July 25, 2011
4. Newblog2011: 07/25/11 “Red, black and blue for a cause,” a title on the front page of today’s Gannett-owned The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus
Yesterday, on my blogpage, 3. Newblog2011: 07/24/11 "Are you bleeding?" I wrote about a toddler boy whom I had seen crying and being taunted by a man who was most likely his father.
Today, there’s a title at the bottom of the front page of the Times Argus that says:
“Red, black and blue for a cause”
I’ll describe more of the front page of today’s newspaper:
Today, the following titles are on the front page of the Gannett-owned Barre-Montpelier Times Argus newspaper:
--“The Calais Calamity
History: Sabbath-breaking on No. 10 Pond”
(with a picture of a drawing depicting “Mirror Lake”)
--(a caption that says--)
“Animal Farm”
(That’s above a large picture of stuffed animals in lawn chairs. The caption below the picture says--)
“Stuffed animals seated in lawn chairs appear to keep watch over their numerous brethren that look to be sunning themselves on blankets outside an old barn at (person’s name)’s yard sale Sunday in Washington. The recent string of high temperatures eased Sunday with the thermostat reading in the low 80s making for a beautiful summer day.”
--“Waterbury survey says: Merge with town”
(There’s a highlighted quote that says--)
“ Approximately 63 percent of those who took the survey said they were in favor of merger. Of that group, a significantly greater portion of village voters, 83 percent, said they wanted merger than non-village voters, of whom 53 percent were in favor.”
(The Times-Argus is trying to use that story as code to say that there are more people in the Barre-Montpelier area than not who want child molestation and child murder to become legal and socially acceptable. The article is supposed to be about a town merger and says that “A total of 356 people took the survey, of whom 128 were Waterbury Village voters and 225 were Waterbury voters. Three responders were unsure about where they lived.”
(What do you want to bet that those aren’t even accurate numbers for what the story is actually supposed to be about? Also, from what I’ve seen, of the businesses in the Barre-Montpelier area who have been in favor of sexual harassment, the ones who are the most persistent, graphic sexual harassers have also been the ones who seem the most interested in sexually abusing children. I still would not say that the child molesters are in the majority, not by a lot. However, it’s still a very destructive situation; for the government to be forcing child molestation on people is unprecedentedly evil in modern American history, I think.
I also would say that the businesses in the Barre-Montpelier area are not the same thing as the population of people who live here. When I said that there doesn’t seem to be much of a professional group here, that’s nothing new; that’s the way it is throughout all of Vermont, and that’s most certainly true among people in their 20’s and 30’s. In more ways than one, it’s not a diverse state.
The people in Vermont whose lives and children are going to be the most damaged by any continuance of the events of the past year and a half are also the people who are the least savvy and the least knowledgeable about how to advocate for themselves effectively. You have some bored business owners, some corporations pushing their agenda through the local branches of those corporations, bored media, and a corrupt government inflicting horrors on people who don’t know how to defend themselves.
There are people in Vermont who want to rape and kill women and children; that’s true of populations anywhere in the world, at any socioeconomic level. They shouldn’t be encouraged to do those things. Just because you can find people who want to do something doesn’t mean that you should encourage them to do it.
For example, if you put bags of stolen money on the sidewalk with a sign in front of them that says: “STOLEN MONEY: FREE: TAKE IT!” you will get various reactions from people who see the sign.
--Some people will take as much of the money as they can, right away.
--Some people will watch for a while, wondering if they should take some of the money or not. Some of those people will take some of the money. Some of them will watch until the money’s gone. Some of them will go away thinking “I’ll check it out later; if it’s still there then, I might take some.”
--Some people will be concerned and will call the police right away in order to try to stop anyone from taking the money and to get it returned to its rightful owner. If the police, like the army, have been given orders by the government that anyone who tries to stop people from taking the stolen money is to be persecuted with the intent to arrest or kill the person, then the people who are interested in getting all of the money returned to where it’s supposed to be are going to have a tough time.)
--“Red, black and blue for a cause”
(There’s a picture of roller derby skaters with that title, and the caption next to the picture says--)
“Twin City Riot’s Quad Shot, right, breaks through the North Country Lumber Jills pack of blockers to score Saturday night.”
(There’s another picture next to the article “Red, black and blue for a cause.” It’s a close-up of roller derby skaters, and says--)
“North Country Lumber Jills’ blocker Beethoven’s Fist puts a hit on Twin City Riot jammer Veggie Mighty during a sold-out Central Vermont Roller Derby bout at the BOR in Barre on Saturday night.”
(It doesn’t seem to me that it’s a bad thing that roller derby had a sold-out game; I do think it’s bad that any sport is getting used as code for child molestation.)
Here’s what’s along the side of the front page of the Times Argus:
--INSIDE
“Niche beers big in New England B6”
--LOCAL
“(person’s name) is restoring a 1932 race car that he found in the woods. A6”
--SPORTS
“Bennington eliminates Rutland in Legion Ball B1”
--SAY WHAT?
(Here’s the first paragraph of that article--)
“Victorville, Calif.—A motorcyclist who plowed into a minvan landed unscathed in the back seat, and the driver didn’t realize it until he turned into his nearby driveway, authorities said. “We’re calling this one a non-injury collision with a twist,” Karen Hunt, spokeswoman for the San Benardino County sheriff’s Victorville station, told the Victorville Daily Press.”
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Explanation of some of my punctuation:
When I tried to put a colon before the closed parenthesis, it kept turning into a smiley face emoticon. I didn’t want that, and am not trying to smile about this situation in any way.
I might even have been wrong about trying to put the colon before the closed parenthesis, but that was my guess about how to punctuate those sections.
4. Newblog2011: 07/25/11 “Red, black and blue for a cause,” a title on the front page of today’s Gannett-owned The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, copyright L. Kochman July 25, 2011 @ 1:24 p.m./edit and addition @ 1:27 p.m.
4. Newblog2011: 07/25/11 “Red, black and blue for a cause,” a title on the front page of today’s Gannett-owned The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus
Yesterday, on my blogpage, 3. Newblog2011: 07/24/11 "Are you bleeding?" I wrote about a toddler boy whom I had seen crying and being taunted by a man who was most likely his father.
Today, there’s a title at the bottom of the front page of the Times Argus that says:
“Red, black and blue for a cause”
I’ll describe more of the front page of today’s newspaper:
Today, the following titles are on the front page of the Gannett-owned Barre-Montpelier Times Argus newspaper:
--“The Calais Calamity
History: Sabbath-breaking on No. 10 Pond”
(with a picture of a drawing depicting “Mirror Lake”)
--(a caption that says--)
“Animal Farm”
(That’s above a large picture of stuffed animals in lawn chairs. The caption below the picture says--)
“Stuffed animals seated in lawn chairs appear to keep watch over their numerous brethren that look to be sunning themselves on blankets outside an old barn at (person’s name)’s yard sale Sunday in Washington. The recent string of high temperatures eased Sunday with the thermostat reading in the low 80s making for a beautiful summer day.”
--“Waterbury survey says: Merge with town”
(There’s a highlighted quote that says--)
“ Approximately 63 percent of those who took the survey said they were in favor of merger. Of that group, a significantly greater portion of village voters, 83 percent, said they wanted merger than non-village voters, of whom 53 percent were in favor.”
(The Times-Argus is trying to use that story as code to say that there are more people in the Barre-Montpelier area than not who want child molestation and child murder to become legal and socially acceptable. The article is supposed to be about a town merger and says that “A total of 356 people took the survey, of whom 128 were Waterbury Village voters and 225 were Waterbury voters. Three responders were unsure about where they lived.”
(What do you want to bet that those aren’t even accurate numbers for what the story is actually supposed to be about? Also, from what I’ve seen, of the businesses in the Barre-Montpelier area who have been in favor of sexual harassment, the ones who are the most persistent, graphic sexual harassers have also been the ones who seem the most interested in sexually abusing children. I still would not say that the child molesters are in the majority, not by a lot. However, it’s still a very destructive situation; for the government to be forcing child molestation on people is unprecedentedly evil in modern American history, I think.
I also would say that the businesses in the Barre-Montpelier area are not the same thing as the population of people who live here. When I said that there doesn’t seem to be much of a professional group here, that’s nothing new; that’s the way it is throughout all of Vermont, and that’s most certainly true among people in their 20’s and 30’s. In more ways than one, it’s not a diverse state.
The people in Vermont whose lives and children are going to be the most damaged by any continuance of the events of the past year and a half are also the people who are the least savvy and the least knowledgeable about how to advocate for themselves effectively. You have some bored business owners, some corporations pushing their agenda through the local branches of those corporations, bored media, and a corrupt government inflicting horrors on people who don’t know how to defend themselves.
There are people in Vermont who want to rape and kill women and children; that’s true of populations anywhere in the world, at any socioeconomic level. They shouldn’t be encouraged to do those things. Just because you can find people who want to do something doesn’t mean that you should encourage them to do it.
For example, if you put bags of stolen money on the sidewalk with a sign in front of them that says: “STOLEN MONEY: FREE: TAKE IT!” you will get various reactions from people who see the sign.
--Some people will take as much of the money as they can, right away.
--Some people will watch for a while, wondering if they should take some of the money or not. Some of those people will take some of the money. Some of them will watch until the money’s gone. Some of them will go away thinking “I’ll check it out later; if it’s still there then, I might take some.”
--Some people will be concerned and will call the police right away in order to try to stop anyone from taking the money and to get it returned to its rightful owner. If the police, like the army, have been given orders by the government that anyone who tries to stop people from taking the stolen money is to be persecuted with the intent to arrest or kill the person, then the people who are interested in getting all of the money returned to where it’s supposed to be are going to have a tough time.)
--“Red, black and blue for a cause”
(There’s a picture of roller derby skaters with that title, and the caption next to the picture says--)
“Twin City Riot’s Quad Shot, right, breaks through the North Country Lumber Jills pack of blockers to score Saturday night.”
(There’s another picture next to the article “Red, black and blue for a cause.” It’s a close-up of roller derby skaters, and says--)
“North Country Lumber Jills’ blocker Beethoven’s Fist puts a hit on Twin City Riot jammer Veggie Mighty during a sold-out Central Vermont Roller Derby bout at the BOR in Barre on Saturday night.”
(It doesn’t seem to me that it’s a bad thing that roller derby had a sold-out game; I do think it’s bad that any sport is getting used as code for child molestation.)
Here’s what’s along the side of the front page of the Times Argus:
--INSIDE
“Niche beers big in New England B6”
--LOCAL
“(person’s name) is restoring a 1932 race car that he found in the woods. A6”
--SPORTS
“Bennington eliminates Rutland in Legion Ball B1”
--SAY WHAT?
(Here’s the first paragraph of that article--)
“Victorville, Calif.—A motorcyclist who plowed into a minvan landed unscathed in the back seat, and the driver didn’t realize it until he turned into his nearby driveway, authorities said. “We’re calling this one a non-injury collision with a twist,” Karen Hunt, spokeswoman for the San Benardino County sheriff’s Victorville station, told the Victorville Daily Press.”
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Explanation of some of my punctuation:
When I tried to put a colon before the closed parenthesis, it kept turning into a smiley face emoticon. I didn’t want that, and am not trying to smile about this situation in any way.
I might even have been wrong about trying to put the colon before the closed parenthesis, but that was my guess about how to punctuate those sections.
4. Newblog2011: 07/25/11 “Red, black and blue for a cause,” a title on the front page of today’s Gannett-owned The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, copyright L. Kochman July 25, 2011 @ 1:24 p.m./edit and addition @ 1:27 p.m.