NOVEMBER
28, 2004 --
Poll-itics …
Putting together post-election notes
The liberal goal seems to emerge
Forget about counting individual votes
Let the Democrat win by exit poll surge
NOVEMBER
27, 2004 --
LPR's First
Candle …
Lonely Pamphleteer Review marks its first anniversary this week; the first
edition appeared last December. And we plan to post a retrospective, this month,
consisting of some of the photos that were posted exclusively on this site,
along with, perhaps, some of LPR's awful doggerel.
Clickstership has grown somewhat over the year, and it couldn't have happened
without the kind LPR linksters, you wonderful LPR clicksters, and without Terri
Fassio and the folks at SkullCo.com and
Todd Gelineau at Blueline Graphics.
Thanks, also, to Rickey at excite.com
for teaching me how to communicate via the internet and scan photos.
LPR Amendment Thoughts …
LPR recently saw an editorial in The Hartford Courant --"Bullying The
News Media"-- citing a criminal conviction of a Rhode Island television
reporter as showing "the urgent neeed for a national shield law to protect
journalists."
As the Lonely Pamphleteer Review masthead indicates, the name of this website
comes from the United States Supreme Court opinion holding that journalists
have no constitutional right to
refuse to respond to a subpoena. The Rhode Island case involves a Providence
TV newsman who received, and turned over to his station, a videotape given
him in violation of a court order.
The Courant went on to denounce the conviction as an "assault on First
Amendment protections…"
LPR, however, is not aware of a First Amendment exception to journalists to
ignore court orders, or their spirit. This is not to deny that "journalists" enjoy
privileges not shared equally with the citizenry.
Many, perhaps most, of the photographs posted on this website could not have
been taken without the Press ID issued to this writer by the New York Police
Department. Clearly, the NYPD press ID admits of access denied to most. And
the argument about exemption from judicial process contends that such exemption
is also required to access information.
There is, however, constitutional tension between the First (free press) and
Sixth (fair trial) Amendments and perhaps the media might consider that in
maintaining Sixth Amendment rights, a judge is not
"bullying" anyone -- merely upholding the rule of law.
UFPJ--LPR version (Uniting for Parking
Justice) …
Now, if a paper were to editorialize the bullying of bureaucrats -- about,
say, the officials in New York City who hope to hit the billion-dollar mark
in parking fine money -- what a celebration of a free press that would be.
Lonely Pamphleteer Review has some
questions, now, for the nation's Parking Violations Bureaus: how much in parking
fines, from Thanksgiving Day to November 28 did you issue summonses for?
Also, how many motorists did you really make miserable on Thanksgiving Day
-- by towing their cars?
And how many out of town tows Thanksgiving Day? (To be continued…)
U2 on Broadway …
LPR got this photo of Bono and U2 on Broadway, near Lincoln Center,
NYC, November 22 after one passerby ID'd the folks on the flatbed for us.
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U2,
with lead singer Bono, on the far right, with bassist Adam
Clayton center, and guitarist "The Edge" wearing
the knit cap. Not pictured is drummer Larry Mullen.
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NOVEMBER
27, 2004 --
Additions from last week's LPR …
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The
photograph of this couple from Toronto appeared in last week's
LPR regarding the New York International Independent Film Festival,
held November 12 to 21 at the Cinema East Cinema on Second
Avenue in Manhattan. The actress is Quin Dalgleish,
and with her is Curtis
Blake, Vice President of Operations, Toatl Records. She appeared in
"Birth Control," a short movie directed by Paul Nguyen about population
control cops.
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NOVEMBER
21, 2004 --
LPR
Scoops CBS on Rather Retirement
LPR, in doggerel, November 1, predicted Dan Rather's retirement,
beating CBS by three weeks!. See, Archives, November
Observations.
NOVEMBER 21, 2004 --
For More Information …
For more info on the festival, see the website: www.nyfilmvideo.com
Garbage Update …
Garbage is taken away by NYC on Thursdays at the location of the mound shown
in the accompanying photo.
As November 11 was a Thursday and a holiday, there was no collection for a full
week. This accumulation, reflecting garbage added to the November 11 mound on
November 17, was removed on November 18.
So far as LPR is aware, the media did not take note of the refuse refusal that
had mounds of garbage on city sidewalks for days after November 11.
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There
were mounds of garbage all over the city.
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NOVEMBER
14, 2004 --
A Brief
Political Observation
One post-election column suggested that Democrats should take a "liberal/populist" point
of view. For LPR, of course, "liberal/populist" is an oxymoron--lliberals,
today, takiong a top-down approach top politics, compared with the bottom-up
view of populism. That is to say, LPR sees populism as an expression of our
founding principle that sovereignty rests with the people. It seems, now, to
be generally conceded that liberals are somewhat lacking in confidence in the
capacity of the people to govern without their guidance.
From what LPR hears, listening to snatches of comment on the anti-Bush Air
America, there reminas the hope that the results of November 2 can yet be undone,
with an undertone of chiding directed at the people for accepting without much
question the vote tallies in Ohio and elsewhere.
Thus far, however, the sign along the Henry Hudson Parkway allows that the
votes are in -- it does not demand that the United Natioins seize the ballot
boxes in Ohio. How soon until the "Impeach W" signs spring up in "blue" state
venues? And whoever designated Democratic presidential states as blue was rather
prescient, symbolically.
It appears that some liberals are in a "blue" -- that is to say,
depressed, mindset. And not necessarily because they will not have John Ashcroft
to kick around anymore -- although, who knows, that might yet be seen another
reason to vent at W.
Please note that LPR will continue the poll question from last week, having,
since writing it ,seen that Democratic primary vote numbers dropped by some
fifty
percent this year.
LPR Postscript --GOP side
A 2008 prediction: Rudy Giuliani will not be the Republican candidate for president.
This is not to preclude the possibility that he will be the Democrats' choice,
however.
NOVEMBER
7, 2004 --
The
difference is in the period?
The day after the election, this writer received an e-mail from the anti-Bush
United for Peace and Justice with this as subject: "Don't Mourn, Organize."
The Washingto Post, two days later, carried E.J. Dionne's column which began: "Don't
mourn. Organize." Does the period used by Mr. Dionne, in place of the
comma in the UFPJ e-mail, mean the same words in both places are just an interesting
coincidence?
As California,Massachusetts, and New York go, so doesn't go the country
Senator Kerry got some three million more votes than President Bush in California,
New York and Massachusetts. For the next Democratic candidate for President
to defeat a Republican for president, by the Bush margin over Kerry, he or
she must get an additional six million votes in the other 47 states, plus the
District of Columbia. What liberal can pull that off?
Is there something in the water?
Just about all the blue states are coastline states -- Pacific, Atlantic, Great
Lakes and the shoreline of Lake Champlain (Vermont).
Explaining the election
Is it not possible that the value prized most by the Bush voters is -- independence?
A comment on Chief Justice Rehnquist's medical condition
Writing from personal experience, thyroid surgery is followed by radiation
to knock out the part of the thyroid gland that cannot be removed because of
its proximity to another organ in the neck. In this writer's circumstance,
the malignancy reached one lymph node and follow-up surgery was performed a
week after the thyroid was removed. After the surgery, this writer was given
radioactive iodine to knock out the thyroid remnant. The reports of the treatment
given Chief Justice Rehnquist include chemotherapy, as well as surgery and
radiation.
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NOVEMBER
7, 2004 --
PVB Park
In building a very costly West Side stadium, the mayor
Doesn't even need money from the New York City taxpayer
All he needs is the treasure trove find in the mines
That carry this name -- Parking Violations Fines
And after this little-to-be- used monstrosity is built
The mayor's friends can celebrate the oppressed motorists' "guilt"
Think of them
not as merchandise, but as mementos.
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LPR
mugs, caps, T-shirts, coming soon. Also on the horizon - LPR
photos as photocopies suitable for framing, and blank cards with
photos on cover.
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NOVEMBER
3, 2004 --
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Looks
like this will continue to be the abode of the Bush family
for four more years. At the end of which time LPR predicts
oil will be $300 a barrel and we will be riding bikes and paying
fines in NYC for illegal bike parking.
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NOVEMBER
1, 2004 --
On Naming
the New Washington, D.C. Baseball Team
Herewith in doggerel and not in prose
A naming thought for the ex-Montreal Expos
Like it or not, here LPR goes:
To suggest the team be called--the Washington Repos
NOVEMBER
1, 2004 --
If Kerry Wins (or not) … There Goes Dan Rather?
A cruel reward for his anti-GOP harassment
Assisting Senator Kerry, now an embarrassment
But an anchor ought not wallow in the political mire
And so this news from CBS: "Dan Rather to retire"
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This
photo of John Kerry and his wife Theresa Heinz-Kerry was taken
at the Wisconsin Primary rally.
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Think of them
not as merchandise, but as mementos.
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LPR
mugs, caps, T-shirts, coming soon.
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