Poxhouse Project

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117005262011-05-25T07:43:37.355-07:00Poxhouse ProjectRick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.comBlogger251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1134126243453130182005-12-09T02:25:00.000-08:002005-12-09T03:12:48.823-08:00SECOND AND THIRD THOUGHTS

It has been over three months since my last blog entry, and this blog is about why I stopped blogging.It happened that as I went over my previous blog entries, I felt that something was wrong with them, but I wasn't sure as to what that something was. It was enough to stop me from blogging, while I tried to understand what was bothering me.My first thought was that a blog on the idea of "a pox

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1125305498428969912005-08-29T01:51:00.000-07:002005-08-29T01:51:39.623-07:00LET'S YOU AND HIM FIGHT, PART 2

In my last post, Richard Sorge and Harry Dexter White, both spies for Stalin, worked to bring America and Japan to war. Sorge used his contacts within the Japanese military, White used his position in the Dept. of Treasury. Here I will point out that there may have been a similar operation to bring America into the war with Iraq. The intelligence is not yet enough to confirm it, but there is

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1124086737353389022005-08-14T23:18:00.000-07:002005-08-14T23:33:10.840-07:00LET'S YOU AND HIM FIGHT

MERCUTIO: A [pox] on both your houses.(with apologies to w. shakespeare)DON CORLEONE: All my life I have tried not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, not meIn the previous post I talked about Richard Sorge, Stalin's agent in Japan, who helped push Japan to attack America. At the same time, Stalin had a spy in America, Harry Dexter White. Read this ">LINK on how White pushed

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1123708047454347682005-08-10T14:07:00.000-07:002005-08-10T14:15:37.663-07:00DEJA VU (PART 2)

There is more on Agnes Smedley, and it makes it very hard for Ruth Price to say that Smedley "was a spy, but not a traitor."Please read the NOVA piece devoted to Smedley.I want to focus on the end of the NOVA piece, where it is revealed that she gave Richard Sorge invaluable help in setting up his spy network in Japan. One of Sorge's goals, given him by Stalin, was to steer the Japanese High

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1123316065329453172005-08-06T01:14:00.000-07:002005-08-06T23:27:11.900-07:00DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN

Mercutio: A [pox] on both your houses.(with apologies to w. shakespeare)Don Corleone: All my life I have tried not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, not men.Just when I think that Joseph McCarthy is old history, THEY KEEP PULLING ME BACK!We don't know about Agnes Smedley these days, but someone named Ruth Price has dug up her bones. Bones can be used by shamans to predict the

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1121932963421883352005-07-21T01:02:00.000-07:002005-07-21T23:00:21.806-07:00SO MANY DOTS

Photo: serious Garfield booties. Couldn't resist.I want to talk about intelligence gathering. I spent my last year of military service at the National Security Agency, so I have had a little experience with it. It's been a long time, but some things never change.Intelligence begins with collecting the dots. The next part is connecting the dots. The first takes time, and the second takes time

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1121321026235062132005-07-13T23:03:00.000-07:002005-07-13T23:22:56.176-07:00A DEFINING MOMENT?

I have been following the battle over Ground Zero and the WTC Memorial. The Liberal elite of Moscow-on-the-Hudson have their version of 9/11, and the victim's families have theirs. Gov. Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg are caught in the middle, but this may be changing.This may be the defining moment, or tipping point, but it certainly will affect the outcome:Apparently, the LMDC is willing to help

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1121060149687022932005-07-10T22:35:00.000-07:002005-07-13T16:56:46.090-07:00KIPLING WARNS US

Poxhouse visits Christian on Grandparent's Day. I came across a weblog that takes its name from Rudyard Kipling's poem, GODS OF THE COPYBOOK HEADINGS. I quote from one stanza, but read the whole thing here.When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.But when we disarmed they sold us and

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1120813525131529452005-07-08T02:05:00.000-07:002005-07-09T02:11:48.286-07:00LESSON FROM LONDON

Your humble blogger with his granddtr Briana.In a previous post I talked about the judicial and martial metaphors in the War on Terror. The judicial metaphor says that we are in a Courtroom trying terrorists as criminals. The martial metaphor says that we are in the alley behind the courthouse, in a brick fight. So far we have been divided as to how to fight the terrorists. Bush has embraced

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1120636333926547422005-07-06T00:49:00.000-07:002005-07-06T00:52:13.926-07:00

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1120633734352058422005-07-06T00:08:00.001-07:002005-07-08T02:40:35.066-07:00A POX ON HOUSES

This is my grandson Christian. He has a certain smile...or grimace...or je ne sais quois. And that is our dog Frankie getting a cookie in the background.I started this blog with the idea that I don't have to pick between the liberals and the conservatives. I reject both.Now I have two new reasons to maintain my position.The first is the decision of SCOTUS with respect to the use of eminent

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1120032818552882842005-06-29T01:13:00.000-07:002005-06-29T14:53:40.970-07:00MORE ABOUT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

In my previous blog entry MAD ABOUT THE BULLY I said that political correctness is a subtle and indirect form of bullying. It is usually done by the entourage of the bully, and is therefore a feature of collectivism. I gave the example of how Social Scientists pretend to study culture objectively, while in fact they tend to replace culture with their own values.One specific example of this would

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1119757098084108282005-06-25T20:37:00.000-07:002005-06-25T20:53:40.936-07:00AN OPEN LETTER TO GOV. GEORGE PATAKI

Dear Governor Pataki, I was heartened by your recent remarks in defense of the Memorial. However, I want to share with you my feeling that there is no way that the IFC will be able to share the same space with Ground Zero.A few days ago I saw Debra Burlingame and Richard Tofel on FOX. After they left the set and went back to the Green Room, Mr. Tofel went up to Ms. Burlingame as she was trying

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1119679041122714982005-06-24T22:57:00.000-07:002005-06-25T01:14:24.953-07:00Durbin's Dilemma

When I saw Senator Durbin's apology video the other day, I flashed back to the 80's. The most famous apology until now was Jimmy Swaggert, a Babtist Minister with a large television following who was arrested with a prostitute. I think it was near Palm Desert, but I could be wrong.At any rate, he apologized on his TV show, and it was amazing. Looking up toward heaven, tears gushing down his

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1119594883904459052005-06-23T23:26:00.000-07:002005-06-24T00:19:50.246-07:00PEERING DOWN DEEP THROAT

Now we know who Deep Throat is. Mr. Mark Felt, who was the number two man at the FBI. Now that we know, we can put Watergate into a sharper perspective, and so we should. There is an important piece by Edward Jay Epstein that provides a crucial key to understanding Watergate, or anything a reporter reports, for that matter. I link here to his lead entire entry, but I will quote from lead

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1118540124883068922005-06-11T17:53:00.000-07:002005-06-11T21:06:55.840-07:00Day O, Day O, Daylight Come And Me Want Go Home

It's now official. The State of Washington, once famous for apples, is our newest Banana Republic. Move over, Florida. The trial to determine whether there should be a re-run of the race for Governor is over, and Judge Bridges has ruled no re-run. This leaves us with no idea of who the Governor should be. As it now stands, as it will stand, is that nobody knows who got the most legal votes,

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1117086075545388422005-05-25T22:41:00.000-07:002005-06-08T14:45:41.046-07:00Careless Love

Mercutio: A [pox] on both your houses.(with apologies to w. shakespeare)Don Corleone: All my life I have tried not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, not men.Visit the Poxhouse store. Buy a piece of Poxhouse at Cafe Press.When I recently started this blog, I based it on Abraham Lincoln's prophecy that America could never be defeated from without, but it could be defeated from

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1116210685640089042005-05-15T19:31:00.000-07:002005-06-08T14:43:42.856-07:00ISLAM VERSUS SUFISM

Mercutio: A [pox] on both your houses.(with apologies to w. shakespeare)Don Corleone: All my life I have tried not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, not men.Visit the Poxhouse store. Buy a piece of Poxhouse at Cafe Press.Can Islam and the West co-exist? One way to answer this question is to look at how Sufism is doing. Since the rise of Wahabbism, Sufism has declined. If

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1115704337261443052005-05-09T21:33:00.000-07:002005-06-08T14:42:08.326-07:00MAD ABOUT THE BULLY

Mercutio: A [pox] on both your houses.(with apologies to w. shakespeare)Don Corleone: All my life I have tried not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, not men.Visit the Poxhouse store. Buy a piece of Poxhouse at Cafe Press.I just thought to expand my comments about bullies and their friends. One current form of bullying is POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. It is indirect and subtle. By

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1114755716085741692005-04-28T23:20:00.000-07:002005-06-08T14:35:35.050-07:00THE INTERNET AS A THIRD PARTY

Mercutio: A [pox] on both your houses.(with apologies to w. shakespeare)Don Corleone: All my life I have tried not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, not men.Visit the Poxhouse store. Buy a piece of Poxhouse at Cafe Press.THE INTERNET AS A THIRD PARTYIn my first blog entry, WHAT IS POXHOUSE?, I wrote that I see America as like America just before the Civil War. In the 1850"s the

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1114588193579072432005-04-26T23:33:00.000-07:002005-06-08T14:34:29.816-07:00How to tell a bully.

Mercutio: A [pox] on both your houses.(with apologies to w. shakespeare)Don Corleone: All my life I have tried not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, not men.Visit the Poxhouse store. Buy a piece of Poxhouse at Cafe Press.I read a lot about America being a bully. I disagree. I think America can be tough and agressive, but that is not quite the same thing. It's not a choice of

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1111895568575530112005-03-26T19:35:00.001-08:002005-06-08T14:33:35.310-07:00MORE ON TO BE OR NOT TO BE

Mercutio: A [pox] on both your houses.(with apologies to w. shakespeare)Don Corleone: All my life I have tried not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, not men.Visit the Poxhouse store. Buy a piece of Poxhouse at Cafe Press.Since I posted I thought of something else to add.My experience is that a person wants to live as long as they can live well. It was also my experience that

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1111824719435133482005-03-25T23:37:00.000-08:002005-06-08T14:32:07.953-07:00TO BE OR NOT TO BE

Mercutio: A [pox] on both your houses.(with apologies to w. shakespeare)Don Corleone: All my life I have tried not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, not men.Visit the Poxhouse store. Buy a piece of Poxhouse at Cafe Press.--"GENTLEMEN, HAVE WE ALL REALLY SUNK SO LOW THAT WE BELIEVE OUR OWN PROPAGANDA?----

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1111801622613287892005-03-25T17:44:00.000-08:002005-03-25T17:47:02.613-08:00update of first blog entry

This is just me checking on my blog after doing the first entry earlier. I'll do a real entry later, after dinner. Bye

Rick Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06994024696462690027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11700526.post-1111799992629193392005-03-25T17:19:00.000-08:002005-06-08T14:27:32.336-07:00What is Poxhouse?

Mercutio: A [pox] on both your houses.(with apologies to w. shakespeare)Don Corleone: All my life I have tried not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, not men.Visit the Poxhouse store. Buy a piece of Poxhouse at Cafe Press.This blog is my response to 9/11 and to the ongoing war in which we reluctantly find ourselves. Here i will say what i have to say, bluntly. I have some

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