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PERSONAL NEWS #45
Oh dear, me late again with “news” and I have no excuses, except laziness.
On Tuesday, January 4th, participated in NYC Dept of Peace board member meeting at Carol & Gary’s charming upper Westside apartment. Those in attendance, other than me and Carol, were Liz and Coco, plus Kevin joined us via conference call. Topics of discussion … Jeanette Rankin [Congresswoman], writer Henry David Thoreau, committees, PR packet by Joe, possibly connecting with LL Cool J, and folk at UN Ethics & Spiritual Committee are interested. Productive evening noshed on yummy take-out and met Carol’s hubby Gary, who’s Blog I have listed on this Blog.
On Thursday evening, January 6th, showed up for the monthly Kucinich Meetup at Bonobo’s vegetarian restaurant. Vegetarian/Vegan food is quite good, tho abit pricey at this establishment. Those in attendance were Nick, Ellen, Tom and I. Much of the 90 minute discussion that evening centered on … Ohio Vote Recount, Kucinich appearance at an event in Long Island [April], upcoming Iraq elections, Diebold machines, Tsunami Aid and the March/Rally for Affordable Housing on February 2nd at City Hall.
During the month of January, at E&Y, I’m took several classes to learn the Microsoft 2003 software upgrades [ie: Excel & Word]. Plus, after the holidays, I’m trying to get to the gym more, as I really need to get into the groove again.
On Saturday, January 15th, I joined some Kucitizens [ie: Linda, Stephanie & Paulette] in attending a “Funeral Procession through Union Square” at 2pm. Weather was very cold and abit windy. The March was styled in the form of a funeral, [so everyone was dressed in various black garb] to mourn the blow akin to death that has been dealt to a lot of entities with the re-installation of Dictator Bush. Entities such as the occupation in Iraq, US civil liberties, women’s rights, gay rights, etc. The procession was organized by Theaters Against War [THAW] and the National Mourning Project. At one point I was carrying a world peace flag in the procession and Stephanie was one of the pallbearers of a lightweight makeshift coffin. Then we switched roles and I was a pallbearer.
The Ladies of Liberty group [above photo] sang songs and a eulogy was given over the coffin. Naturally NYPD was there to view the proceedings and try to intimidate the crowd. Screw those pigs! Afterwards we four ladies made a beeline for the Zen Palate restaurant to get some good, warm food in us. We were that cold. Discussion centered on a number of topics … usually world events, politics and the upcoming Dictatorship [farce] parade on January 20th. Then it was off to Kmart to do abit of shopping and then I headed back to Brooklyn with Linda. I had finally received the extended version of LOTRs “Return of the King” from my DVD Club a few days before. Linda phoned up Max, told him to meet us at her home at 7pm, so we settled down to watch the movie. Noshed on salad, tea and other goodies while enjoying the four hour plus film. Other DVDs I’d picked up or ordered recently were TROY, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Big Empty. I’ll write up some movie reviews soon. Peace!
FOX BULLY IS CRYBABY ON CANADA ... O'Reilly Wailing about CBC "vicious attack"
Antonia Zerbisias, The Toronto Sun
Among the untruths allowed to stand on Fox on Friday night ... Fox is seen "in about seven million or eight million homes" in Canada, said O'Reilly. Not true. Not even close. There are 7.2 million homes total in Canada with basic cable. Rogers boasts about 675,000 digital households. Many cable and satellite services don't even carry Fox.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0201-28.htm
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