Sorry to read about Colleen Hutchin's dog Max - a hit and run
victim somewhere on Cranston St. ( page C 5 Jan. 29 )
Colleen needed $250.00 right away just to bring Max for X-rays
at a veterinary emergency room . She says Max will need expensive
surgery for an injured pelvic bone.
I recall my heartbroken sister in law and my niece, Sue and Tara of
Scituate , R.I. going through a similar ordeal when their Alaskan huskie
Megan was hit by a car and required hip surgery. I recall that an animal
humane society was kind enough to help with the bill. ( I'll get the name )
Giving the guilty driver the benefit of the doubt, let me ask :
Just what should one do when do after injuring a dog in the street or on
a highway ? How soon will the police or the animal rescue league respond
to a call for help ? Most people might assume that only the luckiest of
animals is not doomed after being seriously injured on the street .
Also I must ask why animal emergency rooms must be so mercenary.
Can't they offer the pet's family a reasonable installment plan ?
Care FIRST, bill later ! Hospitals for people might also heed this
suggestion .
Friday, January 29, 1999
Tuesday, January 26, 1999
Too Much Homework ?
I just read " Too Much Homework " ( Time, Jan.25 ). The
mindless drudgery of school " work " was at the very top of
the list of things the 60s kids rebelled against. I remember
agreeing with British philosopher Bertrand Russell who thought
that most schools were designed to crush the human spirit and
destroy the ability and the will to think independently - to
be CREATIVE . He said that school destroys CURIOSITY in all
but the most gifted and above all reinforces social hierarchy
values.
School mass produces the stultified , repressed personality
in the interest of the capitalist social order.
Above all what our society still needs is millions
of breeding drudges conditioned to DELAYED SATISFACTION .
Happiness postponed ...FOREVER !
No wonder we reward with lifelong job security teachers
with the deadly " gift " of breathing boredom on every
subject .
I still cherish the GREAT REBELLION of 1960s .
mindless drudgery of school " work " was at the very top of
the list of things the 60s kids rebelled against. I remember
agreeing with British philosopher Bertrand Russell who thought
that most schools were designed to crush the human spirit and
destroy the ability and the will to think independently - to
be CREATIVE . He said that school destroys CURIOSITY in all
but the most gifted and above all reinforces social hierarchy
values.
School mass produces the stultified , repressed personality
in the interest of the capitalist social order.
Above all what our society still needs is millions
of breeding drudges conditioned to DELAYED SATISFACTION .
Happiness postponed ...FOREVER !
No wonder we reward with lifelong job security teachers
with the deadly " gift " of breathing boredom on every
subject .
I still cherish the GREAT REBELLION of 1960s .
Let teens vote !
I just heard on the radio that interest in politics is at an all
time low among the nation's youth. It is hard to imagine 60s kids
being indifferent to the impending " crisis of legitimacy " in our
government.
Should seedy and reactionary old men like Henry Hyde decide the
fate of the nation behind august but CLOSED Senate doors ?
But we must face this bleak truth : too often the MAJORITY
prefers to just sleep through a political crisis. Millions of
citizens never bother to vote.
I think there is a sound argument for making voting compulsory
in a society that strives to be democratic.
And I also think there is no sound argument for denying teenagers
the right to vote. I recall nervously following the Cuban missile crisis
in 1962 -when I was only 15.
The experience of my life tells me that the virtue of CONCERN -
and intellectual alertness -hardly improve with age.
Should teenagers have the right to vote ? What do THEY think ?
time low among the nation's youth. It is hard to imagine 60s kids
being indifferent to the impending " crisis of legitimacy " in our
government.
Should seedy and reactionary old men like Henry Hyde decide the
fate of the nation behind august but CLOSED Senate doors ?
But we must face this bleak truth : too often the MAJORITY
prefers to just sleep through a political crisis. Millions of
citizens never bother to vote.
I think there is a sound argument for making voting compulsory
in a society that strives to be democratic.
And I also think there is no sound argument for denying teenagers
the right to vote. I recall nervously following the Cuban missile crisis
in 1962 -when I was only 15.
The experience of my life tells me that the virtue of CONCERN -
and intellectual alertness -hardly improve with age.
Should teenagers have the right to vote ? What do THEY think ?
Monday, January 25, 1999
Carothers cons the brothers
I just read U.R.I. president Robert L. Carother's column in
the Jan. 25 Providence Journal : " A college education is within
reach " . I am not impressed with this bureaucrat's mind. Most
kids who apply for college want that degree badly but only a
passionate minority actually want EDUCATION.
They kids see the college degree as a passport to higher
position in the social pecking order. Can the blue collar working
class -as a whole - " degree " itself out of wage slavery ? Who
would do society's dirty work ? Who will empty bed pans in
nursing homes and take out our garbage and move the furniture
of the socially mobile ?
Carothers is in reality selling a daydream to thousands of
poor kids. If they should get that bachelor degree, is a good
job then " within reach " ?
As long as society is stratified, the majority of working
class people will be living on daydreams AND buying lottery tickets.
Kids who value an education as end in itself ( knowledge may
not lead to SUCCESS but ignorance guarantees failure ) will be
less bitter when REALITY hits them . Their most likely future :
a spouse, a family, a mortgage, and a rather humdrum job -whatever
their academic credentials.
But nevertheless I wish higher education in Rhode Island
and Robert Carothers great success !
Sunday, January 24, 1999
A hail Monica pass ?
If you want a clue to the GOP mentality right now, think
of Hitler in his bunker. Perhaps desperation and consulting of horoscopes
explains the latest " hail Monica " move. Never in recent history has
a political party been more out of touch with the soul of the nation
-which is magnanimous, not cramped and hateful.
You could say that our president is indeed a victim of HATE
CRIME. No wonder blacks are so sympathetic to him !
But the politically damned cannot help themselves. By the next
election day only the most die hard,reactionary eccentrics will identify
themselves as Republicans.
The Republican Party will not simply be defeated everywhere in the
United States. It will be obliterated !
Remember the Whig party ? The Republican Party * ( see footnote )
of Hitler in his bunker. Perhaps desperation and consulting of horoscopes
explains the latest " hail Monica " move. Never in recent history has
a political party been more out of touch with the soul of the nation
-which is magnanimous, not cramped and hateful.
You could say that our president is indeed a victim of HATE
CRIME. No wonder blacks are so sympathetic to him !
But the politically damned cannot help themselves. By the next
election day only the most die hard,reactionary eccentrics will identify
themselves as Republicans.
The Republican Party will not simply be defeated everywhere in the
United States. It will be obliterated !
Remember the Whig party ? The Republican Party * ( see footnote )
Friday, January 22, 1999
Castor Oil for Anal Retentive ?
" Know thyself", Socrates advised us. Says Republican Chris
DePino : " impeachment is the castor oil of politics ...our party
has to swallow it ".
The people told the Republican " lynch Clinton " mob last
Election Day : " You're all full of s**t ! "
Indeed if there is a more ANAL RETENTIVE crowd in the whole
country than those Republican congressmen who voted to impeach
our president, I guess the American Psychiatric Association will
be interested to know about them.
Castor oil for the Republicans .. . and baby oil for
the Democrats . Baby oil is a lot less unctuous !
DePino : " impeachment is the castor oil of politics ...our party
has to swallow it ".
The people told the Republican " lynch Clinton " mob last
Election Day : " You're all full of s**t ! "
Indeed if there is a more ANAL RETENTIVE crowd in the whole
country than those Republican congressmen who voted to impeach
our president, I guess the American Psychiatric Association will
be interested to know about them.
Castor oil for the Republicans .. . and baby oil for
the Democrats . Baby oil is a lot less unctuous !
Thursday, January 21, 1999
Welcome to R.I.- Public Radio
Your editorial this morning " NPR outreach " is good news for
perhaps very many R.I. radio listeners : To " access high quality
public radio broadcasts.. " - what a relief !
By default my radio is on WLKW 550 when I awake in the morning.
What utter monotony and lack of programming imagination! I said to
myself yesterday morning :" If I hear the pop song " Fernando " ( " the
world's greatest music " ) one more time, I'll pull my enviable mop
of very thick hair out " .
Radio STILL has great potential- not recognized by capitalists
with a lot of capital but no caput. ( Latin - head )
You can LISTEN to radio even while you work -and wherever you are.
Is ANYBODY listening to me ?
perhaps very many R.I. radio listeners : To " access high quality
public radio broadcasts.. " - what a relief !
By default my radio is on WLKW 550 when I awake in the morning.
What utter monotony and lack of programming imagination! I said to
myself yesterday morning :" If I hear the pop song " Fernando " ( " the
world's greatest music " ) one more time, I'll pull my enviable mop
of very thick hair out " .
Radio STILL has great potential- not recognized by capitalists
with a lot of capital but no caput. ( Latin - head )
You can LISTEN to radio even while you work -and wherever you are.
Is ANYBODY listening to me ?
Tuesday, January 19, 1999
James Dean: " A man has a CHOICE ! "
I read with much interest your Lifebeat article this
morning : " Why do so few people take the blame for their
actions ? " ( Providence Journal, Jan.20 , page E1 ) .
There is a picture of Dan White, " who assassinated San Francisco
Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in 1979 " and
" blamed junk food addiction for his rage ".
The rule of law - indeed civilization itself - is based
not on the myth of free will but on the paradox of it : Science-
in the final analysis - seems to reject it. Perhaps " Twinkies "
can account for a cold blooded murder, just as surely as a
lack of iodine can turn a normal child into a mentally deficient
adult.
Free Will presumes that there is a divine source for the
moral law. Yet Science suggests that " In the beginning " there
was only a very restless nothingness.
It would be social suicide to deny Free Will ,just as
it may be psychological suicide to completely deny God .
Clearly every sane human being must ACT as if he were
truly free. One of the greatest scenes in James Dean's acting
career is when he reminds his dying father at the end of " East
of Eden " of his own words to his sons : " A man has a CHOICE ! "
The power of choice makes possible new beginnings. A
writer said of Steinbeck's novel : " We hear in the novel
the collective voice of the people bemoaning changes brought by
the end of the 1880s and a desire for the century to end so
that the country can begin anew ".
" A man will have clean hands once we get the lid slammed
on that stinking century ".
Happy New Year 2000 !
( quotes from " Explicator " , Spring- 1997 )
morning : " Why do so few people take the blame for their
actions ? " ( Providence Journal, Jan.20 , page E1 ) .
There is a picture of Dan White, " who assassinated San Francisco
Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in 1979 " and
" blamed junk food addiction for his rage ".
The rule of law - indeed civilization itself - is based
not on the myth of free will but on the paradox of it : Science-
in the final analysis - seems to reject it. Perhaps " Twinkies "
can account for a cold blooded murder, just as surely as a
lack of iodine can turn a normal child into a mentally deficient
adult.
Free Will presumes that there is a divine source for the
moral law. Yet Science suggests that " In the beginning " there
was only a very restless nothingness.
It would be social suicide to deny Free Will ,just as
it may be psychological suicide to completely deny God .
Clearly every sane human being must ACT as if he were
truly free. One of the greatest scenes in James Dean's acting
career is when he reminds his dying father at the end of " East
of Eden " of his own words to his sons : " A man has a CHOICE ! "
The power of choice makes possible new beginnings. A
writer said of Steinbeck's novel : " We hear in the novel
the collective voice of the people bemoaning changes brought by
the end of the 1880s and a desire for the century to end so
that the country can begin anew ".
" A man will have clean hands once we get the lid slammed
on that stinking century ".
Happy New Year 2000 !
( quotes from " Explicator " , Spring- 1997 )
I'll Take the Back of the Bus !
I am FREE, WHITE, and well past 21 . Yesterday - Martin Luther
King Day - was a dismal holiday for me here in Warwick. Why are
libraries closed on the very days that most working people can
fully appreciate them ? Is reading a book a dishonorable way to
spend this oh so politically correct holiday ?
Not being a car owner like most white devils, I would have
been pleased to ride even the back of the bus yesterday !
After 8 o'clock at night, it seems, Warwick residents- not
classy enough to own a car - are banned from Buddy Cianci's
Renaissance City, Providence , Rhode Island.
Also , I guess that Providence " types " are not welcome
in Warwick - past curfew ?
Black and whites lacking in CLASS really do have a lot in
common. So why can't WE at least get along ? We can ride the back
of the American social " bus " happily together !
King Day - was a dismal holiday for me here in Warwick. Why are
libraries closed on the very days that most working people can
fully appreciate them ? Is reading a book a dishonorable way to
spend this oh so politically correct holiday ?
Not being a car owner like most white devils, I would have
been pleased to ride even the back of the bus yesterday !
After 8 o'clock at night, it seems, Warwick residents- not
classy enough to own a car - are banned from Buddy Cianci's
Renaissance City, Providence , Rhode Island.
Also , I guess that Providence " types " are not welcome
in Warwick - past curfew ?
Black and whites lacking in CLASS really do have a lot in
common. So why can't WE at least get along ? We can ride the back
of the American social " bus " happily together !
Monday, January 18, 1999
" Show more empathy for victims of bias " - Peter Denison 's
letter in the Providence Journal, Jan. 18 - was friendly toward real
victims of racism and , I suppose, appropriate for Martin Luther King
Day. But it was still muddled. Wrote Dennison : " It is impossible for
white people to really understand how they ( minority groups ) feel. "
If understanding is IMPOSSIBLE, then how do we arrive at Martin
Luther King day ?
To say that understanding of ANYBODY is impossible is to forget
that the very essence of HUMANITY everywhere is LANGUAGE - the ability
to communicate not only our crude, animal needs but our very souls, our
hearts and minds.
If Black authors really thought that it was IMPOSSIBLE for white
people to understand them, they would just give up writing.
All the complaints of racism -real or bogus - are based on the
assumption of empathy in the vast majority of whites.
The notion of a permanent state of misunderstanding between the
races is the ideological excuse for a permanent Civil Rights bureaucracy,
consisting of permanent CRANKS - who have no vested interest in racial
harmony .
None of the letters Denison cites on The Good 5 cent Cigar
controversy struck me as racist or malicious , or even as offensive,
But then I am WHITE and it is just impossible for me to understand.
And in response to his question, I DO support the rights of
flag burners and gays, and I even support the vile anti -abortion Web
site, " The Nuremberg Files ".
I support the right of the Providence Journal to publish those
letters he considers so offensive and " racist ".
Quickly re-reading his letter, I must ask : Is Peter B. Dennison
a member of a minority group or just an extraordinary WHITE person- gifted
with EMPATHY ?
letter in the Providence Journal, Jan. 18 - was friendly toward real
victims of racism and , I suppose, appropriate for Martin Luther King
Day. But it was still muddled. Wrote Dennison : " It is impossible for
white people to really understand how they ( minority groups ) feel. "
If understanding is IMPOSSIBLE, then how do we arrive at Martin
Luther King day ?
To say that understanding of ANYBODY is impossible is to forget
that the very essence of HUMANITY everywhere is LANGUAGE - the ability
to communicate not only our crude, animal needs but our very souls, our
hearts and minds.
If Black authors really thought that it was IMPOSSIBLE for white
people to understand them, they would just give up writing.
All the complaints of racism -real or bogus - are based on the
assumption of empathy in the vast majority of whites.
The notion of a permanent state of misunderstanding between the
races is the ideological excuse for a permanent Civil Rights bureaucracy,
consisting of permanent CRANKS - who have no vested interest in racial
harmony .
None of the letters Denison cites on The Good 5 cent Cigar
controversy struck me as racist or malicious , or even as offensive,
But then I am WHITE and it is just impossible for me to understand.
And in response to his question, I DO support the rights of
flag burners and gays, and I even support the vile anti -abortion Web
site, " The Nuremberg Files ".
I support the right of the Providence Journal to publish those
letters he considers so offensive and " racist ".
Quickly re-reading his letter, I must ask : Is Peter B. Dennison
a member of a minority group or just an extraordinary WHITE person- gifted
with EMPATHY ?
Every Day " Ground Hog Day " ?
I just heard on the radio that Boris Yeltsin is BACK in the
hospital. Is Ground Hog Day in January or is it every day ? There is
something VERY STRANGE about the news for YEARS now. Nothing ever gets
resolved. The same headlines, repeating the same phrases day after day.
After a while it all begins to seem like a drunk's dream !
In Rhode Island it seems that the very same people DIE every
week. Tonight I expect to hear that my religious fanatic brother is
going to visit the La Salette shrine - for the 1,000,000 time . And
this morning , I expect to read an editorial in the Providence Journal
pointing out Bill Clinton's despicable lack of character ... " lying
under oath ... high crimes and misdemeanors ".
The stock market will be UP 100 points or DOWN 100 points. Another
Rhode Island politician will be going to jail or leaving jail.
People will write letters asking : " Is God there ? "
I have a new theory about God - far from that dreary atheism : God
got bored with this whole mess a long time ago !
hospital. Is Ground Hog Day in January or is it every day ? There is
something VERY STRANGE about the news for YEARS now. Nothing ever gets
resolved. The same headlines, repeating the same phrases day after day.
After a while it all begins to seem like a drunk's dream !
In Rhode Island it seems that the very same people DIE every
week. Tonight I expect to hear that my religious fanatic brother is
going to visit the La Salette shrine - for the 1,000,000 time . And
this morning , I expect to read an editorial in the Providence Journal
pointing out Bill Clinton's despicable lack of character ... " lying
under oath ... high crimes and misdemeanors ".
The stock market will be UP 100 points or DOWN 100 points. Another
Rhode Island politician will be going to jail or leaving jail.
People will write letters asking : " Is God there ? "
I have a new theory about God - far from that dreary atheism : God
got bored with this whole mess a long time ago !
Sunday, January 17, 1999
Scott Molloy - labor faker ?
I agree with Mark Patinkin's suggestion in his column today
that the quality of INTELLIGENCE is not incompatible with unionism .
However, I would hesitate to suggest that hundreds of striking
nurses at Women & Infants are lacking in in this quality.
Labor professor, Scott Molloy, made an ass of himself when he
said : " Like who cares about 200 Archie Bunkers out on a picket line ? "
( Jan 17, Providence Sunday Journal -page A 24 )
I hope that crack does not sum up Molloy's attitude toward the
vast majority of blue collar unionized workers -who are NOT hateful,
reactionary bigots. Did he see his unionized bus drivers as Archie Bunker
types ?
Perhaps one John L.Lewis is worth 1000 phony labor professors.
After reading Molloy's " Archie Bunker " garbage, I might even prefer
a REAL Jimmy Hoffa !
Say hi to the URI JANITORS for me, Scott .
that the quality of INTELLIGENCE is not incompatible with unionism .
However, I would hesitate to suggest that hundreds of striking
nurses at Women & Infants are lacking in in this quality.
Labor professor, Scott Molloy, made an ass of himself when he
said : " Like who cares about 200 Archie Bunkers out on a picket line ? "
( Jan 17, Providence Sunday Journal -page A 24 )
I hope that crack does not sum up Molloy's attitude toward the
vast majority of blue collar unionized workers -who are NOT hateful,
reactionary bigots. Did he see his unionized bus drivers as Archie Bunker
types ?
Perhaps one John L.Lewis is worth 1000 phony labor professors.
After reading Molloy's " Archie Bunker " garbage, I might even prefer
a REAL Jimmy Hoffa !
Say hi to the URI JANITORS for me, Scott .
Thursday, January 14, 1999
Free Speech and " Nuremberg Files " Web site
I just read the front page article in today's New York Times-
" Anti-Abortion Site On Web Has Ignited Free Speech Debate ". There
is no doubt in my mind that " The Nuremberg Files " creators are
more like the Nazis than the assorted medical doctors willing to
perform abortion for any woman freely seeking this still legal
service.
But I would not oppose their pathological Web site - with
its " hit lists ". There are now MILLIONS of Web sites . The
government should just forget about challenging the very existence
of ANY them .
The law should not deal with states of mind, just with
criminal deeds. Perhaps such an ugly site is a " healthy " outlet
for violent opinions that demand expression.
What Presidents of the United States have observed is true
for the rest of us : If someone is absolutely determined to kill
or harm us - and is also willing to take big personal risks doing
it - there is just not much we can do about it .
There has been very little psychoanalysis of anti-abortion
fanatics. Modern psychiatry - with its dumb enthusiasm for " miracle
drugs " - is ignoring the human soul.
A hint at the mind of an anti-abortion fanatic : a
man whom I know very well -who frequently ranted and raved about
the EVIL of abortion - suddenly cracked up one dreary January
day... he was found naked in his oldest brother's bedroom, curled
up IN THE FETAL POSITION ! His sixteen year old daughter was
pregnant . He is being " treated " with lithium, but the drug
does nothing to cure his very sick soul .
" Anti-Abortion Site On Web Has Ignited Free Speech Debate ". There
is no doubt in my mind that " The Nuremberg Files " creators are
more like the Nazis than the assorted medical doctors willing to
perform abortion for any woman freely seeking this still legal
service.
But I would not oppose their pathological Web site - with
its " hit lists ". There are now MILLIONS of Web sites . The
government should just forget about challenging the very existence
of ANY them .
The law should not deal with states of mind, just with
criminal deeds. Perhaps such an ugly site is a " healthy " outlet
for violent opinions that demand expression.
What Presidents of the United States have observed is true
for the rest of us : If someone is absolutely determined to kill
or harm us - and is also willing to take big personal risks doing
it - there is just not much we can do about it .
There has been very little psychoanalysis of anti-abortion
fanatics. Modern psychiatry - with its dumb enthusiasm for " miracle
drugs " - is ignoring the human soul.
A hint at the mind of an anti-abortion fanatic : a
man whom I know very well -who frequently ranted and raved about
the EVIL of abortion - suddenly cracked up one dreary January
day... he was found naked in his oldest brother's bedroom, curled
up IN THE FETAL POSITION ! His sixteen year old daughter was
pregnant . He is being " treated " with lithium, but the drug
does nothing to cure his very sick soul .
RIPTA - Good News for Warwick !
A front page article by Ralph Busby in the Jan.14 Warwick
Beacon -" New RIPTA routes to enhance city service - " reports
good news for Warwick's bus riders : after 35 years of public
transportation inflexibility, a recognition that " things need
to change dramatically ".
With an aging population, all Rhode Island should want
to support RIPTA efforts to improve, in every which way, public
transportation here. We just can't have a half a million senior
citizens driving around in cars all day ! It ain't SAFE !
Although I have a valid drivers license -and an excellent
driving record - I choose not to own my own car. I share Ralph
Nader's view of this twentieth century nemesis.( What can
be more un-American than car hating ? )
So if I get people like myself elected to high office,
you'll all be enjoying the benefits of socialized medicine in
your old age AND be riding the bus to the pharmacy .
One suggestion for RIPTA service in Warwick : Why
is downtown off limits for riders after 8 o'clock at night
and completely off limits on Sunday ? ( downtown Providence )
Forget all that fuss
Just take the bus !
Beacon -" New RIPTA routes to enhance city service - " reports
good news for Warwick's bus riders : after 35 years of public
transportation inflexibility, a recognition that " things need
to change dramatically ".
With an aging population, all Rhode Island should want
to support RIPTA efforts to improve, in every which way, public
transportation here. We just can't have a half a million senior
citizens driving around in cars all day ! It ain't SAFE !
Although I have a valid drivers license -and an excellent
driving record - I choose not to own my own car. I share Ralph
Nader's view of this twentieth century nemesis.( What can
be more un-American than car hating ? )
So if I get people like myself elected to high office,
you'll all be enjoying the benefits of socialized medicine in
your old age AND be riding the bus to the pharmacy .
One suggestion for RIPTA service in Warwick : Why
is downtown off limits for riders after 8 o'clock at night
and completely off limits on Sunday ? ( downtown Providence )
Forget all that fuss
Just take the bus !
Things we lose sleep over
I'm half asleep myself when I hear on the radio this important
news: " Henry Hyde says he will lose sleep if his Bill Clinton
prosecutors do not deliver a 4 star performance in a Senate Trial.
Does this old Republican fart ever lose sleep over HOMELESSNESS
in this country ? Or obscene gap between the rich and the poor ? Or
the harm done by the cigarette companies ? Or the millions of WORKING
people without health insurance ? Or the shameless neglect of the
mentally ill "
Worry not Henry over losing sleep: You will soon be sleeping
the sleep of the JUST!
I wrote to The Warwick Beacon about a Republican candidate
for city council who seemed to be losing sleep over school lunch
programs . He LOST !
news: " Henry Hyde says he will lose sleep if his Bill Clinton
prosecutors do not deliver a 4 star performance in a Senate Trial.
Does this old Republican fart ever lose sleep over HOMELESSNESS
in this country ? Or obscene gap between the rich and the poor ? Or
the harm done by the cigarette companies ? Or the millions of WORKING
people without health insurance ? Or the shameless neglect of the
mentally ill "
Worry not Henry over losing sleep: You will soon be sleeping
the sleep of the JUST!
I wrote to The Warwick Beacon about a Republican candidate
for city council who seemed to be losing sleep over school lunch
programs . He LOST !
Wednesday, January 13, 1999
Joe Mollicone and the ACI Redemption
Good morning , Bob. I am no more inclined to shout " Free
Ed " than I was to shout " Free Charlie Manson " in the Golden
Age of Protest .
But Ed can least find some inspiration in the Stephen King
movie " Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption ".
You note that Ed is imprisoned with guys who never
buy life insurance . A key to " success " in prison is to
make yourself USEFUL . Ed should consider giving his fellow
felons FREE ADVICE.
In the meantime I will try -through my Sicilian connections
on Federal Hill to send him a rubber chisel and a large poster
of Joe Mollicone.
Have a nice day - Ron
Ed " than I was to shout " Free Charlie Manson " in the Golden
Age of Protest .
But Ed can least find some inspiration in the Stephen King
movie " Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption ".
You note that Ed is imprisoned with guys who never
buy life insurance . A key to " success " in prison is to
make yourself USEFUL . Ed should consider giving his fellow
felons FREE ADVICE.
In the meantime I will try -through my Sicilian connections
on Federal Hill to send him a rubber chisel and a large poster
of Joe Mollicone.
Have a nice day - Ron
A "concomitant " of haste
Good morning , fellow progressives. It is hardly important, but
just for the record I misspelled " concomitant " in a letter I
recently sent you. Misspelling is often just a CONCOMITANT of
haste.
My working class perspective is a CONCOMITANT of my
working class INCOME.
As Karl Marx observed somewhere : " A man thinks differently
in a palace than he does in a hut ".
By the way , the striking workers at Women & Infants Hospital
can now collect weekly unemployment benefits ( unless there is
some appeal complication ).
I was very inspired by a pro-union article by former Providence
College vice-president, Father Lennon, that appeared in the Catholic
weekly " The Providence Visitor " ( Jan 7 ) . I hope the People's
Weekly World will be able to reprint. Needless to say the good
priest would not describe himself as a flaming Marxist !
But for the working class of America, there is indeed STRENGTH
IN UNITY .
- - - - - - - - - -
comment: From: rgiovanoni@pww.org (Rich Giovanoni)
To: ar803@osfn.org
Subject: Thanks for info on Fr. Lennon article
Date: Tue, 12 Jan
Dear Ron Ruggieri,
Thank you for informing us about the Father Lennon article. We
downloaded it off the web.
We will consider reprinting it in the People's Weekly World if
we get permission.
Sincerely,
Rich Giovanoni for the PWW staff
just for the record I misspelled " concomitant " in a letter I
recently sent you. Misspelling is often just a CONCOMITANT of
haste.
My working class perspective is a CONCOMITANT of my
working class INCOME.
As Karl Marx observed somewhere : " A man thinks differently
in a palace than he does in a hut ".
By the way , the striking workers at Women & Infants Hospital
can now collect weekly unemployment benefits ( unless there is
some appeal complication ).
I was very inspired by a pro-union article by former Providence
College vice-president, Father Lennon, that appeared in the Catholic
weekly " The Providence Visitor " ( Jan 7 ) . I hope the People's
Weekly World will be able to reprint. Needless to say the good
priest would not describe himself as a flaming Marxist !
But for the working class of America, there is indeed STRENGTH
IN UNITY .
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comment: From: rgiovanoni@pww.org (Rich Giovanoni)
To: ar803@osfn.org
Subject: Thanks for info on Fr. Lennon article
Date: Tue, 12 Jan
Dear Ron Ruggieri,
Thank you for informing us about the Father Lennon article. We
downloaded it off the web.
We will consider reprinting it in the People's Weekly World if
we get permission.
Sincerely,
Rich Giovanoni for the PWW staff
Joe Mollicone and the ACI Redemption (to Bob Kerr @Projo.com)
Good morning , Bob. I am no more inclined to shout " Free
Ed " than I was to shout " Free Charlie Manson " in the Golden
Age of Protest .
But Ed can least find some inspiration in the Stephen King
movie " Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption ".
You note that Ed is imprisoned with guys who never
buy life insurance . A key to " success " in prison is to
make yourself USEFUL . Ed should consider giving his fellow
felons FREE ADVICE.
In the meantime I will try -through my Sicilian connections
on Federal Hill to send him a rubber chisel and a large poster
of Joe Mollicone.
Have a nice day - Ron
Ed " than I was to shout " Free Charlie Manson " in the Golden
Age of Protest .
But Ed can least find some inspiration in the Stephen King
movie " Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption ".
You note that Ed is imprisoned with guys who never
buy life insurance . A key to " success " in prison is to
make yourself USEFUL . Ed should consider giving his fellow
felons FREE ADVICE.
In the meantime I will try -through my Sicilian connections
on Federal Hill to send him a rubber chisel and a large poster
of Joe Mollicone.
Have a nice day - Ron
Tuesday, January 12, 1999
Etymology in the news
A hospital area is no place for any kind of violence -no
matter what the provocation. If there is one place where people
should understand the preciousness and fragility of life, it is
on the grounds of the hospital ( as well as inside! )
I completely support the cause of 1199 at Women & Infants
Hospital. But I urge the hot heads to cool it. I believe the
public will support them.
Anyway an article on the strike violence has an item
that would interest amateur etymologists ( Jan. 12, page B3 ) :
Mary Sousa was , a mail courier, was surrounded by a crowd
of pickets the first day of the strike. " Someone also threw a
rock at her window ", the paper says. She described herself
as being " totally PETRIFIED " . As petrified as a kidney
stone, I guess.
On " Sixty Minutes " last Sunday there was a story
about a very dignified and intelligent black man -living
in exile - because way back in 1960 boorish draft board
officials just would not address HIM as MISTER.
According to the dictionary " mister " is just a variation
of MASTER " reflecting reduced stress "
You can see why resentful MASTERS would hesitate to call
an offspring of black slaves, MISTER !
But was all this worth a lifetime of exile ?
matter what the provocation. If there is one place where people
should understand the preciousness and fragility of life, it is
on the grounds of the hospital ( as well as inside! )
I completely support the cause of 1199 at Women & Infants
Hospital. But I urge the hot heads to cool it. I believe the
public will support them.
Anyway an article on the strike violence has an item
that would interest amateur etymologists ( Jan. 12, page B3 ) :
Mary Sousa was , a mail courier, was surrounded by a crowd
of pickets the first day of the strike. " Someone also threw a
rock at her window ", the paper says. She described herself
as being " totally PETRIFIED " . As petrified as a kidney
stone, I guess.
On " Sixty Minutes " last Sunday there was a story
about a very dignified and intelligent black man -living
in exile - because way back in 1960 boorish draft board
officials just would not address HIM as MISTER.
According to the dictionary " mister " is just a variation
of MASTER " reflecting reduced stress "
You can see why resentful MASTERS would hesitate to call
an offspring of black slaves, MISTER !
But was all this worth a lifetime of exile ?
An Oliver Stone perspective
I just read Faith McNulty 's letter " Assassination " in the
Providence Journal (Jan.12 ) . She sees President Clinton as the victim
of a legal " assassination " process. And when it is all over " we'll
probably never know " the true nature of the conspiracy against the
modest democracy that we still have.
My father was impressed by a mini-series that appeared on TV
some years ago : " Captains and Kings " The theme was that a handful of
very powerful and wealthy individuals decide -in the long run - the fate
of nations.
American sociologists rarely talk about the American ruling class.
THEY were real enough to Papa Joe Kennedy. He tried to enter this circle
without the proper credentials . He paid for the family's remarkable
success.
Today Patrick Kennedy is loathed by THEM . Looking at their
murderous henchmen in the government, can the REAL THING be far
from consideration ? I wonder .
Providence Journal (Jan.12 ) . She sees President Clinton as the victim
of a legal " assassination " process. And when it is all over " we'll
probably never know " the true nature of the conspiracy against the
modest democracy that we still have.
My father was impressed by a mini-series that appeared on TV
some years ago : " Captains and Kings " The theme was that a handful of
very powerful and wealthy individuals decide -in the long run - the fate
of nations.
American sociologists rarely talk about the American ruling class.
THEY were real enough to Papa Joe Kennedy. He tried to enter this circle
without the proper credentials . He paid for the family's remarkable
success.
Today Patrick Kennedy is loathed by THEM . Looking at their
murderous henchmen in the government, can the REAL THING be far
from consideration ? I wonder .
Monday, January 11, 1999
The Cyber-Pamphleteer
The movie Doctor Zhivago begins with " crazy " Pasha - the
future Red Guard general - distributing seemingly pathetic
leaflets in Moscow Square. The Czarist secret police are unamused :
they confiscate his leaflets. But when the " pigs " are out of
sight, he finds more leaflets hidden in his winter coat.
" They'll sing in tune after the revolution ! " a sinister
character jokes .
Most Americans will at least admire Pasha's FREE SPEECH
effort -if not its future consequences.
Pasha would have loved to have what I have for
FREE - The Ocean State Free Net and ubiquitous public library
computers.
I am working on the concept of the " Cyber- Pamphleteer ".
I do electronically what Pasha attempted to do in the heroic,
but old fashioned. And I do it with a thousand times more
efficiency.
When I wish to communicate a brief opinion - which
guarantees reading - I select HUNDREDS of OSFN e-mail addresses
at random. It takes only minutes to MASS MAIL !
Often I get immediate feedback : " Don't bother me today.
I'm too busy ! " Or " Viva La Revolucion ! "
I 'm not exactly The New York Times in credibility. But
nothing to sniff at either. I think !
future Red Guard general - distributing seemingly pathetic
leaflets in Moscow Square. The Czarist secret police are unamused :
they confiscate his leaflets. But when the " pigs " are out of
sight, he finds more leaflets hidden in his winter coat.
" They'll sing in tune after the revolution ! " a sinister
character jokes .
Most Americans will at least admire Pasha's FREE SPEECH
effort -if not its future consequences.
Pasha would have loved to have what I have for
FREE - The Ocean State Free Net and ubiquitous public library
computers.
I am working on the concept of the " Cyber- Pamphleteer ".
I do electronically what Pasha attempted to do in the heroic,
but old fashioned. And I do it with a thousand times more
efficiency.
When I wish to communicate a brief opinion - which
guarantees reading - I select HUNDREDS of OSFN e-mail addresses
at random. It takes only minutes to MASS MAIL !
Often I get immediate feedback : " Don't bother me today.
I'm too busy ! " Or " Viva La Revolucion ! "
I 'm not exactly The New York Times in credibility. But
nothing to sniff at either. I think !
How I aborted my nephew - ( from TRUE CONFESSIONS )
My brother John is beginning to feel ripe for Fatherhood in
his late thirties. On my mothers birthday he shows up at the house
with a potential candidate for mother of his kid. But I was not
impressed for a number of reasons and big brother's opinion carries
a lot of weight :
I called him the very next day with this advice : " Forget
about it, John . She SMOKES !
his late thirties. On my mothers birthday he shows up at the house
with a potential candidate for mother of his kid. But I was not
impressed for a number of reasons and big brother's opinion carries
a lot of weight :
I called him the very next day with this advice : " Forget
about it, John . She SMOKES !
Saturday, January 9, 1999
THE REVEREND Ahlburn?
I enjoy the Rev. Thomas E. Ahlburn 's columns that appear
now and then in your Saturday Religion section. And I wish he had an
E-mail address. I AGREE with the man .Yet he annoys me, because in a
way he a bit of a charlatan himself: If God is simply not a REALITY for
him, then why not drop the REVEREND Thomas farce ? Is not his First
Unitarian Church really just a social club for respectable people
who are too sophisticated to worship God but also too sophisticated
NOT to worship middle class success ?
Is the REVEREND Ahlburn the ideal Sunday morning preacher
for non-believing East Side chiropractors ?
Does his column - which I admire - belong on the Religion page ?
Dominus Vobiscum !
Friday, January 8, 1999
Bean counters spit on " miracle of life " (to Bob Kerr @Projo.com)
Thanks for another quality column Bob. Those bean counters
spit on the " miracle of life ". I just hope those Women and Infants
can collect weekly unemployment benefits. And I hope the strike can
be settled with a minimum of groveling on the part of the harried
workers.
I know it sounds " crackpot " to many still, but I say nationalize
the entire health care industry . Take the BUSINESS out of health care !
Have a HEALTHY day Bob ( with health care workers on strike )
note: W&I nurses
bon
Ron Ruggieri
Thursday, January 7, 1999
Safe Chemistry Class
If anybody observed me a couple of weeks ago in front of
a computer screen at main branch of Cranston Public Library, they
might have concluded that I was thrilled by violent and colorful
explosions. Did I miss my true vocation ?
Actually I was fascinated by the computer program, " Chemistry
Set. " All the chemistry you never learned in high school or
college made more playful and a lot safer.
A lot of time is wasted in school chemistry labs just
making a mess, fearing the Big Bang right there, and your mind
freezing with the fear of appearing an inept dummkopf.
The Chemistry Set accelerates the learning process. For
example , the student can instantly view in rotating three
dimensions any molecule being discussed. In a click one gets
important data - boiling point, freezing point, solubility,
preparation and uses, etc - on hundreds of elements and
compounds.
In a click one gets summary biographys of important
chemists like Lavoisier and Cavendish .
I just wish there were many more everyday experiments
on film. Girls who are shy about making a mess of themselves
now have no excuse not to learn a little basic chemistry.
Will the alarm go off again as the strange man with the
mysterious black bag exits the library ?
Dave gets A
Good morning Dave . I just read your column . I would give
it A+ for rhetorical respectability- and considering other columns on
this divisive issue - give A for class.
I can accept " high misdemeanor " now that the Senate trial is
a reality the nation must live with.
But I would VOTE -if I could - with your favorite Rhode Island
politician, The Honorable Patrick Kennedy . ( if he could too )
What could ruin President Clinton instantly would be Hillary
herself publicly humiliating him : " You're a liar and a cheat and
I want the House ! "
Then it would become clear that the issue is now BEYOND the
laws of the land. The President is ALSO the chief public relations
officer of American society. He would be immediately crippled in THIS
function if Hillary turned on him .
That is the ONE circumstance in which a Clinton resignation -
whatever his legal position - would be advised by his most loyal
supporters.
I hope the country will get over this crap !
Have a nice day - ron
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comment from Dave Brussat
Ron - Thanks for your note. If I were the Democratic Party, I would be
bullshit at Clinton, who has veered to the right, beyond center, and then
plunged the party into humiliation. I hope you'll enjoy our editorial about
Patrick in tomorrow's paper (unless it's pulled!).
- Dave
it A+ for rhetorical respectability- and considering other columns on
this divisive issue - give A for class.
I can accept " high misdemeanor " now that the Senate trial is
a reality the nation must live with.
But I would VOTE -if I could - with your favorite Rhode Island
politician, The Honorable Patrick Kennedy . ( if he could too )
What could ruin President Clinton instantly would be Hillary
herself publicly humiliating him : " You're a liar and a cheat and
I want the House ! "
Then it would become clear that the issue is now BEYOND the
laws of the land. The President is ALSO the chief public relations
officer of American society. He would be immediately crippled in THIS
function if Hillary turned on him .
That is the ONE circumstance in which a Clinton resignation -
whatever his legal position - would be advised by his most loyal
supporters.
I hope the country will get over this crap !
Have a nice day - ron
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comment from Dave Brussat
Ron - Thanks for your note. If I were the Democratic Party, I would be
bullshit at Clinton, who has veered to the right, beyond center, and then
plunged the party into humiliation. I hope you'll enjoy our editorial about
Patrick in tomorrow's paper (unless it's pulled!).
- Dave
Wednesday, January 6, 1999
Can DNA locate pharaoh's own ?
There are plenty of fairly well preserved Egyptian mummies, already
objects of medical research . Many of these mummies were the most
exalted rulers of their day , a few vainglorious conquerors .And many
of them reproduced royally; one pharaoh, I read, fathered nearly 100
children.
I wonder if modern " miracle " DNA testing of the present Egyptian
population - especially the people whose features recall the ancient
Egyptian as pictured on those colossal buildings near the Valley of
the Dead - can establish definite kinship with old dynasties.
I don't know what good would come from such an ambitious
genealogical project : Could some obscure Egyptian citizen claim
King Tut's wealth ? Perhaps there would be a new version of " The Mummy's
Curse " !
Now if some of those mummies can be cloned ?
objects of medical research . Many of these mummies were the most
exalted rulers of their day , a few vainglorious conquerors .And many
of them reproduced royally; one pharaoh, I read, fathered nearly 100
children.
I wonder if modern " miracle " DNA testing of the present Egyptian
population - especially the people whose features recall the ancient
Egyptian as pictured on those colossal buildings near the Valley of
the Dead - can establish definite kinship with old dynasties.
I don't know what good would come from such an ambitious
genealogical project : Could some obscure Egyptian citizen claim
King Tut's wealth ? Perhaps there would be a new version of " The Mummy's
Curse " !
Now if some of those mummies can be cloned ?
Dr. Freud asked it too ! (to Gail Ciampa @ ProJo.com)
Dear Gail, your exuberant column today reminded me of a conclusion
I arrived at decades ago: There is no passion in the world that can
rival MOTHERHOOD .
Dr. Freud asked this rather sexist question : " But just WHAT does
a woman want? "
What she wants Doctor is a BABY, preferably " the most perfect girl
in the whole wide world ".
And a few other things to make the joy complete !
Have a nice day ron
I arrived at decades ago: There is no passion in the world that can
rival MOTHERHOOD .
Dr. Freud asked this rather sexist question : " But just WHAT does
a woman want? "
What she wants Doctor is a BABY, preferably " the most perfect girl
in the whole wide world ".
And a few other things to make the joy complete !
Have a nice day ron
Tuesday, January 5, 1999
Jeff Jacoby's drool
Boston Globe columnist, Jeff Jacoby, must fancy himself
- madly - as a patient conservative educator desperately trying to
wisen up misguided and oh so HATEFUL liberals. He thinks it has been
a banner year for Liberal Hate.
I am more than willing to learn useful things from conservatives
and they have the perfectly human right to try to modify or change
my opinions. After all, I never stop READING them !
But on the Clinton impeachment controversy I have read very few
intellectually respectable articles or columns written by self -described
conservatives. They invariably indulge in repetitious drivel, the same
phrases over and over again - repeated with as much subtlety as a sledge
hammer on a stone wall: " obstruction of justice ... lying under
oath... no honor or integrity . "
This style of arguing is more worth of the Nazis under Hitler.
For Jacoby to talk about Liberal Hate is lot like Hitler talking
about Jewish insolence . ( more worthy )
- madly - as a patient conservative educator desperately trying to
wisen up misguided and oh so HATEFUL liberals. He thinks it has been
a banner year for Liberal Hate.
I am more than willing to learn useful things from conservatives
and they have the perfectly human right to try to modify or change
my opinions. After all, I never stop READING them !
But on the Clinton impeachment controversy I have read very few
intellectually respectable articles or columns written by self -described
conservatives. They invariably indulge in repetitious drivel, the same
phrases over and over again - repeated with as much subtlety as a sledge
hammer on a stone wall: " obstruction of justice ... lying under
oath... no honor or integrity . "
This style of arguing is more worth of the Nazis under Hitler.
For Jacoby to talk about Liberal Hate is lot like Hitler talking
about Jewish insolence . ( more worthy )
Would God lie to us ?
I guess there is no fool like a fool for God ! Dean Merrill,
vice president of the International Bible Society, wrote President
Clinton - who at least tells the truth most of the time - that he
betrayed his own leadership of the country when he lied about the Monica
naughtiness.
Mr. Merrill must take the WORD OF GOD very seriously . But
God must be a more brazen liar than Bill Clinton - if HE is the source,
the AUTHORITY behind the Good Book .
If lies were made of dynamite , the Holy Bible would blow up a
whole city every time a credulous believer opened it !
Let us pray that the crackpot Religious Right does not drive a
democratically elected president , the Honorable Bill Clinton, from high
office.
The Truth shall KEEP us free !
vice president of the International Bible Society, wrote President
Clinton - who at least tells the truth most of the time - that he
betrayed his own leadership of the country when he lied about the Monica
naughtiness.
Mr. Merrill must take the WORD OF GOD very seriously . But
God must be a more brazen liar than Bill Clinton - if HE is the source,
the AUTHORITY behind the Good Book .
If lies were made of dynamite , the Holy Bible would blow up a
whole city every time a credulous believer opened it !
Let us pray that the crackpot Religious Right does not drive a
democratically elected president , the Honorable Bill Clinton, from high
office.
The Truth shall KEEP us free !
Monday, January 4, 1999
The last time I was inside the Nathanael Greene Homestead -
recently vandalized by scumbags ( Providence Journal, Jan.4 , page C6 ) -
it was , I recall very well, as guest of young Thomas Greene , the
descendant of the famous general, second in command to George Washington
during the Revolutionary War. At least a spark of Nathanael , I see,
survives in Thomas , now president of the homestead's board of directors :
" Those robbers better thank their lucky stars they're not within
arm's reach . "
This same Thomas Greene was a very well liked member of our
Conversational Spanish class at Community College of Rhode Island . It
was taught by Olga Ingelse ( forgive any misspelling ) . The class
members went their separate ways about 20 years ago. But we spent
the last day as guests of Thomas Greene at the old homestead of
the illustrious General Nathanael Green . It was a very pleasant
end to Conversational Spanish.
I recall Thomas telling me after an amateurish " lecture ",
that I had some flair for dramatics.
Without any dramatics, I hope people will donate generously
to make up for the $1500.00 stolen in tools that were needed to
keep up the homestead. History belongs to everybody !
Call 821-8630 or " write to Mierka at 50 Taft St., Coventry,
Rhode Island - 02816 . " ( Projo article information )
recently vandalized by scumbags ( Providence Journal, Jan.4 , page C6 ) -
it was , I recall very well, as guest of young Thomas Greene , the
descendant of the famous general, second in command to George Washington
during the Revolutionary War. At least a spark of Nathanael , I see,
survives in Thomas , now president of the homestead's board of directors :
" Those robbers better thank their lucky stars they're not within
arm's reach . "
This same Thomas Greene was a very well liked member of our
Conversational Spanish class at Community College of Rhode Island . It
was taught by Olga Ingelse ( forgive any misspelling ) . The class
members went their separate ways about 20 years ago. But we spent
the last day as guests of Thomas Greene at the old homestead of
the illustrious General Nathanael Green . It was a very pleasant
end to Conversational Spanish.
I recall Thomas telling me after an amateurish " lecture ",
that I had some flair for dramatics.
Without any dramatics, I hope people will donate generously
to make up for the $1500.00 stolen in tools that were needed to
keep up the homestead. History belongs to everybody !
Call 821-8630 or " write to Mierka at 50 Taft St., Coventry,
Rhode Island - 02816 . " ( Projo article information )
Saturday, January 2, 1999
"High crimes and misdemeanors" ?
In the Providence Journal, Jan. 2, in the Commentary page
vociferous " Voices around the nation " continue to refer to
the " President's lack of integrity and honor " and how he " must
be tried for his high crimes and misdemeanors ".
Do these people know something that ordinary American citizens-
not lacking in integrity and honor - do not know or refuse to know ?
Isn't even a president entitled to a fair trial in which " high
crimes and misdemeanors " can be established beyond a shadow of a doubt ?
Does anybody get to serve on a jury in this country who loudly
proclaims his contempt for the accused , his predetermined conclusion
of GUILT ?
In the court of public opinion - which cannot be disdained in
a genuine DEMOCRACY - President Clinton is already NOT GUILTY of any
impeachable offense . Just yesterday we learned that he is 1998 's
" Most Admired " man !
It follows from this that the LEAST ADMIRED people in the nation
are those vicious and reckless Republican Congressmen who voted to
impeach Bill Clinton.
Indeed so odious are they that someday in Washington D.C. a
monument might be built to their SHAME !
vociferous " Voices around the nation " continue to refer to
the " President's lack of integrity and honor " and how he " must
be tried for his high crimes and misdemeanors ".
Do these people know something that ordinary American citizens-
not lacking in integrity and honor - do not know or refuse to know ?
Isn't even a president entitled to a fair trial in which " high
crimes and misdemeanors " can be established beyond a shadow of a doubt ?
Does anybody get to serve on a jury in this country who loudly
proclaims his contempt for the accused , his predetermined conclusion
of GUILT ?
In the court of public opinion - which cannot be disdained in
a genuine DEMOCRACY - President Clinton is already NOT GUILTY of any
impeachable offense . Just yesterday we learned that he is 1998 's
" Most Admired " man !
It follows from this that the LEAST ADMIRED people in the nation
are those vicious and reckless Republican Congressmen who voted to
impeach Bill Clinton.
Indeed so odious are they that someday in Washington D.C. a
monument might be built to their SHAME !
Friday, January 1, 1999
Is Clinton the anti- Christ ?
Not to my dismay I read on the front page of the Boston
Globe this New Year's morning : " Most Admired " ( under picture of
President Bill ) . But then I wondered about the editorial in my
still indispensable Providence Journal : " Prepare for the end " .
I must ask the Projo editor : Is " Most Admired " choice for 1998
a clear sign of THE END ? I know the Religious Right had Bill's
number as the Anti-Christ when he began his presidency with a national
health care plan .
I think Bill Clinton is one of those rare politicians with
the Elvis Touch . The GOP hound dogs will never get him !
Globe this New Year's morning : " Most Admired " ( under picture of
President Bill ) . But then I wondered about the editorial in my
still indispensable Providence Journal : " Prepare for the end " .
I must ask the Projo editor : Is " Most Admired " choice for 1998
a clear sign of THE END ? I know the Religious Right had Bill's
number as the Anti-Christ when he began his presidency with a national
health care plan .
I think Bill Clinton is one of those rare politicians with
the Elvis Touch . The GOP hound dogs will never get him !
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