Winnebago Peace and Justice Center is helping sponsor a petition to advise our Wisconsin politicos get moving on some sort of plan to bring home the troops from Iraq. They have tables near the entrance of the Leach Amphitheater. There are no dates on this petition. The Iraq War has now lasted almost as long as WWII. Rumsfeld said it could total 12yrs.
Over 300 signed on tonight by 7:30pm. Over 800 have signed in the last few weeks. These tables will be set up again next Wednesday and Thursday before the concerts. Take a minute to sign on if the spirit moves you.
The petitions are also available at the Sundial at Peace Park on Fridays from 4:30-5:30.
Peace.
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Monday, June 27, 2005
CAR 54...WHERE ARE YOU???
I have heard comments from several people lately about the retro black&white design of the new gendarmobiles. They all are running in the same vein..."leave it alone, keep 'em white" "menacing looking" "intimidating" "threatening". I wonder what others think?
Speaking of the gendarmes...They were at Riverside Park last night about midnight. Two cars, lights blazing, motors running; (translated: $two officers$, $insurance$ and $gasoline$ on two $cars$---you get the picture). They woke a homeless guy out of a sound sleep to tell him he shouldn't be sleeping there. My initial thought is 'How much crime can a sleeping person commit?' and wouldn't it be more effective for them to keep an eye on people that are awake? That doesn't end the story. They came back at 4am and went through the whole procedure again. Both times they asked him for his address.
Let me repeat that. BOTH TIMES THEY ASKED HIM FOR HIS ADDRESS. Thank you. Tonight I'm sure he will find a different tree to sleep under. He was not cited. Congrats to the gendarmes on duty.
A thought. For the $$$$ spent on those two stops last night the city probably could've hired that guy to guard the park for a month.
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John Lemberger wrote another great letter which was published in the Northwestern today. He briefly mentioned the origins of NAFTA and GAP, the free trade agreements that have sent our jobs flying out of the country. Please note that those were Republican programs that were opposed by Democrats. Many Democrats were flabbergasted when Mr. Clinton crossed over and signed on to NAFTA and GAP. John is right on when he refers to Clinton as 'Republican Lite'. Thanks to these Corporate Republicans (with the help of Clinton) all of these jobs have left the country.
A local (loco) letter writer awhile back blamed Clinton for the whole mess. His name: DENNIS EHRENBERG. Dear Dennis Ehrenberg: It was a Republican idea from the beginning and still is a Republican idea. Get used to it Dennis. REPUBLICAN/NIXON/PAULUS. Yes Dennis. Great names and ideas all together in the same paragraph.
Now we have CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, another great REPUBLICAN/BUSH/CHENEY etc. thing that will continue to lower our standard of living. Would someone tell Mr. Ehrenberg that we are watching him and he better take the time to document his next letter to the paper?
Speaking of the gendarmes...They were at Riverside Park last night about midnight. Two cars, lights blazing, motors running; (translated: $two officers$, $insurance$ and $gasoline$ on two $cars$---you get the picture). They woke a homeless guy out of a sound sleep to tell him he shouldn't be sleeping there. My initial thought is 'How much crime can a sleeping person commit?' and wouldn't it be more effective for them to keep an eye on people that are awake? That doesn't end the story. They came back at 4am and went through the whole procedure again. Both times they asked him for his address.
Let me repeat that. BOTH TIMES THEY ASKED HIM FOR HIS ADDRESS. Thank you. Tonight I'm sure he will find a different tree to sleep under. He was not cited. Congrats to the gendarmes on duty.
A thought. For the $$$$ spent on those two stops last night the city probably could've hired that guy to guard the park for a month.
_________________________________
John Lemberger wrote another great letter which was published in the Northwestern today. He briefly mentioned the origins of NAFTA and GAP, the free trade agreements that have sent our jobs flying out of the country. Please note that those were Republican programs that were opposed by Democrats. Many Democrats were flabbergasted when Mr. Clinton crossed over and signed on to NAFTA and GAP. John is right on when he refers to Clinton as 'Republican Lite'. Thanks to these Corporate Republicans (with the help of Clinton) all of these jobs have left the country.
A local (loco) letter writer awhile back blamed Clinton for the whole mess. His name: DENNIS EHRENBERG. Dear Dennis Ehrenberg: It was a Republican idea from the beginning and still is a Republican idea. Get used to it Dennis. REPUBLICAN/NIXON/PAULUS. Yes Dennis. Great names and ideas all together in the same paragraph.
Now we have CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, another great REPUBLICAN/BUSH/CHENEY etc. thing that will continue to lower our standard of living. Would someone tell Mr. Ehrenberg that we are watching him and he better take the time to document his next letter to the paper?
Thursday, June 23, 2005
They Should Boil in their Oil
Oh no. Not another piece on oil. Yes, but this one will be easy to understand.
Caspian Sea is the site of one of the largest and last oil and natural gas deposits to raid on the planet. It is landlocked, which means that you can't just back up the tanker and say 'fill-er-up'. You need a pipeline from the Caspian Sea to an ocean port.
Enter UNOCAL. You know, the 76-gas station. Unocal wants to build a pipeline to the Caspian Sea. The pipes will run right through Afghanistan. It doesn't go too well so UNOCAL goes to Dubya Bush and asks for help. Dubya receives the war plans on September 9, 2001. On October 7,2001 the good old "WARS'R'U.S." starts bombing Afghanistan. For an update, the war there has gotten worse as of this week.
WHOOPS!!! I forgot to mention that a group of Saudi's ran airplanes into some buildings on September 11,2001, ---TWO DAYS AFTER DUBYA DECIDES TO BOMB AFGHANISTAN. Saudi's and airplanes have absolutely nothing to do with Afghanistan but I thought the timeline might help.
DUBYA says Osama is in Afghanistan (or under your bed) and we're gonna get him. Later he said Osama didn't matter. I believe him on the latter point.
UNOCAL and several other companies are in on this pipeline now and it has finally officially opened for business, with U.S. servicemen and women at $7.50 per hour guarding the pipeline. That's a great use for our tax money, guarding a pipeline for a private company.
ENTER CHINA. Yes, China. China is right next door to the Caspian Sea. They have many more autos to fuel and factories to run making cheap plastic crap for 'Mall-Wart'. They need that oil so bad that they bid an incredible amount of money in what can be described as a hostile takeover of UNOCAL.
Watch what happens in Washington D.C. in the next few weeks. It will be interesting to see how the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton/Condy Rice/Chevron Oil Consortium that runs our country (into the ground) will handle this whole affair. Remember...this bunch of oil rich Republicans refused to pass a bill on alternate (wind/solar) fuels last week.
As Dr. Hunter S. Thompson said in Playboy about Dubya's bunch in December 2004: THEY SHOULD ALL BOIL IN THEIR OWN OIL.
For more go here: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/oil.html
Caspian Sea is the site of one of the largest and last oil and natural gas deposits to raid on the planet. It is landlocked, which means that you can't just back up the tanker and say 'fill-er-up'. You need a pipeline from the Caspian Sea to an ocean port.
Enter UNOCAL. You know, the 76-gas station. Unocal wants to build a pipeline to the Caspian Sea. The pipes will run right through Afghanistan. It doesn't go too well so UNOCAL goes to Dubya Bush and asks for help. Dubya receives the war plans on September 9, 2001. On October 7,2001 the good old "WARS'R'U.S." starts bombing Afghanistan. For an update, the war there has gotten worse as of this week.
WHOOPS!!! I forgot to mention that a group of Saudi's ran airplanes into some buildings on September 11,2001, ---TWO DAYS AFTER DUBYA DECIDES TO BOMB AFGHANISTAN. Saudi's and airplanes have absolutely nothing to do with Afghanistan but I thought the timeline might help.
DUBYA says Osama is in Afghanistan (or under your bed) and we're gonna get him. Later he said Osama didn't matter. I believe him on the latter point.
UNOCAL and several other companies are in on this pipeline now and it has finally officially opened for business, with U.S. servicemen and women at $7.50 per hour guarding the pipeline. That's a great use for our tax money, guarding a pipeline for a private company.
ENTER CHINA. Yes, China. China is right next door to the Caspian Sea. They have many more autos to fuel and factories to run making cheap plastic crap for 'Mall-Wart'. They need that oil so bad that they bid an incredible amount of money in what can be described as a hostile takeover of UNOCAL.
Watch what happens in Washington D.C. in the next few weeks. It will be interesting to see how the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton/Condy Rice/Chevron Oil Consortium that runs our country (into the ground) will handle this whole affair. Remember...this bunch of oil rich Republicans refused to pass a bill on alternate (wind/solar) fuels last week.
As Dr. Hunter S. Thompson said in Playboy about Dubya's bunch in December 2004: THEY SHOULD ALL BOIL IN THEIR OWN OIL.
For more go here: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/oil.html
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Horse Apples
Wonderful parade in Oshkosh tonight. The real entertainment in a parade is watching the dazzled looks of the youngest spectators. The person next to me finally got off their cell phone after 2/3 of the parade was over...must have been an important call. No garbage trucks in the parade this year, but there was a honey wagon. HONEY WAGON? What the Hell is a honey wagon doing in a parade? The least they could've done is have the honey wagon follow the horses, AND NOT the other way around.
The occasion for the parade is the Miss Wisconsin Pageant. (Twilight Zone music: Is this really 2005, or just a bad dream?) Here it is folks...Ready...Aim...
Question: Why is the Miss Wisconsin Pageant held in Oshkosh?
Answer: Because no other Wisconsin city will put up with such tripe. (no pun intended)
Why are women putting up with this 'meat market' mentality in 2005? Maybe they could find a cardboard cutout of Bert Parks with the mike in his hand singing "There She Is....Miss America...". The Beetles are OK but no longer humorous, ---since most cars now are that small. Good to see Festival's Grocery Cart in the parade. (Notice that Mall-Wart contributes nothing to the community.)
TIME FOR A REALITY CHECK...
The REPUBLICANS and DUBYA BUSH have decided to cut the funding for the COAST GUARD by one-half for 2006. This is a great way to encourage terrorists and drug smugglers. Ain't the Bush crowd great? Read it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5089293,00.html
The occasion for the parade is the Miss Wisconsin Pageant. (Twilight Zone music: Is this really 2005, or just a bad dream?) Here it is folks...Ready...Aim...
Question: Why is the Miss Wisconsin Pageant held in Oshkosh?
Answer: Because no other Wisconsin city will put up with such tripe. (no pun intended)
Why are women putting up with this 'meat market' mentality in 2005? Maybe they could find a cardboard cutout of Bert Parks with the mike in his hand singing "There She Is....Miss America...". The Beetles are OK but no longer humorous, ---since most cars now are that small. Good to see Festival's Grocery Cart in the parade. (Notice that Mall-Wart contributes nothing to the community.)
TIME FOR A REALITY CHECK...
The REPUBLICANS and DUBYA BUSH have decided to cut the funding for the COAST GUARD by one-half for 2006. This is a great way to encourage terrorists and drug smugglers. Ain't the Bush crowd great? Read it here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5089293,00.html
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