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Boregasm has moved. The Howard Rich series will remain here as a resource. The new blog is called "Zug." It is at http://www.hartwilliams.com/zug/blogger.html

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Note, not all blog postings are in this series. To see the latest, scroll below this header posting. THE EPILOGUE IS Posted (This completes the series) To read the series on Howie Rich & Friends and their electoral shenanigans, click on the links below. Each article will open in its own page. DOWNLOAD parts 1-15 as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file HERE. (requires the free Acrobat Reader) If you

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It's time to move on and migrate. Why? Well, this little blog has served its immediate purpose, and I'm leaving it up as a "Howie" resource. But time and tide wait for no man. Not even TIME's "Person of the Year." (OK: It was a private joke, but I stumbled across it in the wee hours this morning in an old hard drive cache, and, well, hell, I might as well use it, right? The ersatz cover was

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Here's my little Christmas radio play, as heard on KOPT-AM on December 23, 2005: A Sebastian Cole mystery, "The Saint Nick Case." It's a 4 meg download and runs 22:47. Right click on Santa's hat and "save as." Holiday felicitations and various politically keereckt appellations. (The war on Christmas officially ends today, so get your last snarks in before the midnight deadline.) Courage. .

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I have to take it as a left-handed compliment that TIME magazine named me "Person of the Year." I will display the honor on the same shelf as my "Resident of the United States" status -- the latter being, in all matters, a more signal honor to my way of thinking. As of this writing, in fact, if you are reading this, then YOU are TIME magazine's Person of the Year, too. It's a pretty nebulous

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It isn't even Christmas. The last wood and cardboard lawn signs haven't yet been fed into cabin stoves. The last of the wood pellets haven't been laid up for winter, although there seems to be a major blizzard underway in the Rockies. The last of the nativity scenes have pretty much all gone up, or been taken down, according to which side of the anti-Santa door you're swinging on. But

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Paul Jacob had a thought while taking a shit the other day. I apologize for the frank nature of the language here, but given the pettifoggery and mendacity usually evinced by Jacob's allegedly self-written weekly radio spot/column "Common Sense," some plain speaking ought to be welcomed, even if it means calling a spade a spade, or, in this case, a turd a turd. Who is Paul Jacob? you might ask.

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Surprise! According to Tom Phillips' Eagle Publishing's Human Events Online magazine (see July 28's "Part 7, Objective Journalism" ), Howie Rich of New York is a "FREEDOM FIGHTER". I Kid You Not: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18382 We were talking about when the waters changed. As I said, I read the story a long time before the latest round of hysterical revisionism ... er,

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Just so's you know I'm obviously one a' them "Merricka Haterses" in league with the "terr'ists," I will begin with one of my favorite Sufi stories, courtesy of Idries Shah. Note: I read this before the Embassy hostage incident in Iran, before the Russian invasion of Afghanistan; before the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein and Bushdaddy's "

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"Perhaps it will be a joy later to remember these things." (Latin) Another year, a mystical birthday: my age coincides with my IQ. Kosmikal, one supposes. Anyway, here's a nondenominational musical present. (Right click and choose "save as." 1.2 megs, 2:32. It loops nicely in your media player). As a Sagittarius who was conceived in a converted horse stables, I wish you many happy sleigh rides

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Two weeks after election day, the defeats just keep on a-comin'. The closest election in South Carolina history is finally over. The recount between Democrat Jim Rex and Republican Karen Floyd has ended. Rex has prevailed over the Howie Rich-backed "school choice" candidate by 455 votes from over a million cast. http://www.charleston.net/assets/webPages/departmental/news/Stories.aspx?section=

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Well, the silly season is over. The friends of Howard Rich are licking their wounds, spinning their "victories" and generally returning for the nonce under the rock from whence they crawled. And the Daily Kos crowd has returned to doing whatever it is that they do best, viz. Democrats fighting Democrats. And the Republicans are rationalizing away like mad. The whole unbalanced spin cycle is as

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Boregasm (e.g.: what you're reading) is featured today on Crooks and Liars. This marks the third time they've so honored this little blog, and we offer our sincere thanks. Thanks, Mike! (Of course, given the topic of our series over the last few months, the linking blog's title is a natural fit. Ah, synergy!) http://www.crooksandliars.com And thanks for the link on 4&20 Blackbirds, the little

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Gentle Reader: This is the last "official" post of the Howard Rich series. I've been trying to post it for the past 24 hours, but Blogger has a new "Beta" version that's made it impossible for me to post it with formatting. Perhaps in the next week or so they'll clear it up. (Insert a long string of blue *$*& invectives here).Since July, I have chronicled the shadowy interests commonly termed "

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(*&(*&*^^% blogger has reconfigured their whole system, and I'm having mild to severe troubles posting the blog that was originally attempted at 6:14 AM today. Whenever they manage to get the bugs fixed, it'll go up. Stay tuned. Courage.

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Tonight has been a DISASTER for Howard Rich & Friends. Rich losses:(OLD had already lost prior to the election): MichiganMissouriMontanaOklahomahalf of NebraskaWisconsin NEW losses: Maine 55-45%Florida 58-42% Nebraska 71-29%Colorado 59-41%Washington 57-43%Idaho Proposition Two (KELO/Takings) YES 77,115 26% NO 213,948 74% (X)California -- I'm calling this one over. It's

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This just hit this weekend. It would seem that THE STATE in South Carolina, and the Portland OREGONIAN have transgressed by pointing out the Howie Rich connection. So, semi-anonymously, two shadowy "smears" appeared, each of which used the same "talking" point: This is the page for the South Carolina smear. This is the YouTube video of their television attack ad.This is the "announcement" of the

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If, as the cynics suggest, all elections devolve into a choice between the lesser of two evils, then the choice has seldom been as clear as it is this year. Courage. .

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Perhaps the best place to start is with a news item in the Missouri State capitol's newspaper, the Jefferson City NEWS TRIBUNE: Posted: Friday, Nov 03, 2006 - 11:20:45 pm CST Chicago group bankrolls anti-Brown effort By Bob Watson bwatson@newstribune.com An independent campaign committee with out-of-state backing has made this year's Cole County circuit judge's race very expensive.Gee? Where

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The Arizona Republic [Phoenix] broke this story today: Groups linked to Prop. 207 backer investigated Real estate mogul calls inquiry a 'witch hunt' Jessica Coomes The Arizona Republic Nov. 2, 2006 12:00 AM Chicago-based Americans for Limited Government gave more than $1 million to Arizona's Proposition 207 property rights campaign, but its authority to do business in Illinois had been revoked

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[Most of this blog entry was originally posted on Saturday, October 22, 2005] In the spring of 1976, at TCU, I proposed to write a paper for my Junior Honors Philosophy Seminar, and, as with Danuta yesterday, I was pooh-pooh'ed -- dismissed out of hand -- without so much as an opportunity to defend or explain my (quite rational and justified) thesis, I was dismissed disdainfully. "No one

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or Howie's Politically Philanthropic Pornography I might just ascribe the smear campaign to bitchiness, had it begun immediately after Great Falls, Montana's district court tossed out their ballot measures on September 13. Or even had it begun when, on Thursday, Montana's Supreme Court allowed the ruling to stand. In fact, that is breaking news, since only Montana papers seem to have noted the

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For good or ill, the Howard Rich/Americans for Limited Government story is breaking out like a bad case of hives. The Guardian in England, the Nepal National (in Himalayan Nepal) and the Irish Sun (in, one would presume, Ireland) are carrying the following AP story: Ballot Measures Seek Limited Government Thursday October 26, 2006 7:31 PM By DAVID CRARY AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) - He

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This story remains under the media radar to this very day. You know how you can tell? Howard Rich has been the focus of attention since July and was partially glimpsed even earlier in the spring by any number of state reporters. Actually, he's been doing this since at LEAST 1992 (although in 1983, he and Paul Jacob were in Connecticut under assumed names, Jacob being on the lam from the FBI at

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Well, then: if you read the (seemingly interminable) three parts of "Duncan Scott," you have a sense of the entire political movement that swirled out of the '83 Libertarian schism in New York -- to become the modern initiative machine that the eponymous rich man of New York seemingly coordinates. If not, Gentle Reader, no matter: the story suddenly returns to the present on several fronts. Add

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