Got lots of cats and spend lots of time picking up cat yack!! I guess this was top of mind when I registered. I mean, has nobody here ever hawked one up after being in the bush too long?
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He being the guy that lives in my pants has been responsible for a lot of my decisions including my involvement in this hobby hence the nic
The most dominant and powerful one of all male gorillas describes me to a "T"...actually I'm kind of big and hairy. 
My handle comes from an interesting and largely forgotten historical figure who carved a niche for himself in the chaos of the Russian revolution.
Nestor Makhno (1989-1934) was a committed anarchist and leader of a libertarian peasant army and insurrection in Ukraine which successfully fought both the Whites and the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. He was a rarity among anarchists as he actually had the opportunity to put anarchism into practice in the political vacuum of the years immediately following the Russian Revolution. Unlike the Soviets, who became the epitome of oppressive and authoritarian rule, Makhno established democratic self-governing anarchist communities in southeastern Ukraine--an area that had a long tradition of peasant independence and rebellion.
During the Russian civil war, Makhno proved himself to be a brilliant military commander, and his partisans helped save the Red Army from crushing military defeat at the hands of the Whites. When the White threat had been removed, the Bolshevik State (which would not tolerate any democratic spirit anywhere) turned on Makhno and his followers and eventually crushed them by about 1921-22. Makhno was forced into exile and died in Paris in 1934.
The Makhnovist movement regarded any kind of state, whatever its political stripe, as a form of oppression. Makhno summed up his movement’s aims succinctly: "Our frank ideal is the achievement of a non-authoritarian laborers’ society without parasites and without commissar-bureaucrats.”
Makhno’s desire for true freedom, and his opposition to authoritarian rule from either the right or the left, appeals to me. With apologies to McDonald’s, there’s a little anarchist in all of us.
Nestor Makhno (1989-1934) was a committed anarchist and leader of a libertarian peasant army and insurrection in Ukraine which successfully fought both the Whites and the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. He was a rarity among anarchists as he actually had the opportunity to put anarchism into practice in the political vacuum of the years immediately following the Russian Revolution. Unlike the Soviets, who became the epitome of oppressive and authoritarian rule, Makhno established democratic self-governing anarchist communities in southeastern Ukraine--an area that had a long tradition of peasant independence and rebellion.
During the Russian civil war, Makhno proved himself to be a brilliant military commander, and his partisans helped save the Red Army from crushing military defeat at the hands of the Whites. When the White threat had been removed, the Bolshevik State (which would not tolerate any democratic spirit anywhere) turned on Makhno and his followers and eventually crushed them by about 1921-22. Makhno was forced into exile and died in Paris in 1934.
The Makhnovist movement regarded any kind of state, whatever its political stripe, as a form of oppression. Makhno summed up his movement’s aims succinctly: "Our frank ideal is the achievement of a non-authoritarian laborers’ society without parasites and without commissar-bureaucrats.”
Makhno’s desire for true freedom, and his opposition to authoritarian rule from either the right or the left, appeals to me. With apologies to McDonald’s, there’s a little anarchist in all of us.
So you must be related to Mike Hunt.Mike Hawk said:
As for Mike Hawk?? Say it aloud......he's the one that got me into this "hobby".....
Morrigan is a Celtic Goddess often associated with battle, and finding the ultimate truths of one's identity. Latour, apparently means "the tower" in French. Morrigan Latour is a name of power, I think. And I love how it sounds. It's a little off the beaten path.
Mine is just silly -- Herb (which isn't my name) rhymes with PERB.
O'Regano isn't my name either.
I'm just a big fraud.
O'Regano isn't my name either.
I'm just a big fraud.
Why the screen name
A Nonny Mouse = anonymous
I got the idea from CBC Halifax. Whenever they got an anonymous letter, it was from ANM.
Worked for me.
OK: I came back for a peek
ANM
A Nonny Mouse = anonymous
I got the idea from CBC Halifax. Whenever they got an anonymous letter, it was from ANM.
Worked for me.
OK: I came back for a peek
ANM
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My name is Steve. My last name is long and starts with a "g." Most people call me StevieG. I have two advanced degrees, a Phd (in philosophy) and a JD (law degree). SteieGPhdJD is too long.
peace
My name is Steve. My last name is long and starts with a "g." Most people call me StevieG. I have two advanced degrees, a Phd (in philosophy) and a JD (law degree). SteieGPhdJD is too long.
peace
