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Jerry Waxman wrote a new diary post: Civil Rights for all Means Just That
Equality seems to be coming in a lot of forms recently. The Republican War on Women shows the tremendous inequality that poor and middle class women face especially in health issues. The GLBT community has had a huge boost recently thanks to VP Joe Biden and President Obama and all of these equality issues are [...]
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Jerry Waxman wrote a new diary post: ((((((( Under The Radar )))))))
It’s been almost a month since I’ve submitted any articles and my editor is getting antsy. “What do I pay you for?” he asks, to which I reply “You don’t. I do this for love.” “I love you” he says, and for the time being that’s enough. I have to also admit that my muse [...]
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Jerry Waxman commented on the diary post The Revolution Was Televised (Only We Didn’t Know It) by Jerry Waxman.
I wish I could comment on Helm but everyone else has beat me to it. As I said in my post I outgrew Bandstand and went on to be a Jazz musician. I also had a career in business and then became a theatrical producer. I’m no longer connected to show business at all, but [...]
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Jerry Waxman wrote a new diary post: The Revolution Was Televised (Only We Didn’t Know It)
Dance programs on radio were nothing new in 1957. They had been around in one form or another since the dance marathons of the Depression years. Swing bands used to do remote national hookups into living rooms across the country and the kids used to dance at their house parties until all hours. This was best [...] -
Jerry Waxman commented on the diary post Don’t Ever go to Sleep! (Or Whatever Happened to My Vote?) by Jerry Waxman.
I wish I had real evidence to confirm your remarks. Right now what we can address is what we know to be real. We’ve got to start somewhere.
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Jerry Waxman wrote a new diary post: Don’t Ever go to Sleep! (Or Whatever Happened to My Vote?)
Remember that final scene in the great 1956 sci-fi flick The Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Remember Kevin McCarthy running down the highway bouncing off of trucks loaded with alien seed pods shouting to us warning that as we slept they took us over? Let’s apply that to what’s happened in this country in the last thirty [...] -
Jerry Waxman commented on the diary post An Open Letter to George Zimmerman by Jerry Waxman.
Staying in hiding while all this damaging evidence coomes out is not doing him any good. He could ask for protective custody until the state attorney decides how, if at all, they are going to charge him. If, as he claims, he has those injuries inflicted on him then a complete medical examination would help [...]
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Jerry Waxman commented on the diary post An Open Letter to George Zimmerman by Jerry Waxman.
You obviously don’t get the point of the post, nor do you get the legitimate outrage. I feel sorry for you.
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Jerry Waxman wrote a new diary post: An Open Letter to George Zimmerman
March 29, 2012 Dear George, I hope you don’t mind me calling you George, but I feel that in the last few weeks I’ve gotten to know you pretty well as I can’t avoid all the articles and publicity about you. So, I’m just wondering if you would grant me a simple request. Would you [...]
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Jerry Waxman wrote a new diary post: Rally OTG: Oh, My Feet!
Going to an event such as the rally for Trayvon Martin in Sanford’s waterfront Ft. Mellon Park can be fun, educational, inspiring as well as painful. In order to operate the video camera I needed to be as up front as possible. I left home early thinking that I had to be there prior to 6:00 [...]
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Jerry Waxman wrote a new diary post: Tom, Dick or Harry
*(sung to the tune of Tom, Dick or Harry from Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate) Buddy: “ I’ve made a haul for all the Chamber’s rackets, from which rip roaring rich they happen to be. Please help me keep them in the upper brackets, vote for me, vote for me, vote for me.” Phil : The purse strings [...]
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Jerry Waxman wrote a new diary post: Occupy Orlando-Ex Post Facto Cowardice
By Jerry Waxman “The moon was all aglow, and heaven was in your eyes, the night that you told me those little white lies…” Cowardice comes in all different forms and shapes. Everyone is or has been guilty of it in one form or another and at one time or another. Every time you tell a little [...] -
Jerry Waxman commented on the diary post Occupy Orlando-You Can’t Make This Stuff Up….. Or CAN You? by Jerry Waxman.
Much bigger problems than that. Orlando is a wholly owned division of the Chamber of Commerce and Rich DeVos. Whatever they say gets done and people just don’t matter. This should be a very interesting NBA All Star Weekend in a town that can’t afford a team or the stadium they occupy.
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Jerry Waxman commented on the diary post Occupy Orlando-You Can’t Make This Stuff Up….. Or CAN You? by Jerry Waxman.
That’s just it. There’s absolutely no correlation between anything happening in Ocoee and anything OO is doing. It must have been a slow news day and they tried to spice it up.
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Jerry Waxman wrote a new diary post: Occupy Orlando-You Can’t Make This Stuff Up….. Or CAN You?
Interesting stuff blowing in the wind recently. It’s called the baseless blame game. In Oakland the police have conveniently tried to blame Occupy Oakland for a tragic murder in Berkeley using the excuse that their resources were tied up handling peaceful protesters and they could not respond to the 911 call. Here in Orlando there was [...] -
Jerry Waxman commented on the diary post The Tallahassee Two Step by Jerry Waxman.
Beerfart, Most days the occupation can be seen at Orlando City Hall. Since many of the occupiers have actual jobs or are students or both it is not a 24/7 encampment. A visit to http://www.occupyorlando.org will tell you everything that is going on. There was only room for 12 occupiers on the bus or there [...]
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Jerry Waxman commented on the diary post The Tallahassee Two Step by Jerry Waxman.
Gee, tuezday, I wasn’t aware that you have no idea where Occupy Orlando is at any particular time. If you had checked the website you would have known that they were at the OCAC building on Rosalind getting ready for the All Star Game weekend. Every event is scheduled on the calendar. FYI, no one [...]
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Jerry Waxman wrote a new diary post: The Tallahassee Two Step
One of the more noticeable successes of the Occupy movement is how the direct action teams are getting more people involved in the political process. Since the election of 2010, more civic action groups are arising and making their impact felt. The overwhelmingly Republican legislatures in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, Virginia and Florida have all been [...] -
Jerry Waxman commented on the diary post New Kidz on the Block by Jerry Waxman.
Don’t flatter me too much. It might go to my head! Thanks for your kind and caring remarks.
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Jerry Waxman wrote a new diary post: New Kidz on the Block
If you’re thinking that the occupy movements are fading away you might want to consider thinking twice. While the larger cities have been foolishly wasting whatever political capital and credibility they still have on trying to obliterate the camps, other camps in smaller cities and towns. It is true that many of these occupy sites have [...] - Load More
