SEPTEMBER
25, 2005 --
NASCAR Watch …
Jimmie Johnson took
the lead in the chase for NASCARr's Nextel Cup winning the race in
Dover, Delaware on Sunday. He leads Rusty Wallace by two points. Tony
Stewart dropped to fourth place in the standings. For more on the Nextel
Cup chase, use the LPR link to NASCAR.
Celebrity
Curator …
Baird Jones lately has been offering showings of art by people not primarily
regarded as artists. At Spirit, a club on West 27th Street, with Baron Edmund
Voyer, Mr. Jones co-curated the artwork of celebrated writers, including Tennessee
Williams, Norman Mailer, William Burroughs and Henry Miller.
The photo shows a lithograph by Kurt
Vonnegut. Mr. Jones is also presenting the art of comics, including Don Rickles
and Red Skelton and at the Paterson Museum, in Paterson, New Jersey, he is
curating a show that includes art by Yoko Ono and Gloria Vanderbilt.
Alas, LPR missed the showing of artwork by Peter Falk that Mr. Jones presented
over the summer.
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A
Kurt Vonnegut original work.
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LPR Thanks …
LPR thanks those
who participated in last week's poll and like the photos of baseball
players in street clothes. Without dissenting voice as of September
25, LPR
apologizes for putting three e's in street, but now wonders if it wouldn't
make sense to spell the number: threee.
LPR Clicksters
Update …
And another huge
thank you to the people in 49 states, Puerto Rico, District of Columbia,
Northern Mariana Islands, and
more than 50 countries who click LPR. And a gros merci to the LPR clicksters
in Paris, No. 11 on the LPR cities list.
We're still
waiting ...
...for Montana to join the rest of the states and click to LPR.
LPR Sneak Peek …
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Why
were these people standing in a long
line in midtown Manhattan on the last
Sunday of September?
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To
meet this man, Shigeru Miyamoto, who
has now created Nintendogs, after putting
Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda, among
others, on Nintendo screens. More photos
of Mr. Miyamoto in the next LPR.
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The
headquarters of Nintendo's operations in the
western hemisphere is located in Redmond, Washington.
Redmond is ninth, this month, on the LPR cities
list, ahead of San Francisco and Paris. Wonder
if the Nintendogs are barking at LPR.
Just
wondering ...
... how we ever recovered from hurricane havoc before FEMA was established? (We
did, though, didn't we?)
... what the reason for a gas price spike would have been if Katrina hadn't occurred.
Don't
expect ...
… the TV media panels consisting of the usual invitees to discuss the country's
founding principles with reference to The Federalist Papers.
My heavens ...
Wouldn't it be something if LPR clicksters reached a thousand a day and those
Democrats, Republicans and media people way over yonder started worrying that
the people are measuring their
actions against our founding principles, and are finding them very, very wanting,
indeed?
The now-usual usury
silence …
And still no comment from officials in Washington on the usurious punitive
interests rates that are crushing credit
cardholders. Burt then, we have yet to hear someone in Washington call for
reaffirming the leadership principles for our constitutional government set
forth in
Federalist No. 57.
NOTE
TO LPR CLICKSTERS:
If we don't speak out against economic
bullying by Oil, Credit Cards, Municipalities, WHO
WILL?
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SEPTEMBER
18, 2005 --
Gas
Watch…
Prices are
continuing to drop a bit. In New Jersey, September 16, LPR paid
2.99.9 for regular. Gas prices are even dropping in New York
City, but not uniformly.
Meanwhile, a news report last Friday said that consumer confidence is also
on the
decline -- because of the gas price hike.
And confidence in President Bush is also reported on the decline. Seems as
if media reports are catching up with LPR and its clicksters.
LPR here goes out on a limb to predict that prices will settle in the $2.50
range -- which will, yes, be lower than the high point of the increase, but
the increases started months ago, and $2.50 will still be a lot more than motorists
paid a year ago.
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Prices
at this Torrington, CT gas station continue to drop --
a bit, along with other gas stations in the area.
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LPR Advisory to Foundations …
Grants will be cheerfully accepted.
Apples,
Anyone?
Apple-picking begins Friday September 23 at Fix Bros. farm, near Hudson, N.Y.
Pick your own at 50 cents a pound. For more information, please use the LPR
link to Fix Bros.
Finally
- A Columbus Circle photo …
LPR thought
it would be ready by last September. A year later, the refurbished
Columbus Circle is here -- as seen from a driver's eye view,
while at a red light on the north side of the Circle, looking
south, towards Eighth Avenue.
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The "new" Columbus
Circle.
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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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SEPTEMBER
11, 2005 --
LPR Update …
Veltis Harrattan
sent an email to this writer that all members of her family have been
found -- but they do not have homes.
Change of
seasons …
September 9 was a
lovely summer's day in Connecticut, but this tree said autumn is here.
Lesson to
be learned …
LPR believes that Hector Hoyos demonstrates that people can take action for
the common good and should not assume nothing can be done. Mr. Hoyos has sympathy
for the Katrina victims and got the backing of many private citizens who acted
for the common good -- as Federalist 57 counsels our officials to do.
LPR asks its clicksters to mention the example of Hector Hoyos to others and
to be encouraged in the basic goodness of our people, and to join in speaking
out against those who seek the "ambitious sacrifice of the many to the
aggrandizement of the few."
Torrington,
CT Memorial …
This inscription
appears at a tree planted in memory of the victims of 9-11, in front
of the Torrington, CT post office.
Party Against
Poverty …
LPR stopped by Deep,
a Manhattan club, September 10, which was the United States site of
a Party Against Poverty that was held at seven other clubs in Europe
and Africa.
The people in the photo above had purchased white bands to wear as symbols
of this global anti-poverty campaign, with proceeds to Oxfam.
NOTE
TO LPR CLICKSTERS:
If we don't speak out against economic bullying
by Oil, Credit Cards, Municipalities, WHO
WILL?
SEPTEMBER
5, 2005 --
Punitive
credit card interest
rate watch …
Chase: 27.49%
Will any public official
or non-blogging journalist take notice?
LPR welcomes…
Clicksters from India and Taiwan, and appreciates continued visits from France,
Canada and Australia as well as from our USA.
Just a reminder …
Two views of our gentle land of liberty, along route 82 in New York state.
NOTE
TO LPR CLICKSTERS:
If we don't speak out against economic bullying
by Oil, Credit Cards, Municipalities, WHO
WILL?
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