tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78713853320856289152024-03-13T15:33:00.911-05:00The Manitowoc MegaphoneTruth Justice and the American Way - in a post neo-con world.Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-33471870005415126002022-06-01T09:58:00.007-05:002022-06-02T06:23:50.275-05:00Of Pens And Swords And Bullets And Bombs "The pen is mightier than the sword." Edward Bulwer-LyttonOf course this does not begin to consider the use of pens (or keyboard) to incite the use of swords or guns or bombs for that matter.On May 26th 2022 I submitted this letter to the Herald Time Reporter in Manitowoc. As yet it has not been published.
To the Editor: When I spoke out against the bizarre
Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-71695421272584685852022-04-18T11:24:00.003-05:002022-06-02T06:25:29.807-05:00MPSD Ethics ComplaintI have maid the following ethics complaint to the Manitowoc Public School District regarding the conduct of member elect Antonio (Tony) Vlastelica.Bernard Starzewski <bernard_starzewski@yahoo.com>To:braunla@mpsd.schoolMon, Apr 18 at 10:07 AMThis is to advise you that I wish to file an ethics complaint against school board member elect Antonio (Tony) Vlastelica.BACKGROUNDRecently I Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-28743850950491789352022-04-08T16:22:00.008-05:002022-06-02T06:25:03.533-05:00Say It Ain't Voter Fraud! Tony Vlastelica has become an interesting character in Manitowoc Politics. He has formed a political group known as "The Constitutionalists". that together with his pals Matthew Spaulding and Matthew Phipps have now won effective control of the Manitowoc Public School Board (MPSD).with considerable help from the local GOP. The board already had a couple crackpot Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-48541685211289646742020-05-09T22:56:00.004-05:002020-05-09T22:56:56.146-05:00Speaking Up Against "Plandemic" - just to make sure you can read itI am reprinting this article here because at least one person claimed that the original web page was not fully readable. I don't know if I believe this or not but to at least give those people the benefit of the doubt here is the text of the article with my apologies to Forbes.
Here is the link to the original. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2020/05/08/Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-20193463869084168422019-04-30T10:22:00.000-05:002019-04-30T10:22:00.491-05:00Why I Hate A County Sales Tax - a letter to the Manitowoc County Board
To:Todd Holschbach,Dave Nickels,Rita Metzger,Jim Brey,John Brunnerand 21 more...
Cc:Jessica Backus,Todd Reckelberg,JJ Gutman,Gerry Neuser,Marc Holsen,Peter Conrad,Mary Thomsen,Ronald KossikHide
Feb 8 at 10:55 AM
Bob Ziegelbauer doesn't believe in infation
I agree tha the County has been mismanaged for a long time now. Bob's badge of honor has been his so called fiscal Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-1436631517475857222018-06-19T16:13:00.001-05:002018-06-19T16:13:33.460-05:00
Jim Brey Finally Makes it to Washington!
I know I haven't posted anything is quite some time. In many respects it has simply been too depressing to repeat it all. BUT THIS... was just too darling to leave undocumented!
Kellyanne Conway no less!
Jesus... Who the hell picked up the tab for this?
You are known by the company you keep...
Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-24796862586831355672017-01-31T14:37:00.001-06:002017-02-01T09:35:39.848-06:00Why I Won't be Voting for Donald Chewning
"The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones." Mark Antoni's eulogy for Julius Caesar.
You are known by the company you keep. old adage
Attorney Donald Chewning is running for Manitowoc County Judge.
I will NOT be voting for him.
His sense of right and wrong are not the same as mine
In 2005 I bought an old set of farm buildings with Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-72386707184132348682017-01-19T15:13:00.001-06:002017-01-19T15:44:18.225-06:00The Winter of our Discontent
"Now is the winter of our discontent" William Shakespeare - Richard the III
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves"William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar
"Poor country! It hardly knows itself." MacDuff
There are a lot of bad things that can be said about Donald Trump. I won't bother to repeat them in detail. In summary it can be saidBernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-79251446304904580402016-11-02T12:05:00.001-05:002016-11-09T21:13:48.066-06:00Paul Tittl's Little Shop of Horrors II - Its a Gas!Back in 2013 I took note of how State Rep. Paul Tittl manages his aging row of shacks rental
Tittl's "business"
properties and vacuum cleaner retail store as a metaphor for how he approaches legislation in his Assembly job. Never did I think how this might come up again in such a stunningly blatant way until Halloween played the ultimate joke on his tenants that began with a 911 call Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-89886042489751026222016-10-28T09:35:00.000-05:002016-10-28T12:51:43.413-05:00The Monsters Among Us
Trumpenstein
NOTE: This letter was not printed at www.htrnews.com (Manitowoc Herald Times) so Im printing it here.
It should be noted that the usual cast of right wing letter writers have had free reign there lately.
This is now the second letter of mine that the HTR has rejected this year.
I've been watching the horror show that
has become the Republican 2016 campaign with a combination ofBernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-35870673221269945572016-06-08T09:44:00.001-05:002016-06-08T10:02:16.401-05:00Brothers and sisters, we are here tonight to fight the devil...
Buy Tickets!
"Brothers and sisters, we are here tonight to fight the devil... " Anything Goes!
"If she says your behavior is heinous Kick her right in the Coriolanus! Kiss me Kate
Life often imitates art:
I am currently in rehearsal for a Cole Porter review which, in my mind has become a metaphor for the current With the Clinton nomination now a forgone Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-50430158651718421762016-05-31T10:32:00.002-05:002016-05-31T12:35:48.516-05:00Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore"It takes a village.." Hillary Rodham Clinton's book title
"We had to destroy the [village] in order to save it."
Quote attributed to a US Major by reporter Peter Arnett February 7th 1968, about the bombing of civilians in the provincial capital Bến Tre in Viet Nam.
When I attended the Bernie Sanders rally in Sheboygan earlier this spring a man was working his way down Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-89444238705547101832016-04-13T11:24:00.002-05:002016-04-13T11:34:10.669-05:00Jim Brey Master Inquisitor
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district
wherein the crime shall have been committed..."
6th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
"I will never forget the look in Steven Avery’s eyes when he was being
brought into the courthouse .Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-21258143038015598252016-02-26T14:20:00.004-06:002016-02-26T15:27:27.441-06:00Don't Do As I Do!
The following piece was printed in the Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter the week of Feb 22nd 2016 but never posted online.
Van Halen
"Don't do as I do. Do as I say do!" - (unknown)
“The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.”
―
Eddie Van Halen
Rep. Tittl
When Paul Tittl first ran for his
assembly seat in 2008* he criticized then Rep. Bob Ziegelbauer Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-24677130812904298352016-02-07T16:13:00.000-06:002016-04-20T08:40:15.120-05:00Dr. Deer's Devalued Experience
Hunting in the Days of the Czar
"[Cheap] deer tags will only devalue the experience." Dr. Kroll (deer Czar)
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley
Last month I was appointed by Wisconsin DNR Secretary, Cathy Stepp to the Manitowoc County Deer Advisory Committee as the DMAP (Deer Management Assistance Program - land owner Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-19874459096953466522016-01-21T11:42:00.001-06:002016-01-21T12:22:59.958-06:00Republican Plan to Destroy Sacred Ho-Chunk Burial Mounds: Stop them!This goes hand in hand with my previous post about the sale of the Manitowoc County Fair Grounds land.
Where is the bottom to all this?
See more local examples on this post. None so horrific though.Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-32134131395859394572016-01-19T15:03:00.004-06:002016-04-20T08:11:22.168-05:00Government For Sale! The Looting of the CommonsPrinted at htrnew.com 1/21/2016
HTR Gannett photo
We've seen this before both here in Manitowoc County and City and then across the State. The story is always the same. Government is broke and needs cash so we must - must - sell off publicly owned property to expand the tax base and reduce debt. They say there is no choice. I disagree.
We saw it in the sale of the Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-47111458572178709042015-12-17T09:58:00.002-06:002016-02-07T09:11:06.672-06:00Dr. Deer Gives us the Wrong PrescriptionAfter having a very successful deer season on my private land I thought it might be worth re-printing my letter to the HTR editor. It seems that the rest of the state didnt fare so well. Could it be that the hunters are simply not being allowed to hunt?
While running for Governor in 2010
Scott Walker made a number of assertions that somehow the drop in the
deer harvest from theBernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-58829786175054230442015-12-14T09:27:00.000-06:002015-12-17T21:26:36.456-06:00Collin Bruanel: I Don't Need No Stinking Badges!Did the Manitowoc County GOP chair just cop to a felony?
"Collin Braunel Bernie Starzewski, while I was on council what would you have thought of me carrying? I carry a hangun every day at work yet I am a civilian. I also am heavily trained. Interestingly enough I carry no license. [...]
December 13, 2015 Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter facebook page
facebook post by the Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-79369969755964345772015-09-20T08:29:00.001-05:002015-09-20T10:10:49.346-05:00The Political Environment: NE WI media covering DNR manure pollution failJust a brief post today.
I thought that this update on the sorry events in Kewaunee County should not go un noted.
The Political Environment: NE WI media covering DNR manure pollution fail
See my original piece "Scott Walker's Shit Storm of Outrage!
Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-66251248198522760602015-04-20T12:37:00.001-05:002015-04-21T07:20:44.849-05:00Kerry Trask - Messenger of Doom
"Bernie, you are the conscience of the Democratic Party!" Kerry Trask to me
"Kerry, if your conscience isn't bothering you then it isn't working." Me to Professor Trask
A shrinking parade
Manitowoc County Dems PR photo: Trask at left
Professor of History (Emeritus) Kerry Trask has many credits to his name. He was a fine lecturer of early American History. He canBernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-60687525223781422522015-03-11T09:15:00.002-05:002015-03-12T07:25:49.079-05:00Fifty Shades of Brey
The following is a letter to the editor published at www.htrnews.com by ex Assembly candidate, Alderman and County Board Chair Jim Brey.
Brey Campaign photo
As the Wisconsin Assembly starts to debate the Right to Work legislation being proposed, I recall the candidates forum between District 25 Rep. Paul Tittl and myself that was held Oct. 4, 2012, at City Hall in Manitowoc. I quote the Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-81115272635843933862015-02-22T13:56:00.001-06:002015-02-23T21:53:39.946-06:00Walker's Shit Storm of Outrage
From Manitowoc HTR
Over the last couple of months Gannett Media has surprisingly run a series of articles and op ed pieces that have accurately detailed the impacts of giant ag (known as CAFOs - Concentrated Animal Feedlot Operations) with a special Focus on Kewaunee County just to our north.
Together with other article they document a Shit Storm of Outrageous actions that will affectBernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com4Kewaunee, WI, USA44.4583321 -87.5031397000000244.4130006 -87.583820700000018 44.5036636 -87.422458700000021tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-32194920411467753642015-01-18T11:38:00.001-06:002015-05-18T07:10:02.224-05:00It's in the Genes
Too often when people go looking for their genealogical roots they are searching for some connection to a monarch or other person of inherited wealth or position. When I went searching for my family's identity I did not find any kings or despotic rulers. What I found instead was an inherited set of values that amazingly resonate down through the centuries and across the oceans. &Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7871385332085628915.post-70807225662078482382014-12-20T07:29:00.000-06:002015-04-16T10:29:49.870-05:00Welcome to the Dystopacratic Party Part IVMike Tate and The Second Coming
Liberal Jesus' Democratic Dogma
"Of course he's the Messiah! I should know... I've followed a few!" John Cleese - Monte Python's The Life of Brian
Q: Why wasn't Jesus born a Democrat?
A: He couldn't find three wise men among them.
Early in 2013 Mayor Justin Nickels won a sweeping 83.6 %victory over restaurant owner Tony Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00441922671393869604noreply@blogger.com0