OCTOBER
30, 2005 --
More
thanks from LPR to clicksters in…
Atlanta, Toronto, Taipei, Stockholm, Madrid, Riyadh, Paris, London, Canberra,
Boston, St. Louis, Malaysia, Thailand, China, among other places. You gave LPR
a 600 day last week -- can we go for 1,000 day next? And let media and officials
know we are communicating?
Congrats
to the Chisox …
Fitting that the
Chisox should win the World Series a year after the Bosox did. That
one game ended about 2 A.M. in the east and another about midnight
seemed to end "without much notice."
(A report on the Fox TV ratings for the
Chicago-Houston World Series indicated that this world series didn't get much
notice from viewers either.)
And the curious rule that the World Series opens at the ballpark of the team
in the league that won the All-Star game has, now, the effect of denying the
home town a chance to cheer its team the moment of victory.
LPR also wonders that perhaps the post season just include the division winners,
with the bye going to the team with the best record in each league.
A Test for
Republicans and Media …
Do we have to wait 18 months for you to discover the oppressive cruelty of
punitive interest rates on credit cards?
This is to ask LPR clicksters to give word-of -mouth notice of this website
and to encourage people that we are not alone in dealing with the elusive elitists
and insiders.
A very wise person pointed out to this writer that he is not alone in his anxiety
-- it just affects people in different ways. The key is to confront and overcome
challenges -- and not to cave in to them.
Who knows, banding together to face
challenge with optimism, we might even offer guidance to the folks we elect
to represent us!
Oh yes -- and must we wait 18 months for media and officials to take note of
the problems of unretired workers?
Gloomberg
for 2008 Republicans and Democrats?
It looks like Michael R. Bloomberg will get a second term as
mayor by a landslide. LPR wonders if this will lead to speculation that
he could be a serious
contender for the presidency in 2008 -- as the nominee of a third party? Perhaps
to be called the Bloomberg party?
So Much Access for One Beltwayite…
David Brooks has a column in The New York Times. He is a regular on The News
Hour with Jim Lehrer. And he has been appearing on Meet the Press. One man's
great access is another Beltway person's denial; TV time?
An
LPR Frank Capra Moment -- Karl Rove Please
Note…
Republicans
and media continue to stand aloof to our reality.
To borrow a phrase from Capra's "Meet
John Doe" when a policeman shouts "stand
back," he's is not shouting at the politicians.
If LPR clicksters would ask politicians and
media why they don't take note of the political
wisdom in the first half of Federalist 57,
how could we not get our officials back on
track?
LPR
-- Slightly Ahead of The Times…
The
New York Times magazine, October 30, carried
on article, "The End of Pensions?" by
Roger Lowenstein, that looked to a grim future
where "many of the
elderly would be forced to keep working to stave off poverty."
LPR touched on this issue last week and
included some slogans to encourage hiring the unretired.
LPR's major concern is that seniors who must work to have food, clothing and
shelter will be taken advantage of.
Last week, LPR looked to CBS News
correspondent Mike Wallace as role model for unretireds.
LPR will take that a step further and here ask Mike to become a spokesperson
for unretired people who need to find jobs that will pay them a living wage.
On television, perhaps job opportunities for the unretired would open up a
bit if the industry enacted this rule -- call it the David Brooks rule: One
person, one TV program.
LPR is still waiting for the media to take note of credit card cruelty and
use of parking fines as a tax alternative.
NOTE
TO LPR CLICKSTERS:
If we don't speak out against economic
bullying by Oil, Credit Cards, Municipalities, WHO
WILL?
OCTOBER
23, 2005 --
Another
Thank You to LPR
Clicksters …
LPR reached 60 thousand visitors so far this
year, on October 23.
Hillary
Flowers Watch …
LPR snapped this
photo of songwriter / singer Hillary Flowers at Club Deep last week.
Next week, LPR hopes to post photos of the October 22 Curventure fashion show
at Deep.
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Singer-Songwriter
Hillary Flowers, pictured here October 15 at Club Deep in New
York.
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Hire the
Unretired …
LPR announces the formation of a new organization to encourage private industry
to employ people who do not have the means to retire.
LPR proposes that the organization be called We Can Work, Too (WCW2).
Eerie Reminder …
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LPR
snapped this photo of Lexington Avenue in New York City on
Wednesday, October 19, of the new building blocking Citicorp
Center. It is an eerie reminder of the Twin Towers.
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Google Thanks …
Enormous thanks to Google for putting LPR at the top of the search list for "Chase
aches"
Role
Model …
Mike
Walllace -- role model to the unretired.
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Mike
Wallace - taken opening day at Yankee
Stadium -- April 3, 2005.
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NOTE
TO LPR CLICKSTERS:
If we don't speak out against economic
bullying by Oil, Credit Cards, Municipalities, WHO
WILL?
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OCTOBER
18, 2005 --
Gas
Price Watch …
LPR was in Torrington, Connecticut, October 14 and noticed that gas prices
are still going lower.
At a Citgo station, prices dropped another five cents after this photo was taken.
With reports that inflation was way up, last quarter, in large part because of
the summer's gas price spike, LPR expects Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan will continue
to raise interest rates, claiming the Fed must act further against inflationary
pressures.
LPR is not convinced, however, that the way to deal with gas price spikes is
by tinkering with interest rates, particularly when it seems that gas prices
are retreating without action by the Federal Reserve.
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Torrington,
CT Citgo Station on October 14th.
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Request
Rejected …
The Hartford
Courant ran a letter, October 14, suggesting that the paper should
stop "putting sports articles or pictures on Page 1..."
The paper's front page, October 14 carried a photo of players on the UConn
women's basketball team.
Nascar
Watch …
LPR saw a full page ad on the back page of the sports section of The New York
Times, October 13, with a photo of Nascar driver Mark Martin, currently seventh
in Nextel Cup competition. Tony Stewart leads the Nextel Cup standing.
LPR carried a photo of Martin a few weeks ago -- but not aware, at the time,
that he is on the Viagra Racing Team. Martin was saluted by Viagra for winning
the Banquet 400 -- held in Kansas City, Mo., one of the Nextel Cup Races.
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Mark
Martin, pictured here September 15 in New York.
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Presidential Popularity Watch …
Amid reports that the popularity of President Bush continues to drop, LPR suggests
that the White House mention the advice given in Federalist 57 that our
leaders should stand with the people -- and then follow that advice. How about
pro-consumer comments on gas prices and punitive credit card interest rates
for starters, Mr. President?
Yom Kippur
5766 …
Yom Kippur -- the Day oif Atonement -- is a day of fasting, of prayer, but also
of joy. It could, perhaps, also be seen as a day when we place God between us
and anxiety. We ask God to forgive us, to grant us another year of life, including,
among other things, good health, and sustenance -- earning our keep, not impoverishment.
This is not to suggest that we have no part in determining our destiny for the
year -- still, this writer has an idea that bloggers, but for the Grace of the
Almighty, would appear on Meet the Press, Nightline, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,
as well as, say, reporters from the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post --
and receive lecture fees, accordingly.
Note
from the Webmaster …
Due to the
recent storms on the West Coast earlier this week, (and subsequently,
disruptions of power and internet), this edition of LPR is posted
late. We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused
the LPR readers.
NOTE
TO LPR CLICKSTERS:
If we don't speak out against economic bullying by Oil,
Credit Cards, Municipalities, WHO WILL?
OCTOBER
9, 2005 --
Gas
Price Watch …
Gas prices seem to be edging down -- and not going to $4 as one "oil industry
analyst" warned, a few weeks ago. LPR noticed, October 6 that all prices
at this
Torrington Mobil station were below $3. It has been weeks since LPR saw all prices
below $3 at a gas station. LPR hopes they go much lower, for the common good.
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Torrington,
CT Mobil Station on October 6th.
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Artifacts …
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Cleopatra's
Needle. This ancient artifact stands in Central Park
behind the Metropolitan Museum.
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This
more modern artifact, the Chrysler Building, stands at
the northeast corner of Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street.
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OCTOBER
2, 2005 --
On the Organization Chart …
LPR was visited in September by three universities Harvard,University of Texas
at Arlington, and Virginia Commonwealth University. LPR hopes that the visitors
are spreading Federalist 57 populism around the campuses.
Visiting organizations include Microsoft. (LPR would not reject a grant from
the Gates Foundation) and Cox Communications (LPR would not rule out a syndication
offer.)
Gas Price
Off-Shoot …
There was a report, September 28 that higher gas prices are
resulting in late credit card payments. That of course should be good
news to the credit card
companies who can be expected to hit the late payers with the legally usurious
interest rates that LPR has been taking note of.
In the Driver's
Seat …
Robin Hall is executive
director of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. LPR got this photo
of him at the driver's seat, last Sunday on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.
On Thanksgiving Day he is seen walking at the head of the Macy's parade,
seat of that annual event that attracts throngs of people young and
old alike, and brings marching bands from all over the country to New
York City. And the next Macy's parade is less than two months away.
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Robin
Hall
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Brief Note on Anxiety…
This writer has learned, alas from experience, that one does not know what anxiety
is, until getting hit with it.
How wrong I was to tell another to just go
and overcome anxiety. It isn't quite that simple. And in overcoming anxiety,
the path is not necessarily a straight one.
This writer now knows that one can feel strong, like one's old self, in the evening,
and wake the next morning with a sense of anxiety -- even more -- alarm. The
counsel of well-meaning people to think positive and to take each day at a time
are welcome -- but when anxiety strikes -- often without notice, one is fortunate
to have some medication to aid in the battle, along with welcome support from
friends.
The Beginning
of a new stadium?
LPR noticed some drilling on the field, across from Yankee Stadium, that is
to be the location of the new ballpark for the New York Yankees. LPR has a
hunch
that the drilling indicates that work is getting underway and that, indeed,
the Yankee Stadium of today will, in a few years, be just a memory.
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View
of Yankee Stadium from the Manhattan side of the 145th Street
bridge.
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Some Hopes
for 5766 …
The coming week marks the beginning of the year 5766 according to the Jewish
calendar. May this year bring only good things to people, and dispel any basis
of
anxiety. May 5766 bring peace and comfort and good health and prosperity to
all. And May 5766 be the year when our leaders recognize the wisdom of the
counsel of Federalist 57.
President Bush
and Gas Prices …
President Bush spoke out on the subject of high gas prices last week -- suggesting
that we drive less. LPR has not done a scientific survey on the subject, but
has a hunch that a lot of motorists are driving less these days -- which might
have something to do with gas prices about the same as the week before, so far
as LPR could tell.
President
Bush and Usury …
President Bush did
not speak, last week, on the subject of punitive credit card interest
rate, going considerably higher than 20% that are crushing hapless
citizens. For that matter, no public official has criticized these
obscene interest rates, to LPR's knowledge.
OSSANE …
LPR wonders that an upcoming social/economic issue will take note of persons
on social security who need employment to make ends meet -- hence, OSSANE,
On Social Security And Needs Employment.
Is LPR concerned about this? You betcha. Unless foundations deem populist websites
deserving of grants.
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