About Outspeaker
- Outspoken on just about everything; unapologeticallly and cheerfully smug about it, too.
- Born April 2, 1934. Great depression pre-schooler; World War II schoolboy. Raised Chicago IL, West Hollywood CA.
- US Army veteran 1952-1955 near end of Korean War; tanks, heavy artillery; courts and boards clerical.
- University degrees: Bachelor of Science, Journalism and Communications, Master of Urban and Regional Planning, both U-IL/Champaign-Urbana.
- Worked since age 10: delivering newspapers; stocking supermarket shelves; Chinese food delivery; changing oil/pumping gas; bowling alley manual pinsetting; industrial/mechanical drawing; new/used car sales; survey research and academic achievement test design and response coding; news reporting for daily newspaper and news bureau assignments; rewrite desk editing; industrial public relations; water resources research database compiling and abstracting; large-scale regional planning for river basins and multi-county planning organizations; small business management; database programming; large-scale data processing.
- Small business owner since dawn of first IBM-PC in 1981: Remote access engineering information search and retrieval; mailing list compiling and sales; NCOA chamge of address mailing list move updates and list cleanup.
- Federally registered submachine gun owner (Thompson M1A1); action match shooter and gunrange safety officer; gun rights activist and NRA-ILA election volunteer coordinator (EVC).
- Midwesterner rural resident since 1976.
- Diesel car owner (2006 VW Jetta TDI, 5 speed stick shift).
- 35mm German rangefinder camera collector; can clean/lube/adjust shutters and make them function.
- Happily married almost 39 years; even happier with four kids grown up and mostly on their own.
- Supporter, Act for America!, National Rifle Association, Christians United for Israel, Grassfire Nation.
- Use television set solely for viewing DVD motion pictures. No time for radio except Garrison Keillor.
- Co-researcher with wife re appropriate regional planning, transportation, land use, farm land preservation and environmental protection in urbanizing countywide jurisdictions.
- Reader and researcher, with wife, of multiple hundreds of books and online resource sites; strong interests in general and focused history; cultural anthopology; historical linguistics; world fossil fuel depletion; likely and possible cosmologies; religion as culturally derived phenomena; central place theory in regional planning and development;
- Chess player and pool table angle-shooter.
- Carpentry; hardwood floor and tile laying; casement window restoration; electrical circuit wiring.
- Daily workouts with wife at physical fitness center, and careful dieter with wife; lost 50 lbs past decade, wearing size 34 Lee and Arizona straight cut classic jeans for first time since high school.
- Lived and studied overseas with wife in Israel and Croatia.
- Want America to live under freedom and Christian-based cultural norms of western civilization.
- Opposed to unlimited immigration into USA, and want all illegal aliens deported.
- Owned and rode Harley as high-schooler, Austin-Healey 100 classic sports car in late 1950s.
- But don’t try to figure me out too closely; you’ll never get it right.
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