I hope “Audrey Seiler” becomes a verb in the UW lexicon. One has to wonder why that guy would still want to marry a nutjob who abandoned him…she’s sure to be a lifetime of problems.

…but she did plan ahead and buy a bus ticket a week before she left. Maybe she got an advance purchase discount?

None of this would have happened if we didn’t have flavor of the month journalists who desperately need “news” to fill time on the 24-hour advertising networks. They should be ashamed of themselves, not only for creating a federal case out of a personal moment (again) but for continuing to push legitimate journalism and news out of the spotlight in favor of the sensationalistic Jackson/Schaivo/Peterson/Smart crapfest.

Where are you, Audrey Seiler?

“Is there anyone out there who could actually care less about Jennifer Wilbanks? The poor woman freaked out over her 500-guest wedding and skipped town for a couple of days.”

I don’t think many people do care much about her. But calling her a poor woman as if she is some sort of victim is quite a stretch.

While the news is covering this, Congress passed a bill that will put all our info in a central database so we can be tracked. Seriously. Go look at what the bill says about National ID’s. They want to put radio transmitters in them so we can be monitored wherever we go. This is actually true, go and look it up.

So, basically I don’t give a fuck about the runaway bride.

Here is more:

When I was a kid I did quite a bit of traveling with my family, mostly in Europe. What made America different from the other countries, my Dad would tell me, was that we didn’t have to carry identification just to exist. In America, policeman couldn’t just stop you on the street and demand that you prove who you are.

If the Republicans who control the Legislature have their way, that America will soon be but a nostalgic memory. Under a proposal from Rep. David Dreier (R-CA), you’ll need to carry a new type of electronically encoded Social Security card. But “it’s not a national ID card,” Dreier explains. “It will only be required for people looking for a new job.”

Ah. So if you never need to change jobs, or if you prefer to remain unemployed (or perhaps join the everpresent underground economy), you can do without the card. It’s comforting to know our civil liberties will be protected thus. The card will even say, “This card shall not be used for the purpose of identification.” Well, then I guess everything’s just hunky-dory.

Across the pond in Britain, a proposal for national ID cards is a huge issue, but so far there’s been little evidence of a public outcry over the US proposal. Let’s hope the American citizenry catches on soon. But the odds are against it. The sneaky bastards are attaching this so-called “Real ID” to the bill funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Al Barger’s notes in these pages notwithstanding, my guess is the American public is going to just roll over and take it.

Incidentally, it’s also yet another unfunded mandate to the states, whose driver’s licenses are to be co-opted and turned into these de facto national identity cards. States’-rights advocate Ronald Reagan has probably been turning in his grave at least since “No Child Left Behind.” Now he must really be in a spin cycle.

Full article: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/05/04/235438.php

Sorry but gotta take it from a blog because the friggin news isn’t covering it…

500 guests isn’t bad. How about the fact that she had 14 freakin’ bridesmaids! That should have been the first clue that she couldn’t make up her mind on anything.

Look, if she told police she was abducted, she should be charged with filing a false report. But her situation seems to be very different from Audrey Seiler’s. Seiler’s “abduction” was thoroughly planned, but this case appears to display an obvious lack of planning. Seiler staged her “abduction” to get attention, but Wilbanks doesn’t appear to have staged anything.

So while it was appropriate for Seiler to make restitution for the costs of the search for her — frankly, I think the court should have forced her to pay every cent or at least perform sufficient community service to defray the costs — I’m not sure it would be appropriate for Wilbanks. As long as it turns out that Wilbanks didn’t have some sort of malicious plan to get attention (as Seiler did), making her pay restitution makes no more sense that it would have had she actually been kidnapped. And while I’m certain there are people who read this paper who think kidnap victims should pay for the costs of searches for them, I’m equally certain that all the rational readers would agree such people are colossal morons.

I think you are right…it’s not her fault the media went to town with the story. I was just saying the guy is crazy to still marry her. 14 bridesmaids and 500 guests? Sounds like a real princess.

Good grief. If this kind of nickel and dime crap makes national cable news, then ESPN better damn well cover the Mike Wilkinson - WhatsHerName wedding. Considering the amount of screen time of her I had to sit through, I think they should at least give us some finality.

Why is it crazy to not want to marry some good ol’ boy pastor from GA. Sounds like she did the smart thing to me. Run like the wind Jennifer!

she’s ugly

If she goes to jail the honeymoon may be a conjugal visit - LOL.

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Draft Agenda

Friday, June 24 Grainger Hall of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin 975 University Avenue

7:00-8:30PM Beyond Chutzpah: The Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History

Dr. Norman Finkelstein, Professor of Political Theory at DePaul University, and author of Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, will present a keynote address that is free and open to the public.

Saturday, June 25 Grainger Hall of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin 975 University Avenue

8:30-9:30AM Registration and breakfast

9:30-10:15AM Welcome/Ice-Breakers and About the US Campaign

Members of the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project will welcome conference participants to Madison and review conference logistics with attendees. Kymberlie Quong Charles, US Campaign Membership Outreach Coordinator, will introduce the US Campaign, its goals, membership criteria, organizing strategy, taskforces, days of action, etc.

10:30AM-12:00PM Skills-Building Workshop Session #1

Workshops will be practical, hands-on, skills-building sessions that will increase the effectiveness of conference attendees' activism. Conference attendees will choose three out of four workshops. For the media and grassroots advocacy workshops, conference attendees will be encouraged to plug into national taskforces facilitated by the US Campaign. Scheduled workshop facilitators are:

Divestment: Mohammed Abed, al-Awda Wisconsin, Mark Evenson & Nancy Turner, Faculty, UW-Platteville, and The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals Sister City Projects: Jennifer Loewenstein, George Arida, Jim Goronson, Kathy Walsh, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project Grassroots Advocacy: Josh Ruebner, US Campaign Legislative Task Force Media: Rima Mutreja, Palestine Media Watch/US Campaign Media Task Force

12:00PM-1:30PM Lunch & informal caucuses/affinity groups

NOTE: Lunch is not being provided at the conference. Conference attendees will be directed to low-cost food options near campus.

Conference attendees will organize themselves into informal caucuses/affinity groups in order to network and strategize by common interest. Examples could be by religious, ethnic, racial, professional, or geographic identity.

1:30PM-3:00PM Skills-Building Workshop Session #2

3:00PM-3:30PM Break

3:30PM-5:00PM Skills-Building Workshop Session #3

5:00PM-5:30PM Conclusions & Evaluations

Conference organizers will facilitate a discussion on lessons learned from the conference and encourage people and groups to plug into the work of the US Campaign. Conference attendees who are willing to circulate their contact information can do so and will be encouraged to fill out conference evaluation forms before leaving.

The Crossing, 1127 University Ave.

5:30PM-7:30PM Social Hour/Dinner

The conference will move across campus to The Crossing, a campus religious center, for a social hour and Middle Eastern dinner. Both conference attendees and the general public are invited to the dinner, which will cost $10.

7:30PM-9:00PM Rebuilding Homes, Rebuilding Hopes in Gaza

Cindy and Craig Corrie, the parents of Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist who was killed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, and Khaled and Samah Nasrallah, family members who lived in the house that Rachel tried to prevent from being demolished when she was killed, will present the story that links their families together. The panelists will be introduced by Joe Carr, a member of Christian Peacemaker Teams, who will also peform a spoken word tribute to Rachel Corrie. The panelists will speak about their involvement with the Rebuilding Homes Alliance and there will be a fundraiser for the US Campaign and the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project. The event is free and open to the public.

Sunday, June 26 The Crossing, 1127 University Ave.

9:00AM-9:30 AM Breakfast

9:30-12:00PM Strategizing Session

Conference attendees will group themselves by geography (local, regional, state-wide) in order to strategize and develop a plan of action for their area in an informal setting. Strategizing sessions will be facilitated by conference organizers to encourage the formation of new groups where none exist, to strengthen existing groups, and to create local, regional, and state-wide coalitions that are plugged into the work and organizing strategy of the US Campaign.

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