The Panglossian Curmudgeon, A Living Contradiction.
Bill Harasym
- Location
- Sheridan, Wyoming, USA
- Birthday
- October 18
- Title
- Veteran- USAF, Disabled
- Company
- Retired on Social Security Disability
- Bio
- I Love dogs and cats, the great outdoors, and being politically involved, advocating for those who can't, especially the elderly and disabled, and protecting our planet!!! I miss my dog, a beautiful Chocolate Lab, named Bear, whom I had to leave in Florida when I went into the hospital in July of 2003. I left him with a neighbor, who had promised to watch him while I was in the hospital, and then disappeared off the face of the earth, with my Beardog. That was so mean! Bear will/would be 14 years old this year, July 6th, 2009. I Served in the USAF as a Military Working Dog Handler.
Moved to Sheridan, WY (Again!) on Sept. 29, 2008, after living Buffalo, WY. since May 2005, and after spending a year and a half at the Veterans Home of WY, which is also in Buffalo. (And prior to that, spent almost a half of year @ the VA Hospitals in Sheridan WY, and Denver CO.) My advocacy there was not as successful as I would have liked, but I did my best. What they do to our aging, and disabled veterans is wholly inappropriate, and disgusting! God is watching over them though, so I have left them in good hands.
I first moved to Sheridan, WY. in March of 1992, thru 2002, when I sold my house and moved to Florida to be near my parents. I came back to WY. on July 25, 2003 to enter the VA Hospital in Sheridan, WY. for physical, and mental health issues. While there, I was diagnosed with some neurological problems (An inoperable low-grade glioma in my left cerebellum, left pons, left peduncle, and medulla.)which causes me to be fully disabled regarding work type activity. The tumor is slow-growing, which is a plus, because if they remove it, there would be a major change in my quality of life, so for the mean time, I will stick with the status quo. I was born in Brooklyn NY, and I grew up on Long Island, NY. in Selden. Also attended college there, except for a brief stint at Wake Forest University. Most of my Family still lives back there or in Florida. I have 2 younger brothers, both married with some great kids. Rich (A year younger then me) is a Detective Sergeant in the Nassau County Police Department's Internal Affairs Division, and my other brother, Ken, has his own financial planning company, and owns 2 health food stores in Freeport NY. I have a sister, Deb, who is the youngest of us 4, and she is currently getting divorced again, and she has 8 year old triplets, Kyle, Matthew, and Nicholas. My other nephews, and niece are Jimmy, aged 15, LK, 18 years old, and his sister Nicole, 20 years old.
I love Wyoming for it's scenery, flora and fauna, and some of the people. Wyoming is mostly a backward looking socially conservative state which still idolizes Cheney. They are also against gay marriage, (Equal Rights for All) and anything that sounds even close to being liberal, adamant teabaggers and closeted racists, and think our recovering wolf population should now be hunted as trophy animal and/or predators. Other then that there are some good folks here, and I know all 7 of them.
MY RECENT POSTS
- “Our 2 US Senators vote
against 9-11
first-responders!”
December 15, 2010 11:04PM - IS Caribou “Killa’ Barbie
a FAKE Hunter? OR “Sarah...
December 15, 2010 10:55PM - Paideia LLC & SarahPAC &
Joshua Livestro & Why the
secrecy?
November 29, 2010 03:27AM - Sarah Palin’s “America by
Heart” Or “Americans I
Hate"?
November 22, 2010 03:28AM - Sarah Palin, and the nefarious
relationship between- Paideia
November 19, 2010 02:25PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “The problem with
translating from one language
to another is
that you miss
certai…”
November 29, 2010 12:32PM - “Thank you for the
comments ladies, as I am not a
great
writer, so I never get
any…”
November 22, 2010 12:44PM - “Visit this site
too-
http://palingates.blo
gspot.com/”
November 19, 2010 03:10PM - “The Statue of Liberty is
on Liberty Island, and from
the
National Park
Service-
&q…”
November 19, 2010 02:51PM - “Well, what changes need
to happen? This can be
lengthy, but
let me start with
th…”
June 09, 2009 11:39PM
Bill Harasym's Links
“Our 2 US Senators vote against 9-11 first-responders!”
On December 9th 2010, all Senate Republicans, including our 2 favorite sons, Senators Barrasso and Enzi voted against moving the “James Zadroga 9/11… Read full post »
IS Caribou “Killa’ Barbie a FAKE Hunter? OR “Sarah...
Paideia LLC & SarahPAC & Joshua Livestro & Why the secrecy?
We shall not cease
from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first
time.
– T.S. Eliot –
“Little Gidding”
Well, the folks over at Mother Jones got the lucky break from my… Read full post »
Sarah Palin’s “America by Heart” Or “Americans I Hate"?
First, let me start off by saying I am bias when it comes to issues regarding and having to do with the military, particularly the U.S. Air Force. I was an enlisted member of the U.S. Air Force in the late 70′s through February 5, 1980 when I… Read full post »
Sarah Palin, and the nefarious relationship between- Paideia
Palin’s Paideia Research LLC in Sheridan, WY Get's $12,000
I was reading Palingates today, and I saw an entry today that talked about SarahPac’s FEC filings. Of course the Witch from Wasilla was making a big to do about the Media, or the LSM (Of which this fool is a part of.) in… Read full post »
The Notice!
From Wyoming to Alaska & Sarah Palin- "Happy Quitter's Day"
Yes, we know this is a joyous holiday in Alaska, and across America, as one year ago, the Great Narcissistic Alaskan Troglodyte, also known as Sarah Heath Palin the 1st, or for people like me, G.N.A.T. resigned her governorship so she could make lots and lots of money.… Read full post »
Senator John Barrasso has shown his hand on Kagan!
Yes, Johnny has shown his hand, and it isn't pretty! He doesn't
even have a pair of 2's, or any pair for that matter. He should
just fold, and go back into his man-cave, and leave the important
things to us thinking people!
Oh yes, Johnny Barrasso is at… Read full post »
Sarah Palin- "Read Baby, Read!" If you can?
Palin, who made this comment, "Soldier pay decreases in the midst of overspending elsewhere and government union pay raises? Seriously? What are our priorities?" on
The Exxon Settlement- 17 years prior!
I found this interesting, because back in 1991, when I still lived in NY, I was doing some environment lobbying, and we were out in a neighborhood called Huntington Bay, which is on the north shore of Long Island canvassing.
I was out, walking around, knocking on doors and… Read full post »
Wolves in harms way, Or, Beware of Governor Otter!
Rick Scott, who helped fund the Swift Boat campaign, now...
Rick Scott, the man behind Conservatives for Patients Rights is
uncovered in this ad by HCA.
If one goes to CPRights website, Rick Scott's bio is missing some
important parts, which are shown here. But it is the wolf in sheeps
clothing that Scott is now using for his latest campaign. He… Read full post »
Save the Wolves, from the media!
What's up with NOM and Stephen Colbert?
Stephen Colbert just cracks me up at times. This is one of them. I am still confused how their freedom (The folks from NOM?) will be taken away. These folks are just prejudice and bigoted homophobes, not confident of their own sexuality. If you study the Implicit Project from Harvard, they… Read full post »
Drinking from the Cylindrical Trough! (No Kool-Aid Here!)
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Buddy de Cat drinking from
the cylindrical trough!
Tomorrow is the big day, although it is still only a 24 hour day, but a big day nonetheless. I am flying down to Florida for a month of R and R from the bitterly cold, and windy winters that/… Read full post »
Military Working Dog Tribute!
The Equality State shows it's True Grit!
The Equality State done itself proud, in a rare break from it's
normal ultra-conservative reputation. Although it wasn't totally
liberating, they didn't take 2 steps backwards.
This year, in Wyoming's 60th Legislative Session,
House Joint Resolution 17, also known as the "Defense of Marriage"
resoluti… Read full post »
Treason? Maybe!
What has been going on in Congress the last few weeks by the Republican minority is down right treason and perfidy. They do not hold the interests of the American people as a high priority. Their attempts to solidify their new image as the party of small government, less spending and… Read full post »
Eclectic electric!
My ultimate vision of sustainable mobility is two-fold.
First on the community side, I am looking for a mass transit system that not only works in urban areas, but also inter-city. Inner-city, urban areas, and suburbs could use various systems, ranging from an electric powered buses/trolleys/subway… Read full post »
Wyoming, The Equality State- Ha! Ha!
In the last post I talked about how visually beautiful Wyoming is, and I'm not going to change that opinion. But there is a dark side to Wyoming, one that they, Wyomingites want to keep behind closed doors, and one that they chose to ignore, all the while it is slapping… Read full post »
Wyoming posts nation's lowest unemployment rate!
The AP just released this story about Wyoming and our unemployment rate by By MATT JOYCE. Having lived here, in Wyoming that is, not in this blog in cyberspace, for most of the past 17 years (Except for about 11 months in 2002-03 when I lived in Florida.) I have found… Read full post »
And we found a strange thing in your brain, and...
[Continued from a post on Wednesday, January 21, 2009- After
seeing my psychiatrist today...(It's actually yesterday
now)]
There I sat for what seemed like days, and waited, and waited and
waited...
I was in daydream la la land, and I heard a voice call my name. Was
it that beautiful young woman,… Read full post »
Is Kit Bond smarter then a 5th Grader, a Turnip or my Cat?
No, No and a BIG NO! I saw Kit "Chuckles the Idiot
Clown" Bond on the TV machine with Chris Matthews last night, and I
truly could not believe his answers to the questions Chris was
asking him.
From the January 22 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris
Matthews:… Read full post »
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