On Facebook yesterday:
Sloan posted:
I turned on the presidential debate last night and landed right in the middle of Mittens trying to out-hawk and out-foreign policy President Obama. About three minutes was all I could take of that, and I switched channels to the Chicago Bears v. the Detroit Lions pro football game, which the Bears eventually squeaked out. I don’t like Obama in the Oval Office, but he doesn’t look like he is going to try to run American women’s sex and maternal lives. Might be women will decide the outcome of that race. I seriously doubt I would vote for a Republican presidential candidate, if I were a woman. Might as well vote for the Ayatollah Komeini.
Lisa posted:
love you Sloan! You’re priceless! NONE OF THE ABOVE! I’ll be laughing about that all day!!!!
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Sloan posted:
the dreams were about sumtin’, sounds like you know what sumptin’
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Lisa posted:
They were dreams about strangers (men) protecting me from something evil.
Love Lane Jack, Key West posted:
“Wear a brassiere and be an ‘Obama Momma’ with ‘Fag Queen’ Jarrett….get a grip, Sloan….read Joe Bageant…get out of your trailer…go fishing….write mysteries…!”….MJ.
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Lisa posted:
Well, I agree with the “go fishing” part.That’s what I’d be doing if I lived down there!
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Sloan posted:
Shit, Jack, I go fishing and write mysteries every morning 
– without even leaving my trailer! Don’t know about Joe Bageant. Will look him up online, see what he’s about.
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www.joebageant.com
Dispatches From America’s Class Wars … Joe Bageant 1946-2011. Author of Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir and Deer Hunting with Jesus
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Sloan mused to himself: Very interesting fellow, seems Bageant began his career as a young homeless drunk man in Denver, Colorado. Lisa likes going to east Tennessee and North Carolina to fly fish for trout, she even knows the double-power haul fly cast, which there is no way to explain to someone who never saw it done and then tried to do it, so …
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Sloan posted:
We have speckled trout down here, aka spotted weakfish, can be caught on fly but far prefer jigs, bucktails, mirrolures, rapalas, rebels and, most of all, live shrimp. We have lots of kinds of fish down here that take a fly – sailfish, kingfish, dolphin, etc. offshore, more nearby, tarpon, permit, bonefish, snook, redfish, speckled trout, jack crevalle, perhaps deranged mangrove snappers, etc. I catch the ones that people eat at the fish market and in restaurants.
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Lisa posted:
The old man and the sea. Just kidding Bash. You’re the fisherman from hell!
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Sloan posted:
That, or hell is where I do my fishing. Although, it seems as if I’m just a bait shrimp, and it’s the angels what be doing the fishing, and they don’t seem to worry none about fish with big sharp teeth taking big chomps outta my tender hide. Maybe the stranger dream men protecting you from evil are angels protecting you from the cancer.
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Yes, maybe so.I’d like to think so.I’m good at blocking disturbing things out of my mind when I’m awake but no so much when I’m asleep.
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Sloan posted:
We all are good at blocking things out when we are so-called “awake”, which is why we dream, so we can experience the totality. Although lots of people don’t remember their dreams, perhaps because they are super-blocked because they really don’t want to see the totality, or perhaps there are other reasons they don’t remember. I wrote in several posts that in mid-2005, when friends were trying to persuade me to go to a doctor and get a prescription that would stop me from dreaming, which I felt was not a good idea, but I asked the angels about it, I was told in my sleep in plain English, not a dream, “You need to dream, Sloan, so you will know what is really going on.” It came to me out of the blue, Lisa, to suggest that the stranger dream men might be angels protecting you from the cancer (evil). I imagine that view is correct, unless the angels tell me otherwise.
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Lisa posted:
These angels that you speak of are GOOD and I am glad to have them in my life.I know they can reak havoc with you at times but maybe there’s a reason for all of this.C.S. Lewis believed that we do our hell on earth and sometimes I think he might have just had something there.I mean I have to live the remainder of my life with a fucking cancer cloud hanging over my head.How the hell fair is that?
Sloan posted:
Given that the angels presented as men in your dream, I wonder if that points at the spirit cause of the cancer being soul trauma you suffered at the hands of a man, or of men, which might have been beyond your control, or you might have let is slide instead of doing what you could to protect yourself. At the hands of men could be physical, emotional and/or mental abuse, or lack of attention from your father, or both, or something else – rigorous religious training comes to mind. Any and/or all of which damaged your soul and disrupted its feminine-masculine balance/harmony. The angels might also be there now to nudge, or push, you to not repeat, or allow to repeat, something like what happened perhaps years ago to create the cancer. The angels might also be there to nudge, or push, you not to vote for candidates who are toxic to the feminine, which in this year’s race is both Romney and Obama, given Obama fighting wars he knew should not have been launched by his predecesssor. I imagine the angels will create more dreams, which will help you stay on a course you need to be on. Fair is relative. You are getting their help, other people with cancer are not getting their help, while others are getting it. They are your angels, too, Lisa. Otherwise, we would not have reconnected by your contacting me online after my brother went missing and I was publishing online about that. Actually, they are everyone’s angels, but that’s more remote.
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From the legal tribe, received this email from my lawyer, who practices in Key West mostly.
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Subject: Birmingham attorney
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012
Sloan:
I have a client who is in need of petitioning the court for partition of a property in Lincoln, Alabama (Taladega County). Would you know of any attorney who I may speak with for a possible referral? Thank you.Sincerely,Samuel J. Kaufman
The Law Offices of Samuel J. Kaufman, P.A.
Offices at Northside 3130 Northside Drive
Key West, Florida 33040
305-292-3926
fax:305-295-7947
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I replied:
Hi, Sam. Would advise a Talledega-area lawyer, not a Birmingham lawyer.
My recollection, perhaps faulty, Tallegeda might be one of the Alabama counties with two courthouses at different locations, one is in Talledega. I don’t know any lawyers in that county, but I used to know a pretty darn good lawyer who lived and practiced in adjacent St. Clair county, which also might have two courthouses.
Whereas, I called Billy Church’s office in Pell City, Alabama, and spoke a while with his secretary at law;
Whereas, I told said secretary as law that I had known Billy in law school at Alabama, and he had just quit being a Baptist preacher before entering law school, and I saw him get over that, and I have a lawyer friend down here, who has a client down here with a property division case in Talladega County;
Whereas, said secretary at law said Billy probably handles property division case;
Whereas, I told said secretary at law that my lawyer friend, Sam Kaufman, is Jewish, so Billy cannot pull the wool over Sam’s eyes like he used to pull the wool over my eyes;
Whereas, I told said secretary at law, if Billy has a conflict of interest, he is not supposed to take the referral, and if Billy refers Sam, who also is my personal lawyer, to a jackleg or otherwise no count lawyer up there, instead of to a good lawyer, Billy’s karma will be to die and burn in hell forever for having been a Baptist preacher;
Whereas, I pretty well was able to ascertain, without getting a direct admission from said secretary at law during her laughing spells, that Billy was probably out on the golf course, it being about a 60-degree, pretty fall afternoon according to said secretary at law when I called about 4:30 p.m. Central Daylight time;
Whereas, Billy probably didn’t even know what a golf club was when he was in law school – that was my pastime after law school classes let out for the day;
Whereas, I frankly was sort of surprised to learn Billy was still standing upright and breathing, as he is pretty close to 70 himself;
Whereas, Billy has been around the block a few times, is well known over in Talledega County, and is generally respected and feared there, the said secretary at law confessed after almost taking the 5th during my inquiry;
Whereas, I wager Billy has tried lots of jury cases, although what you have, Sam, probably goes before a judge in an equity proceeding.
Now, therefore, the premises considered, here is the Alabama Bar Association contact info for Billy.
MEMBER SEARCH
- The information below is for non-commercial use by visitors to this Web site.
- Copyright © 2012, Alabama State Bar.
- NOTE:Before sending sensitive or confidential documents via fax, verify the recipient’s fax number for accuracy.
- NOTE: Before sending sensitive or confidential documents via e-mail, verify the recipient’s address for accuracy.
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Mr. Billy Lynn Church |
| Firm: |
Church Brogdon, PC |
| Address: |
423 23rd St N
Pell City, AL 35125-1740 |
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ann@church-brogdon.com |
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(205) 338-1777 |
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(205) 338-3985 |
| Date Admitted: |
April 22, 1968 |
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And here is what I pulled off the Alabama Bar Association website, one of these people might be able to steer you, if you can’t work something out with Billy.
I just now realized I didn’t say property partition, but said property division when I spoke with Billy’s secretary at law. Maybe she thought I meant a divorce aftermath case. However, most country lawyers are pretty good with most kinds of cases that arise in their domain; and most city lawyers, like Birmingham lawyers, tend to associate a country lawyer when they have a case in his domain, just to make sure they don’t get what up there is called “home cooking” in court, which tastes terrible.
| Circuit Clerk |
Circuit: 29 |
| Clarence E Haynes |
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(256) 761-2102 |
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| Circuit Judges |
Circuit: 29 |
| Julian M King |
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(256) 761-2106 |
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William E Hollingsworth, III |
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Feel free to share this email with Billy, along with my warm regards and myriad memories.
Respectfully submitted, thanks for the comic relief opportunity
Sloan
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You didn’t really think angels really want to kill all the lawyers, did you?
Meanwhile, my dreams last night left me pretty well convinced that Lisa and Billy Church herald some pretty heavy personal stuff headed my way, not really having anything to do with them …
Sloan Bashinsky
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