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| Monday, February 8th, 2010 | | 5:57 pm |
Dream Act play of Shiva Bidar Sielaff goes to the Supreme Court
(ON a day that I discovered the voice of Robbie Webber I thought it would be useful to re post this 1/21/10 post of the illusion of democracy under Shiva Bidar Sielaff) Dream Act=the Shiva Bidar Sielaff play goes to the Supreme Court Mom greeted me on the phone last night, "Don't watch politics; it's too depressing." I said, "I heard." I told her that 5 Catholic Men made the decision to allow corporations to buy Congressional seats, local seats for places where Walmart wants to build and any other form of greed to make money at the expense of land and life-styles. I told her all of them are against birth control and she said that Roberts has to be a fraud because he's a Catholic that only has 2 children. Many moralists don't practice what they preach. I have thought all along that Howard Dean never got the credit for this 50 state intervention as Democratic National Chair to help Obama win. Now the elite of the Democratic party want to have dinner chats as they swirl their wine and speak on theory because they can't put it into practice. They constitute the worst part of the party. These elitist can't survive the playground so they join groups where they talk talk talk and not do do do. We are in trouble as a country. I believe in free speech for all; i don't believe in shutting people down even those with whom I don't agree. But with this ruling we are headed toward Disney World for a society or watch the old version of the Stepford Wives because corporations don't like critics and questioners. Disney World directs people in that people just go with the flow to one ride to another all very happy but mindless that the set up of the park has them under their spell. We are now going to be entering the every thing is wonderful stage in about 2 to 3 years in this country. It will be like living in Shiva Bidar Sielaff's district.. She will acknowledge the gay and lesbian and transgender that live there but there will be no walking police in Shiva's district because all the good people will be playing in Shiva's park by Mayor Dave's house. Can't we all just get along so the corporations can make their money on the backs of the working class and then when activists fight for the freedoms of the working class to ensure rights the corporate fucks and they are fucks say, "They don't pay attention to who pays the bills?" The problem with the people who pay the bills is that they don't pay attention to who does the work so that they can pay the bills. Ted Kennedy got this. As a woman who studied women issues I believed in his work because of his consistent service to the poor. So the near West Side in Madison on Regent Street is getting a park rehab with money they could raise on their own and with money that Shiva Bidar Sielaff took in a loop hole, oh but the city is putting walking cops on the South Side and since the Regent street where the mayor lives doesn't participate in survival crime they get rewarded with money for a park and the mayor gets his property value increased living on that street. The Mayor and Shiva Bidar Sielaff and Bridget Maniaci and that thing called Tim Bruer all represent the Disney World politics we are in store for as a nation. Mayor Dave and two former white male mayors pick a lap dog and city hall is in fun ville with talk of Shiva's partying on her birthday after a late night meeting with Bob Dunn and all. Oh, this city is so nice and fun and why are the people with whom I speak at the food pantries wanting what Shiva has in life, don't they know that Shiva got the Martin Luther King humanitarian award for speaking Spanish? Oh, but we have a name for what the Supreme court did to our Democracy, Shiva Bidar Sielaff gave it to us when she accepted the Martin Luther King Award, Dream Act. The intermission is over, the next act to follow, DREAM ACT, a play on the dumbing down of democracy and pretending everything is okay. Allan Grayson of Florida has a petition to sign on savedemocracy.net The goal is to get bills passed that Grayson introduced last week to address this ruling against corporations buying our government 1) The business should mind it's own business Act 2) The Public Company Responsibility Act 3) The End Political Kick Backs Act 4)Corporate Propaganda Sunshine act 5) The End Corporate Collusion act http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#34984984http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#34984984 | | 3:57 pm |
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On a blue Monday I discovered who Robbie Webber is
http://www.cityofmadison.com/mayor/myCommit/roster/104075.cfmI worked on my room which holds the art of my sister, Maripat. I talked to my mom during prime time which I really don't do unless I am upset about being stalked. She had called to leave a message that she would meet me half way but I got the message too late after I tended to myself: i overate on oatmeal which works well for me because it is so healthy the way I make it. I slept. I drank tea. But there is a sadness. I don't want anyone fixing it what I need is alone time. I have always been like this and I hate talking about my need for alone time other then to say that is why I live alone because I want alone time. My youngest brother gets this. He knows that I will take off to go to a room and be alone. I have done it all of my life. The feedback I have gotten from friends over the years: One time a friend in the parking lot said to me, "Doyle we will be having so much fun and it's wild and all of a sudden you just go away inside of yourself." It's called re energizing. Michele has said, "it's just that you are so much fun when you are there and then when you go away you are gone." I think my Clarke friends got it the best, maybe because all of them were into creative things and needed down time as well.l Monica and I could sit in a room, she reading a book my doing something else and be totally connected with out talking. Life is not therapy for me so I will not be anyone's therapist. That's it. Last night Michele and I went to the movie, "Coco Before Chanel". Both of us were tired, I on the verge of a major depression over being stalked and we sat there one seat in between us to take in the movie. I liked it when i recognized the French Words. I saw how Chanel affected Jackie Kennedy. Mostly I liked how slow moving it was and I could just sit there taking it in. Previews for the movie, PRECIOUS, played. We were at the 3.00 movie. Michele said, "It only played in Madison for 2 weeks at the regular theatres, Madison just doesn't get it." Yeah this when our Mayor bestows the Martin Luther King award to Shiva Bidar Sielaff, who didn't have the grace not to accept the award. This when Tim Bruer goes after Mr. and Mrs. Hammond two African American land owners and Mrs. Hammond says of the CDA theft, Martin Luther King would role over in his grave. So I have sat in my despair. I know how to work with it. Just feel it. Not talk. Not write. Just breathe and avoid all depressed people. So I turned on the tv after talking to my mom about the joys in our family. And I listen to this woman and i ask, "Who is this woman?" She was brilliant. Scroll down on this link to archives and you can click on the Jan 26, 2010 meeting and even if you don't listen you can see the presence she has. She was about the work and every one except the attention seeking Bridget Maniaci was about the work as well. http://www.cityofmadison.com/mcc12/pbmv.html#latestOn the committee was a bus rider named Aaron and she is not pleased that Badger Bus is going to get a drop off site on West Washington after closing the terminal near there. I liked her sincerity and conviction. Robbie Webber said that she is not pleased that Badger Bus is going to make money off of that spot but the main goal is to support that we are a car less community downtown and we need to find a multi-service depot for all connecting sites and with high speed rail coming everything is up in the air. The committee said that the spot should not just be for Badger Bus. It was brought up that Badger Bus shovels snow at the Memorial Union Site and while one person tried to make it sound that it worked there Robbie Webber said that often there are too many busses parked there and they take up the mopeds/motorcycle spots. Bridget Maniaci didn't like that Webber was so direct about Maniaci's district so she started to change the focus but she doesn't have a thinking or questioning voice so she was not able to sway this group of thinkers. And then Aaron said that she questioned not having the paper work on an issue that she as a responsible committee member should have. And with utmost respect and comfort with this woman questioning, Alder Byron Eagon told her that he had the papers and that he would make copies for her if she wanted. I like that guy. I liked that the committee was about the work. It was the best council event I have watched so far. | | Sunday, February 7th, 2010 | | 2:26 pm |
Dear Susan Goodwin
Your boy just stopped at my desk to pick up something that I dropped by my desk. I said, "Please leave me alone" without giving him any eye contact. Voice was calm. He said, This is yours. I nodded to say, "Thanks" | | 2:07 pm |
Dear Susan Goodwin
I moved and your boy keeps stalking me, is he mad because I knew what he was up to from the get go? | | 2:07 pm |
A Trolley Driver out earns Mayor Dave
Well i have to study but I did see on the front page that a Union worker (bus driver) made more than Mayor Dave. Some how that seems fitting for the no brainer we have as a Mayor. I know that some people will be quick to jump on unions. But the Mayor who doesn't like details knows we have unions in this city so why isn't he prepared to hire enough people at a lower cost so that there are not over time hours? This man is not a visionary and his disdain for details gets us in trouble as a city. I would think that Brenda Konkel would have the right questions to ask on this but maybe she is sick of being a target or having others take her ideas and not give her credit for them. But in any case i have to study and will read her later. Oh, and I don't even have time to read this article by Bill Lueders who came out on the state dems the way that al franken came out on the national dems this week http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=28096 | | 1:59 pm |
Hey Susan Goodwin
Your boy from the Justice department keeps walking by me since I wrote that below. I find it amusing, does he think I won't think it's true if he stalks my space or does he hope I will blow up? He's as sophisticated as you are, I say with a laugh. | | 1:57 pm |
Temple Grandin
I traveled to Michele and Steve's last night after I studied all day. We had a great vegetable pasta made by Michele; she adopted my technique of throwing walnuts in the pasta, it's better than meat. We laughed and talked and laughed and talked. I didn't know if I would have time to go there but I got 5 tests completed so i went. And we watched Temple Grandin http://blog.autismspeaks.org/2010/01/25/tune-in-temple-grandin-on-hbo-2/Michele said to me as we spoke at various points, "you are still in the field." I said, "No, I am not, you are but i am not in the field any more." She said, "The way you affect my work." She had a client who the system treats with bias and political correctness therefore the client suffers because the client's process can be extreme. Those bias want to punish the client; those with political correctness will risk nothing for the client. So when people say that the abolition of teachers unions will ensure the reduction of poor teachers I simply don't agree because my friends and I have been in many unionless jobs where the drones stay on sucking the life out of places. So i just gave her Larry Hopwood techniques. Simply put I assume every one has the ability to change his or her emotional life I don't like talking about the work. I will talk about it with her but that's it. I am out of the field. Forced out because I asked for ADA education and I was given a sheet of paper the other day that showed that when I was at this job the county was $12,000.00 above (i had been modest thinking it was $4000.00) Well 3 months after I was fired the place was 9000.00 in the hole so add 9000 plus 12000 and you get a 21,000 loss But the work began for me when I was at Marquette in 1982. There was this student who must have been autistic. He spoke to no one. I think his name was Casey. And he was in my logic class and he lived at the Y. And I was fascinated by him and once class got cancelled and I said to him as he walked toward class, "Casey the class has been cancelled" and he didn't respond. And then at that time there were folks that live at Porchlight in Madison living at the Y on the lower floors and I would try to make eye contact with one woman who clearly had negative symptoms and I would notice that she became less symptomatic when I did that. And then on the streets of Milwaukee people with symptoms would find me and I would talk to them. Then, while the Masters work trains you for life in the suburbs with someone who doesn't know what to do with her life I ended up studying under Larry Hopwood whose work is for all types of people and I found my way to those who have severe and persistant mental illness. So I was thrown out of the work because it was easier to get rid of my concern because after all Suzie Goodwin and her boy have been on me for years and were in at that job too. Well, I am not going after the justice department but i am serviing truth for those who are not treated in a fair and just manner. But for now my work with the human condition has been turned over to my pen. And I will be writing not talking about life. But that movie was so moving last night. I called Michele briefly this morning and she answered the phone with a line from the movie, "Nature can be cruel but we don't have to be." In essence, that's what Ghost's book covers. | | 1:39 pm |
Why do they do it?
For those of you wondering why they are still on me? 1. Suzie Goodwin wants to get her boy, jim doyle, out of office before this explodes. As far as I am concerned it is over but she can't believe that. So I will be watched for a long long time, right Suze? I still like Peg Lautenschlager because your boy, Jim Doyle started this for Boyle and McCann; she wasn't the instigator. So the goal is to keep me in the open air prison, isolated from Ghost. And so I write. | | 1:36 pm |
Is the FBI stalking me at the library in person ???
I told Ghost through the floor and the rest of you who listen in and watch my life that there is this guy who goes to the library that reminds me of one of the FBI guys that used to stalk me. I ignore him though he doesn't ignore me. I noticed him right away but if i don't say anything then Susie Goodwin thinks that when I say it later that some one had to tell me. Nope, i can perceive and not sure if he is the same guy but I am picking up something. It's the curse of some of the Irish. They pick up something where as some Irish are simply literal. I thought I would just mention the guy here because I am just going to assume what I am picking up is valid and as always I trust me | | Saturday, February 6th, 2010 | | 3:53 pm |
Read about the Bobble Head Bridget Maniaci on Save the old city
http://savetheoldcity.livejournal.com/621.htmlI posted it there. Sorry I don't have time to post the booby picture with my words but I am in a hurry. I watched a meeting on tv last night I told myself if I took 5 tests I could type out my thoughts. I took the tests, did well and have one to do tomorrow. I was late getting my books so i am still playing catch up. I am off to Michele's. But Please do me a favor look at the double porches on East Johnson street that our bawdy alder has no affinity for. Those houses will take your breath away and we should be working on saving them. Please Barbara Lawton our city needs you. Think of all the people you know, Hillary Clinton and the rest. They like and respect you. Our town under this mayor has gone back to the dark ages. Brenda Konkel pointed out that Robert's Rule of Order should be used. I think she pointed that out in December after we watched Bridget Maniaci ask questions that were not questions. So then last city council meeting when Thuy Pham Remmele asked relevant questions to a temper tantrum throwing mayor Michael Schumacher who evidently reads Konkel's blog and wants to accuse her of being too detailed uses her words against Thuy. I am tired of poseurs using Brenda Konkel's ideas. Bridget Maniaci has no shame in using them. She even quoted them to Joe Tarr on the Isthmus. Fairness and creativity need you to run Barbara Lawton !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | | Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 | | 3:05 pm |
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Bridget Maniaci wants private parking on East Johnson Street
Bridget Maniaci reportedly had so much fun at the frostiball she went home singing, "I could have danced all night I could have danced all night and still have begged for more" The mayors group reportedly took her in to tell her how wonderful she is. She was in a group so she was happy and her happiness of being a groupie fell into confidence that she deserves better parking on East Johnson Street. HEY NEIL HEINEN PRINT A PHOTO OF BRIDGET MANIACI AND SHIVA BIDAR SIELAFF AND I WILL BUY YOUR MAGAZINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The question is, which house will she destroy on East Johnson Street so she can get parking a parking lot. My friend called at 7 last night as I wrote below. I had the city council meeting on mute with captions as I talked to her and at one point I said, "oh, my god, Bridget Maniaci is puckering her lips into a pout to the mayor. She just told him that she has gotten parking tickets and she has heard from many of her constituents and when ever she says many of her constituents I don't believe her. So she wants the mayor to consider a change on East Johnson so that she doesn't get parking tickets. My friend said, "Parkers would never leave there." Just after 30 minutes of the city council meeting you will see this Harvey Milk moment. As you read below Bridget Maniaci revealed that she works out of the Mayor's office and has access to his staff and so i have to deduce that this is the big moment of independence that she and the Mayor have conspired to make us think, see she doesn't do everything he wants. She is asking for change in parking hours on East Johnson because she has gotten parking tickets. It's her Harvey Milk moment. He used dog poop to get a consensus because everyone hates dog poop and she is using parking tickets to question the mayor. It's all a game. But tomorrow the Madison City Channel will have the city council meeting and you can see her pout and you will be as shocked as I was to see as she held onto that pretty little pout why she looked like a little teenage girl trying to get what she wanted from her daddy. And the most shocking thing happened. The Mayor was suddenly put into a Charles Schultz cartoon in that his thoughts appeared above his head and you start to read the song he was singing to himself as she held onto that manipulative pout that she probably uses quite often to get what she wants: Here are the words that appeared above Mayor Dave's head: And when you give me that pretty little pout, it turns me inside out. There's something about you, baby, I don't know. Isn't it amazing a man like me can feel this way, tell me how much longer, it could grow stronger every day. Oh, how much longer? YEP THAT'S RIGHT THE JAMES TAYLOR SONG YOUR SMILING FACE APPEEARED ABOVE THE MAYOR'S HEAD !!!! WATCH TO SEE FOR YOURSELF !!!!! MY FRIEND TOLD ME THIS MORNING. "I WATCHED THE CITY COUNCIL MEEETING LAST NIGHT....I AM GOING TO START WATCHING THOSE MEETINGS...." I SAID, "YES BECAUSE I BELIEVE IF WE DEMAND A FAIR DEMOCRACY ON A LOCAL LEVEL WE CAN AFFECT DEMOCRACY AT A HIGHER LEVEL....." WE OWE OUR WATCHING THIS TO MAYOR DAVE WHO KONKELED BRENDA KONKEL WITH SEXISM AND HIS ABOVE THE LAW DISDAIN FOR DETAILS OF THE LAW. | | 2:35 pm |
Bridget Maniaci has added SCREWING to her choice words about our city
Previous to screwing she has used Mother fucking turf war, she refers to Madison as being a whore that men use and leave it and My friend told me yesterday on a voice mail and on the phone last night, "I am glad you took Tuesday off you have been working so hard" My books came late for my schooling so I am playing catch up. My friend reiterated it again today. We have hardly had any phone time or personal time together for that matter with my new neighbors either because I am swamped. So anyway I called my friend's voice mail today to thank her for some useful health information that helped me. She said, "Bridget Maniaci is completely inarticulate. She can not express her ideas and that using that word, screwing saying that city council is screwing the mayor and screwing her" I started laughing at her sense of disgust. And this friend continued, "And then Rummel " I cut in with excitment, "Wasn't Rummel amazing?" My friend said, "Oh i really like her." I exclaimed, "I want her brain." The issue was a discussion on the mayor adding a new staff person. The position was not filled last year because it's not really needed but they want it this year. Solomon says it's important because it will be for the economic development office. Alder Thuy Pham-Remmele says that as head of the Vending Committee the city staffer is over whelmed by the number of applications for vending sites (you know as people don'[t have jobs they try to sell food) Pham-Remmele said that the increase to vendor licenses was to help the city employee get an assistant so that they could go through the applications which would put people at work. The real issue was "Can Mayor Dave make do with all the staff he has already when other more lowly positions in the city are overwhelmed and underhelped thus hurting our neighbors. So Bridget Maniaci with her Indecent Proposal posture you know the leg is back up on her other leg and boy does she look cool in that pose and she plays the social bully as she did with her "motherfucking turf war" post when she claims she will use her social contacts to stop some boys as she calls them from playing lap dogs to people like I observe her to do. So she attempts to bully the other alders and Alder Rummel speaks in that quiet way of hers to educate Maniaci that the Mayor's staff is not the alder's staff. Rummel reminded Maniaci that the alders have two staff that work with alders. But in that spectacle by Maniaci saying that the alders wanted to screw the mayor's office and that the mayor's staff is there for them Maniaci revealed that she works out of the mayors office as we have suspecteda all along. | | 1:52 pm |
The Feminist of the Night for Madison City Council
Last month it was Joe Clausius honoring his mother in an environment that uses women as lap dogs and punishes female questioners. Last night the feminist of the night goes to http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/district15/Alder Thuy Pham-Remmele questioned the mayor. The great Father Knows Best Patriarch a.k.a. Alder Know it all Michael Schumacher spoke after her questioning of the mayor and the mayor threw a temper tantrum to her questions. Alder know it all Schumacher spoke after Alder Pham-Remmele and Schumacher started his questions by making a statement that the Chair should reign in the discussion to focus it on questions. And the temper tantrum thrower THOU SHALT NOT QUESTION MAYOR DAVE said with fondness in his voice, "Thank you Alder Schumacher" I thought gosh that is funny for a bunch of people who let Verveer cross talk to Shiva Bidar Sielaff in meetings and Tim Bruer who obstructs meetings with his filibusters and monologues. And then, later Schumacher came back to make more statements. So they were really punishing Alder Pham Remmele for the language barrier because there was no question that she was questioning. WEll, I think my expectations of the mayor were just too high because after watching Barak Obama speak on his feet with no teleprompter last Friday night to republicans questions that were often posed as statements I expected too much from this simple minded mayor. But does the mayor's chief of staff e mail him answers to Alder Pham Remmele's questions because after not being able to answer her questions later on in the meeting he then had details. The mayor doesn't like details. That is a concern because the Law is made up of details but ego maniacs often think they are above the law so his lack of concern for details that make up the law causes me great concern for our city. Case and point: Last night he said that something passed and he cited the wrong amount of people for it and people against it. An alder corrected him and he said, "The outcome is the same" He went after Brenda Konkel because she knows the law and the details of the law. And my final queston about Schumacher's schmoozing the mayor and Tim Bruer does Schumacher's contract company that takes benefits away from your neighbors because nonprofit companies hire him to find cheap labor so they don't have to pay health insurance to workers well, does Father Schumacher get perks. contracts or referrals from the Mayor and Tim Bruer? Tim Bruer is the head of a nonprofit as well. So in that sexist environment last night where women are there to serve the mayor and the egos of the sexist instead of the city Alder Larry Palm addressed Schumacher's snub of Alder Thuy Pham Remmele's questioning and he addressed the Mayor's temper tantrum by saying that he thought that Alder Pham Remmele's questioning and discussion were useful for the city. Alder Larry Palm ----feminist of the night. | | 1:22 pm |
Alder Solomon is just one of the Gals
On the vote over whether the mayor's office should be allowed to have money from the contingency fund Solomon said to the questioning alders, "Come on guys" (pause) "this is a no brainer) http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/district10/How would he react if Judy Compton said to him and the rest of the alders, "Come on gals" Oh, but guy is unisexual right? Yeah, that's what the Catholic Church Patriarchy says when they refer to the Creator as a He or a Him or a Father. One could let it slide if the city council men and the mayor and the two female lap dogs (Shiva Bidar Sielaff and Bridget Maniaci) didn't practice sexism. The latter two do using flirtation and it sets us back as a progressive city. | | 1:14 pm |
Workers of Thuy Pham-Remmele's District 20 attend Last Night's Badger Game
Simply put it was immature and irresponsible how the Mayor joked about the Badger Game last night. Did you know that they cut the city council meeting short for the sake of the Badger Game. I was shocked how casual the mayor's concern was? Oh, Alder Verveer left early so that he could attend the game. (They kept referring to that) And who knows if Tim Bruer was sitting in some box seat there with someone with whom he may have made a business deal. Well, I want all of you to know that Thuy Pham-Remmele's constituents were there last night. Oh, they come late and they sit in the basement along a wall waiting for the game to end so that they can pick up your garbage. That's how they make a living. How do I know? Well when I lived next door to the Nitty Gritty on Frances Street I used to go over there to pick up garbage as well. I had a Masters in Counseling and Two Bachelors one in English and one in Theology and I couldn't get a job because of the stalking by your friend, Jim Doyle. I found that most of the workers were from District 20. I guess the mayor would consider last night at the Kohl Center to be "a night of diversity" I found it unsettling that the mayor would be so casual about what people in this city are going through to shorten a meeting so that people could go watch a game. I have a sibling who is a top executive. He is. My mother will say, "When he speaks on the phone he clips his words like a top executive." You would never hear him stopping a meeting that affected other people's lives. Do you know what he does? He tapes his games and asks that no one tells him the score. The mayor's casual attention to detail revealed once again on a night when he threw a temper tantrum as the people's representative of District 20 questioned why he was allowing a staffer who made 89,000.00 per year get a raise that put her over 90,000. Well let me tell you this? Those people at the Kohl Center who now pick up garbage instead of lettuce from a field many of them will have to work 9 years to make that amount of money and when they do make their $10,000.00 per year often many family members are living off of it. I love basketball. That's not the issue but being so casual about the people's business in this city is immature and revealing of the mayor's leaderhsip. | | 1:00 pm |
Dear Barbara Lawton
A friend called me last night at 7 pm while the City Council meeting was on tv. I told her that I wanted you to run for Mayor of Madison, I said, "She could save our city." I gave her my rationale. I wrote here last month that my mother said that she liked you because you are aloof. Soon I started reading in paper periodicals that they observed you to be mysterious. I don't think there is anything mysterious about you and my mother didn't mean mysterious when she said the word, aloof. What she is really saying is that you are a not an ego maniac, your ego does not get in the way of the work, your ego is aloof but your work is of justice. I told my friend on the phone that you were the one who saved Martin Luther King Day in Madison while Mayor Dave whitened it up with giving Shiva Bidar Sielaff the humanitarian award. In my estimation he wants to oust http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/district20/ I suspect his strategy is that if he can have Shiva Bidar Sielaff shake the Hispanic people with her Spanish talking ways and if he can make African Americans think shiva Bidar Sielaff should be in the Black people's hall of fame like Bill Clinton (truly Bill Clinton is the only white man in the Black People's Hall of fame) well then he can get rid of Thuy Pham Remmele. You are not an ego maniac that's why my mother referred to you as being aloof. She has also said that you don't need any body's money so unlike ego maniacs you are not for sale there fore our city would be under good care. My friend said to me on the phone, "Write Barbara Lawton to ask her to run." I laughed to say, "ok I'll tell her that my friend said you should run." Listen so many people like you read my blog that I believe you will read this. If Tom Barrett can run for governor and then run for Mayor of Milwaukee after losing his bid for governor why can't you run for our city. A male said of you, "she listens to all sides." Last night when I watched that dysfunctional mess under that mayor I thought, "oh, Barbara Lawton would find a way for each side to hear each other." Please run for Mayor of Madison. | | Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 | | 2:15 pm |
Joe Clausius -----Male Hero of Madison for the month of January
Joe Clausius came back to the January 5th City Council meeting to pay tribute to his mother who had died on Christmas Eve. He said she was something else and his paralanguage indicated he was talking about her way of thinking or being. For a male in that city council to pay homage to a mother in a female hostile environment revealed the depth of this quiet man. So just remember tonight if you watch the city council meeting with all the games of the dominant group (Verveer, Bruer, Maniaci and Bidar-Sielaff) that within that chamber we can be assured that there is one man who is friends of women and that is Joe Clausus. He makes me think of the Senator who cast the deciding vote for women to have the right to vote in this country. His mother wrote him a letter to do the right thing and he listened to her. Joe Clausius honored all women when he honored his mother last month. | | 1:51 pm |
Thinking Women
I remember sitting in the parlor of my French aunts in Dubuque Iowa. My mother's aunt played the organ at Sacred Heart Church just down the street. The conversations were wild and wonderful. My Aunt Dorothy stood in her living room to say in the early 1970's, "Jesus had long hair, I don't know what the big deal is." My mother was wild too. On excursions to Dubuque at that time she would pick up hitchhikers and I remember telling her once, "They smell like Tom." I was really young. My Aunt Dorothy said of the Catholic Church, "Why if I told them what I thought, they would excommunicate me." Last night my mother and I had a discussion once again on the usefulness of my theology degree, she tells me it's pointless, I told her, I got it so I could help people and I am proud because once when I was working at the parking lot a young African American who picked up garbage told me he was upset because his friend had been shot to death two nights earlier. He said, "I don't think he is going to go to heaven because he wasn't saved." Because I had studied theology I said to him, "There is such a thing called Baptism by Desire and if your friend wanted to go to heaven he then is considered baptized by the Holy Spirit." I didn't tell him that was Catholic Theology; but at that moment he relaxed and felt better. I remember wanting to get the Theology Degree for my poetry and so that I could help people because it seemed to me that a lot of people were messed up by Theological guilt. For instance, I learned from a Jesuit Theologian, Ted's Uncle, that at the time that St. Paul spoke about homosexuality he was talking about the times of the Spartans who destroyed their society by having sex with young boys. Today we would call that pediophilia not homosexuality. So Paul's words on homosexuality were time sensitive about a particular issue not about two men being in relationship. OH AND FOR ALL THE NICE PEOPLE WHO THINK IT IS AWFUL THAT MY MOTHER DEBATES THE USEFULNESS OF MY THEOLOGY DEGREE PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM ME BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE ALWAYS SO POLITICALLY CORRECT AND THE PROBLEM IS THAT PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE NEVER THERE WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH AND YET YOU WILL TAKE AND TAKE WITH ALL OF YOUR NICENESS. My mother and I were having the discussion because I am now immersed in a practical field of study and I study so much that I told her that I feel lonely after I am finished. No, I don't need people to fix that I simply want to say to my mother I feel lonely. But way leads on to way in thinking and I thought of how I studied woman's issues in my 20's. I find the condition of women in Madison to be serious and backwards. We have the 60's groupies who still are looking for the Beatles so they will cheer on some male they consider close enough. Any thinking woman like Barbara Lawton and/or Peg Lautenschlager get shot down behind the scenes. What Susan Goodwin does to women makes me think of that scene in The Color Purple where Sofia Oprah's characters says to Celi (played by Whoopi Goldberg) that Celi's betrayal of Sofia is the worst kind of betrayal when it comes from a woman who calls herself friend. That scene is a metaphor for what Susan Goodwin does for her man Jim Doyle. And in my studies of women's issues which I did on my own because the Catholic College and Catholic University I attended during my 20's were way behind UW Platteville and UW MIlwaukee, the issues I studied said that before the right to vote and during the suffragist movement men tried to keep women from being friends so that they would not form a group. And that is what is happening in Madison. How long are we going to deny the mayor's treatment of women in city management positions and his treatment of women in the press and his treatment of how he appoints women to committees (his one group of selections to committees is scandalous in that it kills the life of our city) It's serious how women are treated in this town. The things I studied in my 20's I thought that we were moving out of them and here we are in a city with a mayor who wants women who will do what he says and voice what he thinks and he goes after Konkel because she can think. I thank him for doing that for going after her because I would not have paid attention to the city council if he hadn't. The way women are treated in this town is from the dark ages of inequality. We have to find a way to vote in a different mayor who gets these issues. |
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