Joel Meyerowitz, Provincetown, Massachusetts



Bay/Sky Series
Bay/Sky II, Provincetown, 1977
Edition: 45/75, from the Bay/Sky Series, printed 1979, color coupler. Signed on verso
8 x 10 inches


























A favorite.

Government Finally Really Interferes With Life As We Know It

From Maggie Thurber

An end to out-of-state beer?

Free Trade!

Washington Examiner Nails It. FILIBUSTER

The icon of union/big government/machine politics, Illinois, can't find a few literate officials to finalize the necessary paperwork so Senator-elect Kirk can take his seat in Congress. It may be an education problem.

Senate GOP should filibuster if Kirk is delayed

Maybe those fighting Illini could dig up some voters or elected officials to fill in the blanks. They don't seem to have problems with forms when it comes to elections. Or a community organizer. They also don't have a problem with forms either unless they get caught.

FDA The Despot Of Death & The Despot Of Living

Ann Althouse led me to this page on the FDA website:

How about we post photographs and other imagery on different government sites warning of what too much government means to the people. Oh, there are the usual images from Russia, Germany, China, North Korea, Iran and others, but then there are also images of desolation, despondency and other results of desperate lives resulting from over regulation from over powerful governments.

But then some freak from the bureaucratically engineered society known as government will weep as they explain it is all for the children. At least for those children that survived government encouraged and paid for abortions. Logic only shows that those children won't need such warnings.

Bush Book Haters: Whining Crybaby Losers Of The Week

BUSH LIED, PEOPLE DIED!

The BUSH IS STUPID crowd was played.

CHIMPY MCBUSHITLER is a rightwing Nazi.

These are the same people that think it quite cute to question authority. Well, the authority of bookstore managers. Such bravery for a lie.

Subversively move George W. Bush's memoir to crime section in book shops

Self-delusion is its own reward.

Marine Corps November 10, 1775

Happy birthday Jarheads. My 5th great grandfather was a Marine in the Revolution.

Edmund Fitzgerald November 10, 1975

The New House of Representatives In Ten Seconds

From Bob's Blog.

Ratigan & Rall Call For Violence To Increase Their Profits & To Dig Up A FDR To Lead A New America

All dumb and dumber jokes aside the level of ignorance displayed in the clip makes one wonder if they were trying to outdo each other. Ratigan, whose work covers an industry Rall despises, was clearly in sync with Rall as they ticked off their agreed upon script and talking points. Rall, who is a cartoonist, wants the world to know he loves America, but believes it has needed to be undone since agitators fired the first shots at Kent State. Rall thinks America needs a redo and he is happy to remake America in his vision which is pretty damned scary to anyone who values honesty and ethics let alone freedom.



Ratigan is really just a talking head trying to increase his bottom line. Not too bright, but probably pleasing to many dimwits who watch him. Rall is really a truly despicable elitist who doesn't have much to be elitist about and as most elitists, he's a hater. He hates America, but he loathes conservatives, voters and especially soldiers and the military.









Their duo act is apropos as voters just voted as they did to display disgust with the vision du jour that progressives see for America. Yes, it is about jobs, but voters realize that jobs will not appear with this vision of governance.

Ratigan and Rall deserve each other. America doesn't

At What Point Did America Allow Morons To Run Our Lives?

Really. When did we say go right ahead and take the power to micromanage our lives? More importantly, at what point did we allow mommyesque morons to tell us that we are out of line to protest this takeover of our lives?

New nutrition rules may be no party for students
The cake, cookies and candy at the school parties you might remember will become a no-no if the state approves new nutrition guidelines.

No soup for you! Mike targets salt sellers
Mayor Bloomberg's latest health campaign -- cutting salt intake -- has targeted soup as one of the big sodium offenders to be taken down with new city ads.

CALIFORNIA / Sex questions found not to violate parents' rights / Despite indecorum of parts of survey, court denies appeal
"Parents have a right to inform their children when and as they wish on the subject of sex," said Judge Stephen Reinhardt in the 3-0 ruling. "They have no constitutional right, however, to prevent a public school from providing its students with whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise."

There is consistency here if you look at the weather in their world.

•  Individuals do not have the right to make individual decisions.
• Government has the power to force its will on the governed because elected officials do not do the actual rule making and enforcement of government power.
• Government units are more important than societal, family and local units.

 In our world there are people making decisions for us that we have no right to refuse. I guess, to make our lives easier, we have acted like morons to allow this.

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Photography

The Real 'Shellacking' The Democrats Got

In terms of legislation (including push back of legislation on states by the US Congress), the deep replenishing of the Republican back bench and a rejection of progressive statist crap, the Democrats totally lost on redistricting. Good.

State legislatures before the 2010 election

State legislatures after the 2010 election

These elections have set the liberal agenda back at least 10 years which is absolutely great news for Americans. The incredible rejection at the local level will not only affect legislation at the local, but also at the state and federal levels. The take over of so many state legislatures by Republicans will also decide which party will lose seats due to redistricting, but also which party will gain seats in those states with a growing population. Here in Ohio there will be a loss of two congressional seats because people have fled the liberal/progressive assault on business and individuals through taxation and repressive control of the citizenry. Because of the election Republicans will now decide which two seats will be erased from our congressional map.

If Republicans act like as republicans, not some smug hierarchical country club like Roman Senators from the Palatine, we will set the progressive agenda back for a generation in 2012.

To The Shame Of Ohio - Its Bad Business

Business Insider

Keith Olbermann Suspended For Ethical Violations? Huh?

Musta been the straw that broke that very strong camel's back. The man is a walking violation of every ethical standard that's so much as been thought of.

Olbermann suspended for Dem contributions

Well, he obviously needed a time out. Bonus for the crockery cracking department: he'll tweet like crazy and that is always fun to watch. Like a slo-mo train wreck. Peckinpah style. With crazy people on board.

What Will Doom Republicans And Democrats In 2012?

One can surf to find whatever du jour formula is needed for Republicans or Democrats to succeed in 2012. That's cool, but it's eying the bark on the tree in front of you instead of seeing the forest.

Democrats will fail if they continue to act as they have.

Republicans will fail if they continue to act as they have.

1910. Notre Dame, Paris.



The nave crossing. East piers.



LAT Gives Us The Funniest Headline Of The Election!!

If the LAT didn't have you at 'hello' then dig into the story for the most clueless group of thoughts, theories and conclusions.

Pelosi's effectiveness is not rewarded

"The outcome of the election does not diminish the work we have done for the American people." But it does diminsh the work you did to the American people. They don't like you, your methods and your policies. Other than that, you're cool.

Barney Frank Is Simply An Embarrassment

Never get in the way of a man self destructing.

Ohio 2010 House Election Map

The only blue areas left are those surrounding Toledo, Cleveland, Akron and the area east of Akron around Youngstown.

The striped areas are districts that were in Democrat hands, but switched to Republican hands in the election.

Now that "Our Future Ohio" PAC has flushed over $3M down the drain it is time to find out who funded their last minute effort to alter our elections here in Ohio.

If they are to be believed, OFO PAC raised the money, obtained staff, offices, researched the issues, wrote scripts, filmed, did the voice overs, bought ad time (in the last two weeks of the campaign???) AND went through the same process for very expensive print material in just 14 days. I do not believe that they did all this in just two weeks. I believe it was a planned sneak attack at the last minute. I also don't believe the money they were given came from Ohio unless some local PO Box or address was used as a pass through to make the money appear to be local. I think Ohio deserves some answers from Ted and Lee's good friend Alan Melamed.

Of course the people who gave him the money want some answers too. Maybe he is explaining how he lost the entire thing and hasn't had time to answer questions from the voters of Ohio.

Election Wrap Up

It is very interesting to look at the congressional and state and local election results maps. It appears that those that are the bluest this morning all huddle around cities pleading for the most in government handouts.

This video is pretty telling.



I'd love to go back to bed and catch up on some sleep, but too much to do.

Ohio is once again a red state and once again our state legislature is Republican. We will have the finest Speaker of the House, Bill Batchelder, in the nation.

Below is a photograph of Gov. elect John Kasich and soon to be Speaker of the House Bill Batchelder. The photographer is Jack Kustron who very graciously posted it on my Facebook page. The photo says it all.