Friday, November 27, 2009

Happy Holidays!

Here it is the day after Thanksgiving and the mad rush has begun. Before we get too much involved in our Christmas planning, I just wanted to take a peaceful, calm moment to wish all of you a Happy Holiday Season. It was a real treat for me to see all of you this year - you stirred up many long lost memories and brought my youth back to me. Now that we are becoming the retired generation, many of the younger people think we are out of step with their world. But after being with all of you, I feel much better about my perspective. We all share a common background and similar memories of a world that has changed and of course our views differ from the youth around us on many subjects. It's nice to know that we are right and they are wrong - but I'm not going to tell them (they can find out for themselves like we did). Enjoy the season knowing that there are many of us out there caring for each other and not completely lost in the hubbub and furor. Peace is nice.
Bob Pflanz

Saturday, November 7, 2009

To Rex, Bill & Don from Rodney

Rex, Bill, and Don

Thanks Rex for posting the trip report and photos. I was a great, fun trip and was nice to have a memory jogger. Unfortunately, having gone to Nelson grade school put me at a slight disadvantage at times. Re the issue of crimes against persons, it was only mental anguish that the Stathopouls twins inflicted on me, which wasn't recognized in those days. We did have BB gun fights but the scores were settled on the spot and no eyes were lost (by the way, how many watch "A Christmas Story" every year for a touch of life in the 40's that fit us all so well?).

Keep up the commentary and maybe we'll meet next year on the sophisticated Capitol Hill.,where just today health "reform" might move a giant step forward to save America from itself.

Best,

Rodney

To Rex & Bill from Claudine

To Rex and Bill:

Rex, your description of Depansing as viewed by the Nanny State and Eric Holder gets an A plus. It was so well written and so true. Just insert another "crime" and the story becomes news for the next day. I think Depansing may be on the short list. Nice Job:

Bill, you too were very well expressed, but why do I not believe you?

Rodney says the terrible twins, John and Frank, wreaked worse havoc for a few years on the 4800 block of Charlotte. (Their babysitter lived there). If I remember correctly, much of the bad action involved BB Guns. I think the Stathopoulos brothers deny all this.

Rodney is out of town, When he returns,I will encourage him to respond to the issue of Childhood Bullying and why the statute of limitations should be extended into the years when we cannot remember much at all about what actually happened, but the desire to even the score is still there. The stories and the affronts get better as the years go by?

Claudine

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

'Depansing' Legal Update

The Department of Justice today released this statement to the press:

"As the result of yesterday's announcement (Depansing Declared a Federal Crime), the USDOJ has been besieged with e-mails, phone calls, twitters, and telegrams from former victims of 'depansing' incidents.

'Despite the passage of time, in some cases 50+ years, victims still experience embarrassing memories of these vile and sometimes violent acts. Many sleep poorly, haunted by disturbing dreams; others suffer from life-long loss of esteem.

'As a result, The AG announces that the statute of limitations for this hideous crime will not apply. "I have ordered the creation of a special Justice Department task force to track down the felons involved in these attacks", said AG Eric Holder. "We can not allow the passage of time to frustrate justice for the victims."

'Many of these perpetrators hide behind lame excuses, such as alibis, alleged distance from the events, or as part of a group, the time-honored "I was only following orders". Some have even taken to hiding in remote locations, such as NW New Mexico, like Nazi war criminals fleeing to South America. Others have cultivated overgrown facial hair or extra weight as disguise.

"It won't matter", Holder was quoted as saying. "They can run, but not hide, from the long arm of the Justice Department."

Monday, November 2, 2009

"Depansing" Declared a Federal Crime

Ever vigilant Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that 'depansing' had been added to the Administration's Nanny initiative as a federal crime.

Depansing becomes an crime in the same shameful category as bullying, extorting lunch money and casting mean looks at youthful peers, which were enacted as federal felonies soon after the President's term began.

"I don't know how we missed this one", said Holder. "It is certainly as harmful to the development of children as any of the previous offenses we were alert enough to outlaw. Perhaps we have been preoccupied with government run, er, I mean, health care reform."

Holder made his remarks flanked be several school-aged children, whose faces were covered with Spiderman masks. "Their shame is palpable", said Holder.

As with all nanny laws, the government not only throws its judicial weight against the perpetrators of these heinous crimes, but pays for psychological therapy for the victims.

"There are hundreds of thousands of former victims of this vicious crime", said Holder. He reminded that the Administration's efforts to extend benefits to former victims, many of them seniors, was hung up in Congress due to opposition from the vast, right wing conspiracy.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

a note from Bill Koste

Bob: please insert this in the blog under, Cakewalk Comments or Rex Weddle Claim.


I felt it imperative to respond to Rex's scurrilos attack upon my good name in regard to his alleged "depantsing." I present the facts as I recall them.

1. Rex walked home in a northerly direction, and I walked home in the opposite direction; therefore it would have been difficult for me to be involved in this spurious activity. In fact I should remind Rex that he had to travel thru the northern depantsing zone administered by the "big kids";and, if this event really took place they (not I) were the perpetrators.

2. I had no gang as Rex claims; the nearest thing to a gang was when Billy Armstrong, George Howard, and myself called ourselves the "The Three Musketeers" and we skipped out of school a lunch time to get a hotdog at the bowling alley on Prospect.

3. As I recall;however,there was a rumor of a "self-depantsing" taking place and a smallish boy running home "sans trou"' if this was true and Rex was that individual it truly was a call for help, perhaps as a result of losing one to many times in the highly competative, and pressure packed Francis Willard CAKEWALK!!

4.If memory serves me right, Rex always had interesting and somewhat unbelivable tales to tell in the morning "sharing" we all experienced, whether it be in Miss Lorings second grade or Miss Hendricsons third grade, perhaps Rex's blog comment was his way of getting us all into sharing our memories.

Iwould like to thank Bob Pflanz for posting this responce for me. I also would like to thank Bob, Don Kuntz, Dougie Marker, and Don Zurovsky for the great team effort on Miss Lowes "Train Project" ( I still think I would have been the best engineer.)

Bill Koste