OCTOBER 26, 2007 --

The 2007 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival Awards …

… LPR hears that the 2007 NYIIFVF award ceremony will be held at Manhattan's China Club, 268 W. 47th Street, November 2. Hosts are Amber Gristak and Russ Russo. With live performances by Jannine V and Frank Lucas, Jr.

(The film version of his dad's story, "American Gangster" starring Denzel Washington, as Lucas, and Russell Crowe, is currently in movie theaters.)

OCTOBER 26, 2007 --

Happy Halloween Everybody …

May the Great Pumpkin Bestow Treats, Not Tricks, to All

OCTOBER 26, 2007 --

In Two Words …

LPR realized, the other day, that the theme of the Mideast conference, slated for Annapolis, Md., next month, can be summed up this way:

PLOstate. Grand!

OCTOBER 26, 2007 --

Fenway light tower and foliage …

Fenway Park is a World Series venue, again. Here is a view of one of the light towers that will glow for the games in Boston of the Red Sox and Colorado Rockies. (Photo taken last September 16.)

OCTOBER 26, 2007 --

Foliage …

LPR has seen complaints, in the media, about a lack of fall colors this season, with blame attributed to global warming. A few days after the criticism, LPR, October 22, took this fall foliage photo, of Thomaston, CT.

OCTOBER 18, 2007 --

LPR Predicts …

… "Liberals" , realizing that their campaign to silence "conservatives" will cause them some problems --label-wise-- will turn to calling themselves "progressives." The justification for the anti-"conservative" campaign is that a right-winger, borrowing from Assistant Professor Little, "'stands for hate.'"

OCTOBER 18, 2007 --

A Puzzlement for LPR …

If the Hollywood writers of the 1930's and '40's were concerned about social justice, why did some of them join the Communist party which stands for social regimentation, not justice? For LPR, the saddest thing about the Hollywood Communists is that they lost faith in the founding credo of their own country.

OCTOBER 18, 2007 --

Another Puzzlement for LPR …

Curious that Republicans apparently lack the capacity to point out that Democratic presidential candidates are going around the country, asking people for money so that they can get elected to make over the country in their own image -- not the image of the Founders -- and pass the costs for such remaking to the people.

Curious, too, that Republicans are unable to warn the people to beware of politicians claiming to be bearing gifts.

OCTOBER 18, 2007 --

No Wonder Democrats are Angry …

… about talk show people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity who not only criticize left-wingers, but promote the Republican party. This would make such radio programs de facto public announcements for Republicans.

With Rush, and Laura Ingraham, among other talk show hosts, starting to display exasperation with Republicans, perhaps they will stop promoting Republicans and just look for pols who will be faithful to our founding credo of...liberty and justice for all. Which is not quite the same thing as particular government entitlements for all, to be paid by the many, to maintain in power the few.

OCTOBER 18, 2007 --

Buszilla …

It is not fun when a Buszilla tries, on a rainy day, to cut in front of you.

OCTOBER 18, 2007 --

Mel Brooks …

Mel Brooks, back view, striding with friends down 43rd Street, October 11 , leaving the theater where his "Young Frankenstein" is in previews. LPR also caught sight of Bernadette Peters, at the stage door, but was not quick on the camera shutter to get her image.

OCTOBER 18, 2007 --

A Matter of Months …

May 1940 the month of my birth

Is clearly responsible for my negative worth

If like Joe Torre and Don Imus, I'd been born that July

My bank balance, today, would reach to the sky

OCTOBER 10, 2007 --

"Liberal"

Effective as of this LPR posting, when the term liberal refers to a person of the political left, it will be surrounded by quotation marks,
indicating LPR's view that the term is merely
nominative, not descriptive.

OCTOBER 10, 2007 --

Federal Hate Crime Legislation?

"Liberals" on Congress reportedly are seeking hate crime legislation.

Is hate by itself a crime? If, in the hate crime
context, the hate must be accompanied by a physical assault, isn't the effect the enhancement of criminal penalties for otherwise similar conduct?

Sounds like an equal protection argument to LPR -- oh yes, with First Amendment penumbras and emanations.

OCTOBER 10, 2007 --

BTW …

In view of the failure of conservatives to conserve the founding legacy indicated in The Federalist Papers, the term is apparently merely nominative as to them, and will appear, henceforth, in LPR thus: "conservative".

OCTOBER 10, 2007 --

Anybody Notice …

… that "liberals" who propose legislation for The People that will require, higher taxes tend, themselves, to be loaded, money-wise?

LPR doubts that"liberal" demands for higher taxes will impact on their wealth. On their power and control? That is something else again.

OCTOBER 10, 2007 --

Question for People Who Claim the Bush Administration Pulled Off 911 …

Do you think the Clinton Administration pulled off Oklahoma City?

OCTOBER 10, 2007 --

"Publicity Stunt" …

Mayor Bloomberg's company faces discrimination accusations from the federal government and three women. A company spokesperson is reported to have dismissed the suit as "a publicity stunt."

That, actually, is a serious charge against the feds and, if the women are represented by counsel, against their lawyers.

LPR, of course, would prefer to see the mayor charged with a violation of Federalist 57 for his draconian parking violation policy that falls in disproportionally harsh manner on people whose assets are considerably lower than Bloomberg's billions.

OCTOBER 10, 2007 --

Roving Ambassador Bill Clinton?

"Bill Clinton envisions diplomatic role"
if the next president is his spouse.
Or could this just be Hillary's goal
to keep Bubba far away from her house?

Roving ambassador to match his eye
Traveling all over the globe
Hillary keeping her powder quite dry
Wishing Bill the vicissitudes of a Job

OCTOBER 10, 2007 --

Unthinkable Thought?

Was Don Imus really booted off radio for his strong anti-Hillary views?

OCTOBER 10, 2007 --

How long until …

… "Liberals" attack Republicans and Abe Lincoln for starting the war between the states?

… "Liberals" denounce the late Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. for asserting in his New York Times v. Sullivan opinion that the First Amendment allows vigorous and even unpleasant attacks on public officials? [Gen. Wesley Clark (ret.), please note.]

OCTOBER 10, 2007 --

Media criticism from …

… the late Alistair Cooke, "The American Home Front 1941 - 1942." Grove Press paperback, p. 53, concerning "the roving
correspondent, who lands up in strange places with little humility and reports his findings with less misgivings."

(For LPR, this type of "correspondent is less a journalist and more a polemicist, even propagandist.)

OCTOBER 10, 2007 --

LPR's Duh Dep't …

The "liberal" political, social and economic view is available 24/7 in the mass media. Any "liberals" now demanding an assault on talk radio ever consider that the failure of "liberal" talk programs stems from its redundancy, mainstreamwise?

For LPR, "liberals" railing again about talk radio simply want toreturnto the old days when "liberal" views monopolized the media.

OCTOBER 1, 2007 --

2008 Presidential Candidates: how about this?

Tell us who you will choose to be your running mate and also disclose the individuals you would ask to serve in the senior posts of your cabinet.

OCTOBER 1, 2007 --

Once Again From LPR …

A call for a constitutional amendment requiring an interval of 24 years between the election of a president and the election to the presidency of said president's spouse, child, brother or sister. (Note to the Bush and Clinton families: nothing personal.)

OCTOBER 1, 2007 --

LPR's Hunch Department …

Question: How did Mahmoud Ahmadinejad become president of Iran?

LPR's Proposed Answer: The ayatollahs had a bet among themselves as to whether President Bush could ever pronounce "Ahmadinejad."

Can anyone think of a better reason?

OCTOBER 1, 2007 --

Baseball and Music …

Former Yankee Bernie Williams performing at the restored Paradise Theater in The Bronx, September 22.

OCTOBER 1, 2007 --

LPR to MacArthur Foundation …

Have read, September 25, of this year's "genius" grants i/a/o half a mill to 24 recipients.

LPR strongly recommends nod to equal treatment for all with "mediocrity" grants, i/a/o $50,000, to 240 recipients.

LPR also believes the idea alone is worth - $20,000?

OCTOBER 1, 2007 --

Following is based on AP report just saw on Yahoo:

LPR -- Again ahead of the curve …

The Associated Press reported September 25 that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the lethal injection death penalty as violating the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Recently, LPR suggested that denial of nourishment (DON) replace lethal injection as the compassionate method of executions. Is it possible the Supreme Court, citing the Teri Schiavo tragedy, will agree, and effectively recommend that murderers be done in by DON?

OCTOBER 1, 2007 --

The First 250,000 are the Hardest …

LPR is nearing the quarter million mark in visits. Thank you clicksters -- all right, and you spiders and robots, too.