October 21, 2010
I'M PRO-CHOICE. I'VE ALWAYS VOTED DEMOCRAT. THERE'S NO REASON FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OR ANYONE ELSE TO BE HARASSING AND THREATENING ME.
Here are two posters that have been appearing together all over Burlington.
October 21, 2010 @ 6:10 p.m.
On page 5Y of the Hometown section of the Burlington Free Press from yesterday, the one created and edited by pedophiles Clover Whitham and Lynn Monty and approved by Jim Fogler, the President and Publisher of the Burlington Free Press, there is again the Leahy/ECHO Center “POWER PLAY: Become an energy SUPER HERO!” ad, with sponsors Efficiency Vermont, City Market, NBC News Channel 5 and the Burlington Free Press listed at the bottom of the ad.
The Leahy/ECHO Center Power Play ad is also on page 4 of this week’s Seven Days, next to a campaign ad for Democrat Sally Fox which shows her with that same picture of the lake behind her as she and other harassers have in their other campaign ads. This time, there are two more pictures of her, one with Peter Welch and one with Doug Racine.
The ad for Leahy/ECHO center sponsor Efficiency Vermont that says “Leftovers Everyone Likes” is still running both in Seven Days and the Burlington Free Press.
Seven Days has a story called “Prime Target,” which it introduces by saying “A Rockingham man is in jail for using his own blog to threaten President Obama. At least SOMEBODY’s reading it.”
So that’s Seven Days saying that I’ve been threatening President Obama, even though it’s President Obama who’s been threatening me.
Seven Days has a story called “Tour de Mad River: A sorta spontaneous ride with cycling celebrity Lance Armstrong brought out 200 bikers—one in acid-washed tights.”
Seven Days has a story that says “Snoctober? One good thing about last week’s Nor-easter that toppled trees and turned umbrellas inside out: snow AND foliage.”
On page 12 there’s a story called “The Ground Game” that features a quote by Democrat Vermont State Senator Dick Mazza saying about Peter Shumlin “ENOUGH OF THIS. I’ve served with Peter, and he’s not unethical.” That’s Peter Shumlin whose section on his website called “Yankee’s Problems” is all about the word “leak,” and who seems to think that his hateful and degrading sexism is compensated for by the fact that Planned Parenthood doesn’t want to see abortion rights get demolished and has gone out of its way to endorse him.
I DON’T WANT TO SEE ABORTION RIGHTS DEMOLISHED, EITHER, AND I’M NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR ANYONE WHO IS GOING TO TRY DEMOLISH THEM. HOWEVER, NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO ABUSE ME OR ANYBODY ELSE LIKE THIS, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS WILL LEAD TO; IF THIS KIND OF THING CONTINUES, INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE WHO AREN'T RUNNING FOR OFFICE OR POSING ANY THREAT TO ANYTHING WORTHWHILE, WHO JUST HAPPEN TO BE IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME, WILL GET USED BY ALL POLITICAL PARTIES IN ELECTIONS AT THE SAME TIME IN ORDER TO TRY TO USE THE PERSONAL ISSUES AND PETTY WHIMS OF RICH AND/OR INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE TO GET THEIR SUPPORT, TO GET CORPORATE AND MEDIA SUPPORT, TO PANDER TO THE WORST SIDE OF HUMAN NATURE IN COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES. THIS IS WHAT ALL OF THE COLLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL AND YOUNGER STUDENTS WHO ARE AWARE OF THIS SITUATION ARE SEEING, AND THERE ARE A LOT OF STUDENTS AND OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE WHO AREN'T IN SCHOOL WHO ARE AWARE OF THIS SITUATION. THE EXAMPLE THAT IS STILL BEING SET BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS THE FIRST REAL INTRODUCTION TO POLITICS IN THEIR COUNTRY THAT THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE.
Right now it's 6:24 p.m. Just before I started working on this page, I did a Google search on the name Barack Obama. He's still got ads for cruise ships at the top of blog posts, he's still got "Working To Make A Difference by Marlene Targ Brill," or "Target Lena The Fish" in support of Brian Williams at NBC Nightly News. BRIAN WILLIAMS HASN'T STOPPED HARASSING ME FOR A YEAR.
President Barack Obama is AGAINST equal rights for women. Everyone in his administration is AGAINST equal rights for women, including Hillary Clinton. If there is even elected official in the Democratic Party anywhere in the United States who isn't against equal rights for women, then that person has yet to speak up.
This week’s paper version of the Seven Days newspaper also has a big ad for Northfield Savings Bank that says “FLYING PIG TALES” along the bottom of page 14, below a picture of two female St. Michael’s college students. The two students are appearing in an article called “From Colchester to Congo: St. Mike’s Launches a National Dear Hilllary Campaign.”
Here are the first few paragraphs of the article under which Seven Days newspaper chose to put an ad that reads “FLYING PIG TALES:”
“The run-up to election day is probably not the best time to be trying to focus local attention on sexual atrocities in the Congo.
But a seemingly remote issue does have relevance to Vermont. And it is also resonating nationally thanks to a campaign conceived at S. Michael’s College.
“Burlington is a refugee resettlement community, so the reality of what is happening in Congo has been brought to Vermont,” says Cathleen Wilson, director of the Women’s Rape Crisis Center. “It has affected women we know and work with. It doesn’t feel remote to me at all.”
The Burlington-based crisis center has signed on as one of 50 chapters of Dear Hillary Campaign for the Congo, the St. Mike’s initiative that’s pressing Hillary Clinton to do more to end mass rapes in Congo.”
Today, page 10A of the Burlington Free Press has a picture of a woman from South Burlington with her young son, in an ad just above “Cheese Traders and Wine Sellers.” The Cheese Traders and Wine Sellers ad is the same one that’s been running for months, with pictures of both cheese and wine and captions with “Charles’ Wine Suggestions” at the top of the list.
Just below the ad featuring “Charles’ Wine Suggestions,” there’s an ad for Vermont Yankee, with website listed as “VT4VY.com,” and the top line of that ad reads “IT’S A QUESTION OF POWER CONSUMPTION.”
Page 4D of the Burlington Free Press has the following ads taking up half the page:
--A picture of two little girls in an advertisement for an October 24, 2010 event at Shelburne Museum called “Haunted Happenings.” It says: --Trick-or-treating on the museum grounds, Featuring favorite cartoon characters, “Looney” obstacle course and more! Please bring a non-perishable food item for the Shelburne Food Shelf: Haunted Happenings is a Family Day Generously Sponsored by North Country Credit Union
--That ad is next to another one for “Rozzi’s Lakeshore Tavern: Cornhole Capital of COLCHESTER” (I’ve added the capital letters). It goes on to say: Daily Lunch and Dinner Specials include: “Maine” Little Neck Clams, Prime Rib, Lobster. Then it has an ad for a Bacon Cheeseburger which that one place has also been running for months. I am really sorry that Rozzi’s chose to become a part of the pedophilia side of the harassment, because before it did that I was contemplating mentioning that even though I knew they were probably part of the harassment, I liked the name they’d given their Bacon Cheeseburger meal, which is “MAN VS. DOZER.”
--Next to the ad for Rozzi’s is an ad for Three Brothers Pizza and Grill
--Above the ad for Rozzi’s and next to the ad with the picture of the two little girls in it is another ad that says “Trick or Treating,” with a picture of a little boy in goggles and a cape. The first sponsor listed for that ad is Hannaford’s; Hannaford’s, whose store on North Avenue may still have the big picture for sushi next to its large display of Vermont grade schools for which it’s doing fundraising.
There are posters up all over Burlington for a show that’s happening tonight called DEAD TIME. The poster has a big picture of a deer’s head with antlers on it just below the caption that says DEAD TIME. In the corner of the poster it says “FOLK HEROES.”
The DEAD TIME posters have been put up all over Burlington next to posters that say MONSTER MASH, with a cartoon of a headless guy on a bicycle.
The Tuesday, October 12, 2010 issue of the University of Vermont newspaper called “The Vermont Cynic” has a story called “Gay suicides spark upset,” which continues on page 2 next to a big ad for Christopher Pearson that says “EAT, DRINK AND VOTE ORGANIC.” Mr. Pearson is running for State Representative. On page 3, right across from the page that has the story about bullying and the ad for Mr. Pearson is a big ad for “Wash Spot Laundromat, 207 Riverside Ave, Burlington. www.thewashspot.com, clean@thewashspot: Open 24 hours 7 days/wk. Student Special: We MATCH any amount over $20.00 added to your Laundry Wash Card.”
I have definitely been getting the message throughout these times that there are people who think that it’s not only fine but heroic to bully straight women and I cannot any longer avoid concluding that there are people who think that pedophilia should become an accepted part of life.
On page 5Y of the Hometown section of the Burlington Free Press from yesterday, the one created and edited by pedophiles Clover Whitham and Lynn Monty and approved by Jim Fogler, the President and Publisher of the Burlington Free Press, there is again the Leahy/ECHO Center “POWER PLAY: Become an energy SUPER HERO!” ad, with sponsors Efficiency Vermont, City Market, NBC News Channel 5 and the Burlington Free Press listed at the bottom of the ad.
The Leahy/ECHO Center Power Play ad is also on page 4 of this week’s Seven Days, next to a campaign ad for Democrat Sally Fox which shows her with that same picture of the lake behind her as she and other harassers have in their other campaign ads. This time, there are two more pictures of her, one with Peter Welch and one with Doug Racine.
The ad for Leahy/ECHO center sponsor Efficiency Vermont that says “Leftovers Everyone Likes” is still running both in Seven Days and the Burlington Free Press.
Seven Days has a story called “Prime Target,” which it introduces by saying “A Rockingham man is in jail for using his own blog to threaten President Obama. At least SOMEBODY’s reading it.”
So that’s Seven Days saying that I’ve been threatening President Obama, even though it’s President Obama who’s been threatening me.
Seven Days has a story called “Tour de Mad River: A sorta spontaneous ride with cycling celebrity Lance Armstrong brought out 200 bikers—one in acid-washed tights.”
Seven Days has a story that says “Snoctober? One good thing about last week’s Nor-easter that toppled trees and turned umbrellas inside out: snow AND foliage.”
On page 12 there’s a story called “The Ground Game” that features a quote by Democrat Vermont State Senator Dick Mazza saying about Peter Shumlin “ENOUGH OF THIS. I’ve served with Peter, and he’s not unethical.” That’s Peter Shumlin whose section on his website called “Yankee’s Problems” is all about the word “leak,” and who seems to think that his hateful and degrading sexism is compensated for by the fact that Planned Parenthood doesn’t want to see abortion rights get demolished and has gone out of its way to endorse him.
I DON’T WANT TO SEE ABORTION RIGHTS DEMOLISHED, EITHER, AND I’M NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR ANYONE WHO IS GOING TO TRY DEMOLISH THEM. HOWEVER, NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO ABUSE ME OR ANYBODY ELSE LIKE THIS, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS WILL LEAD TO; IF THIS KIND OF THING CONTINUES, INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE WHO AREN'T RUNNING FOR OFFICE OR POSING ANY THREAT TO ANYTHING WORTHWHILE, WHO JUST HAPPEN TO BE IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME, WILL GET USED BY ALL POLITICAL PARTIES IN ELECTIONS AT THE SAME TIME IN ORDER TO TRY TO USE THE PERSONAL ISSUES AND PETTY WHIMS OF RICH AND/OR INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE TO GET THEIR SUPPORT, TO GET CORPORATE AND MEDIA SUPPORT, TO PANDER TO THE WORST SIDE OF HUMAN NATURE IN COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES. THIS IS WHAT ALL OF THE COLLEGE, HIGH SCHOOL AND YOUNGER STUDENTS WHO ARE AWARE OF THIS SITUATION ARE SEEING, AND THERE ARE A LOT OF STUDENTS AND OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE WHO AREN'T IN SCHOOL WHO ARE AWARE OF THIS SITUATION. THE EXAMPLE THAT IS STILL BEING SET BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS THE FIRST REAL INTRODUCTION TO POLITICS IN THEIR COUNTRY THAT THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE.
Right now it's 6:24 p.m. Just before I started working on this page, I did a Google search on the name Barack Obama. He's still got ads for cruise ships at the top of blog posts, he's still got "Working To Make A Difference by Marlene Targ Brill," or "Target Lena The Fish" in support of Brian Williams at NBC Nightly News. BRIAN WILLIAMS HASN'T STOPPED HARASSING ME FOR A YEAR.
President Barack Obama is AGAINST equal rights for women. Everyone in his administration is AGAINST equal rights for women, including Hillary Clinton. If there is even elected official in the Democratic Party anywhere in the United States who isn't against equal rights for women, then that person has yet to speak up.
This week’s paper version of the Seven Days newspaper also has a big ad for Northfield Savings Bank that says “FLYING PIG TALES” along the bottom of page 14, below a picture of two female St. Michael’s college students. The two students are appearing in an article called “From Colchester to Congo: St. Mike’s Launches a National Dear Hilllary Campaign.”
Here are the first few paragraphs of the article under which Seven Days newspaper chose to put an ad that reads “FLYING PIG TALES:”
“The run-up to election day is probably not the best time to be trying to focus local attention on sexual atrocities in the Congo.
But a seemingly remote issue does have relevance to Vermont. And it is also resonating nationally thanks to a campaign conceived at S. Michael’s College.
“Burlington is a refugee resettlement community, so the reality of what is happening in Congo has been brought to Vermont,” says Cathleen Wilson, director of the Women’s Rape Crisis Center. “It has affected women we know and work with. It doesn’t feel remote to me at all.”
The Burlington-based crisis center has signed on as one of 50 chapters of Dear Hillary Campaign for the Congo, the St. Mike’s initiative that’s pressing Hillary Clinton to do more to end mass rapes in Congo.”
Today, page 10A of the Burlington Free Press has a picture of a woman from South Burlington with her young son, in an ad just above “Cheese Traders and Wine Sellers.” The Cheese Traders and Wine Sellers ad is the same one that’s been running for months, with pictures of both cheese and wine and captions with “Charles’ Wine Suggestions” at the top of the list.
Just below the ad featuring “Charles’ Wine Suggestions,” there’s an ad for Vermont Yankee, with website listed as “VT4VY.com,” and the top line of that ad reads “IT’S A QUESTION OF POWER CONSUMPTION.”
Page 4D of the Burlington Free Press has the following ads taking up half the page:
--A picture of two little girls in an advertisement for an October 24, 2010 event at Shelburne Museum called “Haunted Happenings.” It says: --Trick-or-treating on the museum grounds, Featuring favorite cartoon characters, “Looney” obstacle course and more! Please bring a non-perishable food item for the Shelburne Food Shelf: Haunted Happenings is a Family Day Generously Sponsored by North Country Credit Union
--That ad is next to another one for “Rozzi’s Lakeshore Tavern: Cornhole Capital of COLCHESTER” (I’ve added the capital letters). It goes on to say: Daily Lunch and Dinner Specials include: “Maine” Little Neck Clams, Prime Rib, Lobster. Then it has an ad for a Bacon Cheeseburger which that one place has also been running for months. I am really sorry that Rozzi’s chose to become a part of the pedophilia side of the harassment, because before it did that I was contemplating mentioning that even though I knew they were probably part of the harassment, I liked the name they’d given their Bacon Cheeseburger meal, which is “MAN VS. DOZER.”
--Next to the ad for Rozzi’s is an ad for Three Brothers Pizza and Grill
--Above the ad for Rozzi’s and next to the ad with the picture of the two little girls in it is another ad that says “Trick or Treating,” with a picture of a little boy in goggles and a cape. The first sponsor listed for that ad is Hannaford’s; Hannaford’s, whose store on North Avenue may still have the big picture for sushi next to its large display of Vermont grade schools for which it’s doing fundraising.
There are posters up all over Burlington for a show that’s happening tonight called DEAD TIME. The poster has a big picture of a deer’s head with antlers on it just below the caption that says DEAD TIME. In the corner of the poster it says “FOLK HEROES.”
The DEAD TIME posters have been put up all over Burlington next to posters that say MONSTER MASH, with a cartoon of a headless guy on a bicycle.
The Tuesday, October 12, 2010 issue of the University of Vermont newspaper called “The Vermont Cynic” has a story called “Gay suicides spark upset,” which continues on page 2 next to a big ad for Christopher Pearson that says “EAT, DRINK AND VOTE ORGANIC.” Mr. Pearson is running for State Representative. On page 3, right across from the page that has the story about bullying and the ad for Mr. Pearson is a big ad for “Wash Spot Laundromat, 207 Riverside Ave, Burlington. www.thewashspot.com, clean@thewashspot: Open 24 hours 7 days/wk. Student Special: We MATCH any amount over $20.00 added to your Laundry Wash Card.”
I have definitely been getting the message throughout these times that there are people who think that it’s not only fine but heroic to bully straight women and I cannot any longer avoid concluding that there are people who think that pedophilia should become an accepted part of life.
Here's what's on pages 32 and 33 of The New Yorker's October 25, 2010 issue:
Here's what's on Page 90 of The New Yorker's October 25, 2010 issue. I took these pictures of the first page of an article called "Turning Away: The classical revival between the World Wars."
October 21, 2010 @ 10:20 p.m.
I’m the one who set the bold-print sentences in bold print in the next paragraphs.
I want to make sure that people know that I'm not particularly educated about history according to my own standards of what it means to be educated about a subject. I know almost nothing about history outside of one very good semester of U.S. History that I had in high school, in which one of the topics we covered was fascism. I am doing the best that I can with the knowledge that I have; that knowledge has been put into some perspective by the 20 years of life experience that I've had since high school. I was also an art history major for my last year of college, and would have finished as one if I'd stayed another year to graduate.
I went on a study abroad program to Italy the year after I graduated from high school. I'm not Italian; I have a Russian first name and my parents liked the name Francesca so that's my middle name. I graduated from high school in 1991, and was 16 for another month after that. I still remember the morning when my Italian host mother put down the newspaper she was reading and covered her eyes with her hands before she told me that she'd just read an article about someone who'd been attacked and had his tongue cut out by a gang in Germany. I spent a week in Milan also, and remember the afternoon when I saw a group of young Italian men all marching through the square for fun, singing "Anyone who doesn't jump in time is Japanese." When they got to that part of the song, they all jumped up in the air together for that one step of their march. They weren't soldiers; they were just guys out for some fun.
Racism, sexism, all of the isms, are human and social problems which are present everywhere; I think that it's safest to assume that they are still big problems in the world that need to be addressed.
As for the New Yorker article "Turning Away: The classial revival between the World Wars," that I took some pictures of and put just above this section:
Leni Riefenstahl was a filmmaker who was friends with Adolf Hitler and did Nazi propaganda.
Here is an excerpt from the article “Turning Away,” which is a review of an art exhibit called “Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936” at the Guggenheim Museum.:
“As many as fifteen million people, nearly half of them civilians, perished in the Great War. That disaster has been largely occluded for us by the still worse events that were to come, but it cannot be overemphasized as a spur to the cultural and political developments of the next two decades.....
We are used to accounts of the period which celebrates the attacks of Dada and Surrealism, among other avant-gardes, on the societies that hatched the horror. Those movements are excluded here, to give a clear view of the more widespread and popular efforts to re-ground social morale on the bedrock of the past. Greek and Roman antiquity, in particular, inspired a fervently nostalgic classical revival, with many varied currents—which was poisoned when Hitler later co-opted it as the house style of the Third Reich.”
Here’s another excerpt from the same article:
“An avant-garde celebrity, soon to be acknowledged as the leading initiator of Surrealist painting, de Chirico abruptly urged painters to “go to the statues. Yes, to the statues, to learn the nobility and the religion of drawing, to the statues to dehumanize you a little.”
(Mr. Schjeldahl continues in the next sentence): In other words, reject...prewar values of personal expressiveness, formal ingenuity and progressive taste. Embrace cold, big values--needed by a civilization that has lost its way—of self-abnegating technique, timeless truth, and universal appeal....”
It seems to me that what Peter Schjeldahl, the author of the article is saying, is that fascism is helpful when you want to control people. I realize that my saying that will probably make Mr. Shjeldahl angry, but he writes for a magazine which is virulently sexist and also racist and anti-Semitic, and although he may be accurately seeing that the United States is and has been for some time at an important juncture in history and is therefore experiencing confusion as a nation, his answer to that confusion is to seek to restrict the freedoms of what he sees as the masses rather than to seek assiduously to impress upon those masses the need to be educated about how to be responsible participants in a functional democracy.
Given my questions about The New Yorker in the past month, the article seems to me to be a palliative masquerading as a review of an art show; Mr. Schjeldahl is unnecessarily complimentary to Leni Riefenstahl, for one thing. He might not see it that way, but my guess is that The New Yorker was shocked by my questions about whether the magazine had Nazi American origins. More and more I think I guessed right. I also think that everybody in the media and in government and probably a lot of people in the entertainment industry who have done the research on their own by now know the truth, and so the New Yorker is trying to make the fascism of the 20th century look less upsetting than it was and is.
Here’s the last line of The New Yorker article about the exhibit at the Guggenheim:
“You couldn’t want a more interesting, and distressing, conversation piece, apropos of conundrums of art and politics and aesthetics and morals—if you happen to want that at all.”
(p. 91, The New Yorker, October 25, 2010, from the article "Turning Away" by Peter Schjeldahl)
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It seems to me that the New Yorker doesn’t want that conversation, not at all.
Lest anyone get the wrong idea; classical art is important and not to be thrown away. Mr. Schjeldahl was right in his article when he said that Hitler had “poisoned” that style by “co-opt(ing) it as the house style of the Third Reich.” (p. 90)
That’s what’s insidious about things such as sexism and prejudice; they can and usually do co-exist with other things about people, for example intelligence and the ability to write coherently about art. Sexism and prejudice can easily co-exist in the same person with things such as kindness and a sense of humor, both of which disappear once the ethically mottled person in question feels that the oppressed group has gotten too big for its britches.
Tonight I’ve also added pictures to the section of my blog entitled “Corporate Harassment.”
Copyright L. Kochman October 21, 2010