CASA CRY AUGUST, 2017
Each year in July the Blue Angels (more aptly called Blue Demons) come to Milwaukee. This demonstration is meant to attract our young to join the military to fight and kill whomever the U.S. decides is the enemy of the country. This exhibition is a waste of tax money and is a major polluter of our sky and water. The Navy Blue Angel fighter jets burn about 8,000 pounds of jet fuel per hour of flight. 8,000 pounds of jet fuel equals 1,200 gallons. Since there are six demonstration jets that's 48,000 pounds of jet fuel per hour or also 7,200 gallons per hour. Let's assume a $6 per gallon cost of jet fuel, that's about $43,200 per hour. All total, each jet costs taxpayers $30 million. Cities pay $6,000 to have the air show come and perform. Organizers of the event need to fulfill a huge amount of requirements from fuel to security to hotels to transportation that need to be paid for by the organizers The Blue Angels train together 6 days a week 2 or 3 times a day, both in the gym and in the air, for years each time pushing the envelope as they screech through the air on 120 practice demos before they are ready to do a full show. The noise pollution is huge causing people in hospitals and nursing homes to become anxious and disturbed. The squadron trains in the desert to sift out any potential errors that could occur and every flight is crucial. A doctor is on base when the Blue Angels are training, and said he watches to see if the nose of a plane starts to dip, which could indicate that the pilot is losing or has lost consciousness. The program costs taxpayers about $30 million a year. Many of these planes are in museums. If they need to be painted, it costs $6,500 to paint one of them. (Huffington Post} At a time when there is a great need of cargo planes to take needed items to those in great need of the necessities of life it is disgusting to think that people are actually paying to watch pilots playing and polluting the skies in hopes that our children will join the armed forces. ---Don Timmerman
“We are deeply convinced that all churches, starting with the Catholic Church, instead of supporting the right of violent self-defense and the right to wage war, have to forbid their members to fight in wars and to defend themselves with weapons or any kind because these are incompatible with Christianity. We have to make a decision.” ---You Shall Not Kill (1944) —Rev. Dr. Johannes Ude “The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too.” ---Hermann Hagerdorn
DON’T JOKES
I don’t write all my jokes, just the ones I like. England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool. NASA put a bunch of cows into orbit. They call it the herd shot round the world . Golfer: "I'd move heaven & earth to break 100 on this course." Caddy: "Try heaven; you've already moved most of the earth."
A teacher asked her students to use the word "beans" in a sentence. "My father grows beans," said one girl. "My mother cooks beans," said a boy. A third student spoke up, "We are all human beans."
"I bet I can beat you in a race." The bear grunted, "No” said the dog, “I am faster”. So they both agreed to race As the dog and bear get ready to race, the dog walks over to a rabbit and says, “I'll give you some of the winnings if you run with us. You run as fast as you can to make the bear tired and slower." The rabbit agreed. And the dog won by a hare! Two economists were sitting at a nudist colony. The one said, "Have you read Marx?" The other says, "It's these wicker chairs."
I run red lights when I am lonely so I will get pulled over and have someone to talk to. When my dentist asked me if I am flossing, I always say the same thing….No habla englais. When my dogs licks someone else’s face I feel cheated. I tell people that the book is better than the movie, but I do not even know if the movie has a book.
Until sixth grade I thought Lesbians were people who lived in Libya I no longer run away from my problems. Now I have a car. Once I missed my kids’ soccer game because I was watching a better soccer game Sometimes I pet a dog just because I have something gross in my hand, and I need to wipe it off.
INTERESTING FACTS
Tom Sitter. Who once was a Casa Maria community member, recently had his stand up comedy routine seen by 20 million viewers on u-tube talking about something that happened to him 83 years ago. He said “I think it is because I can stand alone and still eat with a fork..(My eye has healed!)” Tom is a real treasure to us all.
The US Has Invaded 70 Nations Since 1776 ---counter currents Amnesty International says the U.S.-led coalition and the U.S.-backed Iraqi forces recently violated international law and may have committed war crimes during the battle to seize control of Mosul from ISIS. Some 40,000 civilians were murdered, a million displaced and buildings and infrastructure destroyed. ----Democracy Now, 7/21/17
Exxon wants U.S. to topple Venezuela for geopolitical and geo-economic reasons. ExxonMobil awarded contracts to Guyana for infrastructure, drilling and storage with a view to extracting the huge oil and gas reserves there. More than 80 people miraculously avoided injury or death in a helicopter attack that targeted Venezuelan government buildings this past week. The attack may have been part of an attempted coup supported by the U.S. as it seeks to topple Venezuela’s government to gain access to its massive oil reserves. ---Mint Press News
There have been 154 mass shooting in the U.S. so far this year, but Congress has passed ZERO gun safety laws. Gun violence costs America $229 Billion annually, more than 700 per person every year, to pay the tab for police, first responders, legal proceedings, medical interventions, lost wages and long-term care for victims. That is more than 7 times what the U.S. spends annually on foreign aid. ---Mother Jones . Hospital care for gunshot wounds cost the United States about $6.6 billion over a nine-year period, and total costs are likely much higher. Information for the study came from more than 267,000 patients hospitalized for gunshot wounds from 2006 through 2014. HealthDay News, 3/21/17
At the United Nations headquarters in New York, 122 countries have approved a global treaty to ban the use of nuclear weapons. - A global treaty banning nuclear weapons was recently adopted at the United Nations. None of the 9 countries that have nuclear weapons -- the United States, Russia, Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel took part in the negotiations or the vote. Even Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic attacks in 1945, boycotted the talks. North Korea pulled out of the treaty in 2003, almost exactly a year after it was put in the crosshairs by George W. Bush in the infamous "Axis of Evil" speech. ----Rolling Stone, 7/7/17
France plans to end the sale of vehicles powered by gasoline and diesel by 2040, says environment minister Nicolas Hulot. Meanwhile, the U.S. is sending $6 Billion to Subsidize Fossil Fuel Projects Abroad---EcoWatch, 7/5/17
In Gaza, Israeli-imposed restrictions on electricity continue to limit electricity to barely two hours a day amid the stifling summer heat, making it impossible to sleep or keep food from spoiling. The United Nations has warned Gaza has become unlivable for its 2 million residents. Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, Israeli security forces attacked Palestinians with stun grenades.
A top official of the Tokyo Electric Power Company says he wants to dump more than 700,000 tons of contaminated water from Fukushima’s nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. Local fishermen are protesting the plan, saying dumping more radioactive waste into the water will imperil the fishing industry. The water is contaminated with tritium, which can cause cancer when ingested in high concentrations. ---Democracy Now, 7/18/17
Minimum annual amount the Palestinian Authority pays each Palestinian imprisoned for an attack in Israel: $4,368. Per capita income in Palestine: $3,090. Percentage change since last year in the arrests of U.S. immigrants with criminal convictions: +18. Of immigrants without criminal convictions: +156. ---Harper’s Index
"Students fighting for free education should understand that stopping just one weapons system, the expensive and unnecessary Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets ($27.5 Billion each), would fund the education of all college students for the next two decades. Nurses fighting for universal health care should understand that if we cut the bloated military budget, we’d have plenty of money for a national health-care system like the Europeans have. Environmentalists paddling their kayaks to block oil-digging ships should understand that if we dramatically cut our military spending, we’d have hundreds of billions of dollars to propel us into the era of green, sustainable energy. Unions should recognize that the military is one of the worst creators of jobs in relation to money spent." From CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin *********
Walking to our car from church on Sunday, I spotted a bit of green in the center of an old cement alley way. As I got closer I could see that it was a small single green plant coming up in a small circle of open cement. The circle was the size of a quarter. I took a picture of it. It seemed so appropriate since at church we had been discussing faith and hope, and how they intertwine. This little green plant came from a seed that was designed to germinate and grow. It was not aware that it’s chances of survival were minimal. It just did what it was designed to do. The seed we have within us is love. When fear of the outcome does not hinder us the seed of love grows, and a more beautiful, peaceful world will come to fruition. May it be so. Peace, Roberta
EVENTS
THURS. AUG. 3 ---VIGIL TO STOP DEPORTATIONS AT ICE, BROADWAY AND KNAPP, 6:30 P.M.
WED AUG. 2 --- SUPPORT LGBTQ+ PEOPLE IN PRISON LETTER WRITING, CENTER STREET LIBRARY, 2727 W FOND DU LAC, 6PM - 7:30PM
SUNDAY, AUG. 6 ---LANTERNS FOR PEACE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTIION EVENT, 5 TO 9 P.M. AT THE URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER IN WASHINGTON PARK, 1859 N 40TH ST.
TUESDAY, AUG. 8 --- 350 MILWAUKEE CLIMATE JUSTICE MEETING, 7PM, EAST SIDE URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER, 1500 E PARK PLACE
THURS., AUG. 10 -----REMEMBERING PEOPLE KILLED IN BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI AT MARQUETTE U., 15TH ST. & WISCONSIN AVE. FROM NOON TO 1 P.M. NO MORE BOMBING IN THE NAME OF CHRIST. NO MORE ROTC!
THURS., AUG. 24 ----NO MORE GUNS VIGIL AT BREW CITY SHOOTERS SUPPLY, 43RD & LINCOLN, FROM NOON TO 1 P.M.
STAND FOR PEACE at a different location each Saturday at Noon. Please check The Shepherd Express event section to see when and where we will be holding our signs.
FOR INFO ON OTHER EVENTS, CONTACT DON AT 414-342-0158.
Fr. Jerry Zawada (80), one of our closest and dearest friends, passed over on July 25., a day after the feast of Ammon Hennessy, who had many of the views of Jerry on justice and peace. He fell asleep after we sang and prayed our prayers in his room. We will all miss Jerry very much. It is a loss for us, not for Jerry. May he now rest in peace!
The funeral will be Weds., Aug. 2, at St. Clare Church, 7616 Fritz St., Wind Lake Wi. Visitation from 11 a.m. with Mass at 1 p.m.
Each year in July the Blue Angels (more aptly called Blue Demons) come to Milwaukee. This demonstration is meant to attract our young to join the military to fight and kill whomever the U.S. decides is the enemy of the country. This exhibition is a waste of tax money and is a major polluter of our sky and water. The Navy Blue Angel fighter jets burn about 8,000 pounds of jet fuel per hour of flight. 8,000 pounds of jet fuel equals 1,200 gallons. Since there are six demonstration jets that's 48,000 pounds of jet fuel per hour or also 7,200 gallons per hour. Let's assume a $6 per gallon cost of jet fuel, that's about $43,200 per hour. All total, each jet costs taxpayers $30 million. Cities pay $6,000 to have the air show come and perform. Organizers of the event need to fulfill a huge amount of requirements from fuel to security to hotels to transportation that need to be paid for by the organizers The Blue Angels train together 6 days a week 2 or 3 times a day, both in the gym and in the air, for years each time pushing the envelope as they screech through the air on 120 practice demos before they are ready to do a full show. The noise pollution is huge causing people in hospitals and nursing homes to become anxious and disturbed. The squadron trains in the desert to sift out any potential errors that could occur and every flight is crucial. A doctor is on base when the Blue Angels are training, and said he watches to see if the nose of a plane starts to dip, which could indicate that the pilot is losing or has lost consciousness. The program costs taxpayers about $30 million a year. Many of these planes are in museums. If they need to be painted, it costs $6,500 to paint one of them. (Huffington Post} At a time when there is a great need of cargo planes to take needed items to those in great need of the necessities of life it is disgusting to think that people are actually paying to watch pilots playing and polluting the skies in hopes that our children will join the armed forces. ---Don Timmerman
“We are deeply convinced that all churches, starting with the Catholic Church, instead of supporting the right of violent self-defense and the right to wage war, have to forbid their members to fight in wars and to defend themselves with weapons or any kind because these are incompatible with Christianity. We have to make a decision.” ---You Shall Not Kill (1944) —Rev. Dr. Johannes Ude “The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too.” ---Hermann Hagerdorn
DON’T JOKES
I don’t write all my jokes, just the ones I like. England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool. NASA put a bunch of cows into orbit. They call it the herd shot round the world . Golfer: "I'd move heaven & earth to break 100 on this course." Caddy: "Try heaven; you've already moved most of the earth."
A teacher asked her students to use the word "beans" in a sentence. "My father grows beans," said one girl. "My mother cooks beans," said a boy. A third student spoke up, "We are all human beans."
"I bet I can beat you in a race." The bear grunted, "No” said the dog, “I am faster”. So they both agreed to race As the dog and bear get ready to race, the dog walks over to a rabbit and says, “I'll give you some of the winnings if you run with us. You run as fast as you can to make the bear tired and slower." The rabbit agreed. And the dog won by a hare! Two economists were sitting at a nudist colony. The one said, "Have you read Marx?" The other says, "It's these wicker chairs."
I run red lights when I am lonely so I will get pulled over and have someone to talk to. When my dentist asked me if I am flossing, I always say the same thing….No habla englais. When my dogs licks someone else’s face I feel cheated. I tell people that the book is better than the movie, but I do not even know if the movie has a book.
Until sixth grade I thought Lesbians were people who lived in Libya I no longer run away from my problems. Now I have a car. Once I missed my kids’ soccer game because I was watching a better soccer game Sometimes I pet a dog just because I have something gross in my hand, and I need to wipe it off.
INTERESTING FACTS
Tom Sitter. Who once was a Casa Maria community member, recently had his stand up comedy routine seen by 20 million viewers on u-tube talking about something that happened to him 83 years ago. He said “I think it is because I can stand alone and still eat with a fork..(My eye has healed!)” Tom is a real treasure to us all.
The US Has Invaded 70 Nations Since 1776 ---counter currents Amnesty International says the U.S.-led coalition and the U.S.-backed Iraqi forces recently violated international law and may have committed war crimes during the battle to seize control of Mosul from ISIS. Some 40,000 civilians were murdered, a million displaced and buildings and infrastructure destroyed. ----Democracy Now, 7/21/17
Exxon wants U.S. to topple Venezuela for geopolitical and geo-economic reasons. ExxonMobil awarded contracts to Guyana for infrastructure, drilling and storage with a view to extracting the huge oil and gas reserves there. More than 80 people miraculously avoided injury or death in a helicopter attack that targeted Venezuelan government buildings this past week. The attack may have been part of an attempted coup supported by the U.S. as it seeks to topple Venezuela’s government to gain access to its massive oil reserves. ---Mint Press News
There have been 154 mass shooting in the U.S. so far this year, but Congress has passed ZERO gun safety laws. Gun violence costs America $229 Billion annually, more than 700 per person every year, to pay the tab for police, first responders, legal proceedings, medical interventions, lost wages and long-term care for victims. That is more than 7 times what the U.S. spends annually on foreign aid. ---Mother Jones . Hospital care for gunshot wounds cost the United States about $6.6 billion over a nine-year period, and total costs are likely much higher. Information for the study came from more than 267,000 patients hospitalized for gunshot wounds from 2006 through 2014. HealthDay News, 3/21/17
At the United Nations headquarters in New York, 122 countries have approved a global treaty to ban the use of nuclear weapons. - A global treaty banning nuclear weapons was recently adopted at the United Nations. None of the 9 countries that have nuclear weapons -- the United States, Russia, Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel took part in the negotiations or the vote. Even Japan, the only country to have suffered atomic attacks in 1945, boycotted the talks. North Korea pulled out of the treaty in 2003, almost exactly a year after it was put in the crosshairs by George W. Bush in the infamous "Axis of Evil" speech. ----Rolling Stone, 7/7/17
France plans to end the sale of vehicles powered by gasoline and diesel by 2040, says environment minister Nicolas Hulot. Meanwhile, the U.S. is sending $6 Billion to Subsidize Fossil Fuel Projects Abroad---EcoWatch, 7/5/17
In Gaza, Israeli-imposed restrictions on electricity continue to limit electricity to barely two hours a day amid the stifling summer heat, making it impossible to sleep or keep food from spoiling. The United Nations has warned Gaza has become unlivable for its 2 million residents. Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, Israeli security forces attacked Palestinians with stun grenades.
A top official of the Tokyo Electric Power Company says he wants to dump more than 700,000 tons of contaminated water from Fukushima’s nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. Local fishermen are protesting the plan, saying dumping more radioactive waste into the water will imperil the fishing industry. The water is contaminated with tritium, which can cause cancer when ingested in high concentrations. ---Democracy Now, 7/18/17
Minimum annual amount the Palestinian Authority pays each Palestinian imprisoned for an attack in Israel: $4,368. Per capita income in Palestine: $3,090. Percentage change since last year in the arrests of U.S. immigrants with criminal convictions: +18. Of immigrants without criminal convictions: +156. ---Harper’s Index
"Students fighting for free education should understand that stopping just one weapons system, the expensive and unnecessary Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets ($27.5 Billion each), would fund the education of all college students for the next two decades. Nurses fighting for universal health care should understand that if we cut the bloated military budget, we’d have plenty of money for a national health-care system like the Europeans have. Environmentalists paddling their kayaks to block oil-digging ships should understand that if we dramatically cut our military spending, we’d have hundreds of billions of dollars to propel us into the era of green, sustainable energy. Unions should recognize that the military is one of the worst creators of jobs in relation to money spent." From CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin *********
Walking to our car from church on Sunday, I spotted a bit of green in the center of an old cement alley way. As I got closer I could see that it was a small single green plant coming up in a small circle of open cement. The circle was the size of a quarter. I took a picture of it. It seemed so appropriate since at church we had been discussing faith and hope, and how they intertwine. This little green plant came from a seed that was designed to germinate and grow. It was not aware that it’s chances of survival were minimal. It just did what it was designed to do. The seed we have within us is love. When fear of the outcome does not hinder us the seed of love grows, and a more beautiful, peaceful world will come to fruition. May it be so. Peace, Roberta
EVENTS
THURS. AUG. 3 ---VIGIL TO STOP DEPORTATIONS AT ICE, BROADWAY AND KNAPP, 6:30 P.M.
WED AUG. 2 --- SUPPORT LGBTQ+ PEOPLE IN PRISON LETTER WRITING, CENTER STREET LIBRARY, 2727 W FOND DU LAC, 6PM - 7:30PM
SUNDAY, AUG. 6 ---LANTERNS FOR PEACE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTIION EVENT, 5 TO 9 P.M. AT THE URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER IN WASHINGTON PARK, 1859 N 40TH ST.
TUESDAY, AUG. 8 --- 350 MILWAUKEE CLIMATE JUSTICE MEETING, 7PM, EAST SIDE URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER, 1500 E PARK PLACE
THURS., AUG. 10 -----REMEMBERING PEOPLE KILLED IN BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI AT MARQUETTE U., 15TH ST. & WISCONSIN AVE. FROM NOON TO 1 P.M. NO MORE BOMBING IN THE NAME OF CHRIST. NO MORE ROTC!
THURS., AUG. 24 ----NO MORE GUNS VIGIL AT BREW CITY SHOOTERS SUPPLY, 43RD & LINCOLN, FROM NOON TO 1 P.M.
STAND FOR PEACE at a different location each Saturday at Noon. Please check The Shepherd Express event section to see when and where we will be holding our signs.
FOR INFO ON OTHER EVENTS, CONTACT DON AT 414-342-0158.
Fr. Jerry Zawada (80), one of our closest and dearest friends, passed over on July 25., a day after the feast of Ammon Hennessy, who had many of the views of Jerry on justice and peace. He fell asleep after we sang and prayed our prayers in his room. We will all miss Jerry very much. It is a loss for us, not for Jerry. May he now rest in peace!
The funeral will be Weds., Aug. 2, at St. Clare Church, 7616 Fritz St., Wind Lake Wi. Visitation from 11 a.m. with Mass at 1 p.m.