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Angry Annie   The Blue Rajah   Don Nash   Helen & Harry Highwater   Jesus   Mark Z.   Rebecca   Underground Panther in the Sky  


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Angry Annie
      I'm called 'Angry Annie' as a (hopefully) affectionate nickname in real life, because I tend to get agitated about news that most people don't much care about. I'm Korean-American, in my early 30s, and my work for a living, like millions of other Americans, is a job I don't care for but can usually stand.
      I believe, as this site says, that freedom comes first in any sane society and for any just government. Obviously, it follows that there are few or no just governments. I believe government is an antonym for freedom and gods are good for people who need one or more. I believe racists are inferior, intellectually and probably genetically. I believe humanity is in grave danger of extinction, if we as a species don't wake up and start demanding equal rights and considerations for all, regardless or color, creed, gender, wealth, or location, and demand either leadership or resignations from our leaders.

The Blue Rajah
      In real life The Blue Raj is in his upper 40s. He was in kindergarten when John Glenn became an astrostar, 2nd grade when Kennedy got shot, successfully dropped out of high school in what would have been his senior year when Nixon got flushed, 24, broke, vagabond & suicidal when Reagan was elected in 1980 (although the mess of my life had little to do with Ronald’s Krispy Kreme coiffure at the Executive Desk), the same year Mt. St. Helens flipped her wig just a few months before I first set foot in my state of residence, Washington.
      I was 30 when America attacked Iraq in GI. For one brief lunatic day I pondered volunteering for the armed forces; mythomilitary fervor runs deep in human blood. I snapped out of it.
      I was 44 when the Presidency was stolen from the plebiscite by the Supreme Court and handed to some Ivy League redneck bent on proving true Voltaire’s statement that “God is a comedian playing to an audience too scared to laugh”.
      I was 45 when two airliners augered into two towers, providing the most horrifically beautiful video footage since 50s H-bomb newsreels or the Hindenberg zeppelin holocaust. Hollywood has, I’m sure studied these images exhaustively seeking to emulate their truth so much more fantastic than fiction.
      This fall, we’re told, Maplewood Canadian filmmakers will delight us with a movie ‘based on the events of 911’ depicting our President and staff in glorious action responding to 911, “The Big Dance”. Perhaps Reagan will play Obie Wan Kanobi’s ghost.

Harry & Helen Highwater
      We're the cranky headmaster and mistress here, between us sharing duties as the site's editor, webmaster, cook, and janitor. Nothing much to say about us: We're the American working poor, two of many millions.
      We believe people should be free, and we're adamantly against all the ongoing efforts to enslave the species. That's what it comes down to when you can't own a cat, get a job, rent an apartment, play poker, organize a protest, or open a shoe-shine shop without filing forms to obtain some muckymuck's permission.
      We try to run this site as we wish the world were run: It's a reasonably open forum with as few rules as possible, and with liberty and justice for all.

Don Nash
      All of the rumors are true. I am maladjusted. Nonconformist. Cranky. Pissy. Full of meaningless criticism. Probably running a "paranoid agenda". Grumpy. Opinionated. Nosey. An asshole. A "hot-head". A radical crank. I like that last one, it has an air of sixty-ish dignity. I am misinformed. I am misguided. But, I'm cute. I am one pissed-off man.

Jesus
      Hi! I'm Jesus. I know, you're thinking to yourself "man, he looks weird", well, I'm a couple of thousand years old! You're gonna look weird in a couple thousand years yourself, so don't get all judgmental on Jesus now, you hear?
      I'm your archetypal misunderstood guy. They'd barely taken me down from the cross before they started reinventing me for marketing purposes. Take my biological Dad for instance, Joseph was an African man, but you don't hear a damned thing about that, do you? (always got to be puttin' down the black man) Now take a look at me.....that virgin birth thing? Total bullshit!!
      Then, there were the rumors about an affair with Mary Magge de Lane to cover up the fact that I was gay.........mind you, everybody said they were "cool" with it when I was there, what's with this bogus shit now? And I'm a freekin' vegetarian! That "loaves and fishes" scene, man, it was just the loaves!!!
      Then "Saint Paul" (Ain't a Saint! You pray to him and you're just spinnin' yer wheels...) came along and started his whole re-branding project with that CHRIST thing! In case I haven't made this clear....there is no "Christ" and never has been. There's me, Jesus, and then there's bullshit (ignorant mutherfuckers).
      Anyway, I find the collection of souls that gathers here in the Unknown News site to be a very cool bunch that I dig listening to. I want you all to all to work hard at being GOOD people so I can have you nearby me, here in Heaven. You're gonna love it here, trust me!

Mark Z.
      Wavy, dreamy blonde hair, winsome blue eyes, a gorgeous sparkling smile, and breath that's kissing sweet. Yes, it's mild-mannered Mark Z., former reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper that turned out to be not so great, now a teacher in an inner-city high school not at all like the one on "Boston Public."
      I believe in mom and pop capitalism (as opposed to state capitalism) and mom and pop socialism (as opposed to state socialism). I believe Nixon and Kissinger should have been prosecuted, Bill Clinton was a closeted Republican, and George W. Bush is the closeted AntiChrist.

Rebecca
      I'm pissed off and pre-menstrual and I have no patience for the growing American refusal to think.

Underground Panther in the Sky
      The Underground Panther is a spirit of Native American origins that lives in Lake Erie. The winged horned panther is an obscure symbolic archetype of transformation, found in many cultures. Underground Panther in the Sky is my spiritual voice.
      I am a 37 year old furry androgynous wannabe feline anthromorph with a big mowhawk who's married to Carl Pwccaman. I have many varied interests, and I read voraciously. I adore all the animal-peoples. Spiritual self discovery is transformation that lasts a lifetime. My path to self knowledge began when I discovered I wanted to understand why my life was so hard. I soon found myself exploring straight into the vast unknown. The unknown is not so scary to me anymore. I think dreamtime is realtime. I do artwork to keep from falling into despair over this existence. I think sharing what you have inside your heart and hearth, creating 'right' relationships by giving oneself away skillfully to others around you without expectations or control is one of the most powerful ways to heal a culture one person at a time.
      Power-seeking poisons relationships. Domination is a very dangerous civilized pathology that destroys everything it touches with sociopathic corruption. Understanding what freedom means in your life takes honesty, self-responsibility, self knowledge, an inner integrity and a trustworthy character built by cultivating right relationships transparently, fearlessly. I think real freedom is not found in the pursuit of security or in pursuing power.



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