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When my oldest son, a Marine, left for war and crossed the border from Kuwait into Iraq in March 2003 I started writing my conscience. After two tours that young combat veteran, my first born son, is now permanently disabled suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and his mother is now an ardent peace activist. Today I am active with Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out and on the board of Rural Organizing Project Also, I am CEO of Rogue River Wind, Ltd and the inventor of a low profile wind turbine incorporating a high bandwidth relativistic generator

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   Comment by excuuuuuuse me! on 18 March 2008:

   Whoop-eeeeeeee !!!!!

   It just occured to me, after watch­ing the Con­tented Cows clip, how “udderly” for­tu­nate we are here in Coquille.

   We have our very own,

   Noth­ing like it any­place else in the County,

   Some­what authentic:

   DR. STRANGELOVE !!!!!!!

   Yup, I’m gonna stay, this should be “veddy, veddy interestink”!

   WAY TO GO “DOCTOR”.

   And silly me thought we’d never see another one !
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   Comment by magix on 18 March 2008:

   That is tooooo funny. What a per­fect moniker Dr Strangelove
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   Comment by themguys on 18 March 2008:

   Com­ments

   So let me get this right, Ms. Keller, you failed to sig­nal, and you were tick­eted, cor­rect? If not, why were you not ticketed?

   Then you tell us your hus­band is dri­ving a vehi­cle with only one light, and he was tick­eted, right? If not, why was he not ticketed?

   I would like a pub­lic expla­na­tion from you or the PD, to find out why you were not? By your very pos­i­tive account­ing of mul­ti­ple stops by the Coquille PD, I am assum­ing you were not tick­eted. Hey, Ted Bundy was a very per­son­able guy, if he didn’t assault you, but if he did, watch out baby !

   Geez, in the old days you almost had to do the dirty deed to get out of a ticket, now it seems all you have to do is stand in front of city hall with a I HEART THE COQUILLE POLICE DEPT. I can’t thank you enough, I never real­ized that’s the way in works here in Coquille.

   What a help, huh guys? All you cit­i­zens who have received such tick­ets might want to go in and find out why you were tick­eted and these folks weren’t.

   Ms. Keller, these are pre­cisely the type of accounts that have a lot of peo­ple fum­ing, love the cops, no tick­ets, only life sav­ing help. Can you pos­si­bly see how infu­ri­at­ing your actions, words, and now appa­rantly, you and your hub­bys’ abil­ity to flaunt the laws and get away with it make the peo­ple of this com­mu­nity who have not been so “priv­i­laged” as you two feel?

   I guess smi­ley faces are just eas­ier for some people .
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   Comment by magix on 18 March 2008:

   You do make a very good point, themguys… how come some peo­ple escape a fix it ticket or get off with just a warn­ing and oth­ers do not?

   No won­der the good doc­tor is afflicted with ser­ial con­tent­ed­ness (prefer­able to Bundy’s ser­ial com­pul­sion). Too con­tented in fact to respon­si­bly check her own vehi­cle before a long drive. Not very con­sid­er­ate of other dri­vers and their safety.
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   Comment by Cory Courtright on 18 March 2008:

   Sounds to me like maybe the good ol Doc stuck her foot in her mouth! And they say the con­cerned cit­i­zens are the fools! Won­der if any more of her “patients” have dropped her. Surely more than one in this town has wised up.
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   Comment by magix on 19 March 2008:

   Hey Cory, great to hear from you!

   The doc does seem to have a shel­tered view. I won­der does she know there is a war going on in Iraq and Afghanistan? Does she know Coquille has an almost 8% unem­ploy­ment rate? Does she know there are 278 home­less teenagers in Coos County? Does she know your daughter’s mur­der is unsolved?

   If she knows, does she care or does being con­tent pre­clude ‘con­cern’? Com­pla­cent Cit­i­zens of Coquille is more appro­pri­ate — or con­sti­pated, or con­strained or cow towed or… oh the list is just endless.

   How are you doing? You have been busy I note on The World and I am proud of you
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   Comment by Cory Courtright on 20 March 2008:

   Per­son­ally I’m think­ing CONSTIPATED! All she knows is that she hearts our CPD! I pulled up to the cour­t­house the day of their “thing” and nearly barffed! Couldn’t believe it. FLAKE!

   I’m doin’ ok. Yep — get a lit­tle tensed up over there at the World blog! I’m can­celling my sub­scrip­tion by the way on that one — - don’t print half of what I say — piss me off!!!!!

   Any­way — gotta take my kitty to the vet — check in with ya later k? Take care Mary.….….
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   Comment by magix on 20 March 2008:

   There def­i­nitely seems to be some major dis­con­nect between being a respon­si­ble con­cerned cit­i­zen and the doctor’s com­ments. First there are her mind numb­ingly thought­less com­ments about Carl Fos­ter whereby she then sin­cerely believes his fam­ily would wel­come cards and let­ters deliv­ered from HER.

   Then we have the com­plete dis­re­gard for fel­low cit­i­zens who have been hurt by the actions, inac­tion and exces­sive action of the local police. She even com­mends them for sav­ing Foster’s life after caus­ing his life threat­en­ing injury.

   Any­way, it is too silly even to think about. Thank­fully, the Fos­ter fam­ily will be bring­ing a civil suit and then the DA can explain why his inves­ti­ga­tion could not fer­ret out the infor­ma­tion and facts that the civil inves­ti­ga­tors could.

9. Pingback by All about accountability on 24 March 2008:

   […] for all com­mu­ni­ties. This is why Con­cerned Cit­i­zens of Coquille (CCC), not to be con­fused with Con­tent Cit­i­zens of Coquille (CCC), want police account­abil­ity in this com­mu­nity as well. Even for­mer sher­iff Mike Cook felt […]

10. Pingback by Content Citizens of Coquille to throw a party on 3 June 2008:

    […] Con­tent Cit­i­zens of Coquille along with the Coquille PD want to have a party, August 25 in recog­ni­tion of National Night Out. Build­ing off an ear­lier rally in sup­port of pros­e­cu­tion fruit pick­ers and traf­fic nazis, the event is billed in a let­ter to the edi­tor by Nancy Keller as a bridge build­ing, crime pre­ven­tion, bike safety and bar­be­cue extrav­a­ganza. In a unique mar­ket­ing ploy there may be an oppor­tu­nity to taser Offi­cer Web­ley?!?! (too bad Carl Fos­ter can’t be there) Also attend­ing are the newly formed Coquille Val­ley Crime Stoppers. […]

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