This is extremely important to everyone in Vermont and other states who have Unicel Cell Phones.


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Most people are now aware that Verizon Wireless is making a bid to buy Unicel (Rural Cellular) in Vermont and 14 other states in the early part of 2008.

If this acquisition goes through, it means several things for vermonters...you will have to throw away your Unicel Cell Phone because it will cease to work when Verizon closes off Unicels GSM network. You will have to buy a phone that works only on Verizon.

Next, forget about your free incoming calls for $5.00 extra a month as well as unlimited service. Any contracts that you have with Unicel will be cancelled by Verizon because they have no responsibility to honor contracts that Unicel made with you.

That's not even the worst of it!

Visit our new website that tells you more about the situation. The site is not yet 100% complete but it will be by Monday night.

The site is:

SAVE UNICEL!

http://www.saveunicel.com

GET WELL WISHES TO 101 YEAR OLD PHILLIP ROOD WHEELER, BORN IN BUCK HOLLOW, VERMONT.
FRIENDS CAN SEND CARDS AND LETTERS TO PHIL WHEELER, 209 PINE STREET, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA 22305.

Vermonters who attended his 100th Birthday Party know that he was in excellent health then, and stood and spoke at his party.

Phil's third wife, Minh, hopes he'll be home from the hospital soon after having had a fall.

Phil out-lived his first two wives ( he was married to my great Aunt Annie for 65 years).

Phil was born in Buck Hollow, Vermont.
I have a four page description of life in Buck Hollow by his Uncle Fred Wheeler, which Fred wrote for his own 100th birthday in 1969. Here is a short excerpt:

"Most of the folks living in the Hollow were farmers. They kept summer dairies and made butter. Their cows dropped their calves in the spring, gave milk during the summer, and went dry in the late fall. Dairies varied in size from 8 or 10, possibly 40 cows. My father normally milked about 15. The farmer's chief income came from the butter he sold.

Another source of income was maple sugar or syrup. Every farm had its sugar bush. Father tapped from six to eight hundred trees, and in good season sugar would make upwards of 3000 pounds of sugar or its equivalent in syrup. The sugar season came in March and April. Maple sugar was used daily for cooking and sweetening, but when company came, Mother would put the white sugar bowl on the table.

While butter and sugar were his chief sources of income, the farmer's pocket book did have other what might be called fringe benefits. He might sell an old cow, some fat hogs, calf skins, some potatoes, and so on. All helped out.

During the winter months, with neither butter nor sugar money coming in, it was sometimes hard sledding. We found it so. But with a shed full of fire wood, bins of potatoes and apples, a barrel of salt pork, a barrel of corned beef, and two barrels of soft soap in the cellar, we always made it. We would do the barn chores, draw out the manure, get up the wood pile, and wait for spring."

Every once in a while we hear about a couple of guys getting drunk and going hunting and shooting a friend.

Sounds cozy and fun.

Now,
I want YOU
to DEMAND
Equal Treatment Under the Law
to NOT be Prosecuted and Punished
for growing, using or selling
products and substances,
including Marijuana,
which are Equally dangerous
or LESS dangerous
than other LEGAL products and
crops and substances
such as Tobacco and
Alcoholic Beverages
and Hand Guns
and Hunting Rifles,
and all of those Prescription
Pharmaceutical Drugs
with SIDE EFFECTS,
etc.

SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 29, 2007
BEST FALL FOLIAGE DRIVE IN VERMONT

If you have squirming kids you
may not want to drive up and down the
highest mountains in Vermont to
see your annual delights of red and orange and yellow leaves
waving in the breeze.

If you are a senior citizen you might
be cautious of health concerns
at higher elevations.

Your best fall foliage drive
is from the Burlington area
down Rte. 100
where you will pass by mountains
in all of their glory
but you will seemingly dance
along the highway
as you steer your car along the curves
this way and that
but not ever so much up and down,
just like a dancer
you and your car will find your way
in the valleys of the mountains
rather than at their peaks
as you follow Rte 100 south.

You will pass Sugarbush Ski Resort,
and keep going south
and pass
Killington Ski Resort
and keep going south on Rte 100
and pass Okemo Mountain Ski Resort
and just a little more south
and find Rte 103 south
which will take you into
Chester, Vermont
at the intersection of Rte 103
and Rte 11.

Little boys and their grandfathers
will be thrilled this saturday,
Sept. 29, 2007 watching the
LIVE FIRING
of two CIVIL WAR CANONS
in Chester, Vermont
as part of the
Vermont Civil War Expo.

Little girls and their grandmothers
can dance to live period music
on the Green in Chester, VT. 05143

Chester is a little village, population
3000
and has almost no crime
so it is a perfect location for
family events
and safe for small children
and senior citizens.

Chester is a world away from places
like Burlington, Vermont
with its rows of alcoholic beverage
drinking establishments
geared to the thrill seeking
college students.

Chester is located in Windsor County,
Birthplace of Vermont.

For more information on the
Vermont Civil War Expo
this saturday, Sept. 29, 2007
you might contact
Russ Slora
eighteenthvtregt@aol.com

The activities will go from 10 a.m.
to early evening.

Chester, VT has about 17 Bed & Breakfasts.

Rte 100 is a leisurely drive
and is NOT FAST LIKE HWY 89.

You might want to think about
why we have Civil War Re-Enactments
in Vermont
and not
Vietman War Re-Enactments
or
Iraq War Re-Enactments.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS:
MARIJUANA ARRESTS,
OR
SAVING YOU FROM TERRORISTS ? ? ?

OVER 700,000 AMERICANS ARE IN PRISON IN THE U.S.A. RIGHT NOW FOR MARIJUANA POSSESSION.

12 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE HOMES AND JOBS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS.

THE COST OF A PRISON BED IN VERMONT IS ABOUT 25 THOUSAND A YEAR, THE SAME COST FOR SENDING A VERMONTER TO UVM (WITH ALL COSTS, BOOKS INCLUDED).

IF GOD WAS YOUR JUDGE,
IF GOD PRESIDED FOR ONE DAY IN THE VERMONT STATE LEGISLATURE,
IF GOD TOOK OVER GOVERNOR DOUGLAS' JOB FOR ONE DAY,
WOULD GOD
LISTEN TO THE PLEA OF A WOMAN WHO WORKED MINIMUM WAGE JOBS, SUCH AS AT WALMART,
AND HER CHILD GOT STRAIGHT A'S
ALL THROUGH SCHOOL,
BUT EVEN WITH LOANS AND GRANTS
HER CHILD COULD NOT AFFORD TO GO
TO THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT,
WHICH IS PRIMARILY A SCHOOL
FOR OUT-OF-STATE RICH KIDS
(JUST LIKE 80% OF THE HOMES IN
LUDLOW, VERMONT ARE OWNED BY
RICH OUT-OF-STATE VACATIONERS),

IF GOD PRESIDED,
WOULD GOD
CHOSE TO SEND ONE VERMONTER
TO STATE PRISON FOR ONE YEAR,
WITH A COST OF 25 THOUSAND
JUST FOR THE PRISON BED
(ALL OTHER EXPENSES NOT INCLUDED)
OR
WOULD
GOD
CHOSE TO SEND ONE GOOD YOUNG
VERMONTER
TO UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
FOR LESS MONEY (TOTAL COSTS) ? ? ?

THE UNITED STATES
DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
IS NOW USING YOUR FEDERAL TAX
DOLLARS
TO TRY TO
EXTRADITE
THREE CANADIAN CITIZENS
FOR SELLING MARIJUANA SEEDS
OVER THE INTERNET.

HOW MANY VERMONTERS COULD
GO TO STATE COLLEGES AND
TO THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
FOR THE SAME TAX DOLLARS?

http://www.cannabisculture.com/noextradition

STOP THE WASTEFUL SPENDING OF
TAX PAYER DOLLARS
ON MARIJUANA PROSECUTIONS.

FREE MARC EMERY!
VISIT MARC EMERY, CANADIAN
MARIJUANA SEED SELLER
AT POT T.V.
http://pot.tv
http://pot.tv.

http://pot.tv

YOUR TAX DOLLARS:
MARIJUANA ARRESTS,
OR
SAVING YOU FROM TERRORISTS ? ? ?

OVER 700,000 AMERICANS ARE IN PRISON IN THE U.S.A. RIGHT NOW FOR MARIJUANA POSSESSION.

12 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE HOMES AND JOBS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS.

THE COST OF A PRISON BED IN VERMONT IS ABOUT 25 THOUSAND A YEAR, THE SAME COST FOR SENDING A VERMONTER TO UVM (WITH ALL COSTS, BOOKS INCLUDED).

IF GOD WAS YOUR JUDGE,
IF GOD PRESIDED FOR ONE DAY IN THE VERMONT STATE LEGISLATURE,
IF GOD TOOK OVER GOVERNOR DOUGLAS' JOB FOR ONE DAY,
WOULD GOD
LISTEN TO THE PLEA OF A WOMAN WHO WORKED MINIMUM WAGE JOBS, SUCH AS AT WALMART,
AND HER CHILD GOT STRAIGHT A'S
ALL THROUGH SCHOOL,
BUT EVEN WITH LOANS AND GRANTS
HER CHILD COULD NOT AFFORD TO GO
TO THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT,
WHICH IS PRIMARILY A SCHOOL
FOR OUT-OF-STATE RICH KIDS
(JUST LIKE 80% OF THE HOMES IN
LUDLOW, VERMONT ARE OWNED BY
RICH OUT-OF-STATE VACATIONERS),

IF GOD PRESIDED,
WOULD GOD
CHOSE TO SEND ONE VERMONTER
TO STATE PRISON FOR ONE YEAR,
WITH A COST OF 25 THOUSAND
JUST FOR THE PRISON BED
(ALL OTHER EXPENSES NOT INCLUDED)
OR
WOULD
GOD
CHOSE TO SEND ONE GOOD YOUNG
VERMONTER
TO UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
FOR LESS MONEY (TOTAL COSTS) ? ? ?

THE UNITED STATES
DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
IS NOW USING YOUR FEDERAL TAX
DOLLARS
TO TRY TO
EXTRADITE
THREE CANADIAN CITIZENS
FOR SELLING MARIJUANA SEEDS
OVER THE INTERNET.

HOW MANY VERMONTERS COULD
GO TO STATE COLLEGES AND
TO THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
FOR THE SAME TAX DOLLARS?

http://www.cannabisculture.com/noextradition

STOP THE WASTEFUL SPENDING OF
TAX PAYER DOLLARS
ON MARIJUANA PROSECUTIONS.

FREE MARC EMERY!
VISIT MARC EMERY, CANADIAN
MARIJUANA SEED SELLER
AT POT T.V.
http://pot.tv.com

Are University of Vermont students as ORGANIZED,
or capable of being as organized,
as the 9/11 attackers were?

Are University of Vermont students
who smoke marijuana
capable of quick, decisive action
necessary to organize a new
minor political party,
the MARIJUANA PARTY,
and can they put down their bongs and
roach clips long enough to do it
and thereby also prove they aren't
addicted?

This is a challenge
RIGHT NOW,
TODAY,
to the ability of UVM students who smoke marijuana
to ORGANIZE
and temporarily stop smoking marijuana.

To organize a political party
YOU NEED A MINIMUM OF 3 REGISTERED VOTERS
IN EACH OF TEN VERMONT TOWNS and
the caucus committee members must give their
names and addresses to the Secretary of State Elections Division
http://www.sec.state.vt.us

Title 17 Vermont Election Laws
Chapter 45: Political Parties

Section 2318. Organization of minor political parties
(go to http://www.leg.state.vt.us
and click on Vermont Statutes and Laws) There is nothing ORGANIZED
about how the laws for forming new minor political parties are written,
but the bottom line is,
they may only be formed in ODD NUMBERED YEARS.

Section 2302
The chairman of the state committee of a party shall set a date for members of the party to meet in caucus in their respective towns, which date shall be between September 10 and September 30, inclusive, in each odd numbered year. At least 14 days before the date set for the caucuses, the state chairman shall mail a notice of the date and purpose of the caucuses to each town clerk and to each town chairman of the party, and shall cause the notice to be published in at least two newspapers having general circulation within the state.

So, if the caucus was going to be held on one of the last days of September, then a person could act as temporary acting chairman of the proposed new minor political party (MARIJUANA PARTY) and at least 14 days before the date set for the caucuses, mail the notices and publish in newspapers.

The laws require that you have a minimum of 3 people in each of 10 Vermont towns holding caucuses and forming committees to start a new minor political party.

The challenge is to find 3 UVM students who live off campus in at least 10 different VT towns, a total of 30 people.

Now, if you go to the
Secretary of State online
http://www.sec.state.vt.us
and also go to
the State Legislative page online
with the link to the law library online
http://www.leg.state.vt.us
and also call the Secretary of State and ask for the Elections Division
1-800-439-8683
then you might be able meet the challenge and prove that
UVM students are as organized
as 9/11 attackers
because you have to be at least that
organized to get the Marijuana Party
legally certified by the government.

http://crisericson.com
Cris Ericson (802)376-7553

Hi!
In response to a letter-to-the editor published in another Vermont on-line newspaper, I called the citizen about her concerns, and explained that I am only recently learning about her subject of GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS.

Pam Nickerson is involved with a group called Windham County Genetic Engineering Action Group, (802)257-0169 and I hope to meet them in a few weeks.

On the telephone, she tried to explain some of their many issues.

She discussed a Seed Labelling Law passed in Vermont and she stated that the RULES were never written so the law has no teeth.

I explainedd that I feel that any Law passed that gives a non-elected person the task of creating the RULES for the law
is un-Constitutional because then you have non-elected persons writing RULES that YOU will be held accountable for in courts of law and by administrative law judges.

At any rate, if the Law is just a vacant pit waiting for some un-elected official to fill it up with RULES, then nothing is actually being done to enforce seed labelling.

I also explained to her that because I am newly learning this hot political issue, and because there are so many different NAMES for the ISSUE,
that I will probably take some time to locate the bottomless empty pit law that was written because I don't know what word or phrase to look it up under, and she didn't know the number of the Law offhand.

GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS are referred to under different names
making it difficult or tedious to locate the Laws regarding them.

Sometimes GE Foods are discussed under "modern biotechnology",
"gene technology",
"gene modification",
transgenic/recombinant technology",
etc.

I think what Pam most wanted to tell Vermonters is that
(1) Nothing is Labelled, so you don't know which foods are altered;
(2) these products can be dangerous and cause health problems;
(3) Organic Crops can be contaminated and eventually Organic Crops may not exist because they may all be contaminated.

Pam is very concerned that Vermont school children are currently allegeldy being fed with federally subsidized school lunches which contain some genetically altered foods;
and their parents are not being warned and informed which is a violation of the fiduciary duties of the schools.

I asked her if she knows about any "kickbacks" where school budgets might be growing bigger and bigger because the budget people are buying more expensive products more often and may be getting "kickbacks" or "commissions".
She did not want to discuss that subject.

I told her I would need to do a lot more research on this HOT ISSUE.

Farmers who are concerned about contamination might want to look at this case cite:

It is listed in American Jurisprudence 2D under Tresspass, Second Edition, 2007 Cumulative Supplement, May 2007, Volume 75.

Continuing tresspasses
Cases
Causes of action in continuing tresspass and continuing nuissance arising from contamination of groundwater beneath site containing polychlorinated biphenyls and trichloroethylene, which were migrating away from site and creating plum of water contamination in surrounding properties, were not time barred under CLS CPLR Section 214-c(2);
recurring wrongs are not subject to any statute of limitations because they constantly accrue, giving rise to successive causes of action. Jensen v General Electric Co. (1992, 3d Dept) 182 AD2d 903, 581 NYS2d 917.

Organic farmers might be able to use the above case cite because it is a continuing nuisance to worry about your neighbor who is using Genetically Altered Seeds or crops which may contaminate your organic crops.

Maybe Vermont Organic Farmers should file a citizen petition to the Environmental Protection Agency or a request for a federal Injunction.

I certainly don't want my little home garden contaminated.

Apparently Genetic engineering involves taking DNA from one plant and inserting it into another plant.

But the part that scares me is that some companies are taking DNA from animals and inserting them into plants.

Worse yet, some companies are taking DNA from HUMAN BEINGS AND INSERTING THEM INTO ANIMALS AND PLANTS.

If you take a monkey and insert human DNA to increase the monkey's intelligence but not the monkey's appearance,
can you then take the intelligent monkey and force it to do SLAVE LABOR?

HOW MANY FACTORY JOBS WILL SOON BE DONE BY GENETICALLY ALTERED MONKEY SLAVES?

HOW MANY JOBS PICKING FRUIT WILL BE DONE IN THE FUTURE BY GENETICALLY ALTERED MONKEY SLAVES?

WHAT WILL BE THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN A HUMAN BEING AND
A GENETICALLY ALTERED ANIMAL-SLAVE,
AND WHEN WILL A GENETICALLY ALTERED ANIMAL-SLAVE WITH HUMAN LEVEL
INTELLIGENCE BE GIVEN HUMAN RIGHTS?

The Consumers' Association of Penang believes that Genetically Altered foods will be promoted at the expense of small family farms and will lead to more problems of landlessness and poverty as the growing of food comes increasingly under the monopoly of multinational mega-corporations.

Muslims are concerned about the religious permissible authority to eat unlabelled foods, particularly ones genetically engineered with PIG GENES or other animals that have not been treated or slaughtered by Islamic rites.

Hindus and Buddhists are concerned about eating foods engineered with animal genes that contain BEEF or HUMAN GENES because HUMAN GENES ARE NOT A VEGETARIAN DIET.

Pollen from Genetically Engineered Crops made with inserted DNA from animals and human beings can blow
around in the wind, be picked up by wildlife and insects,
and be passed to YOUR ORGANIC GARDEN.

Only a handful of giant corporations dominate the genetically engineered food market by GETTING PATENTS FOR THEIR NEW FOODS because they are not natural and GOD-made, because they are man-made by inserting animal and human genes into the plants to create new plants, the government is giving them patents for these new inventions.

I PERSONALLY THINK IT SHOULD BE OUTLAWED TO GIVE A PATENT TO ANY "INVENTION" THAT IS MADE IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITH ANY HUMAN DNA.

The huge corporations that hold these patents then are allowed by our own government to tell us that they are so much like GOD made food that they are "substantially equivalent" and therefore SAFE.

So, the number one argument is to prove that they are not safe.

The Consumers' Association of Penang shows us instances where these products are not safe, so why is the government here in the U.S.A. allowing the great big corporations to tell us that these genetically altered foods are "safe"?

The big companies who hold the patents for the new inventions that are supposed to be safe because they are "substantially the same" as GOD made plants are charging royalties to farmers for their use and they bind farmers to contracts.

It's all about money. That's the bottom line.

We used to have clean air to breathe for free.

We used to have clean water to drink right out of the streams for free.

We used to be able to grow a garden and count on some nice vegetables to add to our diet without worrying if we are cannibals.

Pam Nickerson is hoping more people will join their action group.

Here is one good website on the internet that covers some about this subject:

http://www.organicconsumers.org

I am looking for new issues to add to my 2008 campaign website,
and when I get more information on this subject I will add it.
http://crisericson.com

Remember, the most important issues are to prove that genetically modified foods are dangerous,
otherwise how can we stop the production of them;
and
the issue that foods and seeds are not labelled and parents are not warned and informed that Vermont school children are being fed federally subsidized lunches which allegedly include genetically altered foods which may include human DNA and violate their religious beliefs;
and the issue that organic crops can be contaminated by neighboring farms
growing GE seeds and plants.

The whole issue of making more intelligent monkeys by genetic engineering and turning them into slaves and putting human beings out of work just makes me want to vomit.

How did we get so far in civilization just to go back to the issues of slavery?

How did we get so far in civilization with environmental awareness just to spoil it all with genetically modified foods that can spread with pollen blown by wind and insects and wildlife and contaminate the entire STATE OF VERMONT?

i want to learn a lot more about this issue and I hope you do, too.

I thought VERMONT was the GARDEN OF EDEN when I was a child and visited relatives here in the summer, and when I went to Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont as a teenager.

Where is my garden of eden now?

Two replicas of Sandbagger boats from the late 1800's are in Burlington! These amazing boats were designed to get goods to New York markets fastest to get the highest prices. As a result they have too much sail and heel over easily, requiring the cargo, or sandbags to be moved to the windward side to prevent capsizing.

The info from the Community Sailing Center website:

Bull & Bear are coming!

July 24th - August 2nd

Sandbaggers Bull & Bear go on summer tour! Encouraging youth sailing and promoting the boats magnificent history!

Free event open to the public Saturday July 28th 12-5 Burlington's Waterfront.

If you would like further information or to schedule a sail, contact Kate Neubauer, 802-864-2499

According to a recent blog post at
802 Online here...

http://7d.blogs.com/802online/2007/07/failed-citizen-.html

...postings now get through on iBurlington without approval.

<i>"I emailed Brian at his iBurlington address to ask him about the site. He responded saying that, though he had set it up so that all postings would be approved by him, somehow in the last year postings had been getting through without his approval."</i> -Cathy Resmer 07.17.07