MARCH 28,
2005 --
Just Wondering …
We know that Michael Schiavo has said that his wife did not
want to live if incapacitated. Do we know what his wishes for Terri Schiavo
have been?
Is it generally known that Michael Schiavo's attorney, Mr. Felos, is a euthanasia
advocate?
Will Governor Jeb
Bush be criticized for not finding ways and means to keep Terri Schiavo
alive?
MARCH 27,
2005 --
The Death
of ... Vegetables?
Is all that is needed to justify killing
Establish a process ready and willing
To declare humans to be in vegetative state
And leave them--unhumans--to their inhuman fate?
MARCH 27,
2005 --
Robert Frank's article on the Imus ranch for seriously- ill
children cited radio personality Howard Stern's "'big scam'" comment
about the ranch, terming Stern, Imus's "nemesis."
Investigative Journalism 1a?
A rival's gibes never to spurn
That is the lesson we might learn
Challenge Don Imus by quoting Howard Stern
And hope your target on you cannot turn
Investigative Journalism 1b?
A reporter's source might be a disgruntled steno
But, also, now, a wisecrack from Letterman or Leno
MARCH 27,
2005 --
Sign of Spring …
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Sign
of spring on a West 86th Street
window ledge, March 26.
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MARCH 27, 2005 --
The
Spirit of 1776 Lives?
Current polls show opposition to government intrusion
But this finding points to some confusion
Because government demands we click on car seatbelts
And, in our daily lives, regulates just about
everything else
MARCH
27, 2005 --
Congressman
Frank and Separation of Powers …
Rep. Barney Frank, (D.-Ma.) was reported to have criticized, as violation of
separation of powers, the legislation that provided federal court jurisdiction
for the last phase of the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
It is not clear why this legislation should have been objected to on separation
of powers grounds.
(LPR believes a common sense view of the legislation would have held that the
feeding tube should have been restored while the federal judicial process continued.)
This writer, more than four years ago, learned of a vicious ex parte letter
from a Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee, joined by two New
York Democratic legislators, to the Dayton Seaside bankrupcy judge falsely
attacking the Dayton Seaside owners.
The letter was sent on the stationery of the congressman -- Rep. Anthony D.
Weiner, now a candidate for mayor of New York City.
The letterhead shows Mr. Weiner to be a member of two House committees - including
the Committee on the Judiciary.
LPR here mentions this incident to illustrate a clear, if ignored, example
of violation of the separation of powers doctrine. Congressman Frank, please
note.
MARCH
27, 2005 --
From
The Washington Post, March 25 Edition …
Last week, LPR got to wondering, as the courts rejected every request to restore
the feeding tube to Terri Schiavo, what the
funeral arrangements will be -- and if Terri Schiavo would be cremated -- a
development that ought to raise questions, LPR thought.
Sean Hannity began his radio program, March 25, calling attention to a report
in The Washington Post that there were plans to cremate Terri Schiavo.
Here is the paragraph on that report, Washington Post, March 25, page A8:
As it became more apparent that Terri Schiavo may die soon, Michael Schiavo's
legal team began to disclose plans for her burial. The courts have rejected
requests by the Schindlers to block Michael Schiavo from having her cremated.
The parents say cremation would violate the religious beliefs of their daughter
who was a practicing a [sic] Catholic. [George] Felos [attorney for Michael
Schiavo] said Schiavo would be cremated and buried in a plot owned by Michael
Schiavo's family in Pennsylvania, where the couple grew up.
MARCH
21, 2005 --
Perplexion…
People opposed to lethal injection
When murder is determined beyond reasonable question
Seem now to find comfortable consolation
When courts order patients to die from thirst and starvation
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MARCH
20, 2005 --
Ground
Zero …
While in lower Manhattan, March 14, LPR noticed that people
continue to visit the Church Avenue side of the World Trade Center
disaster. Among those paying
respects that day was the Keller High School Band, from Keller, Texas -- near
Fort Worth. LPR chatted briefly with a parent accompanying the band, learning
that the students had requested the visit to the site of Ground Zero.
MARCH
20, 2005 --
Save The Met …
This poster is outside a an entrance to the
Metropolitan Opera, near the Lincoln Center parking garage. Last year, LPR
suggested that the Met might seek individual contributions of $57 -- for Federalist
Paper No. 57 -- to save the live radio broadcasts of Saturday matinees. LPR
here renews that fundraising suggestion.
MARCH
20, 2005 --
A Different Met …
LPR took this
photo of the Metropolitan Museum on March 16. No, the building
has not been wrapped by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. It is getting
a facade
lift.
MARCH
13, 2005 --
If
Christo and Jeanne-Claude owned the New York Yankees …
During the run of "The Gates," signs at souvenir
stands in and around Central Park stated that Christo and Jeanne-Claude
receive no proceeds from the sale of "The Gates" memorabilia.
LPR concludes that if Christo and Jean-Claude owned the New York Yankees,
all concession proceeds would go to maintain the public parks in The Bronx
and the other boroughs.
MARCH
13, 2005 --
Celebrities replying to LPR, asking if they like "The
Gates" …
Yoko Ono: "I like it." (February 23)
Tony Roberts (now appearing in "Engame," getting a rave review from
The New York Times) --"Sure, what's not to like." (March 1)
MARCH
13, 2005 --
A few days after March 6 …
… on
Broadway and 230th Street:
Stuck truck didn't duck, out of luck...
... but the subways keeps rolllng above.
MARCH
13, 2005 --
Fortress 11,000 …
The first time
the Dow Jones stock averages hit the 11,000 mark was on April
28, 1999 -- reaching 11,050,77 before falling back.
On May 3, 1999, the Dow closed over 11,000 for the first time, at 11,014.69.
The Dow's record high is 11,908.50, January 14, 2000, when it also hit its
record close -- 11,722.98.
The Dow last closed over 11,000 on June 7, 2001 -- at 11,090.74. It last hit
11,000 on June 13, 2001, reaching 11,065.92.
For nearly four years, the defenders of Fortress 11,000 have repulsed the besieiging
forces.
LPR has a hunch it is not alone in seeing Fed chairman Alan Greenspan on the
ramparts of Fortress 11,000, allied with the defenders. (See, for example,
Don Luskin, Capitalism Magazine, October
15, 2002 -- www.CapMag.com.)
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MARCH 6,
2005 --
Still Standing
March 5, 2005 …
This photo, along the north side of the Metropolitan Museum, was taken the morning
of March 5 -- five days after the project closed.
LPR has not spoken to the artists about the closing, but has a hunch that for
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, "The Gates" ended once the first gate was
dismantled.
Still, the remnant offers a continued viewing and photo opportunity.
MARCH 6,
2005 --
A bit more on NYC2012 …
After leaving "The Gates," on its closing day, LPR noticed a spoof
on the NYC2012 ads that have appeared on buses, cabs, and phone booths. The
photo, here, shows a spoof-saying on top of an NYC2012 phone booth poster.
LPR also posts in this
edition a photo of John Register, manager of the Paralympics Academy in
Colorado Springs, and an inspirational speaker, shown with Grete Waitz,
nine-time New York City marathon winner, and Nelson Vails, silver medalist
in cycling (spring) at the 1984 Olympics.
LPR met Mr. Register at a media lunch during the visit to New York of the
Evaluation Commission of the International Olympics Committee.
Mr. Register severed an artery in his leg,
in a hurdles fall while training for the Olympics.
This terrible injury required amputation of the limb.
He has since resumed running. And, LPR believes, inspires every person he meets.
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John
Register (right), with Grete Waitz and Nelson Vails, 1984 Olympics
silver medal cyclist (1000 meters sprint).
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MARCH 6,
2005 --
Just a thought …
LPR posts this photo of a PVB tow truck, shown in action February 22, blocking
Walton Avenue in The Bronx.
The photo was taken as LPR was heading to EC briefings at the Plaza Hotel in
Manhattan.
LPR offers the thought that Mayor Bloomberg's poor poll numbers reflect, in
some measure, the total lack of goodwill shown New Yorkers by the mayor via
his
Parking Violations Bureau.
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Not
the LPRmobile…
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MARCH 6,
2005 --
Correction …
LPR got the date wrong. It was on February 23, not February 24, that LPR told
Bart Conners and Nadia Comaneci its tale of car seizure woe.
That is to say-- Mr. Conners and Ms. Comaneci took a moment to listen to LPR,on
their way to the UN to speak at a NYC2012 media lunch. (Other speakers at the
lunch included former ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Bela Karolyi, renowned
US women's gymnastics coach.)
MARCH 6,
2005 --
Another poll with low NY numbers …
An IOC poll on interest in the 2012 Olympics in the competing cities got out,
last week, with New York coming in last, behind Madrid, Paris, London and Moscow.
LPR can report from direct observation that the EC was not greeted by thousands
of New Yorkers on its arrival at the Plaza Hotel, February 20. To put the welcoming
flag-wavers at 200 would be a generous estimate, LPR believes.
There might have been a couple of thousand people at the Central Park run for
the Olympic bid, the evening of February 22. (Last week's photo of a women
holding an NYC2012 flag was taken at that event.) The same number
would probably have turned out for a race that evening, under any circumstances,
LPR believes.
LPR is not opposed to an Olympics stadium on the west side of Manhattan if
construction is consistent with the "common good" counsel of Federalist
57 -- and does not take the New York Yankees out of The Bronx.
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