Showing posts with label Heavy Or Not. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heavy Or Not. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Fwd: Propaganda 101
From John H
For those of you who depend upon The New York Times for establishing a connection with the 'real world' should read and pay special attention to the attached article. The most powerful propaganda effort ever waged is now in place and being managed by plutocracy through the main stream media. And for those of you who believe heart and soul in the Democratic Party should absolutely watch the Real News Network interviews at the Peoples' Summit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
John
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Saturday, June 10, 2017
Fwd: Danny Chew Fundraiser - Final Reminder
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From: Carol
From: Carol
Dear Bicycle-loving Friend,
As you may already know, we are holding a Fundraising Event for Danny Chew on June 17th, to help raise funds for making his home handicapped-accessible, as well as for the uplhighly increased living expenses that come with being paralyzed. He is temporarily living in Ohio, but is coming home to Pittsburgh in a month. Time is of the essence!
The Fundraiser should be a great celebration with food, beer, music, bicycle-related games and activities, as well as Danny himself.
(For details on the event, please look below)
If you cannot make it to the fundraiser, but would still like to contribute, here is a link to help Danny: https://www.helphopelive.org/campaign/12584. We are also accepting gifts-in-kind for our Silent Auction and Basket Raffle (there is a form attached to this letter, and arrangements will be made to pick up anything donated), so you have an opportunity to participate in those ways as well.
Just for the Record, I fit into all this by being one of the original cyclists in the Chew Cycling Crew...Danny's sister Carol and I were the first to check out the Thursday night bicycle rides at the American Youth Hostels, then other members of the family became interested, and well, the rest is - HIStory.
Please see the attached letter from Danny...Be well everyone,Susan Richter412-736-xxxx (removed by blogsmaster)
Here is the event information:
COME THRU FOR CHEW
Come to an exciting FUNDRAISER for DANNY CHEW, creator of the DIRTY DOZEN BICYCLE RACE here in Pittsburgh, and lovingly known as The MILLION MILE MAN for his goal of riding a million miles on a bicycle in his lifetime. He was paralyzed last Fall in an accident while riding, when he suddenly passed out: https://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/the-million-mile-manhttps://www.outsideonline.com/ 2138711/danny-chew-wont-let-pa ralysis-keep-him-riding-100000 0-miles
LOCATION & MUSEUM TOURS:
The event will be held on June 17th from 4-10pm, in the large parking lot in front of the World's Largest Bicycle Museum, BICYCLE HEAVEN, on the North Side (https://www.bicycleheaven.org/). There will be tours of this massive historical collection throughout the event, and JOHNNY ANGEL'S MUSIC MUSEUM, (http://www.jaginchystuff.com/ ), is nearby and open until 6pm. The Museum is also located right behind the THREE RIVERS HERITAGE TRAIL, so you can even ride on the trail to the event!
https://friendsoftheriverfront.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/1 0/2014-Map-and-Guide-1.pdf
ACTIVITIES & SPECIAL GUESTS:
4:00 - 6:00 pm:
Bicycle obstacle courses, activities and games for kids of all ages. Plus, ATTILA DOMOS, (unofficial, but soon to be official) world's-record holder for # of miles on a handcycle in a 24-hour period, and recent winner in the handcycling category of the Pittsburgh Marathon! He has pledged to bring two of his handcycles for people to try, and will participate in other creative ways later on in the program. (http://www.attiladomos.com/index.html)
THROUGHOUT THE EVENT:
FOOD, BEER and WATER for sale.
BASKET RAFFLE and SILENT AUCTION, with some pretty incredible items, many related to bicycling.
DANNY CHEW (and Family) MEMORABILIA TABLE, with DANNY present at the event to tell the stories behind everything!
OTHER TABLES AND ACTIVITIES, TBA.
MUSIC LINE-UP:
4:30-5pm:
CHERYLANN HAWK sings Children's Songs with awesome drummer Pete Shell www.facebook.com/cherylannhawkmusic
5:00 - 6:00pm:
JIM DONOVAN, drummer from "Rusted Root" & his lovely daughter, TUPELO https://www.tupelodonovan.com/
6:00 - 7:00pm:
FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK ACADEMY http://www.post-gazette.com/local/west/2013/08/12/Academy-pr ovides-grooming-for-rock-s-nex t-generation/stories/201308120 101.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYrAeu4UEIQ
7:00 - 7:45pm:
PRESENTATION WITH & ABOUT DANNY, with special guests and dedications
7:45 - 8:15pm:
SURPRISE MUSICIAN!
8:30 - 9:00pm:
CHERYLANN HAWK returns, with other great songs for grown-ups!
9:00 - 10:00pm:
STANDING WAVE with Steve Sciulli and Dennis Childers
10:00 pm:
MUSIC JAM and DANCE to close the night
Please join the fun, and for now, the conversation...Let us hear your ideas and any ways you want to get involved! We would especially love to hear from young people, especially teenagers who want to participate in the kids bicycle games, crafts and "safe obstacle course" area. When they are done with their 2-hour shift with the kids, the young musicians from the Rock Academy will be performing! PLUS, WE PLAN TO SERVE PIZZA (and BEER, for the adults...) around that time!
LET US HEAR YOUR STORIES!
If you know Danny personally and have had some adventures with him, we need your stories, either written or recorded via webcam, etc., for a power-point presentation that will be created in honor of the event. DEADLINE IS NEXT MONDAY, June 12th.Please send all entries to: DannyChewFundraiser@gmail.com.
Tickets can be purchased online: http://bit.ly/chewfundraiser
and are available at the door -
$10 Pre-Registration (until 6/16 ) for persons 12 and over
$15 at the Door
$10 Students
$5 Children 4 to 12 Under 4 Free
WE CAN ALSO USE ALL THE VOLUNTEER HELP WE CAN GET, BOTH BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE EVENT! Please let me know if you can help...DannyChewFundraiser@gmail.com
Keep checking the facebook page for updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/885643608240335/
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Thursday, June 08, 2017
Saturday, May 27, 2017
Fwd: Very concerning. Trump needs a good war and Pence is waiting in the wings to lead it.
https://youtu.be/09di2xWG_1s
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From: John H
Subject: Very concerning
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From: John H
Subject: Very concerning
Watch this! Real New Network interview with Larry Wilkerson.
John
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Fwd: FW: PAA Benefit
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From: John H
Workers at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association (PAA) have had their pensions stolen , their health care illegally cut, their paychecks bounced, and they even had union dues deducted that was never remitted to the unions. These workers have retained legal assistance to try and recoup their stolen wages and benefits. Please join us for an afternoon of acoustic music and poetry by PA's most renowned poet, Sam Hazo. Show your solidarity to these workers, they have been abandoned, and need our support.
John
Monday, May 08, 2017
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Wednesday, March 01, 2017
Fwd: Mind map webinars for Mark in March!
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From: Biggerplate
From: Biggerplate
 Mind Map Webinars: March
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Biggerplate Founder Liam Hughes reviews the key findings from our Annual Mind Map Report (to be published soon) and answers your questions!
Dr Marco Ossani will present and demonstrate how mind mapping can assist in the critical thinking required for Design Thinking.
Our regular welcome webinar explains the basics of mind mapping, and how to get the most out of the resources available at Biggerplate.com!
Hans Terhurne (Creamatics) demonstrates how mind mapping can support scenario planning, strategy development, Business Model Canvas, process mapping, and other visual modelling.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017
For Fun and the season: Second Line, the Fifth,
Love the name and the beat:
Young Men Olympian Junior Social Aid and Pleasure Club.
How is your krewe?
Are you in the second line?
Young Men Olympian Junior Social Aid and Pleasure Club.
How is your krewe?
Are you in the second line?
Fwd: Worthwhile presentation
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The Summer King: The Josh Gibson Story
Thursday, February 23rd
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Steel Valley High School Auditorium
3113 Main St, Munhall, PA 15120
The very first world premiere in Pittsburgh Opera's distinguished 78 year history hits close to home. The Summer King tells the story of baseball legend Josh Gibson. Josh went from the sandlots of Pittsburgh's North Side to the pinnacle of greatness in the Negro Leagues, before ultimately being enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
Join the The Josh Gibson Foundation, Pittsburgh Opera, The Battle of Homestead Foundation, and Steel Valley School District on Thursday, February 23, 2017, 7:00 PM, for a preview community event at the Steel Valley High School Auditorium featuring some of the cast, a few local pro athletes and a program about Homestead's role in fostering the Negro Leagues and stars like Hall of Famer Josh Gibson.
John
Tuesday, February 07, 2017
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Fwd: Defanged by Privilege
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From: John Hemington
From: John Hemington
I have held off sending these pieces for a bit in order to rethink my own prejudices. I held off because I believe that some of the comments contained therein will likely offend some of you reading them. However, on reflection, I believe that they are correct and must be considered if we are to be honest with ourselves. It particularly concerns the Women's March in Washington as a demonstration organized by and focused on privileged whites frightened by Donald Trump but not terribly concerned with those not similarly privileged.
I have to say at the outset that I was personally thrilled and impressed by the turnout of millions of people in hundreds of sister marches throughout the country and the world. It was an impressive show of unity and strength when really needed. But I was also concerned that it might end up being nothing more than a "feel-good" event out of which little or nothing comes. Behind this concern lies my fear that it was really orchestrated and controlled by operatives of the elitist side of the Democratic Party – the New Democrats – in order to galvanize support for their continued domination of the Party. Given the list of official speakers this certainly appears to be the case. Each one I saw was a long-term Clintonista New Democrat.
If this is correct it is highly likely that most of the energy will be diverted from change into focusing on further demonizing Donald Trump and, down the road, re-electing the same old crowd of New Democrats that brought us Donald Trump in the first place by failing to fight for policies to end the economic starvation of poor, middle and working class Americans while serving up trillions for international corporatists, Wall Street financial gangs and the military-intelligence elite and their corporate suppliers ensuring that endless illegal and self-defeating wars of choice will continue without pause.
Yes, the Trump administration will be awful and millions will suffer as a result. Things worldwide will certainly get worse, but the solution is not simply to return the Democrats who created the conditions which led to Trump's victory back to power. If the recent marches cannot be used as a springboard to overthrow the power structure now controlling the Democratic Party – that is, if we allow those same people to control and direct the outrage – we will see Trump succeed into a second term. Or should the Republican oligarchy tire of as they may well do, a second term of Mike Pence and company.
As one of the articles suggests, the New Democrats despise and fear the progressive left and will do just about anything to prevent them from making inroads into control of the Party. We cannot, we must not allow this to happen by aligning with the New Democrats to shift the focus away from the failure of their neoliberal/neocon fantasies which have brought us to this terrible time in history. We cannot allow them to divert our attention to whether Russia might have hacked the election and inciting anger at those who supported Trump instead of to those New Democrats who created the conditions which encouraged former Democrats in the "flyover" regions of the country to vote for Trump.
In short, we must do everything within our power to retake control of the Democratic Party from those who serve only the financial and corporate elite while pretending to work for all Americans by pushing "identity politics" while ignoring the very real and serious needs of most of us. Be assured that the New Democrats and their privileged spokes people will speak words which sound as if they care – as did Barak Obama – but most will be lies and distortions. Their policies over the past forty years are what define them and they have almost uniformly awful for most Americans who were not among the privileged.
And I speak as one who is privileged. I do not have to worry about where my next meal will come from. I do not worry about whether I can afford to pay the rent to keep myself housed. I am not struggling with unpayable student debt. I don't have to worry about being shot and killed while "driving as black." I don't have to be particularly concerned that any illness will bankrupt me or my family. I don't have to worry that my job will be eliminated and my family will lose everything. I don't have to worry about living in desperation in a slum where the laws are enforced only against those who live there and not against the slum lords who fail to maintain their properties. I do not have to worry about being deported because I lack citizenship papers.
But I am not without cares and concerns. I care that our government has chosen to ignore the plight of those who do find themselves in these plights. I am concerned that our government has for forty or so years continually cut back on the social safety-net programs instituted in the New Deal to protect those who, through no fault of their own, fall through the cracks of an increasingly neoliberalized market economy which glamorizes success and demonizes failure. I am concerned that we have bought into the myth that the government doesn't have enough money to provide the necessary social and medical services which every other advanced economy provides its citizens; but always has a magic pot from which to pull dollars to bail out billionaire financial titans and fight endless costly wars as well as provide arms to the rest of the world. And I care that we remain, as a society, as racist today as almost at any time in the past – we simply disguise it from ourselves more effectively.
Please read the attached articles and give some thought to your own privilege. Think about what might have been had the New Democrats not commandeered the Democratic Party during the Clinton presidency; and consider how we might work to take the Party back. Otherwise, there may not be much hope for the future. There is a class war being waged and it is being waged against all Americans who are not among the privileged elite. The goal of this class war is to insure that we, its victims, continue to blame one another and never look to the real source of our problems.
I'm sorry for the length of this but not for the content.
John
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Zing!
Jim R. Forsythe posted on Facebook's South Side Secrets page:
Top ten Bruceisms!!
1. We now have more Parking Enforcement Officers than pedestrians on East Carson Street.(ask the Pretzel shop).
2. South Side hospital has closed for business.
3. Zone 3 police station has closed for business, and soon to be up for sale.
4. Vacancy on East Carson climbed from 5% to 35% in 7 years.
5. Beltzhoover and Knoxville havent seen the councilman in years, while the councilman is busy measuring sidewalk cafes on East Carson.
6. South Side Slopes and Hilltop infrastructure continues to crumble while Bruce eyes removing the Shriners Circus.
7. Residential parking plan that Bruce said cant be amended is now being amended.
8. While the East End and Lawernceville continue to grow and expand, Bruce opposes the 25 million dollar apartment complex on 23rd and Wharton.
9. Bruces staff turnover is more than hamburgers be flipped on East Carson.
10. Bruce shelves 300k hospitality study that he initiated because " he always knows better".
Stay tuned for the sequel because he just cant help himself! Can you believe we are paying Bruce Kraus with hard earned tax dollar money for his lack of council.
Note: We will trade him for any other councilperson or a warm six pack!!
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Really?
Women at a big march are holding signs saying they hoped for the day when they'd have as many rights as a gun? You mean, they wish they could be banned from schools and other public places, closely monitored by the government, and scapegoated for the problems of society?From Tom Woods.
Kickoff for Pittsburgh Mayor Candidate, John Welsh, seeking the D-Party nomination in spring 2017
Video camera of a Saturday event at the Homewood Library featured a new candidate to challenge for the Dem Party Nomination for Mayor, City of Pittsburgh.
Exciting event in terms of audience and messages of the need for a new movement in Pittsburgh.
These are three segments (not complete) from the podium.
Exciting event in terms of audience and messages of the need for a new movement in Pittsburgh.
These are three segments (not complete) from the podium.
Family photo after the speech:
Big welcome for a movement:
Friday, January 20, 2017
Monday, January 02, 2017
100 Years: Woodrow Wilson and Counter Thinking -- A Libertarian Rebuttal
Thanks to Tom Woods for these insights:
We've heard a lot about all the great people who died in 2016. To my mind, though, by far the most important is someone mainstream America has never heard of.
The man I have in mind was probably the most knowledgeable living historian in the libertarian tradition, and a man who influenced me greatly.
I am referring, of course, to Ralph Raico.
Professor Raico had a vast knowledge of the history of liberty, from the ancient world through the maligned Middle Ages, and on through the Industrial Revolution to the present. He refuted myth after statist myth in his iconoclastic work, and left the establishment view in shambles.
The year 2017 marks 100 years since Woodrow Wilson's horrific decision to intervene in World War I. Professor Raico was an expert on the contested question of war guilt in that war, and he was withering on Wilson's foreign policy.
As we recall Wilson's decision this year, we ought to revisit Professor Raico's treatment.
If you are unfamiliar with Professor Raico's work, I'm linking you to a free copy of his excellent book Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal. It's been made available to the entire world at no cost, thanks to the heroic Mises Institute:
https://mises.org/library/great-wars-and-great-leaders-libertarian-rebuttal
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