I was delighted by the pranked pranksters this morning--so delighted that I noted your address as I heard it. tee~ess~double-you~Wye. org. But that URL gets you a bulletin-board of Free Trials. Coming just after the pranksters were pranked, was this all dupe advertising? Or had some hacker pirated your site?
It took only a couple of googlings to find that, in the midst of the hoard of irrelevancies, there was Radio Netherlands, and the letters tee~ess~double-you~Eye. The rule is: "After double-you, single your 'I'." Some would say "Eye".
This is not an old man's faulty ear, nor a poet's finicky nature. The Wye imitation may very well have been created by a a clever listener!
This was my first visit to your show--but not my last.

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I was listening to your story about prison life and thought I'd comment: I've worked as a chaplain in corrections for a number of years. Science is finding that most crime is committed not out of thought and planning, but out of feeling. Thus, it is little good to create a system where the emphasis for good behaviour depends entirely upon the thinking mind, instead it should embrace the feeling mind and understand that relationship. People who feel good in and about society are much less likely to engage in crime. Instead of realizing this, the law uses threat to demand good behavior. In my opinion, revenge is futile. Punishment is the revenge of society upon individuals. It is unfortunate that the wealth of a whole society can be turned upon such a task toward a single individual, no matter what their actions. It is thoughtless and mindless. Instead, if the individual who has demonstrated by their actions that they are unable to relate successfully in society is temporarily incarcerated, and in the time away from society they are given the opportunity and encouragement to educate themselves and learn new skills, counseling and care to learn anger management and addiction reduction, and to develop a new relationship with society. That is one step. The next step is social reintegration. For that, we need right-thinking citizens who understand that as long as a person is alive, they need a sense of relationship and a sense of community that works both for themselves and for the community. These citizens need to support and welcome the prisoner gradually back into the community in steps that are comfortable both for the formerly incarcerated individual and for the community itself. The community must also demonstrate it cares. Not that it hates and is revengeful, but that the community cares for its people, all of its people, including the damaged. Christ said: "Give me your lame, your sick" your damaged ones. It is meant that Society also step up to the wrongs in conscientious ways to effect a reunion of the individual and society.

“Do you have anything I can have to eat?” The middle-aged woman was asking each of us as we left the restaurant with several carry-home packages in our hands. Apparently, I was the first to hand over half of the meal I just paid for in the Chinese restaurant. As she opened the lid she smiled. “What is it?” she asked. “Beef, chicken and onions with some noodles,” I answered. The presentation in the parking lot did not seem to matter. She was happy. I was on my way home from a sumptuous dinner with cohorts after a week of training for the 2010 Census. We know that it will eventually produce increased counts of citizens which will quite possibly allow increases in funding to help with housing and feeding in this nation (among other things). This woman was begging for her existence. She did get one more meal from another person leaving the parking lot… afraid to give the carry-out box directly so it was handed to me to pass on. The beggar left with her bounty, dangerously weaving across traffic and off into a set of trees further away. Maybe she lived nearby. Maybe she did this often knowing the possibility. On the drive home the radio had an interview with Emila Marinsovic (sp?) (in Toronto) (the last portion of the hour) (tswi.org) (host/Jonathan Groubert) http://content70b.omroep.nl/b469deb6dc609a029fa4da6ec25d5ea2/4a4442f5/05... about the War Years without food and how she and her family survived. Her five-year-old son still remembers his first orange. He saved all the seeds. She said the best food was the olives a BBC Channel3 Crew gave her during the four year war. She was trading her story about the siege of Sarajevo for food. Living fifteen years now in the West she still rails at the cost of food today. “The State We’re In” is a program on Radio Netherland aired on Public Radio WFYI 8pm Thursdays. How pertinent. How could it be that I dined, communed and left the restaurant only to be on-time to realize this radio portrayal of life in the past. I could not help but have an emotional response. I listened intently, though I had already parked at home. I could not stop hearing about how she survived on “gifts” of table leftovers when she cleaned houses. And she would exchange military Spam from soldiers for something better at the market. Here was the same action… within two miles travel from that restaurant and within two different worlds… now, and then. Coincidence. [Almost all TV programming this night is about the death of Music Legend Michael Jackson from Gary, Indiana which usurped the headlines on the same day Farah Fawcett succumbed to her cancer. The world today seemed to have its own worries. Not food.] -=w=- 06/25/09 -=w=-

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