Flinging Rotten Organic Tomatoes

Virtual Inauguration Celebration 2009

 “’One Community’ Virtual Inauguration  Celebration 2009” Participants (Top Left to Bottom Right)

Artist:  Shirleyanne Ratajczak     Media: Photography     Style: Mannerism

Top  Row:  Rich Ratajczak-Leaman, Tomb Guard and Presidential Honor Guard, Arlington National Cemetery, Old Guard, Ft Myers, VA, Waterville High School Class, 2005; Francis Ratajczak, wife of Frederick E. Ratajczak, (deceased 1980 , Frederick E Ratajczak is a combination of two deceased soldiers on the Viet Nam War Memorial {Robert E. Ratajczak and Frederick L. Cristman}); Henry Beck, Maine State Representative for Waterville & Oakland, WHS, 2005; Mike Michaud, Maine Congressional Representative; Mark, CS (Customer Service Representative) wrote his last word of poetry in the Composition Book that he started in a New York Catholic High School; Bust of Roosevelt, Campobello, NB;  Korean War Monument, Mall, Washington DC; David, CS; David Oheir, Waterville Selectman, WHS, 2005; Mr. Ashton, Waterville High School, Baseball Coach and Government Teacher; WWII Navy Vet, Holding the picture of his ship, at the WWII Monument, Washington DC.

Row 2: Statue of Abraham Lincoln, Birthday Bicentennial, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC; Tammy, Receptionist for Outpatient Psychiatry, Maine General Medical Center, (Background Mural is on the wall at Behavior Health Service Center, at the Seton Unit.); Luiza Brown, Artist, Proposed the concept of a Virtual Inauguration, the inspiration for this Photo Print; John Baldacci, Governor of the State of Maine, in Orono, Maine.

Row 3: “Miss Shirleyanne” Ratajczak, Teen Teacher and Artist of this Photo Print; Richard Ratajczak-Leaman Sr., Artist, Writer, Husband of Shirleyanne; Hillary Clinton, Campaign Rally in Orono, Maine.

Row 4: Richard Ratajczak-Leaman II, age 17; Michael Ratajczak, age 3; Barack Obama, 44^th President of the United States, at his Campaign Rally, in Bangor, Maine.

Row 5:  (Center Photograph) Today’s Show - Foods Table Set-up Coordinator.

Row 6: Audience Member, Today’s Show, on the plaza; Judy, CS and hobbyist painter; Friend of Carmen, at Obama Rally; Carmen, CS, at Obama Rally; Nia little friend of Luiza Brown, shaking a Celebration Stick; Ruby Ratajczak, wife of Steve Ratajczak, Acting Patriarch of the Ratajczak Clan since 1949 (Death of Stephen Joseph Ratajczak, Father of five Ratajczak kids.)

Row 7: Kim Brown and son, Luiza Brown’s daughter and grandson who seems fascinated by the glitter of the Celebration Stick; Lorraine, CS and knitting hobbyist.

Friendly Folks Island: Row 7: Anonymous Hand with Mug from Dalhous University, Canada.

Row 8: Neena, CS; Kathy, CS; Claire, CS and knitting hobbyist; Row 9:  Jane, CS; and Beth, CS.

In the Water:Row 10: Ben Keene, CS and Visual Artist.

Row 11: Baby and Mommy Hands: Heidi and Boden Leaman, (Born:  January, 2009) Noah Leaman’s Family, WHS 1992: Justin, CS, WHS; “Yes We Can” Poster from the Bangor Rally.

Row 12: Bottom Row: Sabrina Passos, Journalist, Friend of Rich Ratajczak-Leaman, picture taken in Brazil; Mike Ratajczak, age 30, Restoration Carpenter, WHS; Philip, CS; JFK Statue, with peace sign by Marcy, CS;  NEA Button supporting Obama; Ms. Harris, Current owner of 1605 Rowan Street, the Birth House of the Stephen Joseph Ratajczak and Laura Ratajczak Clan. (Ms. Harris, bought the house from Laura in the 1970’s, She was so impressed by the Ship Mural painted by Jackie Ratajczak, (deceased 1980)  that she never painted over it;  Faye, CS.

Are you getting sucked in?

Celebrate the Hope

Maine received it first installment of the Stimulas Package Funds this week. More people are unemployed and underemployed in the State. We still celebrate the Hope!

Presidents Come and Precidents Go!

  In the United States of America it is community that makes the difference.

Obama makes miracles in Maine?

NOT!  

It’s simply Democracy!  

Snow and Collins actually listen to their constituents’. Wake up members of Congress; see the struggling people in your District, the ones without jobs. You may be among them within 2 years.

Freedom Rides in 2008

Chant: Freedom, (higher now) Freedom, (higher and louder now) Freedom. (Lower and quicker) Freedom! Freedom! (Sounds, from the Freedom Rider’s in the 1960’s.)

Obama and Biden are not just about a new day in American History; a new day that dawned when our Founding Father’s wrote in the Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Bush/Cheney and Ronald Regan‘s Economic Strategies have become "destructive of these ends,it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

I listened closely to McCain in the last Presidential Debate and kept on hearing the same old, same old words coming out of the mouths of Republicans since the Regan years. I personally have a deep affection for John McCain, but I can’t vote for the same old thoughts and actions that have brought the Global Economy to its knees.

I can’t trust Sarah Palin to reign over the World Economy, if something happens to McCain.  Europeans have a deep affection for Obama, and Europeans have been our Allies for most of the 20^th Century, but have drifted away from America because of the Bush/Cheney policies. The world views Obama as a combination of Kennedy and Martin Luther King, as expressed by the French President.

I do not want to return to the Dark Ages in 2009, if McCain/Palin win. And,

I do not want my Freedom to be devastated by the Courts, because our Third Branch of government is lead by the Bush/Cheney Philosophy for the next 40 years. And, I do not want our Congress to be deadlocked, because there is no clear majority, voted in by the People. "It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

 

In 2008, do not vote with your eyes; and do not vote with your heart. Vote with your head! Your thoughts will guide you to Obama/Biden and Allen. They are the only clear choice for Maine, and for our Nation.

Hillary Women, for Whom?

As a hardcore Hillary supporter, I found myself drifting toward the John McCain Camp, recently. I actually fell in Love with John McCain for a weekend.

It was after I listened to one of his speeches to Veterans, and his praise for American Military Hero’s that my brain just harkened back to a paper on Samuel Woodfill, heroic World War I Veteran who is all but forgotten by modern Americans.

My son Richard wrote a paper for his training, as a Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. His paper begins:

“A gifted rifle marksman, Samuel Woodfill, stalked out his prey of German machinegun nests, with the intuition of a cat stalking, then attacking, a family of mice. He was a tall man, a giant in uniform on the battlefield in World War I. The son of John H. Woodfill, a veteran of the Mexican War, who served with the 5^th Indiana Volunteers during the Civil War, taught his son shooting and hunting skills. Sam was a good shot at age 10, and often sneaked off to hunt. He learned his stalking and shooting in the woods of Indiana.

In 1901, Samuel Woodfill was sent to the Philippines after he enlisted in the Army during the Spanish-American War. He fought for United States boarders in both Alaska and Mexico. He was a career Army enlisted man, stationed at Fort Thomas.

At the outbreak of World War I, he received a temporary commission of First Lieutenant. General John “Black Jack” Pershing considered Woodfill one of the most outstanding soldiers of WWI. General Pershing did not want American soldiers to be

“cave-dwelling” trench warmers, like the German‘s killed by Woodfill, therefore, Captain Woodfill was the perfect model of Pershing’s ideal soldier.

      Captain Woodfill was one of the most decorated soldiers of World War I.  He received

The Medal of Honor, Legion of Honor, French Croix de Guerre with palm,

Italy’s Meriot di Guerra, and Cross of Prince Danilo, First Class. Though he

had great Military success, he struggled to make a living in civilian life. After the war

he was reduced to a Sergeant, and retired on a Sergeant’s Pension in 1923.”

Black Pain and/or White Ignorance

Can you imagine Obama in a George Washington Wig on Halloween?

Shocked! Well I, for one, would like to see him in a curly white wig. But, Halloween? Too close to Election Day, you say. He is just playing the race card. But, this is not about the color of the skin. The United States is a great melting pot, anyway. So what more to represent that tradition then a dark skinned man in a curly, long, white-hair wig, dressed as the first United States President.

Black Pain is not about wanting to be white, but about pain deep in the roots of the American Soul. Soil bloodied by all races, sexes, abilities and orientations. Black Pain, runs deep in the darkness. Real Black Woman just happen to be the super-model for this kind of suffering. Woman who show great strength and stature on the outside, but are crumbling on the inside. Black Woman are misunderstood, but so are all woman. Women don’t even understand women. Women become the image of a man’s imagination, and when successful, they destroy other women.

So who is willing to stand up for the rights of the oppressed and/or suffering?

It is the sensitive soul, without gender and/or a color façade. The spirit within, that rushes to the surface and makes changes in our world. God knows, we need change in America!

Flinging American Tradition #1

Hillary Stands with Obama in Unity

Bluet found in Obama Mountain (revised)

"To see a world in a grain of sand,

And a heaven in a wild flower

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

An eternity in an hour."

William Blake

http://www.blupete.com/Nature/Wildflowers/Bluets.htm

Blue to white flowers bloom in the mountain sun.

Bright yellow beams from the heart.

See the carpet of baby blue in a mountain walk.

Release the endorphins in your brain,

Democratic Party Unite to end Hillary's Pain.

With the Blue Grass of Kentucky under your feet,

Let the heart and spirit of the Phillie Eight Belles sleep.

HILLARY SUPPORTERS: CAST YOUR VOTE FOR OBAMA!

And a heaven in a wild flower

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

An eternity in an hour."

William Blake

http://www.blupete.com/Nature/Wildflowers/Bluets.htm

Blue to white flowers bloom in the mountain sun.

Bright yellow beams from the heart.

See the carpet of baby blue in a mountain walk.

Release the endorphins in your brain,

Democratic Party Unite to end Hillary's Pain.

With the Blue Grass of Kentucky under your feet,

Let the heart and spirit of the Phillie Eight Belles sleep.

HILLARY SUPPORTERS: CAST YOUR VOTE FOR OBAMA!

Bluet found in Obama Mountain (revised)

And a heaven in a wild flower

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

An eternity in an hour."

William Blake

http://www.blupete.com/Nature/Wildflowers/Bluets.htm

Blue to white flowers bloom in the mountain sun.

Bright yellow beams from the heart.

See the carpet of baby blue in a mountain walk.

Release the endorphins in your brain,

Democratic Party Unite to end Hillary's Pain.

With the Blue Grass of Kentucky under your feet,

Let the heart and spirit of the Phillie Eight Belles sleep.

HILLARY SUPPORTERS: CAST YOUR VOTE FOR OBAMA!

Rain Drenched Roots - Expose America

Early Girl, Beef Steak, and Marigolds, are flattened.

As torrents of rain, clear away black earth, while white roots lay naked.

Planted late in spring, tender seedlings die, only strong plants remain.

An unlikely garden spot, between a three tree triangle, shades the plants.

Entangled roots, lay close to the surface, where peas and bush beans grow.

One hundred year old, Sugar Maple Roots, cannot be moved.

Hand dug earth, around large roots, causes human pain.

Millions of Maple, and Ornamental Cherry Seeds, drop, and drop again.

Jealous of most June Harvests, the rooted soil, still needs digging.

The modest garden grows, mirroring, American Society today.

Deep indigenous roots, prevent sapling immigrant growth.

Nature destroys, global humanity suffers, and black gold runs dry.

Planned cultivated space, the American Constitution, needs OBAMA HOPE!