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For an enjoyable read see Milly Ivins on Robert Caro's volume 3 of the Lyndon Johnson biography.
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Thursday, May 9
What the world needs now...
...is another shopping mall on Rivers Avenue near Ashley Phosphate Road in North Charleston (S.C.), one of the busiest intersections in the state. Trident Technical College is selling land for $8.3 million to a Florida developer who plans another mall.
On the port issue, State legislators have a plan to let the Ports Authority build on the South end of the former Naval Base in North Charlestion. This would eliminate building a terminal at Daniel's Island. The plan favors the wealthy who have already invested heavily in homesites on the island. The plan would give the North end of the base to the city of North Charleston, a locale of middle-class and poor residents. North Charleston officials have long coveted the North end of the base where they plan to build a park and recreation area. The deal maker is the State's obligation to build an overpass connecting the South end of the base to I-26, and to build three more overpasses along Rivers Avenue to eliminate rail bottlenecks. Practically all the local politicians in both parties are sucking up to the deal. I recommend North Charleston get the four overpasses underway before they let ships start docking.
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...is another shopping mall on Rivers Avenue near Ashley Phosphate Road in North Charleston (S.C.), one of the busiest intersections in the state. Trident Technical College is selling land for $8.3 million to a Florida developer who plans another mall.
On the port issue, State legislators have a plan to let the Ports Authority build on the South end of the former Naval Base in North Charlestion. This would eliminate building a terminal at Daniel's Island. The plan favors the wealthy who have already invested heavily in homesites on the island. The plan would give the North end of the base to the city of North Charleston, a locale of middle-class and poor residents. North Charleston officials have long coveted the North end of the base where they plan to build a park and recreation area. The deal maker is the State's obligation to build an overpass connecting the South end of the base to I-26, and to build three more overpasses along Rivers Avenue to eliminate rail bottlenecks. Practically all the local politicians in both parties are sucking up to the deal. I recommend North Charleston get the four overpasses underway before they let ships start docking.
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Wednesday, May 8
Where the people read
In a routine flash of self promotion South Carolina newspapers have released to the Audit Bureau of Circulation their circulation averages for the six months ended March 31, 2002. The Greenville News claims the largest Sunday circulation (127,496) and in Charleston The Post & Courier reported 115,858 Sunday subscribers. The State, a Knight-Ridder newspaper in Columbia, did not report and neither did the Florence News. In daily circulation, The Post & Courier topped the list with 105,667.
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In a routine flash of self promotion South Carolina newspapers have released to the Audit Bureau of Circulation their circulation averages for the six months ended March 31, 2002. The Greenville News claims the largest Sunday circulation (127,496) and in Charleston The Post & Courier reported 115,858 Sunday subscribers. The State, a Knight-Ridder newspaper in Columbia, did not report and neither did the Florence News. In daily circulation, The Post & Courier topped the list with 105,667.
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Tuesday, May 7
John Leo votes "yes"
John Leo, the sharp-tongued columnist for U.S. News & World Report has voted in favor of the blogging revolution. See his column in the May 13, 2002 (page 48) issue of the magazine or go to www.usnews.com and click on Opinion.
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John Leo, the sharp-tongued columnist for U.S. News & World Report has voted in favor of the blogging revolution. See his column in the May 13, 2002 (page 48) issue of the magazine or go to www.usnews.com and click on Opinion.
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Monday, May 6
Questions to ask
Should we be concerned about the rise in anti-Semitism in Europe?
Is Iraq a real or imaginary threat to the United States, and if so, what should be done?
How are we going to reduce the worst unemplyment in the United States in almost 20 years?
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Should we be concerned about the rise in anti-Semitism in Europe?
Is Iraq a real or imaginary threat to the United States, and if so, what should be done?
How are we going to reduce the worst unemplyment in the United States in almost 20 years?
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Friday, April 26
FLASH - Helms has a heart?
The media is reporting N.C. Senator Jesse Helms is doing well after surgeons replaced a valve in his heart. One is constrained to ask, "Where did they find it?"
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The media is reporting N.C. Senator Jesse Helms is doing well after surgeons replaced a valve in his heart. One is constrained to ask, "Where did they find it?"
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Wednesday, April 24
From bison meat to chauffeured limousines
Writing about the Washington scene after September 11, Bill Hogan wrote: "...never have so many lobbyists for so many different special interests so blatantly wrapped their requests for subsidies, tax breaks, and other forms of federal largesse in patriotic packaging." (Mother Jones, March/April 2002)
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Writing about the Washington scene after September 11, Bill Hogan wrote: "...never have so many lobbyists for so many different special interests so blatantly wrapped their requests for subsidies, tax breaks, and other forms of federal largesse in patriotic packaging." (Mother Jones, March/April 2002)
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Saturday, April 20
What is he afraid of?
Is it my imagiantion or is President Bush speaking only at military installationsand schools? Saw where he addressed the VMI "kadets" recently and is scheduled to address West Point cadets next month. Seems his father preferred these captive and most likely favorable audiences.
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Is it my imagiantion or is President Bush speaking only at military installationsand schools? Saw where he addressed the VMI "kadets" recently and is scheduled to address West Point cadets next month. Seems his father preferred these captive and most likely favorable audiences.
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Sunday, April 14
Some passing moments
We gave my mother a fine sendoff on April 2, 2002. My brothers selected readings from scripture, my oldest sister read "Trees" and I delivered a eulogy. All of us, my two brothers and two sisters and I, selected the hymns to be sung at the funeral Mass. The Mass was held in St. Patrick's church in Lowell, MA. This is the church which means the most to us as a family unit. We attended from January 1942 until sometime in the late 50's when my mother moved. Following the Mass, burial was in St. Patrick's Cemetery, close to another plot where her parents and brothers and sisters are buried. Following the brief internment prayers at the cemetery we had a luncheon at Jimmy's Four for 57 family and friends.
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We gave my mother a fine sendoff on April 2, 2002. My brothers selected readings from scripture, my oldest sister read "Trees" and I delivered a eulogy. All of us, my two brothers and two sisters and I, selected the hymns to be sung at the funeral Mass. The Mass was held in St. Patrick's church in Lowell, MA. This is the church which means the most to us as a family unit. We attended from January 1942 until sometime in the late 50's when my mother moved. Following the Mass, burial was in St. Patrick's Cemetery, close to another plot where her parents and brothers and sisters are buried. Following the brief internment prayers at the cemetery we had a luncheon at Jimmy's Four for 57 family and friends.
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Saturday, March 30
Passing
My mother, Anne Wynn Archibald, died this morning at 8:05 a.m., at Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, MA. She suffered a massive stroke yesterday (March 29, 2002) at about 5 a.m. She was 92. She is survived by five children and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. She will be missed. God bless and keep her.
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My mother, Anne Wynn Archibald, died this morning at 8:05 a.m., at Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, MA. She suffered a massive stroke yesterday (March 29, 2002) at about 5 a.m. She was 92. She is survived by five children and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. She will be missed. God bless and keep her.
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Thursday, March 28
Ode to America
This article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title "Cîntarea Americii" on September 24 in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentul zilei ("The Daily Event" or "News of the Day").
As Associated Press reported about Mr. Nistorescu:
Nistorescu, managing director of the daily newspaper Evenimentul Zilei -- News of the Day -- published his editorial Sept 24, two days after watching a celebrity telethon in New York for victims of the attacks . . .
Like his other columns, "Ode to America" was meant for domestic consumption. No one knows when -- or how -- the article first reached the other side of the Atlantic. But Nistorescu figures it began when someone pulled it off the English-language version of his daily's Web page and sent it to a friend.
Since then, thousands of Americans at home and expats around the world have e-mailed it to friends, saying it captured their nation's spirit. It has been read out to U.S. soldiers and on radio talk shows and posted on U.S. Web sites.
Nistorescu says he had no idea his "Ode to America" would resonate so far away . . .
Nistorescu remains surprised and touched by the success of the piece, one of thousands he has penned in a more than 20-year career. "It is all about the American spirit and how freedom cannot be crushed," he says.
An Ode to America~
Why are Americans so united? They don't resemble one another even if you paint them! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them are nearly extinct, others are incompatible with one another, and in matters of religious beliefs, not even God can count how many they are.
Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape about.
The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag.
They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a minister or the president was passing. On every occasion they started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!".
Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once, twice, three times, on different TV channels. There were Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Sylvester Stalone, James Wood, and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together. The American's solidarity spirit turned them into a choir. Actually, choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul.
What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds was being heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert. I don't know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious! It made you green with envy because you weren't able to sing for your country without running the risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what mean interests.
I watched the live broadcast and the rerun of its rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that would have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to bow before a fellow human? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit which nothing can buy.
What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like common places. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion. Only freedom can work such miracles!
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This article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title "Cîntarea Americii" on September 24 in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentul zilei ("The Daily Event" or "News of the Day").
As Associated Press reported about Mr. Nistorescu:
Nistorescu, managing director of the daily newspaper Evenimentul Zilei -- News of the Day -- published his editorial Sept 24, two days after watching a celebrity telethon in New York for victims of the attacks . . .
Like his other columns, "Ode to America" was meant for domestic consumption. No one knows when -- or how -- the article first reached the other side of the Atlantic. But Nistorescu figures it began when someone pulled it off the English-language version of his daily's Web page and sent it to a friend.
Since then, thousands of Americans at home and expats around the world have e-mailed it to friends, saying it captured their nation's spirit. It has been read out to U.S. soldiers and on radio talk shows and posted on U.S. Web sites.
Nistorescu says he had no idea his "Ode to America" would resonate so far away . . .
Nistorescu remains surprised and touched by the success of the piece, one of thousands he has penned in a more than 20-year career. "It is all about the American spirit and how freedom cannot be crushed," he says.
An Ode to America~
Why are Americans so united? They don't resemble one another even if you paint them! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them are nearly extinct, others are incompatible with one another, and in matters of religious beliefs, not even God can count how many they are.
Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape about.
The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag.
They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a minister or the president was passing. On every occasion they started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!".
Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once, twice, three times, on different TV channels. There were Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Sylvester Stalone, James Wood, and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together. The American's solidarity spirit turned them into a choir. Actually, choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul.
What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds was being heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert. I don't know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious! It made you green with envy because you weren't able to sing for your country without running the risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what mean interests.
I watched the live broadcast and the rerun of its rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that would have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to bow before a fellow human? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit which nothing can buy.
What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like common places. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion. Only freedom can work such miracles!
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Tuesday, March 26
Winners or losers
At winners.com the site is undeveloped
It offers links to other related sites
At losers.com the site is undeveloped
It offers links to other related sites.
The related sites are the same
Which begs the question:
Does it make any difference
If you are a winner or a loser?
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At winners.com the site is undeveloped
It offers links to other related sites
At losers.com the site is undeveloped
It offers links to other related sites.
The related sites are the same
Which begs the question:
Does it make any difference
If you are a winner or a loser?
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Cheeky claim
"Some 58% of the New York Times's weekday circulation comes from what the company calls the greater New York City area, which includes 31 counties extending into Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania." (The Wall Street Journal, March 26,2002)
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"Some 58% of the New York Times's weekday circulation comes from what the company calls the greater New York City area, which includes 31 counties extending into Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania." (The Wall Street Journal, March 26,2002)
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Monday, March 25
Bumper idiots
"I am the NRA AND I VOTE" - "Normal people worry me" - These were two bumper stickers I saw today. They were on cars that hadn't been washed in a couple of months and the roof of the voter's car was peeling fabric.
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"I am the NRA AND I VOTE" - "Normal people worry me" - These were two bumper stickers I saw today. They were on cars that hadn't been washed in a couple of months and the roof of the voter's car was peeling fabric.
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Sunday, March 24
Lawsuit is misguided
The Attorney General of South Carolina, Charlie (“I want to be Governor”) Condon, says the NAACP’s protests at South Carolina welcome centers are illegal. He is suing them. The NAACP leaders say Condon is using the lawsuit “to suppress expressions with which he does not agree.”
The NAACP protestors are at Welcome stations on the borders where they urge visitors to the state to not stop and not spend money, just to keep on going through. The NAACP started their economic boycott against South Carolina in January 2000 because the Confederate flag continues to fly on statehouse grounds.
Given the large number of new persons moving to the state and clogging roads, creating long lines in restaurants, building houses on open space, escalating demands for public funded infrastructure, crowding schools, and generally making life miserable for those living in the quiet shadows all these years, Condon ought to be thanking – not suing – the NAACP.
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The Attorney General of South Carolina, Charlie (“I want to be Governor”) Condon, says the NAACP’s protests at South Carolina welcome centers are illegal. He is suing them. The NAACP leaders say Condon is using the lawsuit “to suppress expressions with which he does not agree.”
The NAACP protestors are at Welcome stations on the borders where they urge visitors to the state to not stop and not spend money, just to keep on going through. The NAACP started their economic boycott against South Carolina in January 2000 because the Confederate flag continues to fly on statehouse grounds.
Given the large number of new persons moving to the state and clogging roads, creating long lines in restaurants, building houses on open space, escalating demands for public funded infrastructure, crowding schools, and generally making life miserable for those living in the quiet shadows all these years, Condon ought to be thanking – not suing – the NAACP.
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Saturday, March 23
Florida snap
The author in Florida on March 8, 2002, at Naples pier where we watched a beautiful sunset at 6:32 pm.
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The author in Florida on March 8, 2002, at Naples pier where we watched a beautiful sunset at 6:32 pm.
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Friday, March 22
A schmuck speaks
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2002, Dan Henninger said Rusty Yates was in New York on television with Katie Couric while his wife was being sentenced in a Houston courtroom to 40 years in prison; later that night Yates was on Larry King who asked Rusty how he thought Andrea would handle incarceration. "I talked to her doctor at the jail about it," said Rusty Yates. "She thinks she'll do fine. Andrea can get by with not a lot. She's a good woman."
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Writing in The Wall Street Journal, March 22, 2002, Dan Henninger said Rusty Yates was in New York on television with Katie Couric while his wife was being sentenced in a Houston courtroom to 40 years in prison; later that night Yates was on Larry King who asked Rusty how he thought Andrea would handle incarceration. "I talked to her doctor at the jail about it," said Rusty Yates. "She thinks she'll do fine. Andrea can get by with not a lot. She's a good woman."
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Thursday, March 21
Change
"Changing the health care system is like changing the Catholic Church. It takes a long time." (Dr. John Wennburg, Dartmouth College, WSJ, March 21, 2002, pg. l.)
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"Changing the health care system is like changing the Catholic Church. It takes a long time." (Dr. John Wennburg, Dartmouth College, WSJ, March 21, 2002, pg. l.)
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Monday, March 18
Tending the grave
"Lying for one's country
"Deceit is justified in wartime, rarely in peace
"The MBE awarded today to Isabel Naylor de Mendez indirectly, and rightly, pays tribute to one of the greatest wartime deceptions ever perpetrated by British intelligence. Mrs Naylor has for 40 years tended the grave of the Man who Never Was — an illiterate Welsh tramp, whose body was used after his suicide to plant false documents on a supposed British intelligence officer washed ashore in Spain. The aim was to convince the Germans that the allied attack planned on Sicily would actually be made through Sardinia and Greece. It succeeded brilliantly. After the war, the strategem, carelessly revealed by Churchill, captured the public imagination; the film was a box office hit. Only the tramp was forgotten — by all except Mrs Naylor." (TIMES ON LINE, London, March 19, 2002)
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"Lying for one's country
"Deceit is justified in wartime, rarely in peace
"The MBE awarded today to Isabel Naylor de Mendez indirectly, and rightly, pays tribute to one of the greatest wartime deceptions ever perpetrated by British intelligence. Mrs Naylor has for 40 years tended the grave of the Man who Never Was — an illiterate Welsh tramp, whose body was used after his suicide to plant false documents on a supposed British intelligence officer washed ashore in Spain. The aim was to convince the Germans that the allied attack planned on Sicily would actually be made through Sardinia and Greece. It succeeded brilliantly. After the war, the strategem, carelessly revealed by Churchill, captured the public imagination; the film was a box office hit. Only the tramp was forgotten — by all except Mrs Naylor." (TIMES ON LINE, London, March 19, 2002)
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Sunday, March 17
St. Patrick's Day
Today is every Irishman's national holiday. I warned this was coming by posting an "Ireland for ever" greeting on March 15, see below. The celebrations locally are low-key. Street parties in the saloon section in downtown Charleston are banned for the second year. Several saloon keepers were turned down when they made requests last year and didn't bother to apply in 2002. Savannah allows such parties; apparently without offending anyone. Sometimes public officials can be so damn officious. We have so many government people looking out for our welfare it becomes tiring to put up with it all.
Erin go bragh!
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Today is every Irishman's national holiday. I warned this was coming by posting an "Ireland for ever" greeting on March 15, see below. The celebrations locally are low-key. Street parties in the saloon section in downtown Charleston are banned for the second year. Several saloon keepers were turned down when they made requests last year and didn't bother to apply in 2002. Savannah allows such parties; apparently without offending anyone. Sometimes public officials can be so damn officious. We have so many government people looking out for our welfare it becomes tiring to put up with it all.
Erin go bragh!
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