YAAAHOOO! (I think). Well I think I finally stumbled on it -- a way to put a tab on the blog page that allows anyone interested to be notified when I post an update (which is now not frequently, sorry to say). It was there all along (of course) under the "add a gadget" link. The tab(s) is now on the left side of the blog. I thank those who tried to help me over the past couple weeks. The problem I was having is that I am barely into the digital age and I do not understand the terminology. I do not know what terms like "feed burner, RSS, podcast, blogger feed, feed reader, and chicklet" mean. When I look the terms up, they are explained with other words that I do not understand -- it is like another language.
My next problem is finding a way to have a separate page or slide show of pictures. I have a small album of pictures from Afghanistan that I'd like to post but, so far, I can't find a way to do so. There is another "gadget" that allows me to post a slide show. It requires me, however, to enter the "URL" of the slide show and, having looked up URL, I have no idea how to get one for my pictures. I will, however, continue to play with it.
Meanwhile, my comment about having a discussion about torture has elicited no comments whatsoever. I may write an essay about it anyway. Here are a couple more topics that I think deserves some discussion:
1. Profiling. Law enforcement officers are supposed to be trained to notice things that might indicate criminal activity. If they notice that a very high percentage of the narcotics seizures on I95 have been from rental cars driven by young African American men, why is it a bad thing to pay extra attention to rental cars driven by young African American men?
2. Executive compensation: Thirty years ago Fortune Five executives were paid 35 - 40 times the compensation of production workers. Now it is 300 - 400 times production worker earnings. How is it anti-business to think that this morally, economically, and philosophically unjustifiable.
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- Larry
- I am a US government contractor working in Afghanistan as a counter narcotics advisor. I had a 15 year Federal law enforcement career with the US Customs Service engaged in drug interdiction. I have learned, however, that this job has virtually nothing to do with drug interdiction. Instead, it has to do with prevention of the production of opium and addiction. I have previous foreign experience: Some short foreign postings with the USCS, two brief foreign assignments as a contract employee after retirement, six years with Air America as a helicopter pilot in Laos during the ‘60s and ‘70s, and a year in Viet Nam in the US Marine Corps. I have traveled in 40 countries and have spent 4 - 5 months of each of the last six years in Thailand. I hold JD and MPA degrees from the University of Kansas. I have been happily retired for over five years, but during the past year I have become antsy to do something productive for a while. An important part of my job is to help find ways to motivate the Afghan farmers to raise legal crops rather than poppies (from which about 90% of the world's opium is produced). That is the rational for the blog name.
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