Happy Fourth of July... Don’t know about you, but I am mighty worried about our country. The good news, however, is that the land is abuzz with creativity and networking, lots of it through the Internet. I am feeling that the ingenuity and verve of Americans, this bodacious motley group of fascinating folks, all melted and potted as we are, ... Will surely see us through. God Bless America!
By next week I will be a grandmother, and we will be welcoming a new American, Jeremy Benjamin Simon, son of my dau. Anna and her partner Fran. Excited! E.
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................................................... Section One: Table Notes ............................................................................ (Note: these notes were taken at the table and have NOT been approved or corrected by the speakers. Reader
beware of inevitable misunderstandings and misrepresentations. E.B.)
At the Table on Wednesday 6.27.07
Mary Biehn, Guy Binns, Vlasta Molak, Ellen Bierhorst, Ginger Lee Frank, Chad Benjamin Potter ...(A small but very tasty group... Wonderful talk. E.)
Announcements:
Guy: workshop in nonviolent communication. Sat, Sun July 14, 15, 9 – 5pm, Mt. Lookout square, Gateways to Healing. $135/person before June 27. Jeff brown: jeff@heartfeltcommunication.com
Ellen: thanks for your concern; I am on the mend but not yet working.
Vlasta: I am having a big party on July 15, Sun., 5 -10 at my house 8987 Cotillion Dr, 45231, in Finneytown. Off Winton Rd. Very interesting guest list. Potluck pref. vegan. Grill and veggies provided.
Chad: on Main St. this Fri., the final Fri. hop. I am performing at Sassafras Gallery, Maine & 14th. “The Glass Ceiling” about women in the workplace. 6:30 and every 15 minutes. By Lindsay Jones.
Vlasta: Sustainable Living Pot Luck every Monday starting July 2, at my house 8987 Cotillion Dr, 45231, in Finneytown. Off Winton Rd. Vegan. Living in harmony with nature.
Ginger: Northwest Air is canceling one of every 8 flights…
TOPICS
Vlasta: the Banks
Guy: the CIA. Just opened “the family jewels”, all the bad things they have worked on from mid fifties to eighties.
New joke: how do we know the CIA didn’t kill Kennedy? Ans: he’s dead.
Ellen: What it does to and for you to be immobilized many days in bed with your eyes closed.
Ginger: Chad’s dance and the objectification of women. My sense of that has altered over the last 40 years. I was a feminist in the sixties.
BANKS
Vlasta: the Banks is the area between the two stadia where there is a parking lot, along the river. For 11 yrs. There have been committees, projects, drawings… the County sued the Bengals saying the Bengals fooled us. But judge says no. Finally Mayor Mallory appointed five white men to a commission, then added a token Black: came up with The Plan which looks totally unimaginative, ugly. Stick a bunch of high rises between the two stadiums, cutting off views from the skyscrapers. Could be Anywhere, USA. The one building next to the Freedom Center looked a lot like a jail. This was a public hearing last week. … I am writing an article about it.
They are building buildings that nobody can love. Ugly.
In ’96 we were promised two stadiums AND the Banks for under 500 million dollars. Bengals stadium cost 4.8, and the two together cost just under a billion. Twice as much as promised for the whole project including the Banks. Now they est. 600 million more to build the Banks. Probably will end up 4.5 times more than original promise.
Ginger Corporate America works like that; you can fail and still get a golden parachute. Do you have an alternative proposal?
Vlasta Yes, Cincinnati Sky Gardens. Cover the ugly expressways on 3rd street. Terraced. Waterfalls and fountains, solar energy, gray water purification. www.gaifoundation.net <http://www.gaifoundation.net> describes it. We hope to start the Gaia Oasis by October. That’s for the Findley Mkt. area.
Ginger: I thought I saw a presentation of housing built over the Xways.
Vlasta: no. … New journal, Beacon, monthly. Enthusiasts for truth in government. I picked up a copy at city hall. I will send you info. …
Castellini… conflict of interest.
Ginger it is well known that the whole stadium was a boondoggle for Castellini.
CIA REVELATIONS
Guy I don’t know enough. Just released yesterday. I have gathered that a lot of their big activities were failures… like all the failed assassinations.
Ginger I have not heard Allende mentioned. Apparently with Castro, one of the bi CIA people decided for poison and approached the Cuban mafia who said they needed more poison. They still failed. It is pathetic. And that they call all this info “the family jewels”.
Ellen Why did the reveal?
Ginger: apparently they are going to be forced to reveal it anyway and so they opened it up now to present an appearance of openness. … Cheney claiming that he doesn’t have to reveal his info. Because he says he is not part of the exec. Branch. Nobody even knows the size of his staff.
THE OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN
Ginger: What does one mean by objectification? There are times when … like when you were admiring Chad looking buff. I don’t think anything is wrong with that. I think it is normal. There was a time, in the eighties, like time of Andrea Dworkin, Susan Brownmiller, Catherine Mckinnon… the radical feminists, who were so “anti porn” or even anti sex. They pushed certain issues so far they managed to persuade Canada to rewrite their laws in accordance with McKinnon’s book. They got into bed with the far right, the religious right. There were even porn made that was feminist.
By the late nineties, feminists were bringing back celebration of sexuality … including porn.
Because I am an artist I am aware that porn has a history. Explicit representation sexuality. Human beings are interested in sex. … Mapplethorpe had said his work was porn. Just not obscenity. Barrie of the CAC said it wasn’t porn, but he knew he was lying.
Hindu temples with porn. Greek pottery. Pompeii.
Ellen: essay on objectivation of women in john Berger, “Ways of seeing” he said in western civilizations, Europe culture, there is a theme of depicting sexually alluring women, in ways that flatter the male onlooker. Unlike in more ancient art forms that depict the naked female body, these were explicitly intended to pander to the lust of the male onlooker, but also his sense of ownership of the female body. He gave many examples: the marriage of Arnolfini, preg wife...
The rape of Europa, rococo painting. His essay opened my eyes as a feminist. I now see the whole gamete of nudes and porn through that lens. In classical times, there wasn’t the same intent.
Bill: oh we don’t know! All the marble statures were painted, in contemporary nudes, you hear stuff about form and lighting and things like that. But I bet the interest in the nude was always to that intent
Ellen: I was completely bought by Berger’s point that what is ugly in pornography is not our natural prurient interest, but rather the hostile and possessive intent marrying the sexuality with ownership and degradation of the sexual object. That’s what I object to. I don’t object to art that makes me sexually aroused. I object to art that makes me feel ashamed of being a woman, of identifying with the oppressor. Everyone who sees it is invited to “own” the object.
Bill: we are gazing on an image.
Guy there’s a rule in the Internet. Says, “if it exists, there’s’ a porn of it.” The Internet is full of self-produced pornography.
Ginger I ‘ll go with Burger’s point. But I am not sure he is right about the classical past… I find it hard to believe that they were so different. The biggest difference, our subjects have become more profane vs. gods, ideals in classical times. Still it looks like a naked person standing in your hallway. I still believe that stimulated the kind of pride of ownership that Burger was talking about.
Mary: I don’t care what people look at. I don’t care to look at it myself, but not my place to regulate it. …Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart who said in a minority opinion “I can’t define porn but I know it when I see it.”
Guy The Internet is changing everything, and really changing porn. Old porn like Playboy Mag. is dying out. Self-produced porn is replacing it. The form of marketing where the consumer is being sold to advertisers is going away. TV is going away. It is cheaper to subscribe to Netflix than to cable. Many are canceling their cable subscriptions.
Chad ABC has new show “Brothers and Sisters” on Sunday nights. I get episodes from the library on DVD. I also have Netflix. Six Feet Under. The L word.
HBO show, Six feet Under, dark humor. Excellent. About five seasons long. All at the library.
Ginger in the top three of TV shows. Also Sopranos, (the Maffia show), Arrested Development, The West Wing.
Mary the Zoo has used porn to teach the animals what to do to reproduce. Human porn. It worked.
Ginger we are known as the sexiest zoo in the world. Most reproducing.
… my point: partly because I am so visual, objectification… there are times when we are sex objects and it is appropriate.
Chad if I am not groped at the bar I wonder if I am loosing it.
Ginger the gay male culture has different norms about some of these issues.
Guy: I disagree. There’s all gamits covered. There are conservative gay communities, and there are very liberal un gay communities. I grew up San Francisco and I have a different view.
Ginger I was in S.F. when the Cockettes were coming on. Transvestites, performer.
Guy: my father was a transvestite performer in SF, originally from Cincinnati. Performed as a woman but had a full beard. He sang torch songs. 70’s. Bixexual his entire life. Married… two women. When died, was married to a man.
Ginger there was a torch singer in the Cockettes who was amazing.
Guy he had been a public schl. Teacher. After retiring started performing. I was living with him at the time. (How was that for you?) My father went thru childhood as I was growing up.
Ginger Did you find it making you more conservative…?
Guy at the time I was conservative… I didn’t break out of that until after he died, 20 years ago. I was in my twenties. He died from AIDS. Loved the bath houses.
... (at this point, 7:45, I was tired and stopped taking notes, but the conversation continued with much sparkle until 8.)
~ End of Table Notes~
Hugs to everyone,
Ellen
Section Two: Events & Opportunities
Today is the Day for "Sicko" : Michael Moore’s HealthCare Film
June 29, 2007
Friends,
This is it! Two years in the making! The day that our new film, "Sicko," arrives in theaters all across North America! Click here <http://www.sickotix.com/> to see where the nearest one is to you.
After you go, let me know what you think. Oh, and send us a photo or a video <mailto:photos@michaelmoore.com> from your cell phone to show us what it looked like at your theater. We'd love to post a photo from each of the 440 movie theaters showing "Sicko."
To read more about the movie, you can go to www.michaelmoore.com <http://www.michaelmoore.com/> .
Here's what this morning's review in the L.A. Times said: "It's likely his most important, most impressive, and most provocative film." Okay, what do they know? I prefer to trust the assessment of E! Television Online: " 'Sicko' - the best movie ever? Maybe." Maybe? MAYBE?! When will they ever give me a break?
It's been a weirdly funny week. First Larry King bumped me for Paris Hilton. Then today, when CNBC invited me to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for an interview, the stock exchange said I was barred from the building. On top of that, Tony Blair is gone, Cheney says he's no longer answerable to anyone's elected government, and I simply don't want an iPhone. Just another week in America.
Hope you enjoy the movie!
Yours,
Michael Moore
mmflint@aol.com
My Favorite Fourth of July Parade is the kooky, wonderful Northside do. Hamilton Ave from Ashtree south to Hoffner Park at the RR tracks. Bands, floats, the men’s grill team, drums, ... I try never to miss it. Bring lawn chairs, water. Come early. E.
Raw Food Restaurant opens Northside, July 4
Hello All,
This is an exciting event! (salonista) Khassa Selassie is an exceptionally talented raw foods chef. When Paradise Found was at the Ridge Market, James and I were over there every day for our daily ‘fix’ of nutrition. ...
Yours,
Shirley Reischman
-----Original Message-----
From: Randall Ball [mailto:RandallBall@fuse.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 6:54 PM
To: Paradise Found, LLC
Subject: Paradise Found Cafe Re-Opening July 4th in Northside! Vibrant Raw Food Lecturer & Author to speak this Sunday - sponsored by EarthSave!
Dear Paradise Found supporters, friends, former customers, interested partners, etc.
... the new Paradise Found Café (raw juice/smoothie bar and deli) at 4179 Hamilton Ave will be opening for business on July 4th for the Northside Independence Day Parade and local music festival. I am absolutely thrilled with this new location – it is next to the Sidewinder Coffee House, across the street from Madison Produce’s new store, and just a few door steps up from Melt and the Northside Tavern, with extensive public parking less than half a block away. It has a cozy outdoor patio, two floors, a small acoustic music stage, approximately four times the total square footage of our previous store, and of course the huge amount of traffic going north and south on Hamilton Ave. The location couldn’t be more ideal. In addition to raw juices, smoothies and prepared food, we expect to retail select raw food ingredients and supplements, rawfood prep equipment, educational materials, and raw lifestyle products - organic cotton and hemp clothing, natural cleaning, and body care products, etc. Furthermore, we have commitments from local musicians to eventually have live, acoustic music every night.
Please understand that this initial PFC opening is likely to be a very rough and incomplete opening (open for a limited selection of raw/live juices, smoothies and gourmet food by the renowned rawfood chef, Khassa Selassie – yet still far from complete). We will have a formal Grand Opening sometime later once remodeling, layout, and other logistics are completed.
We are still open for partners, investors, and collaborators (Paradise Found LLC members), as well as employees. I sincerely believe that the foundational ground work has now been laid for a truly dynamic venture with literally unlimited healing and financial potential (possibly even the eventual fulfillment of the original grand vision of the “Starbucks of the rawfood movement”). They say “timing is everything” – it seems that the time has now come for this establishment. If interested in participating, please contact me A.S.A.P.!
Randall T. Ball
Community Health Minister/Managing Member
Paradise Found, LLC
Home/Office: (513) 731-2415
Cell: (513) 543-8294
randall.ball@yahoo.com
ParadiseFoundLLC@yahoo.com
TO ALL OF SCOTT DOMINION'S (YOGABARE) FRIENDS
SCOTT'S MEMORIAL
To those of you who don't know, I regretfully want to inform you, Scott was hit from behind, by a S.U.V. while riding a bicycle in Gainesville, Fl. and killed. He was a very special person to many friends. We wanted you to know we are planning a memorial July 8, 2007 at 3pm at Joy Community Church at 5000 North Rd. It is located at the corner of North Bend Rd and Kleeman Ave in Monfort Hts. 45211 about one half mile from I 74. We want to celebrate his life and thank God for our blessing of 42 years. It will be a potluck. (please lable if vegan), casual. Please no cut flowers or house plants. If you have questions please e-mail me at maycoffey@fuse.net
Peace and love, Scott's # 1 fan, Marilyn Coffey (Scott’s mother).
(I don’t know Jeff Brown, the trainer, but I do know NVC, and it is marvelous. Ellen.)
Disarming the Inner Critic
A Nonviolent Communication (NVC) training for:
Transformation & Healing through Self-Connection
Saturday - Sunday, July 14 - 15, 2007: 9 am – 5 pm
Location
: Cincinnati, Ohio (Mt. Lookout neighborhood): Gateways to Healing,
Network Chiropractic, 821 Delta Ave., Cincinnati, (Mt. Lookout Sq.) OH 45226
Cost
: $135/person earlybird (by June 27); $165/person after June 27
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make checks payable to "Jeff Brown" and mail to address above
Format
: Saturday (Foundation): Basics of NVC; suitable for all learning levels
Sunday
(Intermediate): Self-connection & inner transformation of pain
Discover a life-transforming communication practice that builds trust, transforms conflict, and creates harmony in your relationship with yourself and others. Learn how to create a compassionate connection inside yourself that supports healing, inner forgiveness and acceptance, and transformation of pain… and prepares you to enrich
all of your relationships.
What People are Saying about Nonviolent Communication (NVC):
Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul, creating a lot of healing. NVC provides us with the most effective tools to foster health & relationships. It provides the missing piece to my own work
Deepak Chopra, M .D.,
Perfect Health
The principles and techniques of NVC can literally change theworld, but more important, they can change the quality of your life with your spouse, children, neighbors, coworkers and everyone else you interact with. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Jack Canfield,
Chicken Soup for the Soul series
Training facilitated by Jeff Brown from St. Louis, MO. Jeff is a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication, and has taught NVC in churches, universities, businesses, social service agencies, nonprofit organizations, and public groups in 8 states across the Midwestern U.S.. Jeff is earning a master's degree in Counseling Psychology at the University of Santa Monica in Los Angeles,CA (graduation: August 2007). Contact Jeff at 812-320-3842 or jeff@heartfeltcommunication.com
Sponsored and hosted by
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Gateways to Healing, Network Chiropractic
Dr. Michael Nichols
Dr. Julie Nichols
Joy Lohrer: ‘support this legislation to halt anti-gay discrimination’
Matthew Shepherd Act in Senate now.
If you haven't seen this yet, please watch it and do the email. Having been hit by a rock and had my tires slashed, I want this to pass.
joy
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Solmonese, Human Rights Campaign <hrc@hrc.org>
To: Joy Lohrer <joylohrer@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 1:01 pm
Subject: Watch this video
Dear Joy,
When you've been fighting discrimination for as long as I have, you develop a fairly thick skin. But I'll admit, the first time I saw this video, I got chills. It was produced for Cyndi Lauper's True Colors tour benefiting HRC, and it's now showing at concerts across the country.
Please watch the video, and share it with everyone you know.
This stirring video has the power to motivate THOUSANDS MORE people to take action for the Matthew Shepard Act.
And that's exactly what we need to do. As I write this, angry radical right-wing leaders are using scare tactics to fire up their base against the Matthew Shepard Act. They're saying it could "send pastors to prison for simply reading a part of the Bible." It's absurd.
Even worse: despite our House victory, we're hearing from Senate staffers that opponents of the Matthew Shepard Act are still beating us five to one in emails, calls, and letters.
Five to one. With the vote approaching and many senators still undecided, we simply cannot allow this to continue. So I'm asking you to turn that ratio around.
Watch the video - and share it with at least FIVE friends. http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/campaign/fighthate_video/i7u3xk59pd57k88?
The vast majority of Americans support the Matthew Shepard Act. There are, quite simply, more of us. But our senators are hearing from more of them.
If every one of us tells five friends to watch the video and take action, we'll make sure they get the message: hate will not win.
Warmly,
Joe Solmonese
President
© 2007 The Human Rights Campaign. All rights reserved.
Human Rights Campaign | www.hrc.org
1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-3278
Phone: 202/628-4160 TTY: 202/216-1572 Fax: 202/347-5323
My Son David is selling his 5 yr old Macintosh Laptop
Hey, here's the information about the laptop I want to sell:
This is a Macintosh 12" Powerbook G4 with a 1.33 Ghz G4 processor, 768 MB of RAM, a 60 GB hard drive, a 64 MB GeForce FX graphics card, and a combo drive. More detailed information can be found here:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/stats/powerbook_g4_1.33_12.html
Now, if you're not a computer geek like me and have no idea what the above means, here's a translation: This is a small professional Apple Laptop with a durable metallic case. The screen measures 12" along it's diagonal, which makes it a touch smaller than a standard sheet of paper. However, it is very sharp and bright. The keyboard is standard size, so you won't have to adjust to smaller keys or anything like that. It also has a small track-pad for moving the cursor. Of course, if one prefers to use a mouse, it will work with any USB mouse. The processor, RAM and graphics card allow this machine to run quite powerful programs; for example I use it to run a professional 3D graphics called Maya, the program that was used to create Gollum and other special effects in the Lord of the Rings movies. The hard drive can hold quite a lot; probably around 50+ full length movies or 9000+ music files along with the standard system software, so for most purposes you won't need more. The CD combo drive can read both standard CDs and CD-ROMs, as well as DVDs, which means you can use this computer to watch DVD movies. It is also possible to hook this computer up to your TV so you can use it as a DVD player if you don't already have one. It can also burn new CDs, which means you can create mix CDs of music, or easily create backups of important files.
The computer is in excellent condition with two minor and purely cosmetic exceptions: On one side of the case the metal is bent out slightly. I have no idea how this did or even could happen, but it doesn't catch on anything or effect the function of the machine, it just looks odd. Other than that, the computer is in excellent shape. I'm very paranoid about keeping the screen in good shape, so it's completely scratch-free.
If you have any questions about the machine, feel free to email me at sherdj@email.uc.edu.
(from ellen: it has wireless internet connectivity and battery for cord free operation. I asked him how much? And he said he thought it might be worth around $800.)
Joy Lohrer: ‘support this legislation to halt anti-gay discrimination’
Matthew Shepherd Act in Senate now.
If you haven't seen this yet, please watch it and do the email. Having been hit by a rock and had my tires slashed, I want this to pass.
joy
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Solmonese, Human Rights Campaign <hrc@hrc.org>
To: Joy Lohrer <joylohrer@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 1:01 pm
Subject: Watch this video
Dear Joy,
When you've been fighting discrimination for as long as I have, you develop a fairly thick skin. But I'll admit, the first time I saw this video, I got chills. It was produced for Cyndi Lauper's True Colors tour benefiting HRC, and it's now showing at concerts across the country.
Please watch the video, and share it with everyone you know.
This stirring video has the power to motivate THOUSANDS MORE people to take action for the Matthew Shepard Act.
And that's exactly what we need to do. As I write this, angry radical right-wing leaders are using scare tactics to fire up their base against the Matthew Shepard Act. They're saying it could "send pastors to prison for simply reading a part of the Bible." It's absurd.
Even worse: despite our House victory, we're hearing from Senate staffers that opponents of the Matthew Shepard Act are still beating us five to one in emails, calls, and letters.
Five to one. With the vote approaching and many senators still undecided, we simply cannot allow this to continue. So I'm asking you to turn that ratio around.
Watch the video - and share it with at least FIVE friends. http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/campaign/fighthate_video/i7u3xk59pd57k88?
The vast majority of Americans support the Matthew Shepard Act. There are, quite simply, more of us. But our senators are hearing from more of them.
If every one of us tells five friends to watch the video and take action, we'll make sure they get the message: hate will not win.
Warmly,
Joe Solmonese
President
© 2007 The Human Rights Campaign. All rights reserved.
Human Rights Campaign | www.hrc.org
1640 Rhode Island Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-3278
Phone: 202/628-4160 TTY: 202/216-1572 Fax: 202/347-5323
A Small Group and Peter Block invite you to the
Civic Engagement Series
A powerful conversation based on-
Possibility vs. Problem Solving
Ownership vs. Blame
Dissent vs. Lip Service
Gifts vs. Deficiencies
Tuesday, July 10 & 17
6:00-9:00PM
William Howard Taft National Historic Site
2038 Auburn Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45219
(located in Mt. Auburn across from Christ Hospital)
Seating is limited.
For questions or to reserve a seat,
contact Collette Thompson at cert@fuse.net or 513/451-0166.
More Information
You are invited to attend the Civic Engagement Series, a two-part education and skill development series designed to provide the tools to change the nature of the conversation in the civic community.
* Participants will learn that community reconciliation requires a shift in the conversation, not more negotiations of interest of positions or a reworking of the past. We will focus on changing the public debate from problem solving to possibility,
* We will create a network of support among participants and share what has been tried since the last session and consulting on how to bring the ideas of engagement into practice.
* Participants will have the opportunity to apply what has been learned by engaging in discussions with community leaders involved in making a difference in their communities.
* The sessions are high interaction and one of the key benefits is the connection you will make with a great group of committed, powerful people working to make this city better for all.
The series will be led by Peter Block and members of A Small Group. The series is offered at no fee, other than your time, energy and good will, and we ask your commitment to attend both sessions.
A Small Group is a volunteer group that is committed to the creation of a restorative community and is working to increase the quality of civic engagement in Cincinnati. Our strategy is to discover ways to engage the disengaged and to offer powerful tools and strategies of civic possibility, civic accountability and civic commitment.
Peter Block is an author of several best selling books, an international consultant, and citizen of Cincinnati. His work is about empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability, and the reconciliation of community. Peter's books are about ways to create workplaces and communities that work for all. They offer an alternative to the patriarchal beliefs that dominate our culture. His work is to bring change into the world through consent and connectedness rather than through mandate and force. Learn more about the series and Peter Block on the following websites: ww.asmallgroup.net or www.peterblock.com.
Collette Thompson
A Small Group/ Office of Peter Block
215 East 14th Street, Community Studio 232
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
513.451.0166 office
513.607.8346 cell
New Green Gen’l Store
Hello All,
This sounds really interesting. Thought you’d want to know about it.
Yours,
Shirley Reischman (our homeopath)
-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Whitton [mailto:whittones@eos.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:47 PM
To: 'Shirley Reischman'
Subject: Cinci's new green general store
Shirley,
I just found out there is a new “green general store” downtown called Park and Vine. Is that something you would want to pass along to your e-mail list? I’m thinking maybe there are still a lot of people who haven’t heard about it and would want to check it out. They have non-toxic paint, organic bedding, some bamboo clothing plus other “green” message T’s, fair trade bags and a number of recycled/reclaimed material gift items and other stuff.
They’re at http://www.parkandvine.com/ and if you fill out the online survey you get $10 off your first purchase.
Thanks,
Elizabeth Whitton
Tri-State Treasures
Tri-State Treasures is a compilation of unique local people, places, and events that may enrich your lives. These treasures have been submitted by you and others who value supporting quality community offerings. Please consider supporting these treasures, and distributing the information for others to enjoy. And please continue to forward your Tri-State Treasures ideas to jkesner@nuvox.net.
Information about Tri-State Treasures and how to submit Tri-State Treasures is at the bottom of this email. Please help me by providing all basic information and formatting your submissions as described below.
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Creative Staging: Get help getting the most out of your home for sale or redesigning. Home Staging is popular concept in larger cities & is catching on in the tri-state. Realtors emphasize the importance of preparing your home for sale. As an artist & professional home stager, Heather Mingo can help your home look its best. She understands what potential buyers look for & what will bring in the highest offer in the shortest amount of time. Home Staging works within your budget, using creativity & expertise to prepare your home. Rearrange furniture to enhance your home's best features, identify paint colors to enhance the space, use accessories for a model home look, enhance curb appeal, & much more. Creative Staging also works with people who are redesigning their home. Staged homes sell faster & for more money. Heather Mingo is a professional artist & designer with a passion for transforming interior spaces; she is a Cincinnati native. At Creative Staging, 5184 Salem Hills Lane, Cincinnati, OH 45230. More info @ 513.545.3572, hmingo@cinci.rr.com, & www.creativestg.com.
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Rachel Z & the Department of Good & Evil @ Friday Jazz at the Hyatt [Friday 29 June @ 8:30-12 PM]: Rachel Z has won a Grammy award in collaboration with Wayne Shorter, & has toured extensively with Peter Gabriel. She was featured this month in Downbeat Magazine, & in Keyboard Magazine. Her reviews across the country have been stellar. $10 cover; free for Jazz Club Members & under 18; $5 for CCM & NKU students. Sponsored by National City Bank. At the Sungarten Room, Hyatt Hotel Cincinnati, 151 West 5th Street, Downtown Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.579.1234, waltb31@fuse.net, www.rachelz.com, & www.jazzincincy.com.
Tour de PA: Pedal With A Purpose [Friday 29 June - July 1]: Public Allies Cincinnati invites you to join them for Tour de PA 2007: Pedal with Purpose, a bike-a-thon along the scenic Ohio River. Tour de PA is presented by Public Allies alumni as an inspirational & educational journey along a historic section of the Underground Railroad to engage a diverse collection of interested community members in 3-days of fitness, reflection, & bonding. Start at the Underground Railroad Freedom Center & bike with the group for 3 days. Camp for 2 nights as the group travels the 150-mile route along the Ohio River. This trip is a unique opportunity to meet good people, get good exercise, & learn a bit while pedaling with purpose through the Ohio River valley. More info & registration from Sarah Buffie @ 513.559.1300 & sarahb@publicallies.org.
Under a Full Moon: A Summer Concert Series [Saturday 30 June @ 8-11 PM]: Celebrate the warm summer nights & moonlight. During each full moon, Imago will offer live local music for entertainment. Bring a blanket or chair, a bottle of wine, & some friends to share the evening. This Full Moon will feature Matthew Shelton. $5 for members; $7 for non-members. BYOB. At Imago, 700 Enright Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45205. More info @ 513.921.5124, imago@imagoearth.org, & www.imagoearth.org/fullmoon.html.
Bridge Over the Atlantic 2 [postponed due to a family death]: ARCH (Arts Revival of College Hill) host an Arts double feature. #1: a dynamite concert by a Brit & two Yanks: Michael Weston King, & local favorites Dave Hawkins & Chris Collier. #2: the public premier of a PhotoEssay by professional photographer Barry Carlin: "Glimmers of Hope" a gallery show of high-resolution photos of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath & masterfully written narratives. For grade school children to senior adults. Free. Door prizes by sponsors: Churchill's Gifts & Tea Room, Molly Malone's Irish Pub, The Pub at Rookwood, & College Hill Coffee Co & Casual Gourmet. At College Hill Presbyterian, 5742 Hamilton Avenue 2 miles south of Ronald Reagan Hwy, Cincinnati, OH 45224. More info @ 513.382-5902.
Opera Goes to Church [Sunday 1 July & Monday 9 July @ 7 PM]: Two free community concerts featuring Cincinnati Opera singers performing a unique combination of jazz, gospel, & classical music together with the congregational choirs. The 1st event is Nixon in China @ St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 10345 Montgomery Road, Montgomery, OH 45242 on Sunday 1 July @ 7 PM. The 2nd concert is Aida @ Allen Temple AME Church, 7080 Reading Road @ Jordan Crossing, Cincinnati, OH 45237 on Monday 9 July @ 7 PM. Sponsored by Barbara Gould & Ginger Warner. Hosted by Courtis Fuller. Reservations required. More info & RSVP @ 513.241.2742, jbellin@cincinnatiopera.org, & www.cincinnatiopera.org.
Pendleton Art Gallery Opening [Monday 2 July 10 AM - 9 PM]: The Pendleton Art Centers & Newport on the Levee announce the opening of the Pendleton Art Gallery at Newport on the Levee. The Pendleton Art Gallery is a unique gallery that will feature artwork exclusively from artists from the 3 Pendleton Art Centers in Ashland, KY, Cincinnati, OH, & Rising Sun, IN. Over 100 artists will showcase their artwork in the exciting venue of Newport on the Levee. “The Pendleton Art Gallery is a place where visitors can get a sneak peak of what our public art scene really has to offer, & it gives them a chance to gain an altogether experience of our hometown,” said Francisco Marziano, manager of the Pendleton Art Gallery. The Gallery will be open during the Levee’s retail hours (Monday-Thursday @ 10AM-9PM, Friday-Saturday @ 10AM-10PM, & Sunday @ noon-6PM). A wide range of original artwork including paintings (oil, acrylic, watercolor), photography, digital art, fabric art, metal art, jewelry, glassware, & pottery, plus giclees, postcards, & notecards. At Pendleton Art Gallery, Newport on the Levee on the Valet Circle between Café Istanbul & SouthView, 1 Levee Way, Newport, KY 41071. More info @ www.newportonthelevee.com/directory/detail.aspx?id=53 & www.pendletonartcenter.com.
Northside 4th of July Parade [Wednesday 4 July @ Noon]: One of the city's most unique, eclectic, & delightful parades; always full of fun & surprises. Organizers are looking for creative entries & participants of any sort, including those who like to sit & watch. This year, people on the sidelines are asked to festoon their perches with baubles, balloons, ribbons, bangles & bells to create a corridor of color through which the parade can pass. Musical groups, fun floats & great group presentations are always welcome. The Parade proceeds south on Hamilton Avenue from Ashtree to Blue Rock, Northside, Cincinnati, OH 45223. More info @ 513.681.4995.
6th Annual Ohio River Way Paddlefest [Friday-Saturday 6-7 July]: Ohio River Way Paddlefest is the largest canoe & kayak festival in the Midwest. Celebrate the beauty of the Ohio River by paddling it. Proceeds from Paddlefest 2007 will be used by the Ohio River Way, Inc. to develop the Ohio River Water Trail & to work with partner orgs to construct additional segments of the Ohio River Hike & Bike Trail from Maysville, KY to Madison, IN. Sponsor include Subaru, Duke Energy, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, US Bank, Morgan’s Outdoor Center, & Midwest Grip & Lighting Company.
Ohio River Music, Arts & Outdoor Festival is Friday 6 July @ 5-11:30 PM @ Four Seasons Marina, 4609 Kellogg Avenue, Cincinnati, OH. Come early, stay late; even overnight. Live music (5 bands), food, refreshments, craft vendors, & paddling films under the stars. Learn more about the Ohio River & what you can do to improve & celebrate it. Buy a new or used canoe or kayak. Bid on dozens of silent auctions items. Admire classic wooden boats. Free admission & parking. Overnight camping available.
Paddlefest Float Trip, Races, & Finish Line Festival is Saturday 7 July @ 7 AM - 2 PM starting @ Four Seasons Marina & ending at Serpentine Wall. Join 1,400 people paddling down the Ohio River on a beautiful July morning. Or join in one of the canoe & kayak races. The river will be closed to barge traffic making the 6-mile float trip peaceful & scenic for seasoned & novice paddlers. Education & water stops, live music, & a shore-stop fossil-hunt along the way. At the Finish Line Festival at the Serpentine Wall, friends & family continue the fun with live music, food, & vendors. More info, description of events & schedules, & registration @ 513.588.6936, cplepys@cincynature.org, brew@choice.net, & www.OhioRiverWay.org.
Change the Conversation, Change the World: Civic Engagement Series [Tuesdays 10 & 17 July @ 6-9 PM]: A 2-part education & skill development series provides tools to have a more powerful, meaningful conversation in your community. The series will be lead by Peter Block, sponsored by A Small Group, & hosted by the William Howard Taft National Historic Site staff. These sessions are highly interactive & provide opportunities for connection with a great group of committed & influential people working to make Cincinnati a better place. Peter is an author, international consultant, & Cincinnati citizen. A Small Group is a volunteer group that promotes empowerment, stewardship, chosen accountability, & reconciliation of community through civic engagement. Free. Please attend both sessions. Seating is limited. More info & reservations from Collette Thompson @ 513.451.0166, cert@fuse.net, www.peterblock.com, & www.asmallgroup.net.
1st Annual Master Pieces - Opening [Friday 13 July 6-10 PM]: Master Pieces reveals the intensity & professionalism of students working towards their terminal academic degree in the fields of art or design. Often the most exceptional work comes out of these artists’ immersion in their culture of study & intellectual pursuit. Manifest’s goal is to select works that are contemporary masterpieces; works that set the standard of quality that the artist is expected to maintain throughout their professional career. Fifteen works (12 sculptural, 2 photo-based, 1 painting) by 11 Masters from 8 states. Refreshments served. Exhibit runs thru August 10. At Manifest Creative Research Gallery & Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206. Parking on street & across the street in DeSales Business Lot. More info @ 513.861.3638, jason@manifestgallery.org, & www.manifestgallery.org.
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1st Bi-Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit & Indoor Art Gallery [thru September]: Explore the newest art at Historic Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum. For centuries, the cemetery has showcased artisans' monuments, mausoleums, & stained glass. Now stroll the outdoor Garden Courtyard to see art from local artists tucked among the Arboretum's spectacular horticulture. Plus, several local artists contributed oil paintings, watercolors, photographs, & other art forms to the Indoor Art Gallery. Ten of the paintings are by local artist Richard Luschek. The artists used the beauty of Spring Grove as inspiration for their creations; each work of art representing a facet of the cemetery's grandeur. The Indoor Art Gallery is in the Historic Office Building, just inside the cemetery main entrance; a map of the sculpture exhibit is available at the Customer Service Center or the Indoor Art Gallery inside the Historic Office. Monday-Friday 8:30AM-5PM, Saturday 8:30AM-4PM, Sunday Noon-4PM. Co-sponsored by Spring Grove & Summerfair Foundation. At Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum, 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati OH 45232. More info @ 513.681.7526, richard_luschek@yahoo.com, & www.springgrove.org/SG/CALENDAR/EventCalendar/SculptureExhibit.shtm.
Business As Unusual: Heroes of the Holocaust [thru July 29]: This exhibition tells the story of Oskar Schindler & his actions to protect Jews during the Holocaust which have earned him a special place among honored rescuers. Woven into this well-known story of courage is the story of a Cincinnati family that followed this same difficult path & the positive role of corporate social responsibility in fighting injustice & social crisis today. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
3rd Annual Magnitude 7 Exhibit of Small Art Works [thru Friday 6 July]: Juried, 50 small works by 30 artists from 14 states & the UK. Works in a wide variety of media including sculpture, fibers, printmaking, photography, painting, drawing, mixed media, & collage. Small works are very portable & fit well into many spaces. They evoke a sense of one's own physicality, in a completely different way than larger works. Small works are intimate; inviting approach & inspection. Like short poetry, they are a challenge to craft with the same presence of their larger counterparts. The exhibit consists of works no larger than 7 inches in any dimension. At Manifest Creative Research Gallery & Drawing Center, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45206. More info @ 513.861.3638, jason@manifestgallery.org, & www.manifestgallery.org.
Studio 89 Free Concerts @ WNKU [Mondays thru 27 August @ 8:30 PM]: Was once Monday night's best kept secret, Studio 89 now requires advance reservations. This year's schedule: July 2 = no ocncert; July 9 = Peppertown; July 16 = Swinging Steaks; July 23 = Rob Fetters; July 30 = Hobex; August 6 = Kim Taylor; August 13 = TBA; August 20 = Toby Myers & Moe Z; August 27 = Jayne Sachs Band. Seating is limited, make reservations up to a week in advance. Performances will be video taped for broadcast on WKET TV. At Studio 89, 301 Landrum Academic Center, Highland Heights, KY 41099. More info & reservations @ 859.572.6500, radio@nku.edu, & www.wnku.org/page_wnku.asp?p=0530720.
Highlights from the Cincinnati Opera Archives [thru Tuesday 2 October]: Cincinnati Opera Association began its life in 1920 as the 2nd oldest opera company in the U.S. The Opera performed at the Cincinnati Zoo Pavilion until 1972, when it moved to Music Hall. Over the years, singers who have graced the stage include Plácido Domingo, Norman Treigle, Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, James Morris, & Barbara Daniels, to name a few. The Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County will now house the archives of the Cincinnati Opera, previously maintained by the Cincinnati Historical Society, exhibiting some of the Opera’s treasures as Highlights from the Cincinnati Opera Archives: photographs, programs, scrapbooks, posters, articles, publicity, & much more from 1883-1994. At Art & Music Department, Main Library, 800 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.369.6959, Emily.Mueller@CincinnatiLibrary.org, & www.cincinnatilibrary.org.
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Section Three: Articles
Contents:
- Diseased Society: a conversation about America with Alan Bern
- Nancy Dawley supports jail plan of Pepper, Portune
- Dr. Mercola on Ron Paul
Diseased Society
A conversation about America with salonista Alan Bern
By Ellen Bierhorst
5/27/07
Alan is living in Berlin, Germany, where he has lived for something like 18 years. He was in town again briefly and we had a great talk, as always. There are some disturbing comparisons between the U.S. and Europe.
Entering the U.S., driving into the city from the airport you see dilapidated taxi cabs with dispirited, overworked drivers who have no interest in communicating, you pass run down buildings, poorly maintained roads, barbed wire atop fences. Homelessness, grinding poverty. Loud, dirty, few options, not at all what you would call “welcoming”. Everywhere you look you see corporate franchise eateries like Taco Bell and McDonald’s. It’s as though the infrastructure is falling apart.
At 2 am Alan was walking in Berlin recently, some tree-lined streets, some alleyways, and suddenly noticed that he felt perfectly safe, while there isn’t a single U.S. city in which he would dare to walk such streets at such an hour.
The public transportation system in Europe is clean and convenient. The society there is clearly invested in wonderful public facilities, and here it is not. Just look at the Greyhound bus station in Cincinnati. It is “creepy”, awful.
Years ago Alan and Brave Old World (see braveoldworld.com) would tour sometimes in Mexico, and at that time you would see more signs of disintegration there… be glad to return to the U.S. Feels kind of like that now, coming to the US from Europe. It’s a far cry from the way it was when I spent a year in France in 1962-63; I remember being scornful of the student rioting, the occasional “brown outs” of electrical power, the “silly looking” money, all different sizes and printed in beautiful colors, but not as solid as the currency of the U.S. Remember “Sound as a dollar”?
Then there is the galloping rate of morbid obesity in America.
Why are all these things happening in America? Alan and I talked, and here are some of the ideas that emerged (90% from Alan):
There are no guns in Europe. They have gun control. We have guns all over the streets. A big factor in the atmosphere of public endangerment we have here.
The private automobile is much more entrenched in America where it dominates the society. Collusion of big oil with the auto industry.
European countries have much more of a “social democracy”. Here we have the corporate dominated society. In Europe, the state is more powerful in relation to the corporations, and control things for the public good more effectively. The film “The Corporation” shows the influence of corporations in U.S.
Europe has a parliamentary system of government; there are minority parties. You are voting for policies rather than for personalities. Here we have the two-party system.
Alan said, “I think that the ‘science of marketing’ mind from the advertising industry has taken over all other forms of public discourse and dominates our view of human society. “ I asked, “Is consumerism, consumer goods addiction worse here?” “It has spread to Europe as well. A recent study in Berlin high schools looked at levels of fear in students. The thing students feared the MOST was being excluded from their social group because they didn’t own the “right” clothes items. Students found this prospect even more frightening than the idea of something harming their parents!”
“But why is it worse in the U.S.?” Alan answered, “I don’t know… they have a different cultural history. They lived through World War I and World War II, maybe it sobered them up. … Before the modern era there were two classes in Europe, the very rich and the very poor. Then the middle class emerged along with the rise of capitalism and created a buffer zone between the resentful, dangerous lower class and the rich. Social stability brought through a large, comfortable middle class. In 1929 the run-away inflation destroyed the middle class in Germany… (then came social disorder, then fascism. E.B.) So after WWII the European societies aimed at creating healthy middle class and a non-desperate lower class by providing a minimum quality of life: health, education, employment, even if it had to be government subsidized.”
In America we are still in the cowboy mentality… Horatio Alger, poor boy makes good, riches through individual initiative, not comfort through social guarantees. In America we are still going for private sector entrepreneurism rather than social control, and we look in other directions for social control. Prisons. Police. And religion. In Europe, religion lost its role of keeping people in order. Here, we see an uncanny collaboration of the rich-serving bush administration with the churches for keeping order.
Remember the declining Roman Empire, offering the masses “bread and circuses” to keep them under control. Today we have oceans of junk food, offered as “pornography”, as addictive substances, and entertainment as drugs as well. We are living in a culture of addiction.
The Jail Thing
Nancy Dawley Supports the Pepper/Portune Idea
Don't be fooled that the new "jail plan", actually a "Safety Plan," is the same as the old one voted down last year by voters. It's very different, and a total plan to replace inadequate facilities, reduce the number of repeaters (rather than the current plan of doing nothing), and provide operating funds (not just a structure). Let's get on with it (a real change from my previous belief on the topic of a new jail) and over time reduce the number of people in prison in Hamilton county.
The next step, in my opinion, is to change laws and attitudes so that fewer people (mentally ill, non-violent drug users come to mind) are incarcerated in the first place. But at least we can try to rehabilitate people in facilities that permit rehabilitation so that one mistake is all they make. Nancy
1. An Intelligent Approach to Justice - The Safety Plan enacted goes well beyond merely the provision of new jail space. Much of it is directed at programs designed to reduce crime and to reduce the number (70%) of offenders who wind up returning to jail at some later date. This is a huge improvement over past policies and should be supported as consistent with the values of the Democratic Party. There should be more to a justice system than simply locking people up.
2. Replacement of Inefficient and Inadequate Existing Jail Space - Nearly 2/3rds of the jail space to be constructed under the plan replaces very inadequate and possibly dangerous space now in use. It also replaces space now being rented in Butler County at great cost and funded by a rainy day fund which is about to run out. Its time to do the job right instead of using a patchwork of band aide solutions as the Republicans have done in the past.
3. Honest Cost Efficiency - Unlike previous proposals (and other proposals now in circulation), the Commissioner's plan is honest in that it includes both construction funds and operating funds. Last year's Heimlich/Dewine Plan provided no funds for operation, it financed construction through long term debt (leading to huge interest payments) and failed to consolidate multiple facilities leading to much higher long term operating costs. In the long run, the newly enacted plan will save the taxpayers Hamilton County nearly $450 million that would eventually be spent otherwise.
4. Meeting The County's Obligation - The County Commissioners do not decide who and how many people shall be housed in the County's jails. Those decisions are made by elected Judges and the City and County prosecutor's offices. Legally, the County is required by statute to provide adequate jail space. If the County fails to provide the space needed to house offenders, the County Commissioners can and probably would be sued and in the end, a Court would order the County to construct new jail space. The nature and configuration of that jail space would then be decided not by our Democratic Commissioners but by a Judge (probably Republican) and the County Sherriff who would bring the suit. Refusing to fund the needed construction (as have Republicans for many years) will not prevent its construction. It will simply shift the decision making to other parties.
5. $2 million per month, the cost of delay - Delaying the implementation of the Safety Plan by placing it on the ballot will cost Hamilton County taxpayers as much as $2 million per month, money which can be spent in much more productive ways.
Our County Commissioner's have stepped up to the plate and made an intelligent and thoughtful decision as they were elected to do, a decision that can easily be misrepresented.
Mercola supports Ron Paul: Fed. Reserve; Dietary Supplements
(Dr. Mercola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola is this goofy looking physician...an osteopath... Who has made a huge name for himself as a reliable source of online information about wellness and alternative medical approaches. A trusted voice in circles I respect. http://Www.mercola.com Ellen.)
Ellen,
It seems to me that everyone is interested in keeping their access to
alternatives and supplements. This article gives me hope.
Karen Vossler
From: "jicbsoon@sbcglobal.net" <jicbsoon@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 08:02:09 -0400
To: Karen Vossler <KarenVossler@webtv.net>
Subject: Ron Paul on mercola.com
In his latest newsletter, Dr. Mercola raves about Ron Paul and attaches the YouTube video of RP talking before Congress (with Bernake there) about the dangers of the Federal Reserve. Below are Dr. M's comments including mention of a bill RP has introduced - The Health Freedom Protection Act. Have you heard of that?
Dr. Mercola's Comment:
Dr. Paul is one of my heroes <http://www.mercola.com/2001/aug/25/doctors.htm> . He is a shining example of how one solitary voice can inspire and bring necessary change. He is nearly single-handedly leading the charge to address the perversion that multi-national corporations have done to the U.S. government.
Not only has Dr. Paul been making quite an impression during the recent Republican presidential debates </blogs/public_blog/Ron-Paul-Stirs-Up-Presidential-Debate-14838.aspx> , he's also introduced a bill that would strongly and positively affect Mercola.com and many other natural health organizations and advocates, and the field of natural health in general.
The Health Freedom Protection Act would prevent the FDA from censoring truthful claims about the curative or preventative effect of dietary supplements, a popular issue for Americans -- but not necessarily for Congressmen, especially for those receiving donations </blogs/public_blog/How-Much-Did-it-REALLY-Cost-Drug-Companies-to-Pay-Off-Congress--16197.aspx> from the multi-national drug company cartel.
One of the more recent flashpoints in the debate over dietary supplements occurred eight years ago, after studies emerged that tart cherries may do more good than aspirin or other anti-inflammatory drugs when it comes to pain relief <http://www.mercola.com/2004/jan/17/cherries_health.htm> . When cherry growers began to cite this research, the FDA came down hard on 29 of them, threatening legal action if they didn't remove the scientific evidence about cherries from their Web sites.
At the very same time the FDA was harassing cherry farmers, the agency was approving the heart-stopping drug Vioxx <http://www.mercola.com/1999/archive/fda_votes_on_celebrex_alternate.htm> , which was pulled from the American market <http://www.mercola.com/2004/dec/1/vioxx_warning.htm> in 2004. Think about that -- truthful studies about cherries could not be referred to, but deadly and dangerous drug alternatives could be advertised everywhere.
The support for Dr. Paul is like nothing I have ever seen before. I read nearly three dozen blogs every day and about 5,000 posts a week so I have a good sense of what people are feeling. The support for Dr. Paul has been almost universally positive for his effort.
When I posted an article about him in last week's newsletter <http://vitalvotes.com/blogs/public_blog/Ron-Paul-Stirs-Up-Presidential-Debate-14838.aspx> he had over a 97 percent positive comment rating. This is rare, and I believe it's because he speaks the TRUTH and that resonates at a deep level with those who seek it. It is my sincere hope that enough of a groundswell can be generated through the Internet to give him a chance to be the next president. You never know, stranger things have happened
Section Four: Books/Movies/Magazines/Reviews
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Come on... send me names of books and stuff you are enjoying. ellen
................................... No new books to tell you about this week. However, in the Table Notes above, folks talked about TV serials available on DVD at public library. Don’t we love our public library! e...
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