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| Saturday, July 18th, 2009 | | 2:56 pm |
Bridget Maniaci must have learned self promotion from the Mayor of Hilldale
because that is what I observed as I watched the the July 7, 2009 City Council Meeting on Cable's Local Access Channel. I recorded it. And I fast forwarded parts of the meeting. At issue was the Badger Bus Depot being closed so that the owners can change it into a new type of business. The owners seemed like low key people and it was clear that it was going to go through. And the Badger Bus will still operate. So, Bridget Maniaci asks questions of the owners there are pointless. She wanted to know if they knew that that parking lot by the Memorial Union is going to be turned into something else. (Anyone who drops off or picks people up there knows that you can t get a spot to park there anyway.) I was just baffled by the questions. So i was going to call her but no number in my phone book so I called the Mayor's office and when you call the Mayor's office the female voice on the phone tells you in the imperative ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imperative ) "Make it a great day" I said to the voice on the phone that i know it s my responsibility to make it a great day. It's such an obnoxious and paternalist phrase, "Make it a great day" but it's also revealing of the Mayor's hand's off of those in need policies as he builds his kingdom. Oh, your neighborhood is being inundated by crime, "Make it a great day." I asked them to forward my message to Bridget that the question to be asked is, What constitutes the population of the 20 percent that these owners say still use the depot? I suggested that a survey be done because i am imagining it is the disabled or the elderly or maybe even people with children that faithfully go there. WEll the show goes on and I was blown away when Council Member, Shiva Bidar-Sielaff http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/district05/goes on to ask that pertinent question. She suggested to the owner that her perception of the 20 percent were people just being dropped off there but that that perception was merely anecdotal so she asked them if they had done a survey of the 20 percent. The owner answered honestly that they had not. I called my friend's voice mail to say, "you have an amazing alder" Later she would go on to say that she felt that she was remiss and that the council was remiss in not having short term plans and a long term plans to find a place for the Greyhound bus. She sees the whole picture. Do you want to know what Bridget Maniaci went on to ask, she asked one of the people on the city planning? Well, first she said, "I am sorry for going off on a tangent here?" WEll, if you haven t said anything yet and you are about to do the tangent clearly you are not sorry for going off on a tangent or you wouldn t do it. And the self promotion is about to happen if you watch Cable Local Access you can see it for yourselves. She said, "I am curious" in my experience people who suffer from real curiosity never say, I am curious they just blurt out the question and because the curious tend to have this innate need for truth the listener picks up that the person is curious. So so far she is sorry for going off on a tangent that she is going to go off on anyway which meanas she isn t sorry and then she is announcing she is curious And folks here is the question she set us up for to hear, what is the history for the transportation hubs in Madison. The receiver of the question looked at her baffled by such a pointless question but he hid it in his eyes and then smiled to say that he couldn t repeat the whole history but went back to 1990. He was kind to her, not sexist not patriarchal but kind. then, she said what she set us up for in her announcing her sorrow for her soon to be tangent and her identifying herself for us as a curious person she said that she went to the historical society and she studied all the old maps and that she saw that they had been at John Nolen Drive and somewhere else and where the Badger Depot is. (Ok when i moved to Madison in 1999 people told me that Soglin set up these city bus transfer points close to rail road tracks for the future of speed rail) She is a tragedy. Where are her parents? She's clueless and District 2 has gone from brilliance to self promotion that doesn t have a clue. We aren t going to get anything done with her. I tell myself, "Doyle ease up, she's young." But the fact that she took that lobbyist money to help realtors ruin our neighborhood so she could be elected disgusts me. So I questioned myself, it was horrible watching what i saw. I thought of President Bush when he went to Ground Zero right after 911 and he put his arm around that fire man and he said, "I hear you and the world hears you." And i said out loud to the TV "We are screwed." He looked good. The 2nd District is without representation. Look what she has written for District News http://www.cityofmadison.com/council/district02/news.cfmOh, and remember how she put on her flyer that she was going to slow down traffic on Sherman, since she has been there the police aren't parked to pick up speeders anymore. So where do we go for 2nd District News to Brenda Konkel's blog. http://brendakonkel.blogspot.com/Look at all the committee's she's been put on to help those Realtors who funded her small victory. http://www.cityofmadison.com/council/district02/committees.cfmThe mayor's rubber stamp is District 2's representative. But there were so moving moments of genuine care. Tim Verveer was the only male who stayed present to the entire meeting. I don t know if it was because the Depot is in his district of if he is just that conscientious; he is on the news regularly about issues. This woman cares, i don 't know her politics but she speaks with a caring concern not flash and hype. http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/district06/This woman is well informed and spoke with a focus. http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/district12/And this woman who the Mayor has banished to one meaningless committee and tells the press that she is ineffective registered a no vote. She also has concern about the way lay people are appointed to the Mayor's committees that affect our town's future. And she answered a question I was asking myself. I asked myself, "Where is the Mayor? Does he go to these meetings or is this just a council meeting" And in her registration of her no vote to every one's yes vote she said, I take this job seriously ... there are 3 council members not here and the mayor isn t here either. So she answered my question. But it was July 7th and maybe they were on a 4th of July vacation. August only has one city council meeting scheduled. I will watch that also. I am going to keep track of who attends and who doesn t. The male council members that sit back and chat to each other while others talk are rude. You are there to listen for your district and your constant talking is a waste of representation. The only other thing I wondered about is, why isn t there closed caption for people who are deaf and hard of hearing? I put my closed caption on for my neighbors who sleep while i watch tv so that 's why i noticed it didn t have closed captioning. | | 2:42 pm |
| | 2:31 pm |
Dear Maripat
Maripat, thank you for the check ! You wrote to spend it on anything but Mom has been working with my budget and I asked her if she was ok with my paying my phone bill with it. So I paid my phone bill through August and when I gave my friend (who is the daughter I would have wanted) she broke her reserve to wipe a tear when she saw me, "I think i am going to cry." I told Michele how generous you were and she said, "Your family has really come through for you in this haven t they?" I nodded. She said, "That must feel good." I smiled to say, "It does." You should have seen when i went to michele's last night both dogs were in the back yard and the deaf dog saw me walk into the house. She came running to the patio doors jumping up to put her feet on the windows. I let her in. She was just so happy to see me. I was happy to see her. Michele warned her, "Be careful Teresa has to take it slow." The dog leaned against my leg as she lifted her head for me to rub her kneck. Michele said, "She just loves Teresa. Teresa is her favorite visitor." The deaf dog is generally aloof to people. I'll be visiting and suddenly the deaf will be looking at the wall as if she sees Ghosts. So I take it to mean that i have spirits protecting me that she sees because she doesn t do that with other people. And i never dreamt a dog could be so spiritual. Last night she then left me to sit up on the couch across from me just to stare at me. I love the dog. Steve was there, Michele was there we had a good night. So thank you for everything. Mom is feeling better; she sounded great this morning. | | Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 | | 10:46 pm |
Send the Mayor of Hilldale to Law School
I don t know Brenda Konkel. I have never had a conversation with her but I respect her work. http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/457194The rift that the media played between Konkel and Thuy Pham-Remmele showed a lack of leadership by the Mayor of Hilldale. Their lack of alliance worked in his favor. There should have been an alliance there for the sake of the people they both serve. I was thinking tonight, "Why is the Mayor of Hilldale so blatantly sexist?" And then I remembered our old friend, Archie Bunker, the icon for an inferiority complex. Soglin has a law degree and is known as a thinker. Konkel has a law degree and is known as a thinker. Sue Baumann has a law degree and if she questioned she was suddenly called too angry. And so basically out of inferiority the Mayor of HIlldale has a Bachelors. A great leader would bring Konkel and Thuy Pham-Remmele together on issues that they agreed upon. The Mayor of Hilldale has a classic inferiority complex that attacks women and splits the possibility of their working together. Notice in this piece below that states that the Mayor of Hilldale was offended that Thuy Pham-Remmele "embarassed him" It didn t matter that the community spoke poor Mayor of Hilldale. Notice also that he banished her to one meaningless committee and said she is ineffective in that banished role. http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/454851My friends and i had a male boss like that once. He would tells us our Masters meant nothing, who would hire us. Well, then i found out he only had a Bachelors and I asked, "does he only have a Bachelors?" He attempted to demean us; I thought he had a Masters of Divinity like my brother in law and my brother in law told me that there was a time that one could be called a minister in that religion with only a Bachelors. One of my friends said, "Believe me with an ego like that, he would be saying he had a Masters if he did." But he ran us down to the ground telling us how worthless and unemployable we were telling one of my Master level friends "Who would hire you?" So here is this great story of Brenda Konkel who rises in thinking and is basically a community organizer like our President Barak Obama was. I don t like what she is quoted as saying about Thuy Pham-Remmele but I know splitters of women when i see it, and I know inferiority complexes and our Mayor of Hilldale doesn t have a law degree. Now, those Law Degrees take work and thinking. He squints his eyes to let us know he is thinking deeply and he is nonverbally smart. As he says, "It's a matter of perception" And here is a woman Thuy Pham-Remmele who was a Fullbright Scholar and he's dumbed her down to the public trying to stop her voice just like he's worked on dumbing Brenda Konkel down. If those two would have found common ground he would have been stopped. So we are left with a man who is smiling about being over budget 27 million dollars on a library and we don t have the money. I suggest we send the Mayor of Hilldale to law school to help him over come his inferiority complex that turns him into a punishing ego maniac for the people of Madison who dare to question in the spirit of Madison. We are a town that debates, we are not a town that attacks one woman for being a community organizer for the politically disenfranchised and more. I am telling you we are watching classic sexism in the works based on a man who clearly has an inferiority complex. He's willing to sacrifice our city's future to get his rubber stamps which ultimately feed his ego and in future employment probably his income. Being in Control not dialogue is his game and we are suffering greatly as a town because of it. Please send him to Law School so he can overcome his inferiority. But do not be blind to the sexism of Archie Bunker running down the female Ediths so he can feel good about himself. Blindness is too great of a cost here, our town is at stake. | | 8:18 pm |
The Policia
Oh don t think my brothers don t stick up for me. Right now, my mom knows that Smokey is my hero for his ability to handle things wiht grace and with dignity. My brother, Smokey, once told a principal about a teacher who was the meanest teacher in Scales Mound, "We were taught to think" as he defended me against her abuse. I was in 5th grade and I knew intuitively at the time that Patty Hearst was brain washed. And my oldest brother gave me writing gifts since i can remember. And my younger brother well i am giving him a break on my Catholic Church so he can move freely without worry; i told my mom that last month. I love my younger brother. My brother, Patrick, we have always had great discussions. But he too gets annoyed with me. I was focused on taking care of mom in the airplane and i jumped up to get our luggage cuz i was probably coming down with something and i knew i was responsible for mom and me. So the stewardess came to tell me sit down as did Patrick and Patrick went onto lecture me, "Terri, if you do that everybody else will do that." I said, "I am neither offended nor embarassed that I was told to sit down." I couldn t believe how serious he was with me. He was sweet too. I am at the Border of Colombia and i wasn t going to put this here because i have a former boss who exaggerates and talks about me to people and he reads here so I thought he would put use his drama on me because he hates that I spoke up for the powerless. And well, anyway, I was checking at the desk in Colombia about my motehr and i heard my name and i said, "I am Teresa Doyle." She said, "The policia want to see you." And well, I asked, "For what?" She shook her head. AFter being stalked for years by these goons that are not into finding truth but are into my demise i wondered, "Oh, did they do something." I told myself, "You are going to be calm because if something happens patrick will call the people we were with to get you out." So i went to tell Patrick and the rest. And he said, "For what?" I said, "To search my suitcase." Well, he saw that there were 6 other suitcases and he said, "Terri if yours was the only one I'd be worried." I started coughing over a tight throat not a cold and this man stood up to leave except i wasn t sick and Patrick and I started laughing. So I went up and patrick came up to the Policia and he told her Spanish that i was scared and she told him that I didn t have to be. So he told me. And it all worked out it was just that I had two empty suitcases (that had carried wedding presents to Colombia) packed in my big suitcase so they checked it. And well after it was over Patrick said, "Terri don t ever smuggle anything." I said< "I would never." But that is what this stalking has done. I was prepared to be screwed over at the border. Now, some of you will hear dramatic calls from that former boss who can t quit talking about me. | | 4:36 pm |
| | 4:05 pm |
Where is Bridget Maniaci's Blog? Or more importantly where is her voice?
Is she the rubber stamp the "establishment" ordered ? There is nothing on her except that on one fairy tale night she was "overwhelmed" having been chosen as the beauty queen of patriarchal white men's money. So i am looking up Konkel too and i am led to this by Soglin. http://www.waxingamerica.com/2009/07/private-parties-right-to-plan-and-strategize-it-works-both-ways.htmlNow, we know he's brilliant and his over simplification of the issues is ridiculous. For a mind llike that to question why we question the Mayor of Hilldale and some of the shannagans going on and for a mind like that that was schooled on Chicago politics to over simplify the quesioning is not honest. The reason people question the Mayor of Hilldale is that we have seen him in work, Paul. At least you leave all kinds of comments on your blog but really Paul how much money do you have to make to be happy? All Konkel does here is narrate what she observes. http://brendakonkel.blogspot.com/2009/07/mondays-board-of-estimates-recap.htmlI suppose the Mayor of Hilldale keeps on forming and shaping Bridgie into what you men want her to be a rubber stamp. Bridget doesn t question a thing. She doesn t even speak. Hey, I have an idea why don t you stage it llike one of those old contestant shows where the people were given the answer ahead of time. In this case Bridget could ask the Mayor a daring question and then it would ripple through the crowds that be and well, we might think she has a clue as to what is going on instead of taking her as the Mayor's rubber stamp. Come on Paul, Give Bridget Maniaci a voice tell her what to say. Yeah now of all you patriarchs understand why Gerry Boyle wanted to do me in, how dare I question as a woman. My brothers get annoyed with me too. Generally, it comes out of their mouth as "Terr Ree" as if my first name is two names. But they also love me. And my father believed in my voice. My mother reminded me of my first act of civil disobedience. It took place in Scales Mound Illinois after my father told me that he was not going to take me to Madison because he did not have a sick cow to take to the University for a farmer after all. I had my lunch packed. I was 4 years old. My mother said, "And the Hesselbacher's called from the gas station to say, 'Your little girl is sitting in the middle of a road holding up a milk truck." Mom said to me the other day, "You see it does take a village." Paul, we have to question. YOu know it. And unfortunately Gerry Boyle and the goons that signed up on stalking never were able to get the difference between a protester versus a reactionary. I am not a reactionary so their bait all these years has been wasted. My father was an amazing man. I would sit in the car waiting for him when he would go to a farmer's door and my first memory of him there was tipping his hat to the farmer's wife. It annoys me Paul that you take on Brenda Konkel for having a voice but you don t take on Bridget Maniaci for being the Mayor of Hilldale's rubber stamp. It almost makes you look like a Patriarch Paul. Patriarchs like quiet women. You are better than that. Brenda Konkel's voice gave you a voice to state how you see it. That type of discussion is called democracy. | | 3:11 pm |
I am not assuming the stalking is over.
My assumption is that I will still be stalked by the government under the auspices of "We are trying to find out who told her what" and "we are trying to find her on anything" But breathing air has changed things for me. They were in on my DVR appt and my application mysteriously disappeared. This isn t about truth. This is about white men pissed off that I survived. It's never been about finding truth. I told my mother today how the last boss would use it as a way to say I was not hirable anywhere else. He thought he owned me. I just cared about the clients. And well, she said, "He was like an abusive husband that tries to convince a woman she is nothing." I said, "Exactly" But i am free of him. And i love my current job. No one tells me anything, but it s so professional and the ambiance from the people that work there is lovely. Most of them probably read about the job in The Isthmus like I did. I am excited to go back to my job. I love it. | | 2:20 pm |
I am officially getting better
I will be released to go back to work on July 21st. I never wrote here that I came home on Oxygen. It kept me focused on the anti inflammatory foods. My goal was to get off of oxygen. The Dr in the hospital initially talked about having to do a tracheotomy. (Michele said at the time, "They don t know how strong you are.") I told my younger brother at the time, "I have been put on oxygen." He said, "You'll deal with it." Well, today I was taken off of oxygen. I visited the lung specialist. And a week after being released he said that the x rays show that my lungs are almost cleared up. He took me off of all meds for respitory issues which included prednisone (a steroid that is an anti inflammatory but it can really be hard on the body) I said to the Dr. this morning, "Will I ever be able to walk in a pool again?" He said, "Why wouldn t you?" I pointed at the oxygen tank I had to roll in with me to say, "Because of that." I continued to say, "I go to Harbor Athletic Club to walk in the pool" It's been my greatest fear not being able to go back to the pool to walk. So they did the tests and I am free to breathe on my own. I came home to e mail my friend and she had written: I AM THINKING OF YOU. IT IS 7:45 AM AND YOUR APP. IS AT 8. I AM SENDING VERY GOOD VIBES TO YOU AND HAVE GOOD PEACEFUL THOUGHTS THIS AM. YOUR BUD FOR LIFE, M ------------------- She's the one that taught me about diet and healing. She's put herself in remission with an inflammation issue by using anti inflammatory foods. I just did what I have learned from her and i will continue to live that way. I am so grateful. My blood pressure is good. My good cholesterol according to another Dr there is "abnormally high" So off i go to keep doing what i have been doing to heal. After the appointments Mom was hungry i just wanted to go home but it was ok until we were in McDonald's and I was saying that they want me to see a dietician and i said, "I know we can learn anything from anybody but dieticians are often way behind and i am going to just keep doing what i am doing." My mom challenged me to say, "Don t be so Doyle-ly" (prounounced Doy-lee) and her meaning was that Doyle's are stubborn. I said, "I think i will become more Doylee in this; I took control of my eating in the hospital when they started talking about a temporary insulin med" I got cinnamon from the cafeteria (and it is a great hospital and user friendly so i could do it) but there was no insulin problem after i did that. I am so happy and grateful and I think the focused anti inflammatory food made the healing faster with the antibiotics. http://www.metabolismadvice.com/anti_inflammatory_food/At one point I told mom about the chicken sandwich we are eating, "this food is so processed." She said, "Well I am going to be 82 next year and if i lived this long I can eat processed food if i want." Then, she paused to add, "There is nothing worse than a reformer." I laughed. (Yeah you all think i am fixated on the Mayor of Hilldale, nope I am fixated on anti inflammatory food) I eat a bowl of homemade oatmeal with flax seed, cinnamon, honey and a fruit and it will make me feel calm and full for 4 hours. (you see dieticians will be supporting sugar substitutes but they actually make me crave processed food; i haven t given up all diet soda but major cut down) So Mom and i had to wait for my meds at Walgreens so we went to Aldi's. To get a cart you have to put a quarter in and she handed me a quarter to say, "Here put in that republican quarter to get a cart." I looked to see that it was a quarter from UTAH. I said, "oh, Utah." She said, "Yeah he thinks people don t need health care. People that have it don t think others need it." I told mom that Chuck Grassley told an audience member who said that he wanted the same health insurance as the senator to work for John Deere. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Chuck+Grassley%22++%22health+Insurance%22++%22john+Deere%22She still drives around with her Russ Feingold bumper sticker on her back dash. We got home in the midst of writing this Mom told me that my younger brother wanted to talk to me. I said, "I am off all respiratory meds." He said, "I told you you were getting better" I said, "I am even off the oxygen." He said, "Oh, you are off of that?" I said, "Thank you for all the food you bought." He said, I didn t buy that much. But he did. He bought red grapes, apples, bananas and a huge bag of walnuts. I needed them at the time. He said, "Call if you need anything." I said, "Well thanks but I won t be needing anything." This is the brother that explained my mortgage to me last month. I didn t get that i Onlly have to pay a small amount for the mortgage that i could double pay at times once i paid the insurance and tax expenses; I just didn t get it and he said it in one sentence, "Oh so your actual mortgage is 180.00 a month." I don t have that kind of a brain and no banker explained it so simply either. I thought, "oh, once i get on my feet again i can pay my place off in 7 years." Onward ! | | Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 | | 10:39 pm |
| | 9:05 pm |
I think i may be getting better
because i was chatting to my mom about nothing, the kind of chatting where i will go on and on and I told mom, "Do you know i have not had gas since I was out of the hospital?" She thought i meant for my car. I said, "No my body absolutely none. They said salmanella was 7 year cleaning." (And those who know me well know i have trouble with body symptoms) And mom smiled and said, "Terri be quiet i am watching this show." I could tell she knew i was going to keep talking and talking about nothing. I said, "I love you." She said, "Talk is cheap it takes money to buy whiskey" And you know this town is amazing. I once spoke of it years ago to the guys in the parking lot what it was like growing up here and one of them said, "what were you a bunch of Yeats?" Well, i have cousins who live near by and my mom talks about how smart that family is They are. The town was like a small Ireland that loved to read and some loved science. I love this town. I would like to say this to Robin L who i will contact once i am employed in another field you are one of the smartest people i have ever met. you made me laugh and when i watch rachel Maddow and keith Olberman i think of your intellect and wit. Well i took my night time pills but soon i will be back in Madison singing to Ghost in the sharp key "I love you ghost I really do" I sing it to him through our Berlin Wall of a Floor. | | 7:01 pm |
Heartbreak
There are 2 things that broke my heart this week. A young child about the age of my 2nd youngest nephew with tears in his eyes said to the camera about being eliminated from swimming in that country club because having the children there changed the complexion of the pool. He said with tears welling in his eyes, "I thought it was over." He thought that racism is over. Not the polite kind, it's still there. And you know it's why some people only shop at Hilldale and no where else. I love Hilldale as a Disney World king of escape but i go to other places in this town and reach out to people in need. The other thing that broke my heart this week was the parents getting murdured because they were rich; they had adopted special needs children. We need people who don t hate the rich and don't hate the poor but build a bridge between both worlds and i have seen people be able to do that. | | 6:52 pm |
The Mayor of Hilldale will get the credit for MSNBC
Bill Mahr is presently so funny on Chris Matthew's HARDBALL about the white men in congress being put out by the reversed racism and you should Mahr talking about Texas succeeding from the U.S. Mahr said "Why would we care about the State that is 48th in literacy and number one in pollution" I am so glad that Chris Matthews is back. He was laughing so hard with Mahr on. I must be getting better cuz i laughed for the first time in weeks. http://www.politicususa.com/en/Bill-Maher-HardballKeith Olbermann is going to do his show from Madison, Wisconsin (our mayor from Hilldale will make sure he gets mentioned and i am sure we ll read on his blog how he arranged it alone) but i like Keith Olbermann he stuck up for Rachel Maddow in a way that the Mayor from Hilldale would never stick up for women. The Mayor from Hilldale only wants doormats or women in their 20's that he thinks he can put through Mayor of Hilldale Formation. So Ann Culture ( about whom i had no idea until one time i read soglin's blog and no i don t read it all the time) and then i saw her on tv. So she recently made remarks about Rachel Maddow's looks versus Sarah Palin and Olberman told Ann Coulter and Keith Olbermann told her that she shouldn t be bringing looks into politics given the way she looks. He commented that how women look is not the criteria for women in politics. WE have a mayor too impressed with himself to show an appreciation for soulful and thinking women. I don t agree with Brenda Konkel on all issues nor would she agree with me on mine but the fact is there would be dialogue. And the thing about Soglin is that he is a bridge between the rich and the poor he's not out to be somebody he knows he is and so he's about the work and he says what he thinks But the Mayor of Hilldale is about himself and we're screwed as a city. And thinking women are not safe with him. He has no appreciation of women. His motto, "Unless you regurgitate my dogma you will be destroyed." | | 4:19 pm |
Expect sightings of the Mayor of Hilldale at Willy Streeet and beyond
When he took the Trolley off the table he told the paper that it was a matter of perception if he took it off the table no one could focus on it. He wanted us to see how smart he is. It's called manipulating reality. The Trolley is still on the table but not right now. So I tell ya expect sighting of the Mayor of Hilldale at Woodman's, Willy Street Coop and all those other places people attend in their day to day lives. Oh, i know it's bothering my enemies that I wrote what my mom said. But the only other person I really care that thinks i am smart is Ghost. I am not as smart as he is but someday i will ask him, "Do YOU think i am smart?" It would mean the world if HE did. And i ll be able to tell if he is lying but i couldn t imagine anyone as smart as he is wanting to hang out with someone who wasn t kind of smart. And in Madison there are so many super bright people. Not manipulators of perception like the Mayor of Hilldale but thoughtful committed citizens. I'll tell you this I will always like Kathleen Falk after that moment of pure realness on the square. She's a thinker. At the time of the 911 incident I told my best friend, "You know it's killing her, she has a son and she loves her son and she wouldn t wish murder on anyone and if she could just come out and say how awful she feels about it." But legal issues shut you up. But i saw the real Kathleen Falk that day on teh square and i will always like her. | | 3:35 pm |
My mother just shocked me
I am getting screwed over by DVR. I need re training and they lost my application from June. My mother gave the rationale of why I needed this retraining and she said, 'You are probably super-intelligent..." She has never told me that. She doesn t give easily. (Listen I don t care if i am smart sometimes i am sometimes i am not what i have going for me is my curiosity) But i care if my mother believes in me. And anybody who knows me knows that I see what is good in people. A Clarke friend once told me, "You can hold what is good in people in the palm of your hand to show it to them". But my mother said it. I started getting excited and she said in her professorial tone, "Don t disturb my train of thought." She gave the rationale of why i need this retraining. | | 1:42 pm |
Received a call from hyannis Port
I happened to answer the phone and my brother, Patrick, told me he called to tell me that he was by Hyannis Port His family is camping at Cape Cod this weekend | | Monday, July 13th, 2009 | | 9:50 pm |
The Mayor of Hilldale ----King of kings
For those of you who assume that i am only fixated on this i have written today. I am writing a Christmas Novel (i hope) based on Ghost and the way i have seen him lives his life. I also have tended to my mother. And have written my best friend in madison whom i miss terribly so this is a justice issue for me and i also have eaten incredibly healthy (all anti inflammatory food) so this isn t the main part of my day. Writing comes easy to me so if you assume i am only fixated on this you don t know me. I just looked at Brenda Konkel's web site and she lists that the Mayor of Hilldale is only considering the FIORE plan for the library not even looking at refurbishing what we have. http://brendakonkel.blogspot.com/2009/07/robst-meeting-schedule-week-ahead.htmlAs far as I can see she's still our informed rep of the second district. There is a debate on her blog about comments and a know it all said that the only way to give her blog credibility is to have comments. I don t agree that a blog has to have comments to have credibility. Voice is voice and she has suffered enough. It's ridiculous what the Mayor of Hilldale did to her so he can have his dinners and movies at Sundance with the polite people, the kind he'll want to come to his Fiore Library. Voice is voice and Brenda Konkel has been crucified for her questioning by that man. Can you imagine being married to him? Oh, yuck. I bet he shuns and pouts until he gets his way. I don t like the guy; it s personal. I don t like how he treats women and the politically disenfranchised. I grew up on Madison politics. I studied Paul Soglin from the time i was in 3rd grade. (yeah he annoys me at times but when he lost i wrote on my blog; you need to write) And i think i was right. When I moved to this town ten years ago then Mayor Sue Baumann said of Barbara Vedder (who brenda konkel replaced as Barbara Vedder went on to the Dane county Board) in the Wisconsin State Journal, "she really cares" If she were still mayor, Sue Baumann may have had it out with Brenda Konkel but there would never be this blatant sexism or disregard for the other voice. The mayor of hilldale is not Madison Politics. In this time of money crunch we should be looking at collaborating with the UW library for certain services. this is a time when we can check out anything from any library in Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee and just because the Mayor of Hilldale is an ego maniac defined by the inability to accept questioning with out ruining the questioner we are going to waste money that should not be wasted. We have neighborhood libraries. WE have the UW that let's people like me go there for free as long as i show id and they give me a year pass. To build a kingdom when we are broke as a community is wrong. Please read this poem to the Mayor of Hilldale. Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. | | 6:30 pm |
The Mayor of Hilldale is now working on his pronoun "I" problem
http://www.cityofmadison.com/mayor/blog/index.cfm?Id=163It's still irritating though he says, "I budgeted" Well aren t the alders part of the budgeting plan. It's hard to be the Mayor of Hilldale and give up that ego. Kings deserve all the credit you know. Well, he speaks on the library and i have this smart and savy friend from chicago---she's my best friend --she's a poet and a person who works with justice issues. She told me that the Library off of Midvale which is close to the Mayor of Hilldale's kingdom is a foreshadowing of what we are going to see in the downtown library. She said it is cold and institutional and the goal will be to keep the homeless out of the downtown public library. http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/about/sequoya.htmlShe used the library before it was moved to Tokay Blvd and she uses it now. So, go see the new Sequoya library, then go see Middleton's and all this money the Mayor of Hilldale wants to go over budget on will be for ice cold sterility so that none of those folks that Brenda Konkel includes in her representation will show up. The Mayor of Hilldale thinks he's so smart making it happen because we folks outside of Hilldale we is stupid people. | | 6:27 pm |
Dear Ghost
I first wrote Michele and then i checked to see the Mayor of Hilldale's blog and sure enough he is affected by what i am pointing out here because he cut down on the pronoun "I" considerably. I had to get on line to fix the poem I wrote about you last night. I had to switch the word, "and" to turn the word, walk, into an infinitive. It was bugging since last night when i clicked off the computer but i didn t have the time nor the strength to change it til now. Mom is not well. They put her on antibiotic; her chest was so tight this morning. My brothers, mike and smokey, call. My sisters call. I am not leaving her til she's better. I wanted to be able to go back to work this weekend. I love my job but i can t read my voice isn t back yet and i cough. But i hope the following weekend i will be back. i just can t leave her. She's not eating properly. I am pushing nutrients into myself and i can t get her to do it. Well, I love you ghost. I love your heart. I love that you show in my dreams. I love that you can be grumpy. I love that you can be playful. I have seen it all from my window. I don t like that all those women like you. Smart thinking women really like you. It's like when my mom met you she said to me in the car, "I like that guy." She never says that. I miss seeing you. | | Sunday, July 12th, 2009 | | 11:11 pm |
Your Silent Screen
For Ghost Show the story, the glory will follow you like a tree that shades you from the heat of July. Your walk though different every day tells the story never do you say, "I" a Charlie Chaplin movie of biking, gardening, questioning and talking. You showed this poet the story of life, for years now. The old games of name dropping's self-promotion lose their attraction having watched the talker say one thing and never do. You my silent screen star walk earth with a bare foot reverence, feeling the meaning of life in your path, daily bread of air, water and sky. An environmentalist you shape the earth and the earth shapes your hands into tender tools of touch. A farmer's heart a thinker's mind, you take the silent screen to walk a show. t.doyle 7/13/09 |
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