The Complete Confessions Of A Hell Bound Taxi

You'll disagree with it, you'll hate it, it will piss you off... Everything that nobody can talk about publicly gets told to a taxi driver. As well as all the gossip that gets overheard. Over 45 years of taxi journals, as well as research to answer the questions that nobody should ask. If you are a fully conscious critical thinking master you might love this book, but most people might find conflict with what they have been led to believe. This book is a raw presentation from the real world. The bias is yours.

From the 1970s to the 90s a taxi driver investigates how society is changing. There are questions about a lot of what people believe, and how reasoning gets lost in a continuum of manipulative devices. How relationships work is explored in depth... starting with the many secrets held by prostitutes. Controversial viewpoints make the book a critical thinking exercise. It is a book to make you think, and also may be considered a vocabulary builder for some readers... an educational opportunity in more ways than just exposing the real world. First of a 4 book series... taken together they may present in combination, a detonation key, unlocking a door to change the world.

My girlfriend went out of town, and left her son with me. Then the boy had a brain hemorrhage, and I couldn't get a hold of his mother because it turned out she was with another guy in Costa Rica . The boy was like my son, and when I was signing the papers for emergency surgery at the hospital my dog got run over by a taxi. I was having a bad day, and hadn't checked my mailbox at work -- while my dog was in surgery I went to find that I had a termination notice, so in 7 days I would be out of a job. In the next week I got 4 tickets -- I hadn't got a ticket in 6 years, but suddenly my license was in jeopardy. Out of work, broke and alone -- I drove all over looking for a job, and got cited in various jurisdictions for expired tags, but I didn't know it was serious -- I was just broke, looking for a job. Before reality kicked in I got a job driving taxi in Hayward... I got a call to a bar, and a Hells Angel that had chased everyone out of the bar needed a ride... I had enough stress. My next fare didn't have the money, and I had to go into his apartment to collect -- it took a long time, but I got paid... all in nickels. By the time I got outside the taxi had been towed away. Fired for that, I fled the scene, and drove East as if escaping -- to a strange place called Stockton. Somehow, with 27 entries on my driving record I got a job... Was it luck or had I died and went to Hell. This is the incredible TRUE story of a STOCKTON CITY CAB driver.

After years of seeing things that don't make the nightly news, and hearing things that people are afraid to discuss with anyone else--and then discussing those things with others...By the end of the first three books the issues presented in "Confessions from a Hell Bound Taxi" are almost encyclopedic in scope--but might be dealt with most effectively by acknowledging just a few factors. In book IV the Taxidriver is out of the cab and on the street to illustrate how a well integrated small group of people can make real change. Everyday people are becoming increasingly more detached in a world that in ways seems to be rolling toward chaos--and it's time to get together while we still have a choice. This book is a study in Social Psychology, the power of social networks, the nature of cognitive limits, and the principals of chaos. This is the first edition. A second edition which contains an overview of the entire series is available at a special price. The original edition is still available for people who want a first draft...raw stories about the real world with a half dozen or more typos, etc.

"Fences of Freedom" addresses issues with the police; Book 4 in the series "Confessions from a Hell Bound Taxi" A compilation from nearly 40 years of Taxi Driver journals. All the things people can't talk about are discussed in a forum on wheels. Civil Rights, Analysis of Culture, Dysfunctional Systems, The Principals of Chaos, Cognitive Limits, Addiction, Relationships, Corporations, and Governmental Abuses... People question whatever is wrong with the world and in the course of over 50,000 interviews come up with solutions through the medium of the taxi driver. With this knowledge in hand... Book 4 explains the authors attempt to change a neighborhood full of crime, and questions the reality of "Public Safety." Much is said in this book about errant police authority. Brutality is a norm, and reasons why that is are presented. The book explains how a small group of people can change your community, or the world...and suggests that you hurry up and get started for the sake of where we may be headed if you don't.

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Taxi Driver takes on crime in a neighborhood. Social Psychology, a Theory of Functional Organization, and street smarts gets results. An example of what one person can do, and how a small group can change the world. Previously published in part as "The Fences of Freedom" 4th book in the series "Confessions from a Hell Bound Taxi" ...all of the things people can't tell anyone but a cab driver. Recent issues like the Ferguson Riots lend to discussion about the police & invite critical thinking, because: Being black is not a problem. Global Corporations disrupting communities is a problem -- A problem that doesn't get attention on account of a corporate controlled media that manipulates society without accountability.

For author Peter James McLean, life was just one adventure after another. In Confessions of an Eccentric Dreamer, he shares a captivating recollection of his life, dreams, adventures, and foibles. This memoir narrates how his adventures began at age sixteen and continued until age ninety-two during which time he worked and retired from the New York Central Railroad; developed a money-saving, water softening device to clean steam engine boilers; and invented and patented toy guns, an electro-magnetic water conditioner, a system for increasing gas mileage in automobiles, a system to extend oil life in a combustion engine, and another for high-production water distilling equipment. Confessions of an Eccentric Dreamer also tells how McLean researched sunken ships in the Great Lakes and invented a waterscope to explore the ships and how he cultivated a lifelong love of prospecting and mining for uranium, gold, silver, and other minerals in Ontario. Sharing stories from his long and colorful life, McLean inspires would-be adventurers to go out and live. The words “cannot be done” and “impossible” were not a part of his vocabulary.