KU5E

Sorry, friends but I just have to vent, what soliloquy could be better than Howard Beale. So here we go.

I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth; banks are going bust; homes are being foreclosed on; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be!

We all know things are bad — worse than bad — they’re crazy.

It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we’re living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, “Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster, and my microwave, and my TV and my steel-belted radials and my  internet, and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.”

Well, I’m not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot. I don’t want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians Terrorists and the crime in the streets.

All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad.

You’ve gotta say, “I’m a human being, goddammit! My life has value!”

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not
going to take this any more!”

- I want you to get up right now…
…and stick your head out and yell

“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not
going to take this any more!”

Then we’ll figure out what to do about

the depression, inflation, terrorism,
and the oil crisis.

But first get up out of your chairs, open
the window, stick your head out and yell

“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not
going to take this any more!”

But first you’ve gotta get mad!
You’ve gotta say

“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not
going to take this any more!”

Get up. Get up…

Stick your head out of the window. Open
it, stick your head out and keep yelling

“I’m as mad as hell.
I’m not gonna take this any more!”

Just get up from your chairs right now…

… and stick your head out
and yell and keep yelling…

Note: The stuff in red, I added to bring it up to today’s standards. After all, this was written in 1976!

Download this file and have it ready for the class. gordon-west-pre-study-guide.pdf 

Sorry for the mess. We got struck by lightning twice in one week, two weeks ago. As most of you know I design and host websites from my own servers (East Houston Street Lab Graphics and Design, www.easthoustonstreet.com), and when the strikes occurred I lost lots of equipment. (Router, Network Switches, Xserve, Tivo, wireless router, Two TVs, …)My first priority was to get my paying clients up and going first.

So again I apologize for the delay in getting my personal page up.  I know some of you guys use my page for weather spotting and propagation. One email I recall from this week that made me laugh was from N5IBM, he titled it “Penguin Invasion”. Well those little penguins are my creation. His name is Tobi and I made him with a 3D program called Poser. He is my web spokesman. 

In the mean time my email server is down so if you send me an email at KU5E a t KU5E.com it will forwarded to my hack41 a t gmail.com account, so don’t be surpried at the from email.  Anyway KU5E is Back!