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pstrong pbThis is no column butbr / one of many small memorials./b /p pbAn Earthly Starbr / Falls Upwards To Heaven./b /p/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe. B/p pA Cessna 402 plane crashed after take offbr /br / killing 8 persons.br / br /Monday, Aug. 27, 2001, on Tv then radio I hear it again.br / born Aaliyah, Haughton, on January 16, 1979 in Brooklyn, New York.br / br /A beautiful, talented, intelligent young woman Aaliyah, in Swahili meansbr / br /Highest, Most Exalted One.br / br /A unique, soul returns to Allah. /p pHer family moved to Detroit when she was five years old.br / br /After singing in her church as a youngster, she began performing br /at the age of 11 with Gladys Knight, whose ex-husband Barry Hankerson, was her uncle, in Las Vegas. /p pAt 15 her first Album goes platium. /p pbr /Ms. Aaliyah achieved more than most at such a young age though shebr /didn’t have much time to enjoy yetbr / she did reflect on her life’s journey. /p pI believe souls such br /as her do return, it seems her work was just br /beginning maybe she went because br /she had learned, done so much.br / br /For her and all the lost lives in the air crash. /ppQuick Journey Home but please return if thebr / Eternal wills all of you tobr / return.br / br /Life again for other lessons there is no time to learn.b Aaliyah may have been anbr / old soul full of wisdom./bbr / She has already had an indelible impact on br /her generation and some coming after./p pThe other passengers killed in the crash were Scott Gallin, 41; Keith Wallace, 49, of Los Angeles; Douglas Kratz, 28, a representative for Virgin Records and Eric Foreman, 29, bothbr / of Hollywood, California; Gina Smith, 29, of New Jersey; and Christopher Maldonado, 32, of New York. The pilot, identified only as L. Marael,br / was also killed, and Anthony Dodd, 34, of Los Angeles, died in the hospital on Sunday. /p pYoung, Gifted, And Black, a multi-talented singer/actress, and dancer./p p Taken by faulty engines or too much equipment.br / br /our world is a little dimmer now./p pAgain Unique, yes at the young age of 22 heading toward superstardom. /p pI believe she made it...br / br /Death claimed her but not before she made her mark the world./p pFor Ms. A. Haughton’s familily, friends, fans may her life be anbr / example of excellence, and a positive guiding beacon to all./p pSome information came from ABCNews./p pJoe. B.br / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongPt 2. You Have No Choice!/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/450/photo_2_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Michael Lea Morgan, PNN shelter beat reporter./p pThe Personal Assisted Employment Services (Single Adult welfare) claims to provide access to the tools of society to homeless and/or low-income people. But my Employment Specialist screamed at me the other day and said, “You have no choice. You have no choice,” when I told her I was going to seek a second opinion in regards to an action she proposed that I take. So, we always improve upon a system. /p pThe homeless have to have a group that controls its own improvements as much as possible . We must simply create it out of an idea. Get a meeting place. Meet. See what happens. I propose we meet at the Main Library (since many of us live there anyway). Or, we could meet at several places, like Martin de Porris or POOR Magazine. I’ve already brainstormed with many divergent groups of homeless people . In Palo Alto, in Berkeley, and in Redwood City. And, of course, good old activist capital of the world, SF of A!!!! /p pMany great activists all over the world have brain-stormed, done projects, written papers, changed their environment and we can draw on all of these. Then, we take our vast array of information and experiences and figure out some reasonable approaches to gaining access to funding, buildings, and equipment to start some of our own projects. My goal is to start shelters, homeless support agencies, businesses, farms, and collectives, down the road, when history is ready (“history” may have been “ready” for a long time through)./p pFor now, we can meet and brainstorm, learn to relate to one another, study design and implementation, and go out and design and implement as a specific group or collective of related groups. The existing structure is there and much of it is just fine; this is an addition, a new kid on t block, not really a completely new approach because collectives have been around forever, but something new at this time, in this place when I find myself. This, however, is not an SF issue; it is a global issue. So, think globally/act locally. Organize./p pOur idea, according to Kleppner's Advertising Procedure, is in the “pioneering” stage. The pioneering stage of an idea or product is when “ . . . the need for such product is not recognized and must be established or in which the need has been established but the success of a commodity in filling those requirements has to be established. /p pFeedback: Ideas don't flow in one direction. A person comes up with a new idea and spits it out into the world. Ideas come up and change our perception of the world, so we see more, resulting in our ideas changing, resulting in our creating a different world, seeing more, learning from the new world, changing our ideas, and so on. /p pBut, it requires a person's willingness to break through to new perceptions, to act on them, and to continue the eternal process of birth, growth, decay, and rejuvenation. When a person or group refuses to see new perceptions, that stage of the process becomes interesting. It is at this stage that someone or some group has to become the voice of the new, the one who decides to break with the rules, regulations and laws established by the old guard. Who has the right of passage? Who decides what is right? Who decides upon whom rights are showered?/p pThe Constitution of the Unites States and the Bill of Rights are documents very few Americans have studied let alone read. Yet they are supposed to be the basis for America's entire point-of-view—the rules by which Americans are supposed to live and manage their country. Yet who is reading them, studying them, teaching them? /p pIn high school I was not asked to read them; we read Great Expectations, perhaps a few quotes from The Dec and The Bill, a few quotes from Lincoln, a sparse history of the lives of our founding fathers, etc.... And, certainly, no information about the meanings of the array of symbols found on our money./p pIf the very ideas upon which our country are based are not even remotely understood or studied by U.S. citizens, that there is no democracy. It means that the ideas upon which this country were founded are not the ideas upon which our everyday citizen acts everyday. The implications of this are staggering./p pBack to Ideas and Words: Understanding a process—specifically the process whereby an idea is described in words which become more tangible (not more real, more tangible). This is like the mutation of life: ideas become biological, chemical, spiritual and physical. What people witness forms their picture of what the world is like. If a picture comes back which doesn’t seem right, we question whether our world is as it should be./p pIdeas are not physical but they are actual. “In the beginning was the word” says one best seller and from just that word came animals, planets, and everything else. So it is with ideas. Words and ideas go hand-in-hand. We observe and report because from the Word all things come: can you hear an idea in a Hendrix riff? Can you see the social form of an idea in Woodstock, Apple Corporation, the spreading of the Internet, in homeless coalitions, and personal growth movements? When all these areas are synthesized, utilized, and democratized will have greater access to equity./p pAll responses, pro and con, are welcome; please contact me at: a href="mailto:ravencrow@eudoramail.com"ravencrow@eudoramail.com/a,br / or (415)430-2168, x9335.br / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongOne woman's journey through government fraud and homelessness /strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/456/photo_1_feature.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Judith M. Hansel/p pThe United States federal government caused me to become homeless. I purchased, for cash, a 985 square foot house on two acres in Waushara County, Wisconsin. The previous owner had purchased the house from the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Title 7 USCS C.F.R. 1955.116 program./p pI returned to Wisconsin in 1988 when my sons were grown and my marriage over. My great-grandfather had received 250 acres from the government in the 19th Century. He passed the farm on to his son, my grandfather, who farmed the land and raised nine children, including my father. My father left the farm in 1917 to join the Navy and chose to live in Milwaukee instead of farming when he returned from the war./p pDuring my childhood and adolescence, I loved visiting the farm. I considered it, particularly after my father died, to be my real home. There was a 22-acre lake called Hansel Lake. The vegetables served at mealtime were always fresh from the garden. I enjoyed seeing the farm dog round up the cows at milking time, herding them into the barnyard. My Uncle Clarence taught me about raising pigs. If there was to be chicken for dinner, I watched one of my uncles pick a chicken up by its feet, lay it across a tree stump, and chop the chicken’s head off. The chicken would then get up and run around flapping its wings. My grandmother took the feathers off the bird and cleaned out its insides. I felt privileged./p pIn 1988, my mother had a stroke that she could not survive. I flew to Wisconsin from Maryland and visited her before she lost consciousness. A few days later, my brother, my sister, and I planned her funeral. In the interim, I took a one-day trip to visit relatives. My Aunt Emily still lived in the farmhouse. It was in the farm kitchen there that I decided to return to Wisconsin. /p pThree months later, after the Maryland house was sold and the profits divided, I arrived in Waushara County. One of my dreams was coming true. A two-bedroom house was advertised in the newspaper. I called a realtor, made an appointment, saw the house, and made a down payment of $600./p pI hired a lawyer to search the title to see if it was free and clear. His written opinion told me that there were restrictive covenants on the Quit Claim Deed. These restrictive covenants, placed by the United States Department of Agriculture, could not be removed until all the repairs listed on the restrictive covenants were made. The Farmers Home Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, had to ensure that the property was “decent, safe, and sanitary.”/p pI called the realtor and explained that I wanted my deposit returned and that I did not want to purchase the property. The seller’s realtor phoned me at the motel where I was staying. He told me that he could get the restrictive covenants removed. He suggested that I put my $23,900 into my attorney’s trust account and if the restrictive covenants were not removed, the money would not be released and the sale would not go through./p pI saw no reason not to trust the federal government or the Farmers Home Administration agent who was a federal employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. I agreed to the plan./p pOn August 16, the papers were signed. I drove out to the house with Bernie, my mixed Saint Bernard. I couldn’t believe that I now owned a house in Waushara County. I felt very grateful and happy./p pA few days later, the seller’s realtor phoned me and told me that the restrictive covenants had been released by the U.S.D.A., but that it would take a week or two to get the paperwork processed./p pMy washing machine arrived and was installed two days later. I threw a load of wash into the machine and went back to watching TV. Later, when I used the bathroom, the water didn’t flush, but just kept rising. I immediately called the plumber who had inspected the septic system and who had submitted a certificate to the seller stating that the system was working.br / /pPThe plumber inspected the plumbing in the house and the septic system. He informed me that the system could not handle all the water from the washing machine. When I mentioned the report he said he never guaranteed the system. He told me that I should not use the washing machine since it flooded the system./p pMy attorney phoned me later that same day to tell me that the Release of Restrictive Covenants document had been received and that he was transferring my money to the seller’s account. When I mentioned the problem with the septic system, he told me that if I thought he had misrepresented something then I should hire another attorney and sue him.br / /pPThe TV antenna installer told me my roof was leaking in places. And, when I was gone for a weekend, the water pump in the well became unseated. I called another plumber and he informed me that I needed a new water pump. /p pAnd so my long nightmare began./p piThis is the first installment in a series Judith is writing on her long nightmare with government-backed fraud which lead to her current state of homelessness. She is also writing a book entitled Escape from America: An Expose of International Treachery, which will be completed by September 15 of this year.br / Email: a href="mailto:judy1hansel@hotmail.com"judy1hansel@hotmail.com/abr / /i/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrong pbWhy do we Menbr / love sharp, pointy,br / objects ang multicolorbr / Mushroom explosions?/b/p/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe. B./p pThe Selected President with his mythical mandate hasbr / overspent the so called “People’s Money” in a $600“ or more “give back to working folks and family” thing. /pp$158 billion Surplus $157 from Social Security and by September 30 the $153 billion with a $9 billion deficit.br / b information from S.F. Chronicle Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2001./b/p pWhat is this high spending buy out of tons ofbr / br / low grade plutoniumbr / b['dirty, spent radiation]br / /b in the billions from Russia?/p p I heard the figure 16 thousand nuclear bombs can be made from such material.br / br /The Japanese has the same material and is able to turn ‘dirty’ Plutonium into resuable reactor fuelbr /if the President wants to help our ‘energy crisis’ wouldn't a breeder reactor turning ‘nuke garbage’ into electrical energy be the goal not extra bombs?/p pOr melting asteriods with the same spent fuel getting more valuable elements from smelting it./p pOn the other hands at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Bostonbr / Researchers say the secret of human longevity may be in our genesbr / a group of genes found in a single chrommsone./p pthere's more but back to our guy the the white house.br / br /Do 'ya think this should be one thosebr /thousand points of light to see by hmmm? /p pWhat is it with this guybr / br / He is President, the most powerfull human on the planet except the br /Heavenly Father/Mother./p pThis Church and State combined in White House is not working correctly./p pOur male penchant for brinkmanship is dangerous macho stupidity plain and simplebr /we’re short sighted, stuborn, and blind to some realities sometime./p p As a black male in Americabr /I’m aware of so many tripwires that can get me hurt, maimed, or killed that br /wouldn’t mean much to society at large, its still that way./p pIn this country Mother’s, girlfriends, wive’s, or even protective daughter’s sometime must hold br /back their men’s natural inclination to speak, and fight for their own and other’s dignity./p pA Catholic, Priest is seen as a none sexual being as are uns closer to Godbr / both are suppose to have a higher relationship./p pI understand the concept of nuns married to God br / but I could not see Priest as married to the trinitybr / br /maybe brother, son, friend, or ultimate father figure./p pBut in the Black Church a preacher especially males have a sexual allure to womenbr /I wonder if young Black men thought of being preachers with their own private haremsbr / 'um choir of willing women?/p pOh, the secrets if pews could speak about the power of the br /"laying of hands" to heal ladies in distress. /p pMyself as a regular black guy in this country of contradiction have always tried to keep a low profile because we are so visible only when it’s time to beat, hurt, frame, place us in jail we’re negatively seen but that’s changing slowly. /ppBlack women being locked up as much as men creates a dangerous situation of more broken families br /however people are rising from zero to become business moguls, writers, scientists, Tv, and movie stars./p pAll I want to do is live a long and varied life without lots of dramabr /have a good woman, some children, and eventually be a ‘grandpabr / in other words a very long regular, dull life./p pMost women want exciting, hansome, strong, tough guysbr / and yet there is a time when maturity awakens in men and women to just be themselves. /p pAs I’ve said before speed is not me but patience, endurance, and seeing the long view is what think I do bestbr /I just don’t have the time and energy to be part of every new breaking fashion be it hi tech, people, and politics is onlybr / for self protection when rights and choices are affected. /ppIf any readers think about this stuff you might have alternative anwers to give me./p pbrPlease donate what can to Poor Magazine orbr / br /C/0 Ask Joe at 255 9th St. Street,br / br /San Francisco, CA. 94103 USA/brplease/p pbr /For Joe only my snail mail:br / br /PO Box 1230 #645br / br /Market St. San Francisco, CA 94102br / br /Email: a href="mailto:askjoe@poormagazine.org"askjoe@poormagazine.org/abr / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongHow providing a valuable service to the community got one woman blacklisted/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/459/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Verena Haemmig/p pI am a licensed family childcare provider and this is my story of discrimination while searching for rental housing in San Francisco, where I’ve lived and worked for over 30 years. It is written out of frustration./p pIt was many weeks ago when my son and I were served with an eviction notice to vacate the lovely home we had been living in for five years—the owner’s daughter was getting married and wanted to move in. It’s a fairly typical scenario these days. Of course it came as a shock, but then again, the same exact thing had happened to us in 1989, when times were different, and so was the rental market. I let the bad news sink in, cried a few tears, and calmed myself down. I told myself that we would surely find a new home since we were given plenty of time to look. We were excellent tenants with impeccable credit and references./p pThe despair set in as I began our search in the rental section of the paper, realizing that our rent would double. I would have to increase my childcare fees to top levels in order to cover housing expenses. The parents understood because after all, we are partners in this business of taking care of children. Nothing however, could prepare me for the hostile and negative responses I would receive from landlords and rental agencies./p pFor landlords, the word “daycare” often conjures up images of an illegal operation resulting in damaged property at the hands of screaming children running wild. I however, along with many other daycare providers, maintain a very clean and organized daycare that is licensed and fully insured. I have been trained as a pediatric nurse and have provided quality daycare to infants and their families in my home for more than 15 years, not to mention having raised two grown children. I have yet to be given the opportunity to share these facts with potential landlords before they shut the door in my face./p pI have been snapped at by a rental agent who condescendingly told me, “You need a license for that!” before I could get the word “daycare” out of my mouth. I have gotten a verbal agreement from a landlord who initially wanted to rent his house to me, only to have him apologetically retract his offer for some vague reason. Most of them do not return my calls, even after I carefully explain my credentials. More than simply being at the mercy of exploitative rental fees, I am blacklisted because I engage in the essential and honorable profession of caring for children./p pThe last straw came recently when a spacious flat was shown to us in the same neighborhood where I raised my own children. It had everything we were looking for. We handed in our application and credit report on the spot. Instead of calling our present landlord as a reference, the owner called his lawyer. I received a phone call in the evening that went something like this:/p p “I am sorry, but I can’t rent the flat to you. My lawyer advised me against it because of zoning laws regarding childcare and using the flat for commercial purposes.”/p p“Sir, I am not operating a commercial enterprise. I take care of children and want you to be aware that you are prohibited by law* from discriminating against family childcare providers.” My voice was firm./p p“Do not say that, “he said angrily. “You are accusing me. I made the effort to consult my lawyer and as you know, lawyers are paid by the minute!”/p p“Did you have a chance to call our present landlord?” I asked./p p“No,” he said. “I called my lawyer.”/p pI felt like suing him and his lawyer! An article in a recent publication by the California Association for Family Childcare states that close to one fourth of states have enacted legislation that allows daycare providers to use homes (caring for 6 or fewer children) as “residential use of property,” thus superceding local zoning laws*. California happens to be one of those states. A lawyer at the Childcare Law Center confirmed this and informed me that I am not even required to disclose to the landlord that I take care of children in my home. How do I fill out the rental application without directly mentioning my profession as a family childcare provider? I will have to use my imagination!/p pFinally, why is it that childcare, provided in homes, is viewed in such a negative light? We family childcare providers provide an invaluable service to the community. Many of us are educated in the field of Early Childhood Education. It is a fact that family childcare is the preferred choice of care by families for infants and toddlers. Times have changed and we view ourselves as professionals running a small business—the business of caring for children so that their parents can work./p pThe fact that the rental market is competitive does not give landlords the right to discriminate against family daycare providers or anyone based on their identity or profession. We deserve to be equally considered for housing./p pIn the meantime, we are still looking for housing and time is running out. I wrote this so that the general public and landlords in particular are informed and enlightened and may change their attitudes towards licensed family childcare providers./p p* This is covered in the State Department of Social Services Health Safety Code Section 1597.40 (b)br / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongPart #3 An Apology of Sorts /strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/461/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Michael Lea Morgan/PNN shelter beat reporter/p pLast week’s installment of “Shelter Beat” came out of chaos and created chaos. But not bad chaos. It was good chaos. Good and bad chaos? Man, that is chaotic thinking. But it’s true, there are different kinds of turmoil and confusion. So maybe I should use those words instead, as chaos has come to be a very deep kind of word, even gaining scientific useage (as in Chaos Theory). Okay, so I put some ideas into a folder on the POOR computer (oh, poor little computer, it works so hard) and, because I was really late in getting over to Poor to write last week’s article, POOR’s copyeditors put together an article from those writings and chaos (oh yes, I’m not using that word) resulted. It’s all the copyeditor’s fault!! I never wrote that. Well, maybe I wrote some of it. Okay, I wrote it. But, they put it together and caused all the trouble. Okay, I caused the trouble. And now I feel like journalism is too hard for me; I’m just a simple Louisiana boy. Boy? Yea, right./p pWhat happened was that someone I wrote about last week in the PAES office at DHS read the article, printed it, and showed it to me Then another PAES person came out and talked to me about my characterization of the PAES program. So, I had my first experience of having to be accountable for my writings—being confronted by someone I had writen about in a less than flattering fashion./p pWhat I learned from the experience of having made a written statement of opinion was that no subject or issue is completely black or white, nor can we perfectly present our own viewpoint. So, I will always be careful when putting into writing an opinion which effects the life of another person./p pAn employee of PAES told me that their program is manned by people who care (which, in my opinion is generally true), as though I had written a piece putting PAES in a bad light, which I did not. A GA worker of mine told me she was involved with the design of a new program called PAES and, when I heard what the program entailed, and her high hopes for its success in providing people with access to jobs, training, and housing, I was impressed./p pJust for the record, my PAES specialist apologized for having gotten angry with me; she is a person working under the constraints of DHS guidelines and pressure from clients./p pThere is always a negative side to being positive, because both forces are necessary in a universe based on polarity, like the Milky Way; people working for a utopian world are probably conjuring memories from a universe they recently came from where “It’s all one.” But here there is good and bad in everyone, and that includes not only politicians but also activists and people who claim to be on the side of the poor./p pThe results of publishing last week’s opening lines is a great example of my point: when I went in to see my PAES specialist, she had a print-out of my piece #2 which started out saying that she, “ yelled the words ‘you have no choice, you have no choice,’" at me. A positive became a negative for her when I took a positive action and published her words, and this became a negative for me when a man in a suit came out to talk to me about journalists who make blanket assesments of programs based on the actions of one or two employees (my specialist, by the way, apologized to me later and is, in fact, normally a very polite person). This conversation then became a positive when he went on to reveal to me the positive intentions of the PAES workers who just work under the negatives of guidelines and restrictions placed on them. /p pI agree with him and so had mixed feelings (positive and negative) about the piece I wrote. Not that I had in any way misconstrued the facts, which I did not. Nor were there any overt blanket statements about the PAES program. But I had mixed feelings because of the nature of this universe and how a simple positive action can be turned into a complex negative reaction by bureaucrats seeking only to avoid negative publicity (which means that they want to maintain a positive iimage [whether their programs are truly positive or not])br / /i/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrong pbHow will our lives changebr / when tiny nudges of Life Extensionbr / gives us more time?/b/p p/p/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/462/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe. B/p pAs mere Mortals, death is our friend and foe but what if we become more resilient with self repairing broken bones or if brain tumors is another non lethal concern?/p pHow would any of us feel if by science and technology in the service of extending the quality and quantity of our human life span gave us a bonus to strive for to live and take better care of ourselves? /p pSome weird though logical situations begin to happen, it can be compared to quantum mechanics scaled up to gross human form, here are a few examples. /p pWe already have grandparents in their mid 40’s and 50’s that’s simple their children are having children at younger ages./p pBut in our near futures those same grandparents or children with advantages of medical science may start a new family, temporarily divorce and remarry. Think of Florida with an increasingly healthy, horny popu-lation as the demographic of A.I.D.S. hits the randy elders with more time to spare./p pThe father’s tradition of getting beaten in basketball, football, or other sports by his son or son’s. /p pWhat happens when "old dad" maintains and improves vim and vigor while his wife doesn’t want "second youth" for herself or visa versa? Maybe both chose a "Second Youth serum, pill, or combinations of what Gerontology Mega Pharmaceutical firms offer./p pSon’s still have youth, quickness, speed, endurance, and stamina.br / But after awhile it slowly fades while ‘dear old dad’ and mom keep "busy"br / ‘doin the dirty daily’ for even grown up children the visual idea is a[disgusting, distasteful, visions come to mind]. /p pBut the old guy regains all he’s had before plus his own unique experience?/p pIt becomes difficult for sons to beat their de-aging, ever youth-ening fathers especially for selfish vain ones – it will be up to fathers willing to suffer some humiliations on behalf of their son’s psychological will being./p pSome weird though logical situations begin to happen, it can be compared to quantum mechanics scaled up to gross human forms here are a few more examples. /p pMother’s and daughter’s dynamic change as mother’s, grandmother’s look, act, feel younger compete on equal footing (did I say equal) more like unequal with experience daughter’s has yet to live through./p pThe ratio of Widow’s to Widower’s shift as men finally take better care of themselves. The ‘Women live longer and higher libido at 40’ no longer applies and is less of an advantage or burden as men not only maintain sexual vitality but may be resented by women as men spend time both marrying, playing the field, or going back to school, learning new skills, for careers they never thought they’d live long enough to enjoy./p pBeing young means nothing when women and men in their 60’s to 80’s compete and win any endeavor that requires regained youth./p pIn love and sex youth is alluring at first but over time experience, seasoned romance of mature age makes sex an infinite game where age is an asset, advantage and not a hindrance. Grown Daughters must now make sure their mates do not see to much of their mother or she’ll become baby sitter for her own mother’s and young father in-law./p pIf a woman in her 60’s has the hormones, figure, and looks of a 20 year old her biological age belies her chronological years. /p pYoung women in their late teens or early 20’s are at a disadvantage because age is no longer a relevant criteria. /p pA vivacious, vibrant, sexy senior in her 60’s has learned much that a new young women won’t know as they vainly try looking older or lying about how young they really are./p pChildren of today see their elders not acting their age and hope they’re as full of life when they as old.b(not)/bbr / Few relate. Two seniors playing video games is no longer a tv joke but becoming a serious reality./p pImagine: You who are generation X, Y, or Next, its 2057, are now in your early to mid 40’s or 50’s taking youth-ening treatments, pills, serums, and other medications to keep you fit and strong./p pIts no joke now, you love life extended ‘tech, aren’t you lucky the WW2 and the 60’s generation cracked the genetic code, true and artificial gene therapy-insertion put your life youthful overdrive but some young 2020 Geezers want to stop this and now you know what your great grandparents went through and there still alive, vital, helping you x, y, and next gen’s rebel against a dying government, state system./p pMarried or single Woman or Man you go about your business enjoying your retirement keeping yourself fit with a not to strenuous regiment which is varied enough not to bore you./p pYou jog, swim or lift weights and one day you find you have a constant partner male or female and they are much younger than you./p pThey want you in the best way – you’re married that’s too bad but if you are single then life gets more interesting as young squirts be they boys or girls are after your old, strong, muscular fit female or male form. What do you do have fun, keep it platonic, stay lonely?/p pIt will be a world where age is no longer a bar or factor the only danger is not changing as the youth-then-ing process changes us all./p pAll this is the start of life extension and later true immortality may be another 40, 50 years or more away. If we can make it through this interim process then immortality will be an easier undertaking./p pAs we know there will always be some saying longer life and fooling with certain biological constructs is against God and Nature remember the Stem Cell/Embryo debates?/p pThis is the time to support Life Extension, Anti-Aging, clinics around the country this could be the vanguard of the ultimate ‘Human Race" to see which country or nation state really can keep and maintain their citizens health./p pMay the winning nation get the honors and the people – Prolonged life glory while loser prepare notes to see if they can achieve better results./p pWe’ve know how to kill ourselves, lets learn how to heal, prevent death, and when possible bring people back from death or the brink of it.br / This does not sound radical to me, all we need do is place on a ballot a permanent on-going Anti-Aging, Life Extension, to Immortality Project./p pIt will make both the Manhattan Project , Human Genome, and Stem Cell controversy moot by comparison. It would show humanity moving toward a life centered mindset rather death centered one./p pAnd if politicians can’t see this as an intermediate state: Prolonged –Extended Life Span to eventual Immortality then Guilds of Futurists, /ppScientist’s, Researcher’s Science Minded Citizen’s, Artist’s, and Creative people from all over the world will take it on./p pHow will our lives change when tiny nudges of Life Extension has given a lucky few of us more time?/p pStill mortal, death our friend and foe but we’re more resilient with self-repairing broken bones, brain tumors are another non-lethal concern./p pHow would any of us feel if by science and technologies in the service of extending the quality and quantity of the human life span was give to us as any more./p pThat could be why America is watching China,b [it’s not all about war]./bJapan, and other cultures where aging is grace and not a drag on the population. /p pI don’t know what our future as "young oldsters" or "Boomer Geezers" will be but it must be confronted now or suffer some sort of elder/youth generational war like the ‘1960’s only this time youth will be outnumbered by if not rich but, creative, crafty, experienced campaigners using their vast energies and experience to shut down "minority youth" rebellion./p pWhat do you readers think? How long before a Geritol Generation holds sway over politics, power, privilege, technological innovation and birth control?/p pThis not pie-in-the-blue-sky wishful thinking its happening now!/p pLet’s get off our death cycle and ride a new life cycle. /p pIt will be terrifying at first but this time we as individuals can choose when to get off./p pSo form groups, get together, brain storm, Let’s bC.B.M. this Now!br / C R I T I C A L B R A I N M A S S. This Process NOW!br / /b/p pI know. "He’s a flake." Then get my milk and sugar and don't forget the corn./p pEverybody dies, It’s up to you./p pI made my pitch, tell me what you think? Bye.br / br /Please send donations to br /Poor Magazinebr / br /C/0 Ask Joe at 255 9thbr / br /St. Street, Sanbr / br /Francisco, CA. 94103br / br /USAbr / br /For Joe only my snailbr / br /mail:PO Box 1230 #645br / br /Market St.br / br /San Francisco, CA 94102br / br /Email: br /a href="mailto:askjoe@poormagazine.org"askjoe@poormagazine.org/abr / /p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongb pOUTSIDE JOB WITH INSIDE HELP?/p/b/strong/p pbMY "MESS ON MARKET ST."br / IS POSPONED BY NEW YORK'S TWINbr / TOWER BUILDINGS BOMBED BY 3br / HIJACKED COMMERCIAL PLANESbr / SUICIDE CRASHES INTO THEM./bbr / /p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/463/photo_1_feature.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe. B./p pIts crowded, people have a sluggish look or it's just me being sluggish and looking at it through tired eyes./p pSept. 11, 2001, 7:10 am. don't have time, gonna check out something at City Hall about Section 8 housing where 30 percent of my rent money is paid by the Housing Authority allowing one to save parts of your money for whatever extra stuff I may need which in my case us books, clothes, and essential toilettries hurried with washing up, brushing teeth and hair to be at City Hall before 8am. to get a Section 8 application that was given out Monday on September 10th. /p pI hadn't thought of moving but afterwards it seems this would be a good chance of moving into a if not newer building, maybe another area yet still be in San Francisco./p pCrossing Market Street is a blur, I didn't see any people so focused am I on this Section 8 lottery turning of at Jones and Mc Allister./p pI'm thinking efficientcy studio or apartment with a kitchen, bathroom I might have my own room with a view even if its on the 1st. Floor. /p pWhen reaching City Hall by 7:25./p pUsually I pay my rent on time now that I do have a regular job, unless their are unforseen circumstances. /ppIf I get picked that would be great maybe because I don't drink, smoke, or sell any drugs, and play my tv and music low it could help./p pPolice in cars, two or three cops in light tan uniforms blocking the front door turning people away because of some happening in New York./p pAn asian quazi religous group advertizing for followers but I'm walking too fast to see their name. /ppI go back home to call the job and get my message then to 450 Phillip Burton, Federal Court House building./p pThrough automatic revolving glass doors there more police telling me Housing Authority is closed. /ppI'm about to give up when I see 440 San Francisco Housing Authority building near by. /p pAfter picking up an application someone informed me what happended./p p"Why are the Federal Buildings closed?" I asked really getting frustrated and confused. "They blew up the Twin Towers in New York"/p p"What, What-time?"br / "Around about 6am here, A plane man, I was 'lookin at a big old commercial plane hit the building" "Sounds like its on purpose"br / "There a terrorist group...br / "SHIT"br / "Then the Pentagon-one hit that"br / "So it was... a coordinated plan"br / "Yeah"br / "No wonder they closed up, well thank you much because I wouldn't of known."/p p"America's a mother fucker"br / "I think America's behind it"br / "America's got too many people with their war planes and we got to many poor people our days on the streets..."/p p"They spend their money on bombs"br / "Its rediculous."br / "I'm going home to check the news, thanks."/p pAt home I turned on the tv and saw a commercial plane crashing into the World Trade Building and then another crash - slowly both buildings fall one after the other. /p pIt looked like some special effects you see in the movies but this is absolutly REAL./p p I have relatives all over Manhattan, the Bronx, and Long Island, not telling where they'd be going in their everyday lives./p pLooks like Select President Bush and friends can now spend up Social Security for a hugh long or short term war chest./p pI don't know if Marshal law will be considered in New York, San Francisco or other states affected by this terrible horrific chaotic catastrophe. We've been attacked but will we in turn find the true terrorists with the help of Military Intelligence, Interpol, or combined Secret Service Agencies from other allies creating a united front (no pun intended) because if America can be attacked so can other nations./p pIts like some weird comicbook scenario only in real life there is no gathering of superhero's, heroines, real flesh'n blood mortal men and females heroe's will emerge without superpowers doing their best to solve this humanity killing crime./p pI and hope many Pray for all the innocent lives taken in this well coordinated, timed, inside-outside American and foreign aided death stroke. /p pLet's spend cash on artificial intelligence systems that intantly scan for air/land/sea threats and invisible eletromagnetic force field or shields for buildings and personal force shields for individuals or small devices high in the atmosphere changing chemical poisons into clean air while searching for toxins or smart bombs or I.C.B.M.'sbr / b[Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles change them to non nuclear threats and also converting their molecules into harmless water and oxygen./b/p pOh, Dear, God I hope Tuesday, Sept. 11, 8:50 - 9:04 - 9:38, and 10:20am. crashes all over the country./p pHope this isn't a prelude to the Sept. 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor-Day of Infamy and Act Of War Scriptl, this is not 1941 all over again... is it?/p pAnd money spent on more bombs, planes, or jell explosives are 'primo investments./p pAny Ideas People Inform because I don't know... What The Hell's Going On? Bye./p pbr /Poor Magazine orbr / br /C/0 Ask /ppJoe at 255br / br /9th St.Street, Sanbr / br /Francisco, CA.94103 USA/p pbr /For Joe only my snailbr / br /mail:PO Box 1230 #645br / br /Market St.San Francisco, br /CA 94102br / br /Email:askjoe@poormaga zine.org/p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongReViewsForTheReVoLution for all your literary, visual,and audio art needs. /strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/467/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby George Tirado/p pI can't tell you how excited I was when I heardbr / that Peter Plate wrote the last book in the Mission Quartet,br / iAngels of Catastrophe/i. What a treat it is to seebr / another angle on such a diverse place, whenbr / "most Americans pay taxes, vote, and think of death asbr / a slice of reality-television they can turn off whenbr / they want to." But not here, not in the Missionbr / District, and most of all, not here in Peter Plate'sbr / Mission./p pThe story is simple—a cop is killed, a pettybr / thief street hustler named Ricky Durrutti is the onebr / the cops are after. Now, put this problem in thebr / middle of the Mission District, add in just the rightbr / amount of Salvadoran gangs, drag queen dealers,br / junkies, hookers and Jewish gangsters and what do youbr / get—Angels of Catastrophe./p pThis book is fast-paced. Not only does Peter Platebr / follow in that great line of noir writers likebr / Dashell Hammett, but he follows a tradition deeply intrigued withbr / San Francisco's seedy darker side. /p piOn the street is another story, every dollar bill is marker, everybr / killing has a witness, and nobody gets away withbr / anything.i/i/i/p p This is a story which is played outbr / everyday in a world where most will never venture, in abr / place which is slowly dying. The killer here isbr / not a person, but it could be it's gentrification andbr / progress. When this is all gone and the Mission hasbr / been replaced by more cop stations and GAP outlets,br / and god-forbid, Niketowns, and the only ones allowedbr / to live here are millionaires, who will remember? Whobr / will find the poetry in the madness to come? And willbr / they feel the same pride as say Lonely boy in thebr / story when he says, "Who do you think rules Missionbr / St.?" He answers himself, "The motherfuckers willing tobr / die for it."/p pThis book is a great read. I suggest everyone find thisbr / treasure and read it. You will not be disappointed./p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p

pstrongBombs dropped on the US today by Terrorists....What does a terrorist look like?/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TDIMG SRC= "../sites/default/files/arch_img/465/photo_1_supplement.jpg" //td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby PNN staff/p pAt 8:40-8:45am on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, two planes crashed into New Yorks two Largest Skyscrapers -The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center - then another plane crashed into The Pentagon - and then a report of three more planes disappearing - two of them on the way to California. Thousands dead... several thousand wounded. /p pBush says: “A Full scale investigation will be launched into this full-scaled attack... Freedom has been attacked and Freedom will be defended at any cost!!-Full resources of the federal government will be used to defend our freedom. We will hunt down and punish anyone connected to this.” /p pFive battleships and several air force planes entered the New York Harbor today at 11:00 am -Auxillary police officers were granted full police credentials. A New Yorker who made a statement implying that “The US government deserved this” is practically killed by mob rule in New York City./p pUnofficial “insider” rumours reported that three months ago all security personnel at the Federal building in San Francisco, had all their weapons upgraded from 30 to 40 clip “glocks” and last Friday another warning went out to all government security personnel that something “big” was going to “happen”. /p pbAll I can say is.... it’s not all that it seems..../bHere's a few questions to ponder...What does a terrorist look like? a person of color, a homeless person in the wrong neighborhood. And how do you “hunt down” and punish human beings? Who and what would gain from a “World War” or better yet- martial law?. What better way to bolster a waning defense fund or an argument for a national “security” budget? and why would we want a major military presence in the New York Harbor....? maybe...to kill innocent Arab or Arab-alike immigrant hot dog vendors - clothiers and maybe a few unlucky prosititutes and panhandlers caught in the fray... /p pAs a very low income person who is a part of a very poor family -and is working with an extremely grassroots (read: poor) organization... catastrophy is terrifying - we are already on the bottom of every totem pole- we have no backing and no help and if anything gets any harder we will just fall down further -/p pTo all freedom fighters, organizers and conscious citizens out there already fighting racism and classism, marginalization, media manipulation, police profiling and on and on, our struggle continues- it has just become more polarized and more intense -do not take anything for granted!!- question EVERYTHING you hear and read - Free Speech is all we, sort-of have -and we must support each other in our efforts to be HEARD, be a community, love and be there for each other!! /p p/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p