New Foundation

[Steve Frey]

I got lucky last night and hit a progressive jackpot at the local indian casino and won a good chunk of money so I'm starting up my own foundation for my research of this disease. I need a name, any one got any good ideas?

[Jo]

Hi Steve,


Many congratulations on your win!! Name's a tricky one....does it have to be a 'Foundation' - not that I know the difference between that and a 'Fund' or 'Trust' etc.

Jo xx

[Steve Frey]

with a foundation I can donate the $20,000 or so I would have to pay in taxes to our effort here and put the money to good use.

[carla]

[Jo]

"Foundation" sounds great then!!!

er....do you want morgellons in the title??!! You gotta think about the acronym that it might spell too....if youre lucky, it could be rude!!

Morgellons Disease Foundation (MDF)...thats a cheap as chips wood substitute in the UK

Morgellons Itchyness Foundation (MIF)...sounds like a file extension to me.

Morgellons Foundation (MF)....ummm

Morgellons America Foundation (MAF)

[Kritters]

Major congratulations, Steve! How wonderfully generous and altruistic of you to do this with your money.

Kritters

[hilly]

Wow... Steve... THANKS.... brill.. very generous of you... what a wonderful use of your money... thanks again and again... Milly x

[Steve Frey]

So as I've eluded to here and there I had a fantastic moment of good fortune recently when I followed an overwhelming "intuition" to proceed to a house of gambling pleasure and willingly pour my money into a slotmachine in return for the remote possibility of hitting it big. Well in terms of a quarter slot machine I guess the jackpot I hit would be considered big, how's 46k, yahoooooo, I'm telling you this for a couple reasons, one I just like telling everyone about it, and two, this is just way way too freaky to be a coincidence that I was like lead to this place to win this money and while contemplating ways to reduce the enormous tax burden I'll be facing on my winnings I inadvertently turn the thought into a way to spread the gospel truth about the elusive, stealthy, hydroids and their snakes in the grass relatives the Cnidarians, Amen. What are the odds that a guy who thinks he knows something that everyone needs to know out of the blue hits a sizable chunk of money, maybe it's designed to help me out with this endeavor, what do you guys think?

I appreciate the support from everyone but I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea and think that this is more than I intend. I'm still brainstorming all this but I'm invisioning research and experiments performed on a very small scale with specific goals in mind. Having them documented and verified by accredated research organizations or individuals. The foundation could if need be provide funding for limited laboratory tests and procedures but every attempt would be made to solicite the services as a chariutable contribution. Discoveries by a single individual can prove potentially as valuable as those of some large scientific organization. Having U. C. Davis University at my back door allows me the opportunity to solicite in person the scope, purpose and needs of the research foundation, a little PR, With the right introduction I could see getting DNA and other laboratory tests performed as a charitable contribution. The difference between this foundation and others doing DNA type of research is simply by how the issue is approached, I will be seeking to prove it's identity as a hydrozoan or bryozoan where others are simply seeking to identify something. I could be wrong but I think it would make a difference, anyone?

Additionally, the foundation could contract some microscopic observation work with a credible laboratory, or individual even, to simply perform and visually record the observations requested then produce high quality images of the observations that can be studied, analysed and comparred with the relatively few specimens of Hydroids that science does know about,then get a science magazine to publish the work.

Also this foundation would contract with a lab or individual to perform a Latex gloove penetration experiment while visually documenting the results. This will provide the proof that this organism posseses the ability to transcend an intact latex gloove exactly as I have witnessed.and documented. This fact alone will turn the medical community on it's head. I contend that this organism is capable of such a feat because it posseses a trait known as "Cell Reaggregation" whereas it can reduce itself to single cells, pass through a minute hole in the gloove possibly created by the organisms stylet or tentacle, and then reaggregate on the otherside, this trait is known to occur in some hydrozoa and most sponges.

Then if I could convince my associate, that we all know and love but I'm not going to put her on the spot, to let the foundation pay for her to come to california to be observed like a guinne pig so the whole world could witness the living dynamics of a morgellons lesion exposed, then we could put this whole thing to rest.

Finally, I just have to say that I am grossly, enormously, in a big way dissapointed with the research results to date regarding this disease. I'll say this much, if I had the tools and resources available to me that some of these other people have availble to them, we'd have an answer. Like my mother use to say to me "**** or get off the pot".

[chester]

Ah yes, mothers always have the best advice! Now, a new pot...a jack pot can be used to kick butts! I, your number one fan....am getting waaaaaaaaaaay back, watching for the **** to hit the fan. A celebration song comes to mind...."Rollover Morgellons" F...ing >Morgellons< Foundation Naughty ...BUT....Nice P.S. Please excuse unscientific, unprofessional ,unachedemic, and unethical response

[redibooks]

hey congrats Steve and lets all cheer lead with Chester. How commendable that you would consider using this new found money for such a worthy cause. I'd buy a new car, and put up a patio wall around my house

Once again, hats off to you!!!