JULY 22, 2008 --

LPR Memo to Sen. McCain

LPR strongly recommends that your campaign study Federalist 57 and follow its counsel. Please consider, Federalist 57 calls on officials to be in communion of interests and "sympathy of sentiments" with the people "without which every government degenerates into tyranny."

Had Phil Gramm followed this advice, its is unlikely that he would have made that clearly unsympathetic “nation of whiners” remark. The silence of both campaigns on the issue of oppressive credit card interest rates suggests silent rejection of the advice given us by the Framers of the Constitution.

If you stand with the people let them know it by using Federalist 57 as your guide.

JULY 7, 2008 --

Mayor Bloomberg, where are you?

The strike LPR mentioned in May -- at a Bronx nursing home -- continues.

The strike, at Kingsbridge Heights Rehabilitation and Care Center, started February 20.

The strikers reportedly are demanding health benefits.  If no one crossed their picket line, the elderly and infirm and, probably, indigent patients at Kingsbridge would have no health care at all.  

JULY 7, 2008 --

Tanglewood …

The portrait of a gentle breeze

The twilight of a tune

No, it should be called melody, please

And up above -- the moon

People sitting in their seats

Others on the lawn

The conductor gestures for his beats

Somewhere a listener forlorn

The lights come on quite suddenly

Soon of music there will be more

But first crowds rush aggressively

For keepsakes at the souvenir store