The Chairs Are Out
...and while it's not quite as early as last year (i swear i saw the first chair a full week before the 4th), we all know that it means that our nation's birthday - and the only I-Day parade in our entire county - is just ahead. More signs of summer: the heat, and the related shift of the every-Friday-evening peace vigil to a cooler 6-7pm under the Pergola in front of Libbey Park.
The Stagecoach Station General Store & Hardware in Upper Ojai got ahead of the game by having its "Freedom Celebration" today, which apparently included the freedoms to make, sell, and buy art, to eat tri-tip, and to enjoy a Jolly Jump. That's followed directly by the Farmer and the Cook's "Brand New Opry", which every Sunday features local musicians paired with organic beer and wine from 6-9pm in Meiners Oaks. Both of these events were only slightly upstaged by the dedication yesterday of the Rotary Community Park, which now features a big white flagpole with a big red-white-and-blue flag. That very park also features this stone:
It reminds me of two things: gravel trucks, and SiCKO.
The latter is Michael Moore's latest documentary in which the healthcare industry finds itself in his camera's crosshairs. i saw it last night at Century 10 Downtown in Ventura, and found it to be just the kind of jaw-dropping, head-shaking, eye-widening, and WHEEL-TURNING film that ought to inspire people to action. The film is connected to Ojai in the same way Ojai is connected to the world: we're all human beings, and we all have a right to be healthy.
The former seems to want to touch the entirety of Mr. Loebl's quote. As i ride my bicycle from Oak View to Ojai City and see a double-hopper gravel truck growl its engines through an intersection or up a slight grade into town, pouring dirty black smoke not only into the air i breathe, but right across my view of our famous Topa's, it's hard for me to see the need for gravel behind the active destruction of my environment, natural resources, health, and safety.
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The Chairs Are Out. Indeed they are. I checked out the OjaiNews, and really like the antique brown colors and the typeset, etc. Evan, you are right on top of things with your Editor's Journal. As for me, I am avoiding all 4th of July events this year, chairs included, in protest to the U.S. betrayal of American ideals. The pledge of "liberty and justice for all" is now a farce, and the U.S. flag is in tatters. We are on the brink of fascism. There is nothing the international bankers like more than for us to be waving flags, thinking we're free. The last thing the money masters want is for us or the US to be free and independent. They killed JFK for starting a money system controlled by the People. They hate free People and kill presidents who challenge their will. I return their hatred with love, love for freedom and justice. On Saturday, 07/07/07 at 0707 the Red Brown and Blue Party TM is sponsoring the inauguration of The Love Government TM aka The Lover Government TM at the Ojai Fountain in Libbey Park in order to reform the U.S. Government and political system. It will be a lucky day, ala 7. Chairs are out, out of fashion. We won't need chairs. We're not going to sit on our asses. We're going to stand on our feet and listen to a Declaration of Idependence. I for one am dependent on love. The colonists declared independence from the British Crown. Well, the Brits are back in the form of international bankers who have stolen our once relatively free country. We are slaves, living with the illusion of freedom. Even that illusion of freedom will be taken from us unless we align with truth, justice and love. Justice sits on a chair all right, the chairperson in her court, but she's not watching a parade of fools march by; her eyes are covered and tearful as she holds a sword in her right hand and scales in her left. The law of love is about to be applied to the nth degree. July 4th will never be the same. Love, Dennis.
Comment #1 Posted by: Dennis Leary | July 3, 2007 10:39 AM