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D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Observations - September 2005

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.

A Kurt Vonnegut original work.


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 …

Why were these people standing in a long line in midtown Manhattan on the last Sunday of September?


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.

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?


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.

Prices at this Torrington, CT gas station continue to drop -- a bit, along with other gas stations in the area.



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.

The "new" Columbus Circle.

 

NOTE TO LPR CLICKSTERS:
If we don't speak out against economic bullying by Oil, Credit Cards, Municipalities, WHO WILL?


 

 

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?