David Kauber:  

PRE-OBITUARY: David Kauber David is from Aurora, New York. David's schools include La Salle High School, in Niagara Falls, N.Y.. David later attended Keesler Air Force Base, Billoxi, Missiissippi (Airborne navigation systems of radar(not inertial navigation types); Foothill College Los Altos Hills, California(Liberal Arts - Music, philosophy, literature); Heartwood Institute Garberville, California (massage, amidst people from all over the world). Books: The Aristos by John Fowles; Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot. Movies: Slaughterhouse-Five (film, better than book), Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB, (1964), Born on the Fourth of July. Michael Moore films documenting the corporate take-over of our lives, done with some humor Ingmar Bergman films; Fellini films; Lena Wertmuller films Favorite quote:""Those who are asleep live each in a separate world; those who are awake live all in the same world." HERACLITUS Women: Well, I have known a good number of women and all were decent, not a jerk among them. Thinking of them, I believe could have gone with two or three of them for a lifetime. Now, I must admit being attracted to younger women, and some of them are indeed attracted to me. Maybe I will marry one of them, one of these fine days; after all, Noam Chomsky, a hero of mine and other people, just got married again after his first wife died a few years ago, and he must be eighty years old, at least. But I must admit to liking being alone a good part of the time. And, as to children, this world certainly does not need more people running around on it with all our demands on its systems and resources. We are overpopulated by at least 700 percent. We can maybe sustain one billion people on this planet, in the way to which we are accustomed. We can certainly not sustain the seven-plus billion humans. POPULATION and EDUCATION are the basics of do-or-die for the humanoids. My last girl friend and I still communicate every couple weeks, and when she comes to town, from Columbus, Ohio, we have us a fine meal together. My suggestion to her to leave Cornell to take the job at Ohio State was a good one for her, and she moved from researcher to now tenured professor. At last I have found a religion that I can get behind. "Once I was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see..." The Pastafarians believe in the FSM, the Flying Spaghetti Monster: HE BOILED FOR YOUR SINS. So, we have, temporarily, put to rest the fracking of New York State, after five or six years of opposition. This struggle was implemented largely through all sorts of organizations and people, including professors, lawyers, medical doctors, scientists, as well as just ordinary people such as me. These people came from, to a large extent, Ithaca, NY. But of course this business of fracking is just a part of the corporate takeover of our lives. And then there is the stealing of Presidential elections by operatives of the Republican Party - but of course many people don't want to hear this because it would destroy their identity of what it means to be a compliant citizen of any country, in this case the U.S.A. And the Democratic Party, one bunch of lame jerks, was never interested in exposing the fraud. Harvey Wasserman, of Columbus, Ohio documented the 2004 election, and warns about the 2016 election; and Greg Palast clarified the 2000 election and what Jeb Bush and his Florida operatives did to eliminate tens of thousands of Black voters from the voter rolls in the summer before the election in November. And then. the U.S. Supreme Court was guilty of treason in their five to four vote to award the looser of the 2000 election to one lame and dangerous individual. Ralph Nader's radio hour, is a weekly event, with great spirit. Radio station, now on the web, KPFA in Berkeley, rates highly if you be an active citizen of the world. DEMOCRACY NOW with Amy Goodman is a must-hear, every weekday. She originally got going through KPFA, but then began producing this program on her own. She is located in NYC, and has a substantial staff to put together her program. We get it on the radio, here in Aurora and in Ithaca, but webcasts on the computer include video which I sometimes go to to get additional info to her singular reporting. Contra dancing is great in Ithaca,with the house dances every Friday at a singular house built for the "party". What adds to this is the eight yearly dances at the elementary school organized by another group, plus the Cornell people putting on another six dances during the school year. These sometimes include a pot luck dinner which is great, and the New Year's Eve dance which attracts dancers from Rochester and Syracuse. The Dance Flurry is in Saratoga Springs every February and brings together various peoples to ride together and sleep, not too much and belatedly, in various situations. Done with my four years in the Air Force, evading Viet Nam, with three of these in the cowboy town of Tucson, I moved to California and the San Francisco Bay Area where I lived for 18 years with another year up in Garberville, 200 miles north of S.F. and where the grass grew freely. I left the Air Force with my first class FCC license with ship radar endorsement, and got to what was left of the apricot and Bing cherry orchards as they destroyed these orchards and turned this peninsula south of San Francisco into the electronics industry, while calling it the Silicon Valley. My FCC license got two of my jobs there, one in microwave transmission and the other in general aviation, taking care of electronics on Cessnas, Pipers, and Beechcraft planes at San Jose airport. Later came Food Machinery Corporation(now FMC) and building circuits for the various divisions at their Central Engineering Lab in Santa Clara, California. Time in the electronics industry was interesting, but I was glad to be done with it and doing gardening, construction, and now massage. I house-sit in Ithaca during summers when Steve Kress and family are in Maine, attending to the Puffin birdies. I found out how substantial is his operation when I visited the Cornell Ornithology Lab with their first open house in 12 years and celebrating their hundred years of operations. His office there was one of the few which was not open, for us to poke about herein, but a mention of his name gave me introduction to any of the crew at the lab, no matter what their speciality with regards to the avians of the world. Swimming in Cayuga Lake is great into the fall and no swim suit is necessary off my beach, but you need sandals on your feet, as the rocks can be challenging to bare feet. Letter To Niagara Falls GAZETTE: Dear Editor: Water, precious water -- it takes an absence of good, clean water to make most humans aware of just how precious is this compound of which we humans are mostly composedMichigan and Hoosick Falls, New York have recent stories to tell of people who have been poisoned into the promise of a future of ill health due to contaminated water delivered to their homes and faucets from their water system plants. When I was growing up in the LaSalle district of Niagara Falls, Vernon Packard was living up the street from our family, on Cayuga Island. Mr. Packard was the head of the water department of this city and had printed on the water tower located by the Grand Island Bridge in large letters: "PRECIOUS WATER". After Mr. Packard saw that was done, we then called this neighbor: Vernon "Precious Water" Packard. We were happy to have this official of the city government so willing to remind us of what was essential to life and living. Today,Vernon "Precious Water" Packard is long dead, but his example in living is an example which has carried some of us far in opposing those who would benefit themselves and their industry of fracking us and of polluting that whi...Expand for more