From the Village Square - All Comments

re: Thankful, but for what?

David Tatarowicz — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:20:50 GMT

Joe

Everything is RELATIVE ..........

Two things you can be thankful for (out of a list of thousands)

1) You won the lottery and were born in the United States

2) You don't live in Somalia

Dave

re: The greatest of the great.

David Tatarowicz — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:37:32 GMT

You're Very Correct

re: A billion years, theories of time and reality.

Jaime — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:42:01 GMT

Joe,

I'm just curious; did you email the members of the board directly? If so, it's pretty much unreal that you've had no responses.Then again...maybe not, eh? ;-D

re: Our own energy source.

David Tatarowicz — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:45:54 GMT

Joe

I have been told that transferring power over hundreds of miles of cables is very inefficient because the further you transfer the power, the more of it you lose.

From both an economical and ecological perspective, the closer the power source is to the user -- the more efficiently it is used correspondingly, less power has to be produced.

In theory, if each house had its own fuel cell, it would not only be economical and ecological, but it would also make power outages something consigned to history books.

Dave

re: WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO CHANGE TO?

Shorewood — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:08:31 GMT

Blind party hack! VOTE THIRD PARTY!

re: TO BE OR NOT TO BE REGULATED.

Shorewood — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:07:40 GMT

I am tired of the corporate ownership by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Fannie and Freddie got sweatheart rules in the 1990s in the name of help people and Clinton cronies moved in to run those companies and make millions. The GOP removes all the rules and then bilks the taxpayer. Barack Obama got huge donations these businesses who make nothing and exist only paper. John McCain doesn't know what he is talking about.

The author of this blog is right about John McCain, but is blinded by his party loyalty to understand that Barack Obama would be no better, if not worse because he is in the pocket of the people who robbed us. VOTE THIRD PARTY AND SHAKE UP THIS COUNTRY!

re: WHERE DO POLITICIANS STAND?

Joe Mangiamele — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:57:12 GMT

If one doesn't know anything about the guy, how does one know about his deeds?

re: WHERE DO POLITICIANS STAND?

Shorewood — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:26:22 GMT

Don't know a thing about this guy. However, the only way to win this seat is to run as a Democrat. Saying he was a Republican would have been political suicide.

So you prefer a label to someone's deeds?

re: WHAT DOES GOING GLOBAL MEAN TODAY?

Shorewood — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:49:12 GMT

The United Nations cannot stand against despotic governments because its lets despotic governments into the United Nations.

re: IF THEY WANT TO GET ELECTED.

Jaime — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:22:04 GMT

Joe,

The way our elections have panned out the last few times, it really doesn't matter what anyone's stance was on anything, as there was either no one to run against the incumbent or the position was appointed by current board members!

There has to be a reason why 12 folks threw their hats into the appointee ring, yet none did so at election time! (see Steve Koczela's Jun 18 2008 blog entitled: "Why doesn't anybody run for Trustee?" and the 9 comments associated with it)

The sooner someone can figure out why, the better our representation will be here in Shorewood!

re: Shorewood, what about it?

Nancy Peske — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:36:00 GMT

The difficulty with duplexes serving as group home is that they have stairs. I've noticed in Shorewood many of our duplexes have stairs to the front door, as well--all of which would have to be modified. Often, the front door and the interior doors aren't wheelchair accessible, nor is a typical duplex bathroom big enough to convert to a group home bathroom that can accommodate wheelchairs. My guess is that we'll see more group homes in the suburbs north of us where there are large ranch houses that have these architectural features.

re: Patriotism and the presidency.

Jaime — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:27:24 GMT

Joe,

The speed at which the even the Obama camp went into defense mode over Clark's comments sheds a lot of light on the overall perception of the validity of Clark's premises. They went to great lengths to distance themselves from them!

re: Can Shorewood's politicians be counted on?

Jenny Steinman Heyden — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:14:11 GMT

Hear Hear!!! I agree, I agree!

re: Positive sewer-aging.

Shorewood — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:01:04 GMT

We must build a sewer system. Shorewood pollutes Lake Michigan whenever MMSD dumps into Lake Michigan.

re: Positive sewer-aging.

Shorewood — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:01:03 GMT

We must build a sewer system. Shorewood pollutes Lake Michigan whenever MMSD dumps into Lake Michigan.

re: Positive sewer-aging.

Shorewood — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:01:00 GMT

Shorewood has a combined sewer system, which means when it rains alot and MMSD dumps sewage into Lake Michigan, Shorewood residents are guilty of that environmental crime. We need to take it upon ourselves and replace this system with a divided one...one sanitary and one for storm water. It will cost alot of money, if Shorewood residents are as environmentally conscious as we say we are then we will gladly pay the price.

re: EUROPEANS DO IT.

Shorewood — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:19:20 GMT

We need to make our streets narrow and our sidewalks wide to make it difficult to operate a car in Shorewood. Some people will leave, but others will move in to live in our superior community where we are not a prisoner to our car and we can move about on foot or on a bicycle.

re: Why do they do it?

Joe Mangiamele — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:48:12 GMT

When I did my posting on the trustee who had resigned from the Shorewood Board of Trustees, I only knew that he was getting a divorce. I was always confronted by his annoying euphinnysms when I came before the Board. So I wasn't necessarily sorry or happy about his situation. Later when I learned that there were other reasons for his leaving, I pulled out my reference to him on my blog..

It seemed that during this time I also neglected some of the comments that came in but all of them are published now. My main concern is that the trustee seat gets filled by election rather than by appointment.

Joe

re: Does our economy add up to a mere trickle?

Jaime — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:38:13 GMT

Joe,

Let's see if THIS 'trickle down/pump priming' helps! I remember a previous occasion, when Jimmy Carter told us we would all be getting a rebate, then, at the last moment said, "Oops...my mistake!"

By that time, however, a lot of folks had already spent their anticipated 'rebate' and the economy got a kick in the pants anyway!

re: What about a more perfect democracy?

David Tatarowicz — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:00:30 GMT

Hi Joe

You are right that a lot of the troubles in the Middle East were of Britain' doing --- but also do not forget the roles that Italy, France, Russia and the USA contributed to the mess.

I am just finishing a book you might enjoy reading:

A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922

by David Fromkin (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Jack Miles, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Wonderful . . . No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Review

"Wonderful...No book published in recent years has more lasting relevance to our understanding of the Middle East."-Jack Miles, Los Angeles Book Review

"Extraordinarily ambitious, provocative and vividly written...Fromkin unfolds a gripping tale of diplomatic double-dealing, military incompetence and political upheaval."-Reid Beddow, Washington Post Book World

"Ambitious and splendid...An epic tale of ruin and disillusion...of great men, their large deeds and even larger follies."-Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal

Dave