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"Pork for Nostalgia"
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"Pork for Nostalgia" |
Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.
-- George SantayanaCruel GOP “cuts” funding for Woodstock Those mean Republicans cut funding for the Woodstock museum. They really are against education. At least according to the Associated Press. In a bizarre story that pitted hippies and townspeople against those meany Republicans, AP reported that the plucky Woodstock nation would open the Woodstock museum despite those meany Republicans. Nyah. The Man can’t keep them down. Completely absent in the AP story is Alan Gerry, one of the co-founders of Woodstock. Now a billionaire, Gerry donated thousands to the campaigns of New York’s senators who, surprise, surprise, sponsored the $1 million pork barrel for Woodstock. The guy is worth at least 1,000 times that million. He could have forked it over and kept 99.9% of his wealth. A comment: Woodstock took place in 1969. We are now (nearly) 40 years after the event meaning the attendees are pretty close to 60 years of age. Nostalgia, as a drawing card, will work if it works at all for an event like Woodstock, only for those who actually, you know remember. This place will be an empty box with no visitors in 20 years. Why the hell should the general public support it with federal tax dollars? 
Will our next Woodstock be handicapped accessible? Er, check that; it's probably a given.
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geg6 14941 desperate attention whore postings
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10-29-07, 11:34 AM (EST)
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3. "RE: Pork for Nostalgia" |
Well, I have to say I'd rather waste money on something that at least has some sort of cultural and social significance. I notice the GOP has no problem funding things that have no significance at all like the bridge to nowhere, the funding of which (despite all the outcry) still went to the state of Alaska.>Completely absent in the AP story
>is Alan Gerry, one of
>the co-founders of Woodstock. Now
>a billionaire, Gerry donated thousands
>to the campaigns of New
>York’s senators who, surprise, surprise,
>sponsored the $1 million pork
>barrel for Woodstock.
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>The guy is worth at least
>1,000 times that million. He
>could have forked it over
>and kept 99.9% of his
>wealth. Unlike those poor, poor defense contractors who have more pork barrel projects than anyone else. They, apparently, are much in need of tax dollars to waste. Especially since it costs them so much to bribe people like Duke Cunningham. Lets cut them a break, okay? Will our next Woodstock be
>handicapped accessible? Er, check that;
>it's probably a given. I guess I'm not getting the snark here. Are you saying that it should be handicapped accessible? Or shouldn't be? Or that it's somehow not conservative to want to include the disabled? Or that it's somehow just a liberal thing to want to do that? Or is it that there's gotta be some sort of joke here that I'm not seeing or understanding? 
"How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it." - Henry David Thoreau
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11. "That was fun!" |
foonermints ← confessing to some minor crowbaitism. But I lie a lot, too.
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10-29-07, 03:15 PM (EST)
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13. "RE: That was fun!" |
they're only puttin in a nickel and they want a dollar song
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10-29-07, 08:01 PM (EST)
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Estee 57126 desperate attention whore postings
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10-31-07, 08:31 AM (EST)
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24. "This is fair." |
Honestly, the GOP is just being bipartisan here by asking for a liberally-oriented museum to give up funds. They already cut back on the number of papers that'll eventually be housed in the Dubya Presidential Library, which reduced storage and preservation costs by a huge percentage. Can't they ask others to make sacrifices too?
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25. "hmmhaha" |
LOL! Honestly, this whole thing would barely be news at all if we weren't in a perpetual election cycle, much less important than the Bush Administration Bluebook. Bethel Tourism will b just fine without Congressional funding. But hey, you see, I really don't particularly want the bother of a museum, but if they forced all that money on me for one I suppose I'd be obligated to clutter up a barn with stuff and charge admission. But they'd probably want to tell me my business, you know.Anyway, I was saving this as a Halloween treat for PRE and Spanky and Wayne and Matt and RR and oh gosh whoever all. She's out there still! All these years later she's still plucking away, a trueblue iconic hippiechick, a gen-u-ine Woodstock performer. http://youtube.com/watch?v=zhRjDLptg5E
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11-01-07, 00:41 AM (EST)
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LAST EDITED ON 11-01-07 AT 08:41 AM (EST)LAST EDITED ON 11-01-07 AT 01:05 AM (EST) ROTFL.
Well, to someone who uses Woodstock as their icon, I have to admit that after all these years, I still have a crush on Melanie. Your posts during the past week have really made me smile. Here's my Woodstock song.
Okay, substitute Iraq for Vietnam.
It may not rhyme but...
Come on all of you big strong men, Uncle Sam needs your help again. He's got himself in a terrible jam... 
...because people often come bearing gifts.
All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.-- Marx
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