Sunday 13 May 2007

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762 are active on the Distribute site. The site had 5,603 unique visits last week.

This issue is at:

http://www.jasperjottings.com/2007/jasperjottings20070513.htm  

Send email to http://tinyurl.com/yh34ut (gives you an email address), fax 781-723-3746, or call 732-917-4816 (It’s the phone on my computer) anytime.


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FLASH! Important info received after the deadline

 

LIVE ON 15 MAY 2007

We’re now the equal of Notre Dame or Duke on LinkedIn. Yup, we have our own group on LinkedIn

Announcing LinkedInJaspers.

Now, you can network with like minded Jaspers on the largest business social networking site. And, like the secret decoder ring, you can “see” Jaspers where others can’t. The badge only displays when looked at by another Jasper. Way kool! So if you haven’t joined yet, and you look at my profile, the badge is invisible. When you do join, and look at my profile, you can see it.

Do a search, and scan down a list of names, and you’ll see Jaspers “badged” for easy identification. How snazzy is that? So, if you’re trying to network into Comcast, and you search for “Comcast” when you page through the list, my entry has the badge. There are 5 other Jaspers here, but you won’t see them until they join. BUT, it does tell you that you have a potential ally and info source inside the “enemy camp”.

You can also see all the Jaspers on LinkedIn and connect to them easily. No invites, pass a note, or spin a prayer wheel. You have access to your fellow alums.

AND -- as if that wasn’t enough, as the telemarketers say – you can automatically drop over to the LinkedInJaspers website which is a fully functional Yahoo Group.

I think that this can be an extremely valuable tool to Jaspers seeking to connect in the business world.

There is an online Frequently Asked Questions FAQ at:

http://jxymxu7sn5ho9d.wordpress.com/about/linkedinjaspers-faq-version-1/

http://tinyurl.com/yp6x2q

(Dear Brother Jasper! Am I getting excited? The first innovation in a while. If you need some one to blame, blame MikeMcE. He encouraged me! It’s not my fault. He made me do it.)

Of course, as always, I am open to your suggestions.

This was made possible financially by MikeMcE53 and myself. Beta testing was done by EdMcE59, Paul Dolan82, and MikeMcE53. Of course, all the plumbing was done by yours truly. If the sink backs up, remember I was a EEE!

NOTE: If you have questions, please reread the FAQ. If the question was NOT answered, then email the question to LINKEDINJASPERS at reinke dot cc. I will answer them as fast as I can. There’s only one of me. Questions sent to the wrong box will get answered, but I am giving the correct box a higher priority. I’ve preloaded what I can, it’s untested, and as such please be patient if you need a manual intervention. Remember I have a real job.

 

 

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JASPER EVENTS THAT I HAVE HEARD ABOUT

 

September 21-23, 2007

Hold the date:

By the way, the Retreat this year is scheduled for September 21, 22, and 23 at the Retreat House in Riverdale.

 

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My list of Jaspers who are in harm's way:

- Afghanistan

- - Feldman, Aaron (1997)

- Korea

-- Stephanie (????)

- Unknown location

- - Lynch, Chris (1991)

- Uzbekistan

- - Brock (nee Klein-Smith), Lt Col Ruth (1979)

… … my thoughts are with you,

and all of you that I don't know about.

 

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried abut our own souls, and other people's bellies

 

-- Rabbi Israel Salanter 1810-1883

 

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EXHORTATION

http://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/ranttax-money-being-well-spent/

http://tinyurl.com/22mnqh

*** begin quote ***

Board of Education employees have been watching porn on school televisions.

*** end quote ***

I blogged about this. I think it’s a freedom of religion issue.

My friend’s wife was Principal of a small Catholic School in Queens. It closed because of enrollment problems. Those problems were cause by the tuition. Poor people couldn’t pay the taxes for the public school and tuition to the Catholic school. Can’t compete with a “free” good. So in effect, the government drove that Catholic school out of business. So much for freedom of religion!

I think we are complacent dupes in the battle for our country’s soul.

Another friend in New Jersey could NOT afford to pay the property taxes for government schools, and the tuition for his three children to go to Catholic school! So much for his freedom of religion. The real slap in the face for him was when the government school started teaching sex education to his girls. He was going bonkers.

So unless we wake up we will all be secular humanists.

I remember the Brother’s and Nuns focusing on the girl’s religious upbringing on the theory that the boys will follow the girls and the girls will be the moms that educate future generations. Boy, were they wrong.

I think we have to speak up for all the people. I’d say there’s no Muslim math, Jewish geometry, Protestant Physics, nor Catholic … … but there is the fundamental principal that if the children are brainwashed with the worship of the State, the worship of Mother Earth, and the worship of “feeling good about themselves”, then we are all in big trouble.

Look at France, the once daughter of the Church. England the defender of the Faith. And even Ireland, allowing abortion. Makes me wonder.

Have we lost our way?

And, if we have, it’s my fault.

Reflect well on our alma mater, this week, every week, in any and every way possible, large or small. God bless.

"Collector-in-chief" John reinke--AT—jasperjottings.com

 

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CONTENTS

 

2

Messages from Headquarters (i.e., MC Press Releases)

 

2

Good_News

 

2

Obits

 

4

Jaspers_in_the_News

 

6

Manhattan_in_the_News

 

5

Email From Jaspers

 

1

Jaspers found web-wise

 

 

MC mentioned web-wise

 

 

New Jasper Bloggers

 

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PARTICIPANTS BY CLASS

Class

Name

Locator

attendee

Geoghan, Howard J.

JObit2

1943

Smith, John F.

JObit1

1953

McEneney, Mike

Email03

1956

Yamaoka, Joseph

Email04

1958

Knapp, John

JFound1

1959

McEneney, Edward J.

Email03

1969

Patterson, James

JNews3

1969

Tucci, Joseph

JNews4

1972

Toner, Michael

Email02

1982

Dolan, Paul

Email01

1982

Dolan, Paul

Email05

1982

Dolan, Paul

JNews1

1982

Dolan, Paul M.

Email03

1997

Mellas, Stella

Good2

2000

Bartus, Laura

Good1

2006

Parisi, Mike

JNews2

 

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PARTICIPANTS BY NAME

Class

Name

Locator

2000

Bartus, Laura

Good1

1982

Dolan, Paul

Email01

1982

Dolan, Paul

Email05

1982

Dolan, Paul

JNews1

1982

Dolan, Paul M.

Email03

attendee

Geoghan, Howard J.

JObit2

1958

Knapp, John

JFound1

1959

McEneney, Edward J.

Email03

1953

McEneney, Mike

Email03

1997

Mellas, Stella

Good2

2006

Parisi, Mike

JNews2

1969

Patterson, James

JNews3

1943

Smith, John F.

JObit1

1972

Toner, Michael

Email02

1969

Tucci, Joseph

JNews4

1956

Yamaoka, Joseph

Email04

 

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HEADQUARTER'S MESSAGES

Headquarters1

News Release
May 9, 2007

Manhattan College To Award Master’s Degrees At Graduate Commencement

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Manhattan College will award master’s degrees to students in the graduate programs of education and engineering, as well as bachelor’s degrees in organization management to students in the adult degree completion program, at its Graduate Commencement on Wednesday, May 23.

The ceremony will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers.

During the ceremony, an honorary Doctor of Science degree will be presented to Francis J. Lombardi, chief engineer for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Lombardi oversees the Port Authority’s engineering department, which includes 600 employees and 180 technical and advisory consultants.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, Lombardi has played a vital role in the $565 million reconstruction of the interim PATH-WTC station at the 16-acre World Trade Center site. He is also a member of the Society of American Military Engineers, the New York State Society of Professional Engineers, the Board of Consultors to the department of civil engineering at Manhattan College.

Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science, along with graduate programs in education and engineering. For more information about Manhattan College, visit www.manhattan.edu.

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Headquarters2

News Release
May 9, 2007

Manhattan College To Award 700 Undergraduate Degrees At 165th Commencement

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Manhattan College will award approximately 700 undergraduate degrees in some 40 major fields of study from its five schools in arts, business, education, engineering and science on Sunday, May 20. Students who completed their studies in September 2006, February 2007 and May 2007 will participate in the ceremony at 1:00 p.m. in Draddy Gymnasium.

During the ceremony, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree will be presented to Jan Crawford Greenburg, an ABC News legal correspondent based in Washington, D.C. Greenburg, who recently interviewed Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice John Paul Stevens, is the author of Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court.

Prior to joining ABC, Greenburg was the national legal affairs reporter for the Chicago Tribune., the Supreme Court correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, and a legal analyst for CBS’s Evening News and Face the Nation.

Greenburg graduated from the University of Alabama in 1987 and has taught journalism at American University and frequently speaks about the court to universities, law schools, legal organizations and civic groups across the country. She is also member of the New York bar.

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GOOD NEWS

Good1

JOY: Bartus, Laura (2000 Un-Registered)

Bartus- Rimmer
Sunday, May 6, 2007

*** begin quote ***

WASHINGTON TWP. –Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bartus of Long Valley announce the engagement of their daughter Laura Catherine to Richard Rimmer, son of Mrs. Lillian Rimmer and the late Richard D. Rimmer of Lake Hopatcong. A February wedding is planned.

Miss Bartus graduated from Manhattan College and is pursuing her master’s degree at Rutgers University. She is president of the International Trade Center Alliance in Mount Olive. Her fiance attended Delaware Technical College and now is a student at Thomas Edison State College. He is a licensed journeyman electrician with Local 102 IBEW.

*** end quote ***

{mcOLdb: Bartus, Laura (2000 Un-Registered) }

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Good2

JOY: Stella Mellas (1997 Un-Registered) weds

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/fashion/
weddings/06mellas.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Stella Mellas, Scott Hadfield
Published: May 6, 2007

*** begin quote ***

Dr. Stella Mellas and Scott William Hadfield are to be married today at Christ Church Warwick in Paget, Bermuda. The Rev. T. Alan W. Garrity, a minister of the Church of Scotland, will officiate. Afterward, the Rev. Demetrios Kehagias, is to perform a Greek Orthodox ceremony.

The bride, 32, is an orthodontist in New Jersey with offices in Basking Ridge, Berkeley Heights and Hackettstown. She graduated from Manhattan College and received her dental degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She also has a master’s degree in dental science and a certificate in orthodontics from the University of Connecticut.

She is the daughter of Anastasia Mellas of Yonkers and the late Peter Mellas. Her father was the owner of Mellas Motors, a Chrysler Plymouth car dealership in Mount Vernon, N.Y.

The bridegroom, 35, raises capital for and provides investment advice to corporate clients of G. C. Andersen Partners, a New York merchant banking firm. He graduated from Connecticut College.

He is the son of Carol and James Hadfield of North Kingstown, R.I. His mother, who is retired, was a registered nurse, at Quidnessett School for Young Children in North Kingstown. His father, also retired, was the marketing program manager at AT&T in Basking Ridge, where he was responsible for retaining residential customers.

*** end quote ***

{mcOLdb: Stella Mellas (1997 Un-Registered) }

{JR: Congrats to the new couple. May they have all that they need, but not too much that they miss out on the “fun” struggles that make deep roots. And, of course, remember Brother President’s need for lot of future Jaspers. Best wishes. BTW, Scotland has a Church? All I know about Scotland is what I learned from Mel Gibson.}

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OBITS

(Memento Mori)

JObit1

JObit: John F. Smith (1943)

Staten Island Advance (New York)
May 4, 2007 Friday
JOHN SMITH, 84
SECTION: OBITS; Pg. A14

John F. Smith of West Brighton, a former U.S. Customs employee, a World War II veteran and a longtime Staten Islander, died yesterday in Richmond University Medical Center, West Brighton.

He was four days shy of his 85th birthday.

The graduate of St. Peter’s Boys High School, New Brighton, earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Manhattan college.

During World War II, Mr. Smith served as a technician in New Guinea and the Philippines with the U.S. Army’s 1716th signal service battalion.

Mr. Smith worked for many years with the Customs Service, Manhattan.

After retiring, he volunteered with the Staten Island Museum and contributed to various Island organizations, including the Staten Island Zoo and the ASPCA.

He was a member of the Bell Society of the former St. Vincent’s Medical Center, and a parishioner of Sacred Heart R.C. Church, both West Brighton.

The funeral will be tomorrow from the Casey Funeral Home, Castleton Corners, with a mass at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s R.C. Church, New Brighton. Burial will be in St. Peter’s Cemetery, West Brighton.

LOAD-DATE: May 9, 2007

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{MikeMcE reports: Dear John, I believe that John is a member on the Class of 1943. May He Rest In Peace. Mike (Thanks, Mike.) }

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JObit2

JObit: Geoghan, Howard J. (MC attendee)

http://www.antonnews.com/portwashingtonnews/2007/05/04/obituaries/

http://tinyurl.com/254oh8

*** begin quote ***

Howard J. Geoghan

Howard J. Geoghan, a resident of Port Washington since 1961 passed away on April 23, 2007. He was born in the Morris Park section of the Bronx in 1920 and was a graduate of Evander Childs High School. A WWII veteran, Howard entered the US Coast Guard in March 1942 and served at several posts in the US including guarding the locks on the St. Lawrence Seaway. He was then trained as a (Morse Code) radio operator and served on a freighter supply ship at the Philippine Islands. Upon his discharge in the fall of 1945 he attended Manhattan College.

In 1949 he married his sweetheart Elaine. They lived in a home in Pelham before moving to Massapequa with their two sons, Howard Jr. and Stephen. A third son John was born there.

Howard was a salesman his entire life. Starting as a teenager with an ice cream route at Orchard Beach in the Bronx, and continuing with careers as regional salesman with the Royal Typewriters and Victor Comptometer companies. In 1977, he realized that all the typewriters he had sold over the years would have to be repaired and opened Port Typewriter on Main St. opposite the old Ghost Motorcycles. Howard remained in the repair business for several years until his retirement.

Howard was an avid reader and a familiar face at the Port Washington Public Library and the North Hempstead Public Pools at Manorhaven and New Hyde Park. He always enjoyed a spirited conversation and looked forward to speaking with friends, neighbors and acquaintances.

Besides his wife Elaine, Howard is survived by his sons, John of Elmont, Stephen and his wife Saralyn of East Moriches; three grandchildren, Tiffany, Melanie and Stephen. Howard Jr. predeceased his father.

Services were held at the Austin F. Knowles Funeral Home, Port Washington, with a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Peter of Alcantara. Burial Calverton National Cemetery.

*** end quote ***

Geoghan, Howard J. (MC attendee)

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Jasper_Updates

[JR: Alerting old friends seeking to reconnect or “youngsters” seeking a networking contact with someone who might have a unique viewpoint that they are interested in.]

 

 

{NOTHING}

 

 

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Jaspers_Missing

Reported by mcALUMdb as “lost”:

 

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Reported by me as “lost”:

 

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Jaspers_in_the_News

JNews1

Paul Dolan trying to pull together the 82ers!

***Begin Quote***

John,

If you could put in a note about the 25th reunion for the Class of ’82 in Jasper Jottings I’d appreciate it. I’ve been trying to drum up some interest among my former classmates but I don’t think I’m having much luck. For the record, Jack Degnan, Frank Jackson and I will be attending the Dinner Dance in Smith Auditorium on Friday night June 1st. I hope we’re not the only ones there.

Anyone that wants to attend should register very soon. Grace Feeney in the Alumni office needs a head count A.S.A.P.!

I was a commuter and was part of a group we called, “Table 5, because when you came into the commuters cafeteria in Thomas Hall we always sat at the fifth table on the left. We had almost as many in our group as the Brew Crew who were immediately on the right when you came into the cafeteria. I hope we have more attendees than they do this year! ; )

I’ll let you know how we do.

Thanks,
Paul Dolan ‘82

***End Quote***

Any 82ers out there with their ears on?

{JR: For a beta tester, anything!  }

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JNews2

JNEWS: Parisi, Mike (2006)

The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
May 6, 2007 Sunday
Final Edition
Redbirds Postgame
BYLINE: Jim Masilak
SECTION: SPORTS; Pg. D13

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Pitching line

Mike Parisi gave up a home run with his first pitch of the game, but the Redbirds’ right-hander recovered nicely. Parisi limited the Isotopes to three runs on eight hits while striking out four and walking none. After failing to go deeper than five innings in any of his first four starts, the 24-year-old made it through seven on a mere 76 pitches Saturday.

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Foul tips

Parisi wasn’t amused when Albuquerque shortstop Robert Andino homered to left-center to lead off the game.

“I was like, ‘What just happened,’ ” Parisi said. “You’ve just got to say, ‘Hey, it’s one run. What are you gonna do?’ . I came back and didn’t give up any more runs that inning.”

Redbirds manager Chris Maloney was pleased with Parisi’s latest effort. While the former Manhattan college standout got a no-decision, the ‘Birds improved to 5-0 when he starts.

“Great start by Mikey,” Maloney said. “It’s tough when the first pitch you throw goes out of the ballpark. He kept his cool, kept his moxie and made some good pitches.”

{Extraneous Deleted}

LOAD-DATE: May 8, 2007

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JNews3

JNEWS: Patterson, James (1969 Un-Registered) interviewed

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA257017.html

The James Patterson Business
Selling entertainment, without apologies
by Jeff Zaleski — Publishers Weekly, 11/4/2002

***Begin Quote***

The Author

“Let’s make sure the recorder is picking you up. Maybe you can say your name.”

“My name is John Grisham.”

James Patterson keeps a straight face but PW laughs. We’re sitting in the writer’s expansive summer home in the wooded northern reach of Westchester County. It’s a cool day in early September. There are no lights on in the house because the electricity was blown out by high winds the previous night, but the living room is brightened by windows that overlook an in-ground pool and, beyond a large backyard, the dark flow of the Hudson River. Forested hills rise on the opposite shore. That’s Rockefeller land, Patterson tells us.

{The article conitnues at leangth}

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{mcOLdb: Patterson, James (1969 Un-Registered) }

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JNews4

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/business/
yourmoney/06boss.html?ref=business

http://tinyurl.com/39d8yq

May 6, 2007
The Boss
Lessons From the Diamond
As told to CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH

***Begin Quote***

I’M a pretty good baseball player and a really terrible guitarist. What I’ve learned from baseball has had a great impact on the kind of manager I’ve become, but it was the guitar that landed me my first technical job.

We lived in Brooklyn when I was a kid, but I spent a lot of time visiting my grandparents in the Bronx. They lived on Webb Avenue, right off the Grand Concourse, so close to Yankee Stadium that I could hear the crowd when someone hit a home run. My grandfather was the world’s most avid baseball fan, and he’d take me to games all the time.

When I was about 10, my family moved to Delmar, just outside Albany, and of course I signed up with a Little League team. Sometimes I played third base, but my favorite position was catcher. The catcher gets to see the whole game play out in front of him, and he gets to send the signals, to call the shots.

Like lots of kids, I wanted to be a professional ball player. I drove my mom crazy — I’d be tossing a ball up and down when I was watching TV, or I’d be hitting pink Spaldeens against her walls.

But I’d promised my dad, who died when I was 16, that I would go to college. So I went to Manhattan College and studied marketing and accounting. When I was about 20, I fractured my leg on a ski slope, but even that didn’t drive professional baseball entirely from my mind.

My younger brother, meanwhile, was a brilliant guitarist, and he taught me to play. I was never any good, but he’d let me sit in with his band once in a while.

I took a job on Wall Street when I graduated in 1969, hoping they’d put me in a training program of some kind. But they relegated me to back-office chores, and I was bored. I left a few months later and found a couple of semi-pro leagues to play in. It was only then that I realized how much mobility I’d lost to that skiing accident, and gave up the idea of a baseball career for good.

I drove a van for the Teamsters for a while, even worked some as a lifeguard. But I’d gotten married, and it was time to get serious. So I applied for a job at what was then the computer division of RCA.

The interviewer asked if I played a musical instrument, and I said yes. He said that people with a musical mind usually make for good systems engineers, and he hired me. I guess I’m lucky that he never asked me if I played it well.

I’d always thought of myself as a sales and marketing person, and I was astounded to discover I loved systems engineering. I was also pretty good at making presentations, and the sales people would often ask me to come along on calls. But it seemed so unfair — here I was, making maybe $12,500, the sales reps were making more than $30,000, and I’m the one they counted on to help them sell.

I asked my boss to let me switch to sales. I did well and moved up the ranks but, to put it in baseball lingo, I felt like I was constantly getting traded. Less than a year after I joined, Sperry Univac bought my division from RCA. Then, in 1986, we were bought by Burroughs, which soon became Unisys. I haven’t left a job, yet I’m on my third team.

After getting traded twice, it seemed time to make a switch on my own. So in late 1991 I accepted an offer from Wang Computer, and was part of the team that took it through bankruptcy and successfully got it out.

In late 1999 EMC hired me as chief operating officer, and less than two years later I was chief executive.

I keep seeing all kinds of analogies between business and baseball. There’s the need for teamwork, the need to read signals, to assess the other team. And a good leader has to know how to pitch and catch ideas.

But the best chief executives are the ones who make sure the right talent is in the right spot, and who know what the competition can hit and what it can’t. So I guess we business chiefs aren’t like baseball players at all. We’re the managers in the dugout.

As told to Claudia H. Deutsch.

*** AND ***

Joseph M. Tucci
Chief executive, EMC Corporation

BIRTH DATE Aug. 13, 1947
HOME Nashua, N.H.
FAVORITE TEAM The Yankees, of course. “I may live 40 minutes from Boston, but my roots are in New York.”
FAVORITE TV SHOW “24.” “I usually solve mysteries right away, but this one has so many twists and turns, I just can’t. Jack Bauer is my hero.”

***End Quote***

{mcOLdb: Tucci, Joseph (1969 Un-Registered) }

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Manhattan_in_the_News

MNews1

MNEWS:6 MC students busted for drugs

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/
2007/05/09/2007-05-09_6_college_students_
busted_for_drugs.html

http://tinyurl.com/2erpuq

6 college students busted for drugs

Wednesday, May 9th 2007, 4:00 AM

***Begin Quote***

Six students were hauled off Manhattan College’s Bronx campus in handcuffs early yesterday to face drug charges, officials said. A month-long NYPD investigation culminated in several search warrants being executed at the Catholic school in Riverdale between 6 and 7 a.m., cops said. The students “were placed on involuntary leave,” a school spokesman said. Cops identified the suspects as

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***End Quote***

{JR:  Even before this, I was against the pseudo “war on drugs”. Sad that these people’s lives are now ruined. For what. For the gooferment’s ability to tell people what they can put in their body? }

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MNews2

MNEWS: MC mentioned in “loan scam”. Our MC?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4773898.html

Markets
May 3, 2007, 7:38PM
Cuomo Widens Student Loan Investigation
By MICHAEL GORMLEY Associated Press Writer

***Begin Quote***

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has broadened his student loan investigation to alumni associations nationwide that steer students to loan consolidation companies.

Cuomo issued 90 subpoenas and letters to alumni groups, including those representing graduates from The Juilliard School in New York, the University of Illinois, the University of California at Riverside and San Jose State University, Cuomo said.

All the groups had agreements or relationships with lender Nelnet, based in Lincoln, Neb., he said.

Cuomo is asking whether the alumni groups that endorsed loan consolidation companies received any benefit or payments from lenders. Cuomo also wants to determine whether students were informed of any benefits paid to an association before they chose Nelnet.

“Unfortunately, it appears that student loan scams don’t end at graduation,” Cuomo said. He has released no information on any of the relationships.

***AND***

Cuomo said the lender’s alumni partners include associations at The Juilliard School, Niagara University, Le Moyne College, Manhattan College, City College, Iona College and the State University of New York colleges at Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia and Upstate Medical Center. Nationwide, Nelnet’s partners include groups associated with graduates of San Jose State University, the University of California at Riverside, James Madison University, Old Dominion University and the University of Illinois.

***End Quote***

{JR: Great Brother Jasper’s Ghost!!! Pardon my French but in the popular parlance of the internet WTF!? In this instance I hope it’s not OUR MC! In any event, I’d hope that the College doesn’t let this go unanswered. Time to wake up the Leadership, lawyers, PR people, and the rapid response team. Future student’s parents may be reading this at the same time I am. Argh!  }

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MNews3

MNEWS: Dunne, a teacher at Manhattan College

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
article?AID=2007705090360

http://tinyurl.com/39c9rw

Bernadette Dunne re-elected as Yonkers school board president
By HANNAN ADELY
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: May 9, 2007)

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YONKERS - Educator Bernadette Dunne will continue to serve as the city’s school board president, after having been re-elected to the position last night for a third term.

Dunne, a former parochial school principal and a teacher at Manhattan College in the Bronx, was first appointed to the board in 1995.

The school board also re-elected Debra Martinez, director of Family Health Programs for the New York state Children’s Health Insurance Program, as vice president.

Dunne and Martinez took oaths of office at the Yonkers Board of Education’s annual meeting yesterday.

The school board held both its annual meeting and its monthly stated meeting at its central offices last night. Public comment is usually heard at the start of the stated meeting, but the board did not allow public comment at the meeting last night.

School officials said there was no public comment because the two meetings were held back to back.

Pat Puleo, president of the Yonkers Federation of Teachers, said she was disappointed because the union planned to send people to talk about the need for a new contract. The teachers’ contract expires in eight weeks.

“I am concerned that there continues to be a lack of communication,” Puleo said.

The board is not required by law to allow the public to speak, said Yonkers public schools spokeswoman Jerilynne Fierstein.

In other school board news, Mayor Phil Amicone is interviewing candidates to fill a vacant position on the nine-member school board.

John Pagliaroli reached the end of his term and was unable to stay on the board due to changes in the city’s ethics law, passed in 2005, barring city officials and city employees from serving on the board.

Pagliaroli works for the city as a special assistant to the mayor.

Trustees are appointed by the mayor and serve without pay. Yonkers is the state’s only school district that empowers the city’s mayor to appoint school board members.

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MNews4

MNEWS: The Gaelic Park connection

Sunday Tribune (Ireland)
May 6, 2007
American dream faces ultimate test;
With more Irish being forced out, New York are facing a struggle to survive
BYLINE: Ewan MacKenna
SECTION: SPORT; Pg. S03

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Think your county has it hard this year? Try being Louis Holland. The New York manager is taking charge of the side for the second and final time this season before returning to Bantry in August, leaving behind a 12-year wisp of his life. Last year they ran Roscommon close having trailed by just a point with seven minutes to go. Nobody noticed. This year they’ll have to beat Sligo if anyone’s to care.

But there’s a bigger issue than attention when it comes to New York. Ever since 9/11 the GAA board has seen the candle burning fast. Fewer Irish people have been going to the States. More have been forced to return. “The whole thing has become a massive worry,” says Holland. “It has become more and more difficult.

“Like, take this year’s championship. I went over to see Sligo play Wicklow in their final league game and came away thinking they aren’t a bad side but I wouldn’t be anywhere near afraid of them and I’m going into it very hopeful that we can win. But what then? If we win then we are away to Roscommon and that can never ever happen. We’d probably have to forfeit because we can’t leave here as we saw with the hurlers last year.

“Basically I’d say five of my lads this year have green cards, the rest haven’t and it is tough on them because they haven’t been home in two or three years. They are in a really hard situation and they are scared that if they do go home, they’ll never get back. And I’ve lost two or three very good players from last year who went home and got on their own county panels, the likes of Aidan McCarron who is now back playing with Tyrone.

“There is no fluctuation of players coming here. Between trying to get a visa and the money that is there to be made in Ireland, there’s nothing really attractive about it any more. Then on top of that no clubs want their players to go because everyone wants to win a championship, you’ve junior and intermediate club All Irelands and it gives managers a huge incentive to keep teams together and it has curtailed America a lot. That has hit us hard.”

Regardless. The football championship coming to New York is an underrated occasion from this distance and their senior team must be competitive if they’re to survive.

Holland has had the panel out training on a beach near Brooklyn every Sunday since February. Players show up from 12-hour shifts, making their way from the vast suburban churches to wear themselves into sickness in a wind chill that often cuts below minus 20.

“Where else do we go with this? All we can do is keep playing and trying to win. We’ve a game coming up on 13 May and it’s going to be a huge occasion here. The game against Sligo is the opening of the new synthetic pitch at Gaelic Park and they’ve put floodlights in as well.

“We are sharing the place with Manhattan College at the minute but it’s getting closer to being something we can say is ours and hopefully now we can get more game time.

“That’s vital because even if Irish aren’t coming out, people here have still managed to put together under-14 and under-16 teams that are coming through and they are the only hope for the future. First generation Irish. And I really hope that there is some sort of future here. I am leaving and going home for good in August and it’s why I took this role, so I could get substantial experience behind me in the line of training teams.

“But it has become more than that and I’m hoping the GAA people over here will get behind each other and instead of bitching and moaning about things, they back other people and try and progress because it’s getting more and more tough. They are not great for that and they begrudge people trying to bring it on and that’s a sad thing and at this stage it just can’t happen. I just hope everything here doesn’t slowly fade away because of the circumstances.”

Think your county has it hard this year? Think again.

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MNews5

MNEWS: Dana Rachlin, 20, a Manhattan College junior

Staten Island Advance (New York)
May 4, 2007 Friday
CSI peace demonstration stirs heated reaction
BYLINE: STEPHANIE SLEPIAN, STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A10

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But shouting match subsides quickly, turning into debate over Iraq war They chose only to read the names of the soldiers from New York who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Had they decided to read all the names from around the country, they would have needed a lot more time and a lot more people.

As it is, the Peace Club at the College of Staten Island is a grass-roots movement that still has no charter, meaning it also has no funding.

This week, in line with Peace Week activities on campuses around the country, the handful of members distributed buttons and black armbands, read the names of the soldiers and stopped students on their way to class to try to recruit them to the campaign to end the war in Iraq.

“You can’t bomb a country on one hand and then say you want to rebuild it on the other,” said Midland Beach resident Tiffany Schwabacher, 21, a senior double-majoring in history and women’s studies. “You can’t drop your gun and turn around and pick up a hammer. We need to pull back and let the Iraqi people rebuild themselves.”

Last semester, Ms. Schwabacher and Jennifer Weppler attended a lecture at CSI given by a Marine mother who opposes the war. The two then went to the protest in Washington in January.

Deciding there wasn’t enough action at CSI, the two established the Peace Club.

“The Iraqi people need to have a conversation about what they want their country to look like,” said Ms. Weppler, a 23-year-old senior from Brooklyn who is studying political science. “The Iraqi people need to stand up and take control of their country.”

In a few hours scattered throughout the week, their mission was the same: Get the campus community talking.

They set up in the grassy patch around CSI’s Sept. 11 memorial, a pair of 10-foot, four-ton steel girders taken from the Towers, one bent by tragedy.

Strung around the bushes of the memorial garden were the faces of the men and women killed in war. Photos of combat boots with their names and ages lined the grass. A bell tolled as each name was read.

Over the three days they were out there, the Peace Club gathered more than 100 signatures appealing to the government to end the war. They plan to send the petitions to Congress. The Peace Club did what they set out to do this week. A conversation was started on campus with a few students joining the effort and a few debating it.

During the protest, William Berkofsky tossed several yellow “Support Our Troops” magnets on the table as petitions were being signed.

“You forgot how it feels to be attacked,” shouted the 21-year-old junior, who is studying international business, psychology and finance. “To stand in front of a World Trade Center replica and scream out the names of dead soldiers is a disgrace to our country.”

“The moment we bring the troops home, no more soldiers will be killed, but the killing won’t end,” said Dana Rachlin, 20, a Manhattan College junior from Great Kills who was visiting with friends at CSI. “[Iraq] will be in chaos. This could turn into genocide.”

The shouting match between the two vocal students and the Peace Club members diffused quickly, turning into a debate over the nation’s role in foreign countries. When it was over, they shook hands and agreed it was a useful dialogue.

“The thing I push most in class is civic action,” said Harry Cason, a CSI political science professor who has been helping the Peace Club get going.

Though not part of his class, Samantha Comanda and Jennifer King heeded Cason’s advice about civic action.

The two were eating in the student center with a friend when they were approached by Peace Club members. They left their lunch behind, headed over to the memorial, tied their jackets around their waists and began helping place the photos of the boots on the ground.

“I feel like the war has been going on so long it doesn’t even matter anymore,” said Ms. King, 18, of Oakwood, also studying liberal arts. “Anything else makes the front page except the war. We know Britney shaved her head and we know Anna Nicole is dead, but what is going on in Iraq?”

LOAD-DATE: May 9, 2007

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MNews6

MNEWS: Dean’s List: Rose Corwin

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
article?AID=200770509114

http://tinyurl.com/2swkax

COLLEGE NEWS
published May 10, 2007 12:15 am

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dean’s list

ASHEVILLEManhattan College student Heart Rose Corwin has been selected for inclusion on the dean’s list.

She is the daughter of Stephen and Rebecca Corwin. Heart graduated from Asheville High School and from Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College with honors.

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Reported from The Quadrangle (http://www.mcquadrangle.org/ )

 

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EMAIL FROM JASPERS

Email01

TAKEN FROM THE NEW LinkedInJaspers group

Happy to be here!

Posted by: "Paul Dolan"
Wed May 2, 2007 7:25 am (PST)

Glad to confirm that there is life at the end of this keyboard!

I'm an alum from the class of 1982. We are having our 25th reunion this June and would like to encourage my classmates to attend at least the Friday night events exclusively for the class of '82!

Thanks,
Paul Dolan

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Email02

From: Michael Toner [1972]
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 3:38 PM
To: reinkefj
Subject: LinkedIn

Dear John,

I joined LinkedIn. Is that all I had to do to be part of the new and improved JJ - not that the "old JJ" wasn't wonderful just as it is...

Also, this quote from JJ...

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"He then asked where I went to school. I said "Fordham in NYC" and he abruptly got up and said "Oh. Can't talk to you." I said "Ok" because quite frankly I didn't feel I could talk to him either. He accompanied his abrupt exit with the alleged factoid that Fordham was his college's rival school. Manhattan College is rivals with Fordham University?? I never heard that before though. I think he might have made it up. Syracuse, lol. ***End Quote*** {JR: Couldn't have been a Jasper; we're never rude. Any of us. Ever! }"...

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reminded me of a letter that all of us Jaspers at the time (1969, 70, 71?) received from the then Dean of Students, Brother Barnabas Edward O'Neil, advising that "discussions of the occult dietary habits" of the Fordham Ram should perhaps be limited to dorm rooms - rather than shouted in public at Gaelic Park...

peace
mike toner
BEE '72

{JR:  I remember things like that. I can remember (vaguely) some Brother or another always upset with us injineers about one thing or another. If it wasn’t public conduct, it was cards, or takigna glass or two of adult refreshment, or the Mounties, or something. Their concern was probably well founded. Look at what I have become. And “peace” also with you. Dona Nobis. Like the beauty queens, I want it to … }

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Email03

From: Mike McEneney [1953]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:05 AM
To: Reinke's Jasper (mc68alum) Persona; 'Edward J McEneney (1959)'; ‘Paul M. Dolan (1982)’
Subject: Re: Please review 'LinkedInJaspersFAQ' (Version 1)

Dear John,

        I THINK that I understand, but I am not sure. It seems long. Do we need to say all that? On the other hand I do not know what could be left out.

       It has been a long couple of days so I will look at it again when I am rested.

                            Mike

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{JR: “Sorry for the long letter. If I’d have had time, I’d written a shorter one”. J I’m sure the literary illusion isn’t lost on the readership. I envision that the FAQ will head-off questions. There are 6k alums, 1500 readers of Jottings, and probably my guess a 2k on LinkedIn (Hey there are 12M people on LinkedIn!). So I can easily be overwhelmed by questions. That’s my big concern with this one. }

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Email04

From: Joseph Yamaoka [1956]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 9:26 AM
To: Ferdinand J. Reinke
Subject: Joseph Tucci

Hi John,

Have you been alerted to the article entitled "Lessons From the Diamond" about Joseph Tucci in the business section of this past Sunday's New York Times?

Joe

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From: Reinke's Jasper (mc68alum) Persona
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:38 PM
To: 'Joseph Yamaoka'
Subject: RE: Joseph Tucci

http://jxymxu7sn5ho9d.wordpress.com/2007/05/06/
jnews-tucci-joseph-1969-un-registered/

Yes, Joe, thank you, I have it queued for the next issue. I appreciated the heads up though. I can never know what I don't know. ;-)

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{JR: Please don’t ASSUME that I have caught a story. You can check the blog or just send it in. Better to duplicate than to miss something. }

{JR: Nice thing about the blog is that you can check and see in real time if the story has been spotted. Or you can read Jasper Jottings in real time as it is being built day by day. J  How’s that for a “Chinese water torture”?  }

 

 

Email05

From: Paul Dolan [1982]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:04 AM
To: Mike McEneney
Cc: Reinke's Jasper (mc68alum) Persona; Edward J McEneney
Subject: Re: Please review 'LinkedInJaspersFAQ' (Version 1)

Gentlemen,

I think that the FAQ is pretty good.  I don't what could be left out either.  I have been a member of LinkedIn (free version) for a while, but not a real active user.  However, with John's invitation to beta test and my 25th reunion coming up, I've been on it a lot trying to find long lost classmates and work colleagues. 

Several of my class of '82 classmates are already on LinkedIn but were difficult to find because they might not have completed their whole profile and featured Manhattan in their education background, which kind of defeats the whole concept of "networking". 

Anyway, I will be encouraging usage of LinkedIn at the reunion because it is a good way to allow one's friends to know where you are and how you can be reached.  You update your profile and all of your contacts will be able see the updates.  It's like a self updating address book.  I think that is a feature that is worth while from a reunion point of view. 

Paul

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{JR:  Don’t for get Jasper Jottings http://www.jasperjottings.com , it’s blog http://jxymxu7sn5ho9d.wordpress.com/ (Have to register a better name); it’s sports blog http://jasperjottings.blogspot.com/; the Alumni Yahoo Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Distribute_Jasper_Jottings/; as well as LinkedInJaspers.  ;-)   I’m sure that they will OD on Jasper-isms. }

 

 

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JASPERS FOUND WEB-WISE

JFound1

Knapp, John [MC1958]

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http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/Lawyer_Locator/
Search_Lawyer_Locator/atty_listing.xml?l=A6D9114274A4D7&a=
CE02396A9CCE07&&searchid=&PRV=OGO&STYPE
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John J. Knapp
Retired Partner
Powell Goldstein LLP
901 New York Avenue, NW
Third Floor
Washington, District of Columbia 20001-4413

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MC mentioned web-wise

MFound1

MFound: two years studying Electrical Engineering at New York’s Manhattan College

http://unmolested.blogspot.com/2007/05/data-havens.html

Memoirs of an Unmolested Catholic School Boy
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Data Havens

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Ms. Zhou Yin, the ever-smiling thirtyish president of Guangzhou Information Systems, is already proficient in her cyberspace hustle. She runs the largest public internet provider in Southeast Asia: ChinaCom, a 50,000 member service whose name is a grim joke on the Communism that Guangdong has all but discarded. ChinaCom is generally regarded as THE hacker/entrepreneur board of the Far East.

Ms. Zhou, who insists that everyone call her Yin, spent two years studying Electrical Engineering at New York’s Manhattan College in the 1980s. She came away with fluent English, a desire to get rich quick, and great talent in spin-doctoring. She returned to Guangdong and opened a small circuit-board shop, soldering the boards in her kitchen at night. Eventually she expanded her business until she had the first computer chip factory in Guangdong owned by a woman. She originally started ChinaCom as a simple anonymous remailer for herself and her friends. When netters want to send e-mail to each other without revealing their identity, they can route their mail through a special anon remailer server. The anonserver strips all identifying information from the incoming message and passes the text of the message on to the intended recipient. As far as the recipient knows, the message originated at this anonymous remailer; there’s no way to find out who really sent the message. Anon remailers are indispensable tools of the Underground, enabling them to write and post messages some regard as obscene without getting caught. Because of its quick turnaround time, ChinaCom’s remailer became the darling of the Singapore Net Set, and word quickly spread.

Yin later added FSP ability to her system. FSP stands for File Secure Protocol, the ability to download a file from the net without leaving a record of how, when, and from where you downloaded it. Another great tool of the Underground, FSP sites usually exist for only a few hours; long enough for the members to download what they can, but not long enough for the Feds to get a fix on the site’s location. ChinaCom’s FSP site has attained almost mythical status in the Underground by being continuously up and running for nearly two years.

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{JR:  Ya have to love the jasper connection and the ingenuity! }

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JASPER’s BLOGGING

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Old

Jasper “JaneLach” (200?)
http://janelach.blogspot.com/2007/04/gym-rules.html 
http://tinyurl.com/37u6l9

Jasper Christine (2008)
http://quasimodo86.livejournal.com/profile/
http://quasimodo86.livejournal.com/data/rss

Jasper “Paul” (2008)
http://blog.myspace.com/blog/rss.cfm?friendID=4031554
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.
viewprofile&friendID=4031554

http://tinyurl.com/ywrjct

Jasper le’Roy (2009)
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.
viewprofile&friendID=69264765

http://blog.myspace.com/blog/rss.cfm?friendID=69264765

Jasper Ms. "siobhano" (2006)
 http://siobhano.blogspot.com

Jasper BAS (2001)

http://blog.myspace.com/blog/rss.cfm?friendID=61855618

My list of previously reported Jasper Bloggers here:

http://jxymxu7sn5ho9d.googlepages.com/blogging_jaspers

{JR: My backlot pages aren’t editing correctly so I have had to carry this over. Until I find a home for them. Ill be creating a page over at JasperJottingsOnWordPress for “our” bloggers.}

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Sports from College

(http://www.gojaspers.com)

Sports from others

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Boilerplate

Control your own subscription:

(1) Send a message from your old email account to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com saying that your switching.

(2) Send a message from your new email account to Distribute_Jasper_Jottings-subscribe@yahoogroups.com with your name and class year.

To keep me from spamming you, Yahoo only permits me to invite and delete people. I can NOT just ADD your email address.

AND you’re done. With zero extra work for the CIC! :-)

http://www.jasperjottings.com/boilerplate.htm

 

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Curmudgeon's Final Words This Week

http://www.vermontrepublic.org

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Vermont Independence Resolution

Be it resolved that the state of Vermont peacefully and democratically free itself from the United States of America and return to its natural status as an independent republic as it was between January 15, 1777 and March 4, 1791.

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Will the next civil war be fought in the Green Mountains?

If Vermont goes, then can New Hampshire be far behind? Maine?

It’s amusing when one considers the fate of nations. Empires rise and fall. Nations collapse. Switzerland is the exception; not the rule.

Remember that the united STATES of america is as artificial construction as Iraq, Iran, or any of the SSRs. All those funny countries that end in “stan”.

We have no lock on permanence. As the dollar’s value erodes, as the dole rises, and the people become dumber (thanks wholly to gooferment education), will we be far behind the Soviet USSR on to history’s trash bin?

Sigh, sadly, I won’t be here for the demise. But maybe you will be.

Remember that Liberty is the watchword, and gold is it’s coin.

See you in Vermont if they succeed in seceding.

And that’s the last word.

Curmudgeon

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GBu GBA

"Bon courage a vous tous"

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