Utah Pirate Radio

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Dedicated to my wife, my queen!

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In this http://www.artistshousemusic.org interview, Maggie Lange, an attorney and Professor of Music Business/Management at Berklee College of Music, explains how copyright term (that is, the duration for which a work remains under exclusive ownership) works, and sketches out some “fair use” exceptions to the five exclusive rights granted to copyright owners under law.

BECAUSE SHE WASN’T A MORMON

(I posted the video that appeared on KUTV utah, but shortly after posting it, the fine Mormons at YouTube flagged and censored the story despite FAIR USE laws, so here it is in text format)

From the Salt Lake Tribune:

Michelle Bliss was thrilled Monday when she received a call telling her that her daughter’s essay about a true Christmas story had been selected to run in a supplement to the Deseret Morning News.

Her elation was short-lived, however. The woman asked whether she was Mormon. When she replied that she was not, the woman apologized and said they were only running essays on Mormon families.

Her daughter, seventh-grader Georgia Clyde, was one of several students whose class essays were sent to the paper by Olympus Junior High School English teacher Jennifer Allred for consideration in its “Christmas I Remember Best” contest.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_7698637

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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition www.leap.cc
(see this video too)

The name of that organization sums up everything that I have to say about this post. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.

Someone pulled this out of the archives. Look at the funky 70’s suits, and listen to the funky 70’s music in between segments. LOL
Good stuff.

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So what about Bible archeology proves the events in the Bible?

The videos below show beyond a reasonable doubt that the Bible’s historicity is very accurate.

How does that help the Bible? If the Bible was a fairy tale, then it would not have much accuracy.

Certainly there is more to the Bible than just old relics and cities.
But it is fascinating to watch the details unfold of the Bible’s living history.

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=xU6sW74HvZs

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MimHZeH5K4c

http://youtube.com/user/Prophetes

One of the pivotal moments in my ultimate decision to leave the LDS church once and for-ever, and have my name removed from their records was when they sued Utah Lighthouse Ministry for publishing 17 pages of the “Bishop’s Handbook of Instructions”. 

They used an old verion of the hand book to publish 17 of over 100 pages of the book on their website:  www.utlm.org 

I was doubting the LDS church before that, and it was never really something that I thought made much sense.  But I was fairly indifferent.  I wasn’t going to necessarily leave the LDS church, and annul all ties to the LDS church.  I was just going to go to other faith’s and research the world’s theology a bit more.

But when I was faced with some unanswered questions about the LDS church, and I noticed at one of the website’s I was going to  UTLM.org, that the LDS church was dragging this poor old couple to court.  A couple that has a book store that doesn’t even clear 100K per year.  
(Jerald Tanner recently died due to poor health).

When I saw the LDS church act as the 500 pound gorillia and beat up on this little tiny ministry, I was sickened by the LDS church.  They not only frightened me, and made me ashamed to be LDS.  But it also angered me.   So ever since, I have coped with my anger by blogging.  The more I learn, the more the LDS church really doesn’t sit on any of my top favorites any more  (and truly as a child, I admired the LDS church). 

Mountain Meadows Massacre was a real eye opener too.

It was about the point that I watched September Dawn, I was pretty much done with organized religion.  I do have a relationship and a faith, and a passion for a lot of Biblical principles, and maybe even a few traditions.  But Im not keen on organized religion anymore. 

Just thought I would share, and if you are interested there is some contextual links below.
Be sure also to see my blog on “FAIR USE” copyright laws.

References:

• –Jerald and Sandra Tanner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• –Intellectual Reserve v. Utah Lighthouse Ministry 1999 - Wikisource
• –Church Handbook of Instructions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• –The Bishop’s Handbook and the Practice of Shunning - CARM.ORG …

This link is a google search that’s criteria is “LDS Bishops Handbook download“

Link 2 for the Bishop’s Handbook of Instructions

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The main problem is, that most of us (maybe not all of us) sin somehow every day.
** We either hate our brother (as these people seem to do), which is equal to murder according to Jesus.
** We lust in our heart
** We bear false witness, even if by exaggeration

And on and on.

So being homosexual is a sin also. Is it any worse than murder? I dunno. It doesn’t say in the Bible.
But are these people who are homosexual MORE sinful than the rest of us?
I say “Judge not lest ye be judged”..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ungim2sum_w&feature=related

From BZC

So, TheUtahnite got kicked off of YouTube. I found out around March that this had happened, or was in the process of happening, but I wasn’t sure about any of the details.
Apparently Bonneville Broadcasting company (KSL News, as well as other media outlets in Utah) has filed copyright infringement claims with YouTube, and has apparently (for now) removed all of TheUtahnite’s videos.

Samuel the Utahnite was once upon a time here:

http://youtube.com/TheUtahNite

As you can see, that page is no longer there. And the error that comes up says “account suspended”.

Well it’s a good thing for FAIR USE laws, if only people would pursue justice more often.

In my videos I put this information in the description:
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The content in this video catalog does not entirely consist of material created by the poster.
Materials that are not of the posters creation are represented in the video with their respective logo, and/or are given recognition in this description.

** Information about FAIR USE / Copyright laws **

http://www.copyright./gov/fls/fl102.html

This is used for non-commercial, educational purposes only. The poster does not make any income from this material at all. This is posted exclusively for educational purposes.

See the following video on Copyright laws and FAIR USE:

YouTube Video About FairUse
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References:

ksl.com (Bonneville Broadcasting television and radio based broadcasting company)
YouTube Video About FairUse
Government Copy Right Website
This is what I believe to be Samuel the Utahnite’s current or past blog.

I just finished reading a wonderful post by a person that normally I don’t care much for.

Reading his post  Materialism in a Spiritual World.  I have to admit, that is one well put message.

Often I have a problem with something that I read by this person.
But this message is very transparent, and well put.  I recommend it to anyone.

Reading this today, got me thinking about some personal flaws that I would like to change about myself.

At one time in my life I was homeless.  Meaning, I was without a home.  80% of the time between the age of 16 on to nearly 20 years old, I didn’t have an actual roof over my head at night.

I either slept at friends houses, in their parents old broke down cars, or somewhere in the mountains or on the street.

I first ran away when I was 13 years old, meaning like I was dedicated to the cause and I was not coming home. I had ran away a dozen times before that, but not with much intent or at least without a great plan of sustaining myself.  I walked 12 miles to my grandma’s house on the old highway between Mapleton and Payson via Spanish Fork.

I used to walk there just to visit her before I ran away. So this journey was typical.

I remember walking there and wondering what I would do if grandma told me that she couldn’t keep me.  I wondered if maybe the cops were already there and waiting for me.  I wondered about what I was going to do if I couldn’t stay with her, and I panicked.  I thought, I will go to California or Las Vegas or Seattle and I will just do my own thing.

By the time I was 16 after endless fighting, I was ready.  I wanted to go.   I wanted to be kicked out.  I wanted to just live my own life by myself.  I had friends who were stoners, and prior to being 15 I would drink but I absolutely would not smoke dope.  I think I was scared of it.  I just didn’t want it.  Not even so much as pot.  But I drank like a fish if I would let myself get out of control.

Eventually, by the time I was 16, I had been smoking cigarettes since I was 8 years old.  So I decided what the heck, I will smoke some herb too.  Which I knew would make it easier overall to live with my cousin and her friend.

Eventually, I started getting labor jobs, and living with (my cousin and her boyfriend).  I smoked pot daily, although I never really paid for it back then.  It was a thing that my friends did before I met them, and it was something that they were going to continue to do.  And I thought they were cool enough kids so I started smoking with them, living with them, working with them.  For off and on of about 3 years. I enjoyed smoking very much. Took some of the pressure off without making me feel out of control like alcohol did.

I rarely went home, and I rarely got a long with my folks.
I always wanted to find a way to PROVE to my parents beyond a reasonable doubt, that I wasn’t better than ‘these types of friends’.

All of these kids which were much older than me, but that I got a long with much better than my peers at school.

But it was always “these types of friends this or that”  or whatever the arguement at the time was.

So I just left.

At 17 I ended up in Seattle, when I got off the bus I literally had 3 cents in my pocket.

I had another valuable thing in my pocket that I didn’t realize how valuable it really was.  I had my wallet, which had ID and some basic survival necessities, such as dental floss and a small blade.

I lost my wallet two times while on the street.  Once when I got robbed while I was sleeping under a bridge, and once when I was sleeping in a little man-made cave that I put together out of rocks when I was in Spokane WA, I looked all over the mountain side for it and came back years later to look.  Never found it!  Arrrg!

Losing your wallet while your homeless does one of two things.

1.  Makes life really hard to deal with, and makes you stronger in the process.

2.  Or it kills you quick.

With the way homeless people are so transient, life can be difficult when you show up in a new place without identification.

If someone is homeless, and they are on some kind of medication, or get some sort of health care provisions and they lose their ID and go to a new place before getting new ID.   When they get to the new place, it is extremely difficult to get an ID, because 1.  You don’t have a place of residence.  2.  You have no way of proving who you are.  3.  There is no one near by to help you in most cases.

So that was some scary stuff, even though my life didn’t depend on my ID.  It does make getting adjusted to a new place extremely difficult.  I went from Seattle to Santa Cruz in 1998.  I had no ID, but I was able to talk my parents in to buying me a bus ticket from Portland to Santa Cruz.

So I didn’t have to hitch-hike quite as far.  It was Christmas, and I would call up my parents with “I love you very much”.  Even though we didn’t get a long very well, my dad would say  “come home for Christmas”, but I think we both knew that would cause more trouble than good.  So I decided not to.

So in Santa Cruz I went to a hippie party, which is referred to as a “Rainbow Gathering” (not anything like a Rainbow Parade for homosexuals).  Where we camped on the beach for 3 weeks.  One night after drinking excessively I met a girl who wanted to walk on fire.  And big bad me saw this, and said. ” If anyone can do it, I can do it.  So if I can do it, and don’t get hurt, then you know.  If I do it and I do get hurt, then you know.”
This was my act of Chivelry I suppose.

Well, it backfired and I ended up with 3rd and 2nd degree burns on my feet and with sand in the wounds.  (Once again, one too many drinks)

So I got this guy from the party to give me a ride in the back of his truck to the nearest medical facility.  I got bandaged up and I got back to my comfy spote by the River in Santa Cruz.  Where there were Ucalyptus and grass, and all kinds of shade.  And I hung out for like 2 days on what remaining food I had, which was basically Ramen, which I ate dry, and some bottled water that I picked up.

Even though I wasn’t fully recovered I had to get up and get going again, because I couldn’t heal in Santa Cruz because I didn’t know anyone there.

Since I was completely out of cash, and I was hurt really bad, on the worst place that I could be hurt and be homeless at the same time.  The only thing that was protecting me from the dirty, wornout, probably infectious soul in my shoe was a thin piece of bandage, and a new clean sock that I got from the doctor.  This particular doctor didn’t charge me up front, and actually didn’t even ask for my ID.
But took my information on a form, and gave me medical care anyway. I gave them correct information, and they put it on my credit. But, if it would have been the typical doctor office, they would have turned me down, and sometimes hospitals will turn you down without ID.
One foot was really bad, and the other foot was not so bad.

Needless to say, I didn’t get the date with that girl.  But it was a valiant effort anyway.

And I will end with the memory lane right there, and that isn’t even the half of it.  There was still almost 2 years left of this crazy lifestyle.

Anyway, after all of this, being poor, hurt, homeless, lonely, whatever.  I end up getting off the streets and into a new life.  When it happened I was in a serious religious turning point in my life, and a new spiritual awakening, and I gave credit to my strength to all of the spiritual associations.  And rightly so for the most part.

And I got on with life so to speak.  I got my GED while I was living in my man-made rock cave while I was in Spokane Wa.  And I went on to getting a computer diplomia from Stevens Heneger  (I couldn’t hack doing the 2 year course for an associates, not my thing, and flunky college)..

I got married, started a little business, etc..

Now that I can look back and compare the successful life to the poor life.  I have to say they have their advantages, and they have their disadvantages.  Overall, I don’t like being poor. 
But Thotman is right in his message about their being more money and less time, and less money and more time.

Out of those two, I think that time is far more valuable than money.

So here is what I have to feel guilty about.  My mom came to visit me some time ago, and she wanted to see Seattle, and I wanted to show her all the places that I usesd to hang out when I was a kid, because she had never seen it before.

So we go to downtown Seattle.  And my mom starts handing out money.  It was starting to get like the homeless people were recognizing us, and become way more friendly with us as we passed by.  I told her, “mom, some of these people are capable of working, and I just finding an excuse to prolong their drug habit, like I once did”.

My mom has a big heart and said “Even so, if they are happier isn’t that at least something”.

I said, I think in the long run, they won’t be happier because of this money.  Maybe more addicted.
So I showed her 2 of the many places that homeless people can go to get food/blankets/socks/cloths/sack lunches, etc..

And she stopped.  The sad part is, when she stopped giving them money, she wasn’t very happy.  I could tell immediately that something was different.
She really wants to do good, and take care of people.  I should respect that, and let her spend her money however she wants, without me getting in the way.

I realize this now, and I wish I had stepped back from her and let her give money.

She was always sweet that way with me when I was homeless.  They didn’t have a lot of money, but they would sent me what they could when they could so that I was ‘happy even if just for now’.

I’ve felt kind of ashamed of stopping her after that.  Especially when my wife reminded me of the dozens of times that I have ventured down to downtown Seattle with no other quest than to buy some homeless people some meals.  Of all ages and types.

I remembered how good it made me feel when I would give that way….
I was kind of getting worried for her safety, but thats no excuse since i was right there to protect her if she needed it.

Would’ve, could’ve of, should’ve…  Hinds sight is 20/20. bla bla bla

Anyway, thanks Thot for the inspiration.  That whole thing about me holding out on the homeless when my mom came to see us has been haunting me.  I think it’s cool that you help out people in need.

 I grew up going to clubs and listening to bands like Minor Threat / Fugazi /, the Decendents, the Pixies, all that.

I was thinking about Ian MacKay of Minor Threat, and I decided to look them up on YouTube.  I was suprised to find this awesome documentary.  Brings me back to 15/16/17 years old.   There were a lot of ’straight edgers’ in Utah.  I identified with them until I started to self medicate a bit.  It’s still good music.

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 Im proud to be an American despite our pimples and warts.

Looking forward to celebrating with all of you other Americans tonight!

The Decendents Merican

When you become what you detest, it is time to re-evaluate.

That sentence really wraps it all up for that thought.

That statement isn’t meant for anyone in particular with the exception of me.

 NEW STUDY: MARIJUANA STOPS THE SPREAD OF CANCER

DECEMBER 04, 2007 MSNBC

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