Posted on February 28, 2006 by iwilder
from the Suffolk Board of Elections website: Member of Assembly, 8th Assembly District (Elect 1) As of 2/28/06 9:35 PM 108 Election Districts reported out of 108 100.00% 9,434 Votes cast out of 79,250 11.90% Candidate Party Votes Share BOYLE, PHILIP M Republican 4,851 51.42% Independence 487 5.16% Conservative 602 6.38% School Tax Relief […]
Filed under: Long Island Politics, New York State Politics | Tagged: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 28, 2006 by iwilder
On Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 7pm, Folk music impresario Sonny Meadows will perform for the Babylon Green Party. Meadows tiptoed onto the Long Island music scene in January 1997 after a 21 year hiatus. Mr. Meadows albums include the topical (How Does a Patriot Act?; Bibles, Guns & Flags: American Inquisition), Folk (Devil […]
Filed under: Green Party Websites, Long Island Music, Long Island Politics | Tagged: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 28, 2006 by iwilder
from NCPG press release: Setauket, NY – February 23, 2006 – The North Country Peace Group (NCPG), with the support of other Suffolk-based peace and social justice organizations, will mark the third anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq with a procession and vigil on Saturday, March 18, 2006. All are welcome to join the march, which will commence from the King […]
Filed under: activism, US Politics | Tagged: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 28, 2006 by iwilder
from Zogby International Press Release: Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll shows just one in five troops want to heed Bush call to stay “as long as they are needed” While 58% say mission is clear, 42% say U.S. role is hazy Plurality believes Iraqi insurgents are mostly homegrown Almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s […]
Filed under: US Politics | Tagged: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 28, 2006 by iwilder
New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty, Long Island CHAPTER Arrested at 19 for “acting in concert” to murder. Sentenced to death by an all-white jury. Former Black Panther member, NY Death Row inmate, and founder of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty….. LAWRENCE HAYES Speaks at SUNY Farmingdale THURSDAY MARCH 9, 11AM Free Admission. Directions […]
Filed under: activism, New York State Politics | Tagged: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 27, 2006 by iwilder
Ernie, somone writing your campaign literature is obviously literate based on the two roads diverged mailing with the yellow theme, but the text is the same well-worn path. Just negative campaign piece against Phil Boyle and yet another picture of you with the conservative Steve Levy. The other picture of Steve Levy you mailed to […]
Filed under: New York State Politics, Recommended Poetry | Tagged: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 27, 2006 by iwilder
from National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) press release: 97 PERCENT UNABLE TO REPAY DEBTS, MOST PUSHED TO BRINK BY CRISIS NACBA Analysis of More than 60,000 Consumers Processed Under New Law Asks: “Where Are the Deadbeats” Congress Expected to Find and Stop With Onerous Rule Changes? WASHINGTON, D.C.//February 22, 2006/// The […]
Filed under: activism, US Politics | Tagged: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 27, 2006 by iwilder
Ernie, Are you trying to convince me to vote for Phil Boyle in the Tuesday, February 28, 2006 special election for the 8th Assembly district in Islip and Babylon? The automated phone call from Senator Clinton is just too much. Don’t you know she supports the war? Don’t you know that she is waffling on a […]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 27, 2006 by iwilder
from Greenline, Monthly Green Party e-newsletter: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Green Party activists and elected Greens in Wisconsin and Oregon are leading efforts to pass resolutions against the continued occupation of Iraq at town and city levels. In California, Greens have helped introduce municipal resolutions calling for impeachment of President Bush for various abuses of power, […]
Filed under: activism, Green Party Websites, US Politics | Tagged: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 27, 2006 by iwilder
by Kimberly Wilder If you can read this you are more qualified to be president than George W. Bush, Jr. I f y o u c a n under- stand this,then you could lead the whole, free world. And, why not? You are good and wise and were taught some small lessons about democracy […]
Filed under: Long Island Politics, Recommended Poetry, US Politics | Tagged: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 26, 2006 by iwilder
Lead guitarist Paul Matthews and lead singer Jim Frazzitta Guest drummer Paul Cama and lead singer Jim Frazzitta
Filed under: Long Island Music | Tagged: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 25, 2006 by iwilder
Ernie, You sent me, or should I say the NY Democratic Committee since that is who paid for the piece, two more negative campaign pieces against Phil Boyle. If you don’t have any good ideas of your own to espouse, then I have no reason to vote for you. I’d call and tell you to […]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 25, 2006 by iwilder
Prof. Lawrence Mitchel’s book Stacked Deck: A Story of Selfishness in America (America in Transition) got me thinking about how the United States has been harmed by an exagerated justification for hyperindividualism. That is the sense that you owe no duty to the community, and that whatever you can take for your own you deserve. This […]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 24, 2006 by iwilder
(found poem) to fight criticism that his tax cut only benefitted the wealthy George W. Bush had one American family from each tax bracket to the White House when he was asked why there was no representative from the top tax bracket he responded that he represents that bracket
Filed under: Recommended Poetry, US Politics | Tagged: Uncategorized | 4 Comments »