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Dorian Sobel graduates May 10. 1013
May 10, 2013: Houston: Dorian Sobel Graduation Day!

 

March 24, 2013: Houston: Len Sobel and Ellen Stack's Seder. Ben Gettleman photo.

Wonderful Trip to Texas


February 26, 2013: San Antonio, TX: L to R: Alice Thorner, Katherine Thorner, Rick Thorner, Len Sobel, Ellen Stack, cousin B, Barbara Stack, Ann Thorner and Richard Thorner.


February 24, 2013 Houston: BTS and niece Dorian Sobel. Ellen Stack photo.

1954 Thorners Birthday Party
1954: Dover, NH L to R standing: Mel Thorner, Izzy Stack, Bertha Thorner, Anne Thorner Stack
Seated: Ellen Stack, Arnold Thorner, Irving Thorner, Cousin B., and Barbara Stack. Anne Thorner Stack collection.

"We can either have great concentrations of wealth or we can have democracy.  But we cannot have both."
Louis Brandeis

“There’s class warfare, all right,” Mr. Buffett said, “but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

Peace Day
September 21

America is trapped in a never ending cycle of enormously profitable warfare. The public relations packaging is always the same: "We are fighting for freedom and democracy." Who better to believe that than the idealistic and young? The truth however is cleverly hidden in plain sight: We are sending America's young men and women off to protect the global interests of wealthy and powerful mega-corporations based on US soil.
Mark Ash

War=Debt

'One threshold really needs to be both stated and restated as we consider the options, and that is that it is fundamentally unsustainable to continue spending $10 billion a month on a massive military operation with no end in sight.'
John Kerry
Washington Post 5/10/2011

"In the last ten years our wars have been paid for by borrowing," Al Franken 4/6/2011

"When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely."

New York Times
March 25, 2011
Columnist Bob Herbert

"Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Idaho ... these are the latest fronts in the battle of budgets, with the larger fight over a potential shutdown of the U.S. government looming. These fights, radiating out from the occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol building, are occurring against the backdrop of the two wars waged by the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan. No discussion or debate over budgets, over wages and pensions, over deficits, should happen without a clear presentation of the costs of these wars-and the incalculable benefits that ending them would bring."

Democracy Now!'s
Amy Goodman
TruthDig  March 1, 2011

Deficit Calculator

San Francisco Chronicle
September 1, 2010

Barbara Boxer pushes for Afghan exit strategy
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Asked whether she would eliminate any government programs to reduce the national debt, Boxer said to applause, "Well, the biggest one is the wars."

Foreign Policy in Focus
July 22, 2010

The Great Myth: Counterinsurgency
By Conn Hallinan

There was a time when the old imperial powers and the United States could wage war without having to bank their home-fires. No longer. The United States has spent over $300 billion on the Afghan War, and is currently shelling out about $7 billion a month. In the meantime, 31 states are sliding toward insolvency, and 15 million people have lost their jobs. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the Huffington Post, “It just can’t be that we have a domestic agenda that is half the size of the defense budget.”

The Atlantic, June 2010 Letters, page 12

The Causes of Inflation

I’m glad to see Michael Kinsley (“My Inflation Nightmare,” April Atlantic) raising the issue of the unavoidable connection between budget deficits and inflation. Another connection is also rarely dealt with by economists or the press: the connection between budget deficits, inflation, and massive military spending. It cannot be just coincidence that hyperinflationary pressures so regularly follow, about a decade later, periods of massive military spending, whether the wars be hot or cold. This pattern is seen across nations and across centuries.

Daniel Liechty, Normal, Ill.

 

San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, July 18, 2010

'Every Man in This Village Is a Liar'
Rayyan Al-Shawaf, Special to The Chronicle

Every Man in This Village Is a Liar
An Education in War
By Megan K. Stack
(Doubleday; 255 pages; $26.95)

" the foundering war on terror is 'essentially nothing but a unifying myth for a complicated scramble of mixed impulses and social theories and night terrors and cruelty and business interests, all overhung with the unassailable memory of falling skyscrapers.'"

 

 


February, 1983: New Orleans: Aunty B gives Rose her first bath. Photo by Ellen Stack.

Happy 35th Anniversary Len & Ellen!


8/15/2012: niece Rose Sobel in UCB Botanical Garden art installation. © Barbara Toby Stack.

8/15/2012: Barbara Stack in UCB Botanical Garden
8/15/2012: Barbara Stack in UCB Botanical Garden. Photo by Rose Sobel.

July 22, 2012: Remembering Bebe Supovitz Baer at Old Orchard Beach, Maine: L to R: Rear: Stephen Lewis, Len Sobel, Anita Lewis Damiano, Ellen Stack, Steve Baer, Jonathan Lewis, Larry Glovin. Middle: Melissa Lewis Kemen, Claire Supovitz Glovin, daughter, Randy Baer Lewis, and Ted Schwartz.

July 14, 2012: Celebrating Molly's 85th birthday (7/13) at Ocean Garden, Gorham, Maine: L to R Rear: Alan [Laurie Cook's bf], Sarah [Jessie's gf], Susan Isenman, Alissa Popovich [Scott's gf], Andrea Schwartz, Liz Weber, Susan Schwartz, David Rabold, Scott Rabold, John Schwartz, Sam Corbman, Olivia Schwartz [John's wife]. L to R Front:Burton Cook, Helen Cook, Helen Isenman, Jessie Posilkin, Molly Cinamon, Jane Cinamon Corbman, Toby Cinamon Rabold,   Jack Cinamon, Kent Gordon [family friend], Mitch Posilkin [Sue Shwartz husband]


5/10/2012: Dori Sobel and Anne Stack

Ellen Stack, Specialized Assessment
Ellen Stack, Director, Specialized Assessment

Thorner Family in Houston2/26/2012, Houston: Seated: Anne Thorner Stack, Cousin B., Ann Resser Thorner, Katherine Thorner, Ellen Stack, Rose Sobel
Standing: Len Sobel, Dorian Sobel, Richard Thorner, Barbara Stack. *Michael Gettleman photo*

Carnival Party 2012Carnival! Nieces Rose and Dori Sobel February 4, 2012

Dori Sobel Anne Stack Rose Sobel
January 29, 2012, Houston. Dori Sobel, Anne Stack, Rose Sobel. photo by Ellen Stack

Cokie Roberts, Katherine Thorner & Sam Donaldson
Cokie Roberts, Katherine Thorner & Sam Donaldson covering the primary in NH

Guardian (UK)
October 2, 2011

We are the 99 per cent
Mark Ruffalo

When people critique this movement and say spurious things about their clothes or their jobs or the general way they look, they are showing how shallow we have become as a nation. They forget that these people have taken time out of their lives to stand up for values that are purely American and in the interest of our democracy. They forget that these people are encamped in an urban park, where they are not allowed to have tents or other normal camping gear. They are living far outside their comfort zone to protect and celebrate liberty, equality and the rule of law.

It is a thing of beauty to see so many people so in love with the ideal of democracy, so alive with its promise, so committed to its continuity in the face of crony capitalism and corporate rule. That must and should be celebrated. That must and should be respected and admired.

'Their message is very clear and simple: get money out of the political process; strive for equality in taxation and equal rights for all regardless of race, gender, social status, sexual preference or age. We must stop poisoning our food, air and water for corporate greed. The people on Wall Street and in the banking industrial complex that destroyed our economy must be investigated and brought to justice under the law for what they have done by stealing people's homes and savings.

Jobs can and must be created. Family farms must be saved. The oil and gas industry must be divested of its political power and cheap, reliable alternative energy must be made available.

August 6, 2011 Happy 70th Birthday Ann Chandler!
Ann Chandler 70th BD Program 8/6/2011 cover half
circa 1975 at Live Oak Park Fair, Berkeley. Photo by Marty Rabkin

Ann Chandler 70th BD Program quarter 8-6-2011
And Proclamations from Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and CA Assembly member Nancy Skinner

July 18, 2011 Old Orchard Beac Randy Lewis, Bebe Baer, and Claire Glovin
July 18, 2011: Old Orchard Beach, Maine: Randy Lewis, Bebe Baer, and Claire Glovin. Photo by Stephen Lewis.

6-25-2011 Ellena Stack, Len Sobel & Dori Sobel
6-25-2011 Ellen Stack, Dori Sobel and Len Sobel in Adriel's wedding photobooth

30 Years' Dream!
BTS In-N-Out 6-10-2010
June 10, 2011: I finally got a taste in Redwood City! Meh. photo by Marilyn Noble

Anne Thorner Stack and Jake, Michael and Ben Gettleman
May 15, 2011: Ben Gettleman, Michael Gettleman, Anne Stack, & Ben Gettleman. Photo by Tiffany Gettleman.

Arnold Thorner & Family 4-18-2011
L to R: back row: Matt and JulieSue Goldwasser, Cousin B., Anna and Jeff Thorner
front: Arnold Thorner holding Ari Goldwasser & Caren Thorner holding Asa Thorner


HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATHERINE

Birthday Party Houston 2/20/2011
Feb 20 1011 Birthday Party Houston
Seated: Anne Stack, Cousin B., Ann Thorner, Katherine Thorner, Ellen Stack, Rose Sobel
Standing: Len Sobel, Dorian Sobel, Richard Thorner, Barbara Stack. *Larry Gettleman photo*

Rosenbergs 5 generations
Five generations: L to R: Gen4 Amanda Rosenberg Adams, her kids Gen5 Addison Adams & Zane Corrigan, Gen3 Dan Rosenberg, Amanda’s husband Derek Adams, Gen1 Anne Stack (Don’s wife was Anne’s husband’s niece), and Gen2 Don Rosenberg. *Richard or Ann Thorner photo*

The Birthday Girls
The January 30 Birthday Girls: Rose, 28; Anne 95

95thHappy Birthday Mama

Anne Mother's Day 2010
photo by Len Sobel, Mother's Day, 2010

 

 

Barbara Stack working on her genealogies
Barbara at LDS Library
December 8, 2010 photo by Ellen Stack

Ellen Stack at her Specialized booth
Ellen in Specialized Consulting booth

Cousins Arnold & Caren Thorner and grandson Ari
Arnold & Caren Thorner and grandson Ari
November 5, 2010

Cousin Asa made it to the Rally! and to TV!
Asa at the Rally

Welcome Cousin Ari Jacob Goldwasser
born October 29, 2010 to Matt and JulieSue
Matt, JulieSue and Baby Goldwasser

Bride Cousin Melissa dances with her father Steve Lewis
Dover, NH
Melissa and Steve Dance
October 2, 2o10

Marjorie & Joe Chandler and Molly & Jack Cinamon in Portland, ME
Chandlers and CinamonsOctober 1, 2o10

Dick Chase and Katherine Thorner charming one another
Dick Chase and Katherine ThornerSeptember 28, 2010

Ellen Stack walking Fort Stark, NH
Ellen at Fort Stark NHSeptember 28, 2010

Mary Lea in her garden
Brattleboro, VTMary Lea in her Garden
September 27, 2010

Karen Simon in her Field
Windsor, MAKaren in field
September 26, 2010

Heather McLaughlin on clarinet & Tom McCurry's Orchids
Northampton, MA
Heather clarinet & Tom's orchids
September 26, 2010

Cousins Annie, Katherine and Richard Thorner
Manchester, NH Thorner Family sept 2010

Nieces Dorian and Rose Sobel
Sooooooooooooooooo cute!Rose & Dori Sobel 2010

Welcome Cousin Asa Lofgren Thorner
born July 16, 2010 to Jeffrey Thorner and Anna LofgrenJeff and Asa just born

Niece Rose on Treasure IslandRose TI June 29
June 29, 2010

Barbara and Rose in Berkeley June 29 2010
June 29, 2010 by Anna Forward

Mothers Day 2010
Mother's Day 2010
May 9, 2010 by Len Sobel

Dori Stamp
Rose Stamp

Anne's New Vugele
Anne and Jazzy
June 30, 2010 by EGS

E & L

7/30/2009 Riding the train at Tilden Park with the Gettlemans (video)

Katherine Thorner at the Houston Airport (video)

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