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You've found the blog of Jere Matlock, a web designer and writer. This journal is mostly about writing, web design and getting sites to the top of the search engines (SEO is my business). It is also full of opinions and observations about pretty much everything. If these things are not of interest to you, feel free to go now. Go on, shoo!

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"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing."

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JMBlog Archive for March, 2006

Walking & Photos

Friday, March 31st, 2006

… huffing and puffing is more like it…

Gulf War Syndrome

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Free detox program for vets suffering from Gulf War Syndrome …

Cyclone Larry - volunteer needs help

Friday, March 31st, 2006

An acquaintance, Lisa Miller of LA, is seeking funds to to go Australia to help the victims of Cyclone “Larry”. Not a joke - Lisa spent several weeks last year helping victims of Hurricane Catrina as a full time Church of Scientology Volunteer Minister and now wants some help from you to go help the Ozzies. Enough small Paypal payments to her will do the trick. I’ll vouch for her.

It’s part of a campaign by the Scientology VM’s to get hundreds of them there to distribute supplies, clean up and build new facilities, and help those who have lost everything. Scientologists have some tools called …

Maryland Education

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

The Maryland school board has bypassed local school boards in Baltimore and will be operating four high schools directly, according to an article in today’s NY Times.

Invoking the federal No Child Left Behind law, the Maryland school board voted today to take control of four Baltimore high schools with chronically low achievement and strip the City of Baltimore from direct operation of seven more middle schools.

This sounds wonderful–when junior isn’t doing the job, you bypass and handle it yourself–until you realize that they don’t have a clue either.

In the March “Reason” Magazine there was an excellent article , “The Agony …

Lyn Nofziger Dies at 81

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

“In politics there is no such thing as a sure thing.” — Lyn Nofziger

SAGE club

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

New video on the uses of the “Set A Good Example” Club

Psychiatry — tool of the Communist State

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

“… severe mental pathology.”

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