down the road giving folks a big “Howdy!”
The Bundyites had a Religious Message, holstered, and were waiting to pull it on the watching world when their numbers swelled to ten thousand or so. I think ‘The Man Under The Blue Tarp’ was their Moses in waiting, but La Voy Finicum, got cold feet – and hungry. You can’t make this name up. Western Writers of long-a-go are rolling over in their graves. Only God could come up with this name!
Then, here come the Red Skins! Where’s La Voy? He’s in town at the I-Hop working on another tall stack of wheat-cakes. He has the room spellbound with his tales of the Mormon Jesus who wandered the Western Wilderness and stayed awhile at the bird refuge – talking to the birds!
“Saint Francis has nothing on our Jesus – who was here first!”
“La Voy is the Mormon Shroud ‘The Blue Shroud of Burns’ This is a true Art Piece, and is recognized as such on the World Wide Web. Who saw that coming? Here I am as set designer. Like Noah, voices tell me what to do, too!
What is astounding, the Bundyites invaded Oregon and forgot to hitch up their chuck wagon, or take into account the Native population that were there first, and, had no problem going on the real Warpath, because, it may not be a Country For Old White Men, but, Old Paiute Chiefs, are right at home. This is their Custer’s Last Stand. There will be a celebration when the Bundyites slink home, with their tail between their legs!
“Please! Let my people go back – to where we belong!”
There were two T,V. series with the name Cochise in it. This one favored the Native Americans.
This series favored the Killer Pale Face, wandering the West, looking for someone to plug, put a bullet in. We are what we watch. Did Rena Easton entertain a vision of Sheriff Dan plugging me if I dare come around her ranch? She was in need of a Bad Man to focus her fears and doubts on. I was rendered the Big Bad Wolf at the door.
There is a Romeo and Juliet story here, where I am warned by the Sheriff not to step on some property, or come near my love object. Sheriff Dan was very impressed with the Love Letters Rena Easton and I exchanged – before all hell broke loose! In Bozeman, young lovers were prone to getting shit-faced drunk, and vomit-out a declaration consisting of a sentence or too. I mean we got a ex-Ballerina (Belle-Rena) for the London Ballet, here, and a Western Beat Writer! That we were Seniors, gave all the lawmen in Bozeman, hope, that they too can own real passion when they get old.
“Hey! Stella!”
Jon Presco
Copyright 2016
An overflow crowd of about 300 people packed a Burns meeting room late Wednesday afternoon and gave the Harney County sheriff a standing ovation at the start of a community meeting on the wildlife refuge takeover.
Sheriff David Ward, who has told the armed anti-government protesters they should leave, got thunderous applause when he repeated that request.
Ward also said his wife’s tire was flattened, and his parents were followed., and he had another message for the occupiers: “You don’t get to threaten me because you disagree with me.”
The leaders of the Burns Paiute tribe have a message for the men and women who have taken over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside Burns, Oregon: “Go home. We don’t want you here.”
The message came from several tribe members whose ancestors fought and died over portions of that land long before the ranchers and farmers had it, long before the federal government even existed.
The tribe is still fighting over land use but now works with the federal government’s Bureau of Land Management to save its archaeological sites.
“We have good relations with the refuge. They protect our cultural rights there,” said tribal council Chairwoman Charlotte Rodrique.
An overflow crowd of about 300 people packed a Burns meeting room late Wednesday afternoon and gave the Harney County sheriff a standing ovation at the start of a community meeting on the wildlife refuge takeover.
Sheriff David Ward, who has told the armed anti-government protesters they should leave, got thunderous applause when he repeated that request.
Ward also said his wife’s tire was flattened, and his parents were followed., and he had another message for the occupiers: “You don’t get to threaten me because you disagree with me.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-occupier-lavoy-finicum-warns-fbi-he-d-take-death-n491056
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/06/us/native-tribe-blasts-oregon-takeover/index.html
While law enforcement has not attempted to recapture the outpost, the FBI is leading efforts to resolve the impasse and several of the occupiers said they believe there are arrest warrants against them.
Asked if he would rather be killed than be arrested — were the occupation to turn violent — 54-year-old occupier LaVoy Finicum, said: “Absolutely … I have no intention of spending any of my days in a concrete box.”
“There are things more important than your life and freedom is one of them,” he said. “I’m prepared to defend freedom.”
Finicum, a Mormon rancher from Arizona who has 11 children, broke off from the rest of the group inside the building Tuesday night. He sat on a chair outside the refuge with only a sleeping bag, a blue tarp and his gun protecting him in the frigid open air.
Finicum said he wanted officers to be able to find him if they wanted to serve an arrest warrant.
Click on pics to enlarge. I am pretty sure those are Belle’s legs, she not wanting to be on the news. Them in Ken Kesey Square, she stuck her tongue out at this reporter and BLEW HER COVER! You can’t make this shit up! This is why I strive to be forgiving.
When I last talked to Rena on the phone in 1971, she said;
“I love you more afar than near.”
In this statement I wonder how that will be now we are friends again, I authoring novels and poems, while she writes me about her and her husband’s farm. I write with passion. I paint with passion.
“We are playing with fire, Aries woman. Playing with fire! Right here – and so very far away!
I mean, my God, I read about your hip replacement, and we are in a movie, based upon a book, that I am writing, and……are we really going to spend the last days of our life together wondering how many eggs the chickens laid today!”
The truth is, I did not disguise my desire for us to be together – well enough. I am hitting the brake and the gas peddle at the same time because romantic memories of Rena make up most of the memories I own of her. I made a mistake saying I would help her if her husband dies due to poor health. I wondered why Rena did contact me after not doing so for around eight months after I gave her minister the means for Rena to communicate with me. Once again, I read something that was not intended.
Before I learned Rena was married I entertained this fantasy;
“Sometimes when I got ‘Big Blue’ out on the highway I make a left turn in my mind, and come to Nebraska to get you. And then we head to Alaska where we build our cabin. Have you ever wanted to build a house from scratch? Do you wear blue overalls?”
Just about every other night while watching T.V. I do architecture floor plans. It’s my hobby. I have designed floor plans for other friends, and for myself. I have hundreds of plans I have done for myself. I think I am guilty of getting old and lonely.
The floor plan above was done for Rena and her husband who live in a small trailer on a hill. I took into consideration they would need a spare room for a cowhand to help with the ranch. There is a dance studio above the garage.
“If we can be that to one another, then, we can love anyone, let each other go, let the darkness go, to be loved in all the majesty. We’ve paid our dues! We are home free!”
The top photo is a cabin on my grandfather’s property that he wanted to turn into a retreat for Poets, Fishermen, and Hunters. It was his dream. I do not know if Royal Rosamond built that cabin.
I was entertaining a new dream about Rena. When ‘Capturing Beauty’ becomes a best seller, I would see if Rena and her husband would want to host a retreat for hunters and fisherman who have a muse that I would finance with my royalty checks. But, that business idea is not going to work, because try as I may, I just couldn’t shake the image of Rena and riding off into the sunset. Sorry! I tried!
Because I would do anything for my Muse – POOF! That dream is gone – with the wind!
I am a man, looking for a new dream, and a poet, looking for a new muse.
In all fairness to me, Rena was reading my blog, and she knew she was married when I did not. She had read some pretty hot stuff about her. Models are put in cars and houses in order to sell them. If Rena was not married, she would have gotten the same exact letter. After I am informed Rena is married, then in hindsight, the smart response would have been short and sweet;
“I’m happy for you two. Have a nice day!”
Rena knew I was still mad for her when she wrote me that letter with the name (Rosemond) on the envelope. There was, and is, no covert scheme here! I have been very overt! Why throw fuel on the fire, if you wanted the response of a cold fish? I’m not your man if that is what you expected.
As for Artuad coming to Montana, he is one of inventors of Modern Dance and Theatre. I think Royal did author a little book titled ‘The Humor of Montana’. A very “little” book indeed!
In closing down this forty-four year adventure, I enclose a page of Rena’s letter where she says she is lonely at work where she recites poetry out load to make the boredom and loneliness go away. I asked myself this question – that begged to be asked – because Rena sent me a poem she wrote;
“Does her Redneck husband – like poetry?”
Most of the poems that have been written in the world, are love poems. Maybe Rena’s husband will write her one!
I sent Rena a recording I made of me reading ‘The Birth of Venus’ that is copyrighted! I suggested Rena – a dancer and choreographer – could do something with it that might save the farm. In one blog, I told her about Love Dance. I said she would be the lead choreographer. I really do have to scrutinize Rena Easton’s motives in making absurd insinuations. I signed and dated that letter I sent that acknowledges I know her, and the truth, she is going to be in my book! This blog is part of my newspaper Royal Rosamond Press. I suspect her husband getting very sick, inspired her to contact me.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t have. Her letter sure looks like an audition to me!
Around 8:00 P.M. this evening, I got a call from a sheriff in the county Rena dwells in. In the last twenty four hours Rena called the Sheriff and accused me of stalking her. Rena said this stalking began with my letter to her that she received around January 16th. Why didn’t make a complaint just after she read it, if this is true? The Sheriff claims Rena said this stalking continued in this blog after she read my letter. Nine months ago someone who knew Rena called me back and asked me the address of this blog, just in case she ran into Rena in Bozeman, where this woman lived. There is no doubt in my mind Rena has been reading my blogs for the last nine months. Why didn’t she call the Sheriff way back when? Why did she wait twelve days after receiving my letter to call – if she felt she was in danger? I do not know where Rena and her husband live. Her return address was a P.O.Box. Did Rena read something in the last twelve days that disturbed her? Or, did her husband find out we are corresponding – and he don’t want to know what a muse is? Maybe I am the one in danger, and someone needs an alibi! Here is what Rena said in her letter, that did alarm me;
“It would nice to hear from you. But, I must not embark on a affair of the heart. My husband would be very hurt. And angry.”
There are ten million old flame letters out there, and ten million old flame posts on facebook. There are ten thousand detectives who make a living finding old flames. There are plenty of accusations out there. How many old flames are married? Old Flames – BEWARE!
I told the Sheriff I saved Rena’s beautiful self down in Los Angeles after her boyfriend committed a hate crime and got his ass whooped. My famous sister and her boyfriend (my kindred) were witness to this. From savior and hero, to stalker!
“No good deed will go unpunished!”
For the reason the sheriff will be reading, and very possibly an attorney, I am posting all of Rena’s letter, excluding the three poems. Also, it is very likely Rena showed her husband my letter and he is “angry”. Perhaps if he reads why I would think there was a cry for help in this letter, he won’t be angry, and thank me for saving his wives life.
If anyone has a case for stalking, it is me. I have stopped telling people I am authoring a biography about a famous artist I am kin to. Stacey Pierrot titled herself ‘Caretaker’ of my family history. She claims she saved Rosamond’s creative legacy. Saving someone can be a trait of a stalker.
I wondered if telling Rena I wept – before I read her letter – alarmed her. Sensitive men – BEWARE!
The ‘Artist and His Muse’ will be written – with a name change! The real crime, the real shame, is, the world will not be reading our story, nor reading our beautiful letters between an artist and a muse. Rena owns real fear – before I met her – and before I sent her my letter. She tells me fear has all but ruined her life. Why would I want to make her more afraid?
Once again here is what Muse is. Rena went to college, thus she knows a Muse inspires writers and poets. I write in prose. This is why I can appear cryptic – and this dangerous? Rena sent three poems to me – for Christ sake! I think I will make a poem out of our letters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse
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