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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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Hanks on celebrity endorsements and Obama

May 4th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Last night I attended the Coos County Democ­rats annual spaghetti feed and fund raiser. Thom Hart­mann was keynote speaker and gave a tepid but earnest account of why he believes we should sup­port whichever demo­c­ra­tic can­di­date wins the nomination.

While I wish I could get excited about any can­di­date still actively run­ning, unfor­tu­nately, I can­not, though Obama may be the best of the top three choices. The more I learn about free mar­kets, pri­va­ti­za­tion and glob­al­iza­tion the more I know that we can­not con­tinue to head down that path. Essen­tial ser­vices, elec­tric­ity, trans­porta­tion, health care, edu­ca­tion, at least, should always stay in the hands of the people.

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