September 11, 2010

Spirited bidding winds up downtown's summer clocks project


Time ran out on Racine's summer art project Saturday, as the large artist-decorated clocks were auctioned off on Monument Square.

Despite the rain -- which let up just an hour or so before the scheduled start of the outdoor auction -- bidders filled the seats and gave each other a couple of spirited bidding wars. While some clocks sold for just a little above the $350 minumum, six brought $800 or more. The top price went for Sherri Shaver's Poppies in a Poppy, which sold to its sponsor, Ron Jones, for $1,600.

The second-highest price went for Bill Reid's Loonatick, which was snapped up by Gene Johnson -- yes, that Gene Johnson -- for $1,300.

Eighteen clocks were sold at voice auction by auctioneer Bob Hagemann. Another 42 were offered via a silent auction. More on the three prize-winners here.  Pictures of all the clocks are here.

This year marked the ninth season of a Racine summer public art project, the longest run and most successful in the country, according to Devin Sutherland, executive director of the Downtown Racine Corporation, which stages the event. This year is also DRC's 30th anniversary, and to celebrate that milestone jeweler Chris Sklba of Art Metals Studio downtown created a Tahitian pearl necklace worth $1,000  (pearl being the traditional 30th wedding anniversary gift), that DRC gave away in a drawing Saturday. Winner was Kenneth Wesley Kozack of Kenosha. (UPDATE, Sept. 23: DRC said today that Kozack's winning entry was invalid -- the application form "wasn't completely filled out" -- and a new winner was named: Robert Philopulous of Racine.

No word yet on what next year's summer art project will be (we've already had cats, dogs, otters, lighthouses, fish, etc.) -- but everyone at DRC is determined to make the 10th year of the project special.


The first and second place award winners: Fish In Time,
by Robert Andersen, left, and Bill Reid's Loonatick, on stage.
Anderson's sold for $975, and Reid's for $1,300.


Gene Johnson (bidder No. 152) sponsored Loonatick, and determinedly won it.

Sherri Shaver's Poppies In A Poppy brought the highest amount: $1,600.

Chris Sklba with DRC's 30th anniversary pearl pendant necklace


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83 comments:

  1. Thanks for the pictures, wish there was a way we could find out the final prices for all the clocks. Thanks for the hard work guys, this is such a positive image for Racine!

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  2. During a depression there can be no moral justification for elitist nonsense. Let's hope that heart may replace art a.s.a.p.

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  3. Cutsie-poo public art projects and big-buck ballyhoo won't keep folks from seeing the "For Sale," "For Lease" and "For Rent" signs all over down-er town Rat-Scene. Perceptive visitors and residents won't let a handful of privileged private sector privateers fool them into thinking that this is a prosperous community.

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  4. Racine needs JOBS,NOT SNOBS!

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  5. U losers, go whine somewhere else. Great art, great event and a lot fun for visitors and merchants downtown.

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  6. Michael Kroes9/12/2010 7:55 PM

    I concur with "sir".

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  7. Dear Sir and Michael, Telling the truth about Racine's dismal economic situation doesn't make people "losers." When the proverbial emperor lacks clothes, admiring his non-existent outfit is sheer folly.

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  8. The clocks were fantastic, who cares about the economy, just enjoy the art!

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  9. Mr. Angry - you are a loser because there is not one good thing in your life.

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  10. Thank you for posting my daughters clock on the front page. Now, she is far from rich, and works 40 hours a week, is a single mom, has to scrape together enough money each month for child care, groceries, etc, and this was her first entry. I am very proud of her, and wish all the negative people would take a bit of advice. If you don't have anything good to say, don't say it.

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  11. 9:05 - Congratulations on your daughter's entry - good luck to her trying to keep everything together and not relying on the government. This type of women is who we should be looking up to. You have raised her well!

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  12. Dear Sir, Who's Mr.Angry? Whoever he may be, I hope he'll join me in telling the truth about this community. As I see it, Racine is a rundown Rustbelt burg which a family of elite leeches and a clique of Cornell alumni have sought to transform into a resort-cum-art colony. While the Waxies conduct their ill-conceived experiments and play God with the lives of their victims, the chasm separating the haves from the have-nots grows deeper and wider with each wasted day. For their sakes, I hope that the ceraceous slickers responsible for Racine's sad situation wake up in time, replace art with heart and start helping the common people survive the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

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  13. NOT NEEDED: a tenth year of community art. Copying Chicago's fiberglass cow show was ridiculous. It's time for certain kleptoplutocratic gals to get serious about good old charity work. (Memo to Mesdames Moneymutt: mega-checks to Cornell's art history department don't qualify as practical assistance to your class and clan's victims.)

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  14. Until the current depression is over and every American citizen has been lifted out of poverty by the people's government, art should be a low-priority item. If the wealth which the Waxies lavish on avant garde art and architecture were invested in philanthropy, Racine would be a better place.

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  15. Dear Anonymous 9:05, With all due respect, it sounds as if your daughter is existing rather than living. In case you don't know it, the rest of the developed post-industrial world has governments which help single moms and other disadvantaged people. In a country as wealthy as the USA, your daughter shouldn't have to struggle for survival.

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  16. Dear Sir, Too bad you're more concerned about your pelf than people. Let's hope that you never lose your stash and require assistance.

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  17. 10:01 - no she is controlling her own destiny rather than the government controlling it. And at the end of the day she can be proud of what she has accomplished and has given her child an excellant example instead of taking hand outs.

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  18. Dear Sir, Pelf is worldly wealth. As for the unfortunate young lady, she ISN'T "controlling her own destiny" as you so Emersonianly designated her struggle for a paycheck. (If she were free to determine her destiny, she wouldn't be some cash-cadger's wage slave.) Government assistance empowers the poor, enabling them to tell entrepreneurial predators to take their pathetic job offers and shove them where the sun doesn't shine. It is precisely this fact--the basic dignity bestowed by government aid--which drives your class to oppose it. With government programs assisting the rank-and-file, they'd be forever free from exploitation.

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  19. Dear Sir, As I write, the citizens of most European social democracies, Canada, Australia and New Zealand enjoy excellent cradle-to-grave social safety nets. It is only a matter of time before America's rank-and-filers wise up and rise up to demand that same aid from their government. If the USA weren't busy playing the Neo-Cons' Globo-cop game in Afghanistan, we'd have two billion bucks per week to invest in social programs for our own people. Then the average American could be emancipated from financial fears and be truly "free at last."

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  20. Also, as anyone who's visited the Western European nations will inform you, once the people are liberated from the stinking rat race, they have the time and energy for art galore. If you like painting, sculpture, music, drama and dance, encourage our government to free our people from the nasty nickel chase.

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  21. Under socialism, art and heart coexist in harmony. It is capitalism--the curse of our sorry country--which pits aesthetes and humanitarians against each other.

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  22. Dear Sir, Having read some of your comments on other stories, I've observed that you volunteer at the Food Bank and do other worthwhile deeds. In other words, beneath your pro-self reliance exterior, you're a good man. Unlike the dead-and-damned Emerson, you're a decent human being. Please reconsider your prejudice against government assistance. Remember that fortune is fickle. Someday the next guy who could use government aid may be you.

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  23. Meanwhile, enjoy the clever clocks!

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  24. 12:48 - Thank you for your comments - In reality I do not oppose short term government assistance for those that need it. But unlike the Mr. Angry's out here I do not think the goverments role is to provide unlimited assistance, or assistance to those who have made no attempt to improve their situation. I highly respect the young mother mentioned on this blog for what she has achieved.

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  25. By the way - Mr. Angry's, I am done with you. You are dismissed.

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  26. Dear Sir, Then you aren't dissing/dismissing me because I'm not Mr.Angry. Regarding government assistance, I believe that mostrank-and-file citizens need it in order to survive in a system designed to destroy them for the benefit of the elite leeches and their lackeys. As matters stand today, very few people are capable of improving their situation. Only a strong government answerable to the common man through honest elections can protect him from the depredations of the dollar sign dynasties. (P.S. Please be candid: even you'd have trouble if the Carnauba crime clan put you on its hit list.)

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  27. One way or another, the people's government must rein in corporate arrogance and greed. To me, the letters USA denote the most salient trait of our oligarchy--Unrestrained Swinish Avarice.

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  28. Anyone who believes in Horatio Alger stories should take a hard look at the misery endured by most of Racine's hapless/helpless inhabitants. Thousands of people whose sole crime was being born poor have been ground into the muck for the sick pleasure and profit of the Waxclan. There can be no moral justification for the monetary might and menace wielded by a tribe of treasure tyrants while the rest remain mired in poverty.

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  29. Memo to Perceptive Waxies: Heart is better than art. During the present depression, practical help is more greatly appreciated than coy community art projects. If certain oligarchic gals wish to occupy the center of the social stage, I suggest that they appear in the role of Lady Bountiful dispensing aid to capitalism's victims.

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  30. About this article- LOVE the clocks, HAVE the negative comments. Lighten up, will ya??? Its a cool art project!

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  31. After warm-hearted philanthropists lift capitalism's victims out of poverty, art projects will be "cool." However, until do-gooders rescue the poor, obsession with eye candy will be a not-so-nice quirk of the cold-hearted corporate class.

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  32. Oh quit whining. All your talk about "capitalist's victim's" makes me want to hurl.

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  33. Mr. Anonymous.12:14...Please move today to New Zealand. Thank you.

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  34. Dear 9/14/2010 8:19 AM, Telling the truth about capitalism's crimes against humanity isn't "whining."

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  35. Dear 9/14/2010 9:31 AM, Moving to New Zealand sounds like fun. Remember, Kiwi Country is loaded with fascinating Maori art!

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  36. If you enjoy woodcarvings, nephrite pendants and tapa (bark cloth), you'll love Maori art. Also, we mustn't forget the elaborate tattoos which Maori warriors proudly displayed long ago. (Today, these intricate curvilinear designs appear in Maori paintings.) Have fun!

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  37. Dear Friends, Here's a suggestion for our tenth community art project--our state animal, the badger. With his expressive facial features and markings, the badger could be quite amusing. I can just envision Lucky Badger, complete with paws full of lottery tickets and loot.

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  38. In its proper place--subordinated to morality and humanitarianism--art can greatly enhance a community's quality of life. However, when aestheticism trumps ethics (as it did in Frank Lloyd Wright's philosophy), love of beauty swiftly morphs into an insane, inane craving for eye candy. While art in the service of social equity and equality is superb, art for art's sake is a sure sign that its votaries belong to a decadent ruling class headed for history's museum of has-beens. During the period immediately anterior to the French Revolution of 1789-1794, Marie Antoinette and her entourage of heartless degener-twits doted on coy little teapots and snuff boxes while the peasantry and artisans literally starved. Right before the Austrian Revolution of 1848, Chancellor Metternich together with his tribe of titled toffs blew fortunes on (to them) exquisite paintings for their villas and delicately-decorated folding fans for their Frauen. Sixty years later, the thoroughly-corrupt dictator of Mexico (Porfirio Diaz) dealt with an economic crisis by squandering the national treasury on Beaux Arts statuary. By the end of 1910, Diaz' regime was gone forever. Memo to the Carnauba Court: no oligarchy is exempt from the laws of history.

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  39. Mr. Angry - no cares!

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  40. I'm not the 'whiner anonymous' as you will detect from my use of common everyday words. I don't feel the need like 'whiner' does to try an impress people by using show-offy seldon used words. Mr 'whiner' sounds like a full blown socialist trapped in a Republic such as the USA is. He also is overflowing with wealth envy. His best move IS TO MOVE to a socialist country where he can be coddled by that government. His rantings here are a waste of our time. My impression is that he is not a self reliant hard working man though I'm sure he will deny that. I think the annual art show is a great boost for Racine's image and wish it well in the future years.

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  41. Dear Sir, Whether you care about it or you swear about it, the truth remains the truth. Regarding your Mr. Angry, I'm not that much-maligned individual. Frankly speaking, I've observed that the privileged corporate class tends to accuse its critics of unwarranted or irrational rage. (Misidentifying dissidents as madmen is an old oligarchic trick. Dictators from Sejanus through Franco or the Argentine Junta have pulled that prank early and often.) Enjoy a pleasant evening.

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  42. Dear 9/17/2010 4:55 PM, Your self reliance has had its day. Soon socialism will come to stay.(If you think President Obama is a radical, just wait until you meet the men who'll clear away the debris left by the next economic catastrophe.)

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  43. Don't worry, though--like the European social democracies, the progressive USA will produce art galore!

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  44. Dear Common Everyday Words Anonymous, Your anti-intellectual mentality is one reason for American students' poor performance on international tests. When adults denigrate verbal virtuosity, youngsters feel no need to expand their vocabularies. As for Mr.Whiner's wealth envy, it's perfectly comprehensible in a sick socio-economic system run by and for corporate a-thieve-rs who rob the rest of us.(Candidly, there's something wrong with a system in which an obscenely opulent old woman can lavish $1,300.00 on a tarted up tick-tock while her class' victims worry about their next meal.)

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  45. Re.:"Loonatick" It's a bird./ It's a clock./ It's a piece of shlock. (None of the above is an attack on the artist who created and crafted "Loonatick." The poor guy merely produced what the mighty moolah matriarch and her clan would buy. As any expert on a certain hyper-privileged corporate crime family will tell you, its members are loony about loons. Indeed, a few years ago, one of the got-loot gals made her salary serfs at The John Outdoors squeeze toy loons as part of a teamwork training program.)

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  46. It is apparent that most of these comments come from the same socialist hiding behind the "anonymous' screen. He/she tries to make us believe that he/she is a different person in different comments, but the cutzie wording gives him/her away. Not sure who 'they' are trying to impress with such wording or why, but I believe 'they' are only impressing themself. Show some chutzpah and use a name besides 'anonymous'. Double dog dare you.

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  47. Dear Bing, Believe it or not, there probably are several writers responsible for the comments which upset you. Long ago, the University of Wisconsin had a professor )Lloyd Kasten) who was in charge of teaching literary style to generations of graduate students. What you termed "cutzie" wording was important to Dr.Kasten. Indeed, failure to write as he preferred could result in low grades. Consequently, thousands of his disciples acquired his style and passed it on to their pupils. Along with promoting what he called "verbal virtuosity," Dr. Kasten was a socialist. Although he didn't convert all his pupils to his ideology, Dr. Kasten wielded considerable influence. In short, the comments which irked you could have been posted by several of his former students, some of whom hold professorships at UW-Madison, UW-Milwaukee, the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford and Cornell.

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  48. Dear Bing, From a right-winger's perspective, it would be nice if the remarks you despised came from a single person. However, as a former student of Dr.Kasten, I can tell you that he encouraged his disciples to organize and flood local newspapers with liberal letters.

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  49. 4:17 - no there are mot several individuals, just 2 the 2 Mr. Angry's and you are one of them.

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  50. Dear Sir, Don't you wish there were only two Progressives posting comments! For your information, I'm NOT Mr.Angry. What's more, I have no idea as to his identity. However, having read some of the remarks you say he posted, I hope he prospers and brings down the Carnauba Court.

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  51. Dear 9/17/2010 4:55 PM, What you call coddling by the government is good old social justice in the rest of the developed post-industrial world.

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  52. Beyond the borders of the Libertarians'dreamworld, most people know that government calls the shots. (Anyone who doubts this sad aspect of reality is in for a rude awakening.) Since governmental power is a fact of life, we might as well have a government which cares for the common man, protects him from the private sector predators and meets his basic needs. (Don't fret about the ever-so-clever entrepreneurial parasites. They'll either reform and stop exploiting their fellow Americans or they'll relocate to hellish places which tolerate their brand of corporate crime.)

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  53. 9/20 12:39 - Hitler couldn't have said it better.

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  54. Dear Anonymous 9/20/2010 6:06 PM, A government which is answerable to the common people through frequent and honest elections would be nothing like Hitler's regime. On the other hand, a Libertarian government would swiftly morph into a corpocracy whose oligarchic leaders would invoke "free enterprise" to justify child labor and other forms of exploitation. Libertarian "freedom" is nothing but the license of the rich to oppress the rest.

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  55. Nice theory, but we DO have a gov answerable to the voters now (not sure about the 'honest election' part), yet it is rapidly going in the socialist direction much like Germany did in the 30's. 6:06 is right. It seems the word 'free' in free enterprise scares the h out of you. You keep
    trying to blame everything wrong on FE. Why are you still living in the USA when you despise the form of Gov we were founded upon? Are you possibly making too much money in one of those 'free enterprises' to move elswhere?

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  56. Dear Bing, You're right about the lack of honesty in our elections. Due to the dollar sign dynasties' duplicity, we wound up with a warmongering cowboy capitalist who dragged us into two unnecessary wars at the behest of Big Oil. The 2000 election and its aftermath will forever live in infamy. As for the Libertarian economic ideal ("free enterprise"), all it does is enable the rich to exploit the majority. Unless a common man's government intervenes to level the playing field through taxation and regulation, "free enterprise" guarantees that the wealthy will increase their fortunes at the expense of the disadvantaged working class. (Food for thought: If "free enterprise" were so great, why has the rest of the developed post-industrial world chucked it in history's trashcan? Why do the European social democracies give their citizens a higher quality of life than America provides for its rank-and-file?) As for my personal situation, believe me, "free enterprise" has brought me very little except penury, poverty and pain. Assuming I were no longer bound by familial obligations, I'd leave this sad land a.s.a.p. Finally, please remember that "free enterprise" is an economic system, NOT "the form of Gov we were founded upon." If memory serves me right, the "Founding Fathers" established a republic.

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  57. Dear Bing, By the way, if you exempt Thomas Paine, our "Founding Fathers" weren't very good men. Once you start reading real history--as opposed to Beck's bunk--you'll learn that they were a pack of callous cash-cadging twits. Don't take my word for it. Get and read Annette Gordon-Reed's "The Hemingses of Monticello" (New York: W.W. Norton Co.,2008). It will tell you more than you may desire to know about Thomas "Tomcat" Jefferson and his sexual exploitation of a slave named Sally Hemings. Also, if you look at pages 178-179, you'll learn how the cruelty of John Jay and Benjamin Franklin contributed to the death of a slave girl called Abby.

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  58. Nice try, but I can nitpick as well as you do. Read again and see that I did NOT say FE was our form of Gov. You took two of my thoughts and tried to combine them. Sorry - ain't so. Your trashing of the founding fathers is really quite petty. Wonder what could be found in your fathers history or even yours for that matter. They are famous for their works and accomplishments and not their personal lives much like ex-pres Clinton. You really would have a much happier outlook in life if you could get over your severe case of wealth envy.

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  59. Dear Bing, Wealth envy isn't my thing--social justice is. As for those bounding bothers we call "Founding Fathers," most of them were truly evil men. Read John Jay and Benjamin Franklin's papers if you don't believe me. Mistreating slaves, servants, employees and other less-advantaged people was their slick, sick little game. At no time did the majority of the "Founding Fathers" intend to honor the ideals of equality which they trumpeted in their speeches. On the contrary, they were terrified of rank-and-filers, whom Alexander Hamilton scornfully termed "the workies." Indeed, the Constitution was crafted to prevent common men from seizing control of the government and redistributing the oligarchy's wealth. Regarding my happiness, I'll rejoice when the people's government smashes corporate capitalism and shields every American from poverty.

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  60. Sounds like you would be happiest in Russia. Bye.

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  61. Dear Bing, Nyet! In case you haven't researched Russia lately, please be aware that the place is run by and for kleptoplutocratic crooks. The nations I admire are Denmark, The Netherlands and Canada. Enjoy a great evening!

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  62. Dear Bing, Other nations with excellent social programs--and art galore--are France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland. (Yes, that bastion of bourgeois banking takes good care of its citizens. If the gnomes of Zurich can comprehend the need for government assistance, our treasure tyrants and big-buck business bullies should be capable of following in their progressive footsteps.)

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  63. In the meantime, let's hope that all the clocks find happy homes!

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  64. Well "Dear Bing" guy - then please answer why you continue to live in and bitch about the USA instead of living in one of those 'excellent' other countries you listed. Are you in jail?

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  65. Dear Bing, No, I'm not in jail. Indeed, I have never been incarcerated. Family obligations, a reverse mortgage and poverty prevent my escape from our sad land.

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  66. Dear Bing, Sir and Other Good Friends, As you might have observed, "The Journal Times Best of Racine County 2010" gave the "Biggest Heart" award to a crass clan I'll call the John-Swines. Inasmuch as the Carnauba cash-cadgers halted their profit-sharing program and indulged in exploitative labor practices early and often, I question their right to anything except the contempt of decent men. Turning on a ridiculous fountain and distributing backpacks to poor kiddies can't qualify as serious philanthropy. Until the House of Wax resumes its profit sharing program, cleans up its hiring and firing act, stops dodging its property taxes and invests heavily in good old charity work, it merits scorn galore. Heart, NOT art must prevail

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  67. Memo to Our Loot-Laden Ladies of the Loons: Although modern art, exotic critters for the zoo and hefty checks to Cornell University are fine in their place, they are not the type of philanthropy understood and appreciated by capitalism's victims. When I reflect on the fortunes you've blown on avant-garde architecture and artsy-craftsy playthings, I'm reminded of Marie Antoinette's addiction to buildings designed by Richard Mique and bibelots from Rose Bertin's Grand Mogul Boutique. Mesdames Moneymutt, the filthy reign of corporate capitalism approaches the beginning of its end. If you and your crass class wish to survive with some of your pelf and privilege intact, please concentrate on humanitarian endeavors and let the arty-tarty realm attend to itself. Many thanks for your kind attention.

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  68. Memo to the Moneyocracy of Rat-Scene: In two years you'll heed me./ In four years you'll need me. (If you don't wish to listen to me, please find another historian-cum-futurist to guide and guard you during the dabacle. Our so-called recession--which is really the dawn of a mega-depression--won't end swiftly. If you don't believe me, ask your pals at the CFR and the Trilateral Commission.) Thank you very much.

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  69. 11:44, 12:00, 12:16 - You are wasting your show-off vocabulary and name/place dropping on me for one. I am not impressed - actually turned off. It's a real insite into your character.

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  70. Dear Bing, That's your privilege. Believe me, I have no gripe with you. Rather, I despise the economic oligarchy in general and the Waxclan in particular. Five generations of corporate crime, cruelty, crassitude, crud and corruption constitute the true history of the tyrannical tribe. Even so, inasmuch as some Waxies have deviated from the evil norm, it would be a shame for the entire kinship network to go the way of Marie Antoinette. Enjoy a pleasant day.

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  71. By the way, if the Waxies wished to retain me in an advisory capacity, I wouldn't charge them a penny. Having taken their abuse as a resident of their toadish town, I'd want nothing from them. As a survivor of existence in Racine, I know all-too-well what The House of Wax is.

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  72. Since the Waxies like to yammer about the work ethic, I challenge them to earn the common man's respect by ramping up their philanthropy, restoring their profit sharing program, hiring full time employees in lieu of downtrodden temps and paying their property taxes. Inasmuch as some of the ceraceous social parasites possess multi-billion dollar fortunes, the above tasks should be no burden to them.

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  73. May art depart and yield to HEART.

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  74. 1"25, 6:42, 6:51 - you really need to seek help for your severe case of wealth/class envy. You would be much more at peace with yourself if you could get beyond that. Just trying to be helpful pal.

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  75. I sure wish the JT would force bloggers to use an identifying name and not allow 'anonymous' to be used by everybody. it is so confusing as to who is talking to whom. Points get lost due to wrong inturpetations as to who said what.

    JT - are you monitoring these comments???

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  76. Dear Bing, The desire for social justice isn't wealth/class envy. Believe me, we have class warfare here in AmeriKKK. However, it is the war of the rich against the rest of us. I live and work for the day when our citizens will enjoy the same cradle-to-grave social safety net which the European democracies give their people. (Don't worry, Waxies. The common man doesn't want your "Loonatick," your fiberglass cow or your obscenely-pricey "Project Honor." Your toys are safe.)

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  77. Dear Bing, The toilers of this town demand economic equity,not plutocrats' playthings.

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  78. Waxart: Kleptoplutocratic Kitsch.

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  79. There are some polluted minds posting here all hiding behind the disguise of 'anonymous'. It makes trying to hold productive conversations useless. Farewell gentlemen and you too 6:04.

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  80. Dear Bing, Calling progressive people "polluted minds" is an old reactionary trick. (John C. Calhoun and his pro-slavery clique used it back in Antebellum days.) Enjoy a pleasant evening.

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  81. 6:47 - ya, ol John and I are old buddies. I use a lot of his tricks. I really don't believe you are for real. You just post your jibber jabber for fun to see what reactions you can drum up. Nobody in their right mind could possibly think the way you do. Course, I'm not always sure to whom I am addressing my comments or just exactly who said what anymore thanks to the veil of 'Anonymous'. Farwell again.

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  82. Dear Bing, Although nobody with a right-wing mentality would think the way I do, plenty of progressive left-wingers share my views. As for verity, you'd be amazed if you knew how "real" Racine's leftists are. Despite the efforts of the John-Swines to silence us, we've managed to survive and thrive here in "Waxilla," aka "Oligopolis," alias "Rat-Scene."

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