Saturday, August 16, 2008

Good Night, Friend

Those of us who do genealogy always have a few good resources.....one of Pennsylvania’s best just left us.

We’re going to miss Helen a lot...she was a really neat, neat lady....

A well-known historian and genealogical researcher, Ms. Imburgia belonged to the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, The Maryland Eastern Shore Genealogical Society, the DELCO Historical Society, Bethel Township Preservation Society, and the Concord Township Historical Society.
She did extensive research for author Pat McGilligan, assisting in his biographies of Jack Nicholson, titled “Jack’s Life,” and Clint Eastwood, titled “Clint: The Life and the Legend.” She also was a genealogical researcher for many prominent families throughout Delaware County.
In 2003, Ms. Imburgia’s diligent research led to replacement of 73 unmarked or illegible headstones in St. Martin’s Church Cemetery in Marcus Hook, belonging to veterans dating to Revolutionary War. The stones now line the cemetery’s Soldiers and Sailors Walk Memorial and a marker bears the inscription penned by Imburgia: “May your names not just lie on dusty old pages in history books and on worn gravestones, but be etched in our hearts for all eternity.”

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Cold Crabs

Goin’ to the bay, gonna crab with the ‘stepmom’ (the other day I called her mother-in-law, lol....she’s my dad’s girlfriend)...... We might be going fishing as well, depends if the weather holds up.  Hub is staying home with the Pooch, so it’s just the Girls.

I have the chance to go because Bug is at the shore with the hEx.  HEx tells me that the water at the Jersey shore is 60 degrees....  Normally I’d say the hEx just doesn’t want to bother going to the beach, because he IS lazy and self-centered.  Like they are going to go the Boardwalk and ride on the rides, and the day pass is $25.  He wants BUG to pay for it.  He’s TELLING us they are going, and HE’S not paying for the ticket.  What an ass.  Cheap, too.  And that’s a lot of money for a 15 yo autistic kid who doesn’t/can’t have a job yet.  So I told Bug yesterday that we would give him the money back.  What a DICK.

But in the water temp situation, I know DICK is right.  It’s one reason we didn’t go down before this.  Even though Bug’s not sensitive that way, because of the autism, he’s not going to want to stay in when it’s that cold!  Oh, there’s no global warming, Riiiiight....it’s August.  The water should be in the 70s at Least....

Sigh.  No gas to go anywhere, and even the shore sucks now.  What’s next?

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Dum De Dum De Dum

Perez always finds the good ones...

Someone teach this guy SOMETHING Presidents are supposed to do right before he leaves, ok???

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Monday, August 11, 2008

First There Was FISA….

...Then there was Offshore Drilling....

Another sudden switch and another major slide toward the center by Democratic Sen. Barack Obama.

He told a Florida newspaper today he is NOT against ALL offshore drilling for new oil resources. Switching from his previous blanket oppostion to expanded offshore drilling, Obama tells the Palm Beach Post he could get behind a compromise with Republicans and oil companies to avoid a gridlock over energy policy.An offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico off New Orlean

“The Republicans and the oil companies have been really beating the drums on drilling,” Obama said in the Post interview. “And so we don’t want gridlock. We want to get something done.”

The freshman Illinois senator and presidential nominee-to-be added: “If, in order to get that passed, we have to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage — I don’t want to be so rigid that we can’t get something done.”

It’s one thing to give and take.  But drilling is one of those things you just don’t fuck with. 

Let ‘em try gridlock.  GIVE IT BACK TO THEM, ASSWIPE.  Can you even see that if you were in the least bit effective, you’d have a frigging MANDATE?  Oh, that’s right.  Ain’t no Party Unity here.

This guy is exasperating.  He’s as bad as Kerry.  Wet. Freaking. Dishrag.  Why do Dems always pick the ones who don’t use the brains they were born with?

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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Technological Stupidity

I have a Casio portable tv which Hub bought me several years ago, and it comes in handy.  Thanks to thunderstorms, we were without electricity for most of today, and I wanted to watch the Olympics....so I pulled out the little TV, and Voila! 

Regular TV stations will have to go digital by next February, and all these little televisions will then be obsolete.  Sure, we can plug them into a Converter Box....if the tv has the right port for the jack.  Someone noted here that as of the date of this article, stores were still SELLING these analog portables. How dumb is that???  Even more dumb, digital portables need to have a specific tuner, or THEY won’t work, either, unless they’re connected to The Box.

One major thing these are used for is when the freaking electric goes out (as ours did today).  If technology wipes out the capacity for people to be able to function in an emergency situation, or without electricity, then what good is it, really?  If War of the Worlds or global warming wiped out PECO, we’d be shit up a tree.  And no TV.....so much for the Emergency Broadcast System!!!

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Saturday, August 09, 2008

Same Shite, Different Guy

Last week, I posted about this....and unfortunately, I guess it’s true.... I can appreciate Elizabeth’s plea to keep it private, no one needs their kids finding out about this crap, or being tortured about it at school. 

Evidently this wasn’t old news, yet I’d never heard about it.  Guess I wasn’t really paying attention to trash TV....  Ann Coulter was talking about it last October. No wonder I didn’t know.....and if I recall, didn’t she think he was gay??  Katie Couric interviewed him about it in December.  I missed that, too.

IMO, it has to be talked about.  Edwards put the election in jeopardy because of this ho.  A lot of dem bloggers have been posting about it, so have some Rethugs; most have the same opinion.  Yes, he sucks for cheating on his wife, even if she wasn’t technically a cancer patient at the time.  As a matter of fact, that almost makes it worse.  Almost.  But that’s not the main problem.

This guy was running for President, knowing that he had that skeleton in his closet.  That is SO offensive to me, because he could have jeopardized the election for the party - it’s one thing if Obama does that to himself, it’s another thing for Edwards to do it over some ho.  And, of course, there were people who could have voted for someone else, but did not because Edwards was running.  I actually bought his line, I was on his bandwagon until he backed out.  I feel deceived.  I feel like an ass, because I Believed Another Guy.  What woman is going to want to vote for men who run for office?  Really - - with guys like these in charge, who needs enemies?

Not only that, the ego involved is just staggering.  OK, I do expect a certain amount of that from politicians.  But you would think these guys would learn - if TPTB found out about a stain on a blue dress, what makes Edwards think that he is SO frigging untouchable that they wouldn’t find out about a skank-party girl and -wanna be hippie whose real name is Lisa Druck.... 

Edwards totally deserves what he gets.  He will have no political future.....and who will trust him?  He has tainted his image permanently.

BTW, here are the“missing videos” she did for him.  Among other things.....  But these have to be some of the most boring videos I’ve seen....no wonder he didn’t win....film is not her strong point.....

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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Riding on the Escalator….

This happened tuesday night - I hadn’t heard about it...

Robert Hazard, a songwriter and musician from Philadelphia who wrote the 1983 Cyndi Lauper hit “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” has died. He was 59.

Hazard died Tuesday after a brief illness, his record label, Rykodisc, said in a statement.

Hazard’s wife, Susan, told The Philadelphia Inquirer her husband died unexpectedly after surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

(snip)

“He certainly didn’t betray any sense that he wasn’t well,” said Steve Tanzer, a volunteer producer at Arden’s Gild Hall. “This came as a big surprise to us all.”

He used to hang with some college friends of mine.  What a shame, he was young....

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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

No More Visitors!!!!

Hub invited two cousins to stay with us, he said they were “sensitive to overstaying their welcome...” and were only supposed to stay two nights.

They were here for a WEEK.  They left this morning, and it could not have been soon enough.  Bug had been ousted from his room, and he was too tall for the bed in the other room.  Hub refused to ask them when they were leaving, he said it would be rude.  We told him that it was MORE rude for HIM to hold his family hostage this way.

I had never met these people.  Hub does not see that they are just MOOCHES who wanted a Free Motel Room.  They make a crapload of money, have two houses (including an expensive vacation house in a chichi area) and there is NO damn reason they could not have paid for a room....they were staying here ONLY because the room was free.  If we were closer to Gettysburg, they’d have been here another three days.  Thank Heaven for small favors.

So I am now a week behind in everything I wanted to do this summer.  Actually a week and a half, because I had to spend half of last week cleaning before they got here..............................................................

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Saturday, August 02, 2008

Still Talking Trash About Hillary

Really, what is the purpose in this? How does this make Obama and his minions look good? 

Answer: It doesn’t. 

I told you they were still acting like assholes, Noz.  Why would I want to be part of this support group?

Better yet put him in office, make me your vice president
Hillary hated on you, so that b^$&%* is irrelevant

Funny that Obama once claimed to have Ludacris in heavy rotation on his iPod....this article says as much...not to mention that all of a sudden, Obama’s dissing Ludacris...

Please, just spare us from the drama.

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Friday, August 01, 2008

Grandma Knows

This ad was placed in CQ Today by the Denver Group...

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Thursday, July 31, 2008

Savage Head Count

I’m looking around to see if anyone is keeping a toll of how many stations and sponsors that Weiner Boy has lost, and found this blog...

Earlier this month, the conservative talk show host suggested on his syndicated radio show that autism is over-diagnosed and the result of incompetent or absent parents. That was bad enough, but then he dug the knife in deeper by neglecting to apologize, instead claiming his words were taken out of context. KNEW and Talk Radio Network essentially endorsed that excuse in deciding not to suspend or fire him.

Now, all sides are getting what they deserve. Major sponsors AFLAC and Home Depot have pulled their ads. On Sunday, parents, politicians and other protesters picketed outside the KNEW radio station office in San Francisco.

I find it very cool that the dads en masse are raising the hell about this.  About time.  We moms are tired of looking like harpies and nags....

If you missed the broadcast, check this out…

Home Depot is on the board of Autism Speaks.  Duh....no wonder they pulled their ads....

Have you ever heard anything so vile?

He tries to make up for it by interviewing a moron who doesn’t know that there IS NO DRUG FOR AUTISM....

Blaming parents.  Screaming at children, blaming them, calling them fools.  Our kids need socialization?  They need Higher Level Thinking skills. 

This doctor is a snake oil salesman.  He PAID for that phone call, hence the website plug.

Dickheads.  Both of them. 

If anyone knows where I can find a head count, please let me know!

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Meet the Denver Group

The Carol Felsenthal interview is here....

...Feldman predicts another defeat for the democrats in an election that was supposed to be a cakewalk. She calls McCain “a savvy politician” and argues that the “DNC leadership” is making a mistake by assuming McCain can be beaten “because you wish him to be beaten or because he’s coming on the throes of an unpopular Republican administration.” Feldman calls it “pathetic” and “absurd” that McCain’s “outreach effort to disaffected Clinton voters was better handled than anything that Sen. Obama or Howard Dean has done.”

(snip)

My opinion, and I followed the Obama/Clinton battle for the nomination closely for my recently published book, Clinton in Exile, about Bill’s post presidency, is that if anyone thinks Obama is not going to be the nominee, let me tell you about this soaring bridge in Brooklyn that I have for sale. As I mentioned to Feldman and Rubin during interviews last week, Obama did not rent Invesco Field, home of the Denver Broncos, for his acceptance speech in Denver because he thought he might be lending it to Hillary to accept the nomination. Feldman agrees that the odds of the democrats running “the sort of convention that would make [me] feel there was a legitimate nominee are very slim.”

On the other hand, while Hillary—and to a much lesser degree, Bill—claims that she will do everything she can to help Obama become the vice president, she has not released her delegates. That fact inspires Feldman and Rubin and other Hillary stalwarts. “She didn’t go through a grueling primary campaign because she didn’t want the nomination and didn’t want to be elected,” says Rubin. While he has heard from no one in the Clinton campaign, “No one has told us to stop what we’re doing.”

If the party’s nominee is Obama, both Feldman and Rubin say they will not vote for him. Rubin, who says he has never voted Republican, explains, “I don’t have any plans to vote for Sen. McCain” and will “probably will just simply not vote at all.” Feldman hedges saying “not at this point” when asked if she’ll vote for Obama. “I will leave that line blank,” she says, adding that she would not vote for McCain. “If they hold a genuine contest,” she adds, “where superdelegates are not pressured by anybody to vote either candidate, but are asked to think about who can beat John McCain and there are no side deals, and there is no favoritism shown toward either of the two candidates. I would be very receptive to voting for whoever won.”

The last paragraph is pretty much how I feel.  It’s a pretty good post.  Check it out.

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They’re Gonna Taser the Old Ladies….

If they aren’t, then what’s so SECRET that they can’t spill it?

AMY GOODMAN: Mark Silverstein, and this lead-up to the Democratic Convention, the ACLU has brought several lawsuits. Can you describe them?

MARK SILVERSTEIN: Well sure, I think that one of our suits is a lawsuit against the city and county of Denver and the Secret Service. And what we are trying to do in this lawsuit is maximize the ability of the public and protesters to exercise their First Amendment Rights during the time of the convention here in Denver. So, it concerns such things as parade routes or demonstration routes and how close the public and protesters might be able to get to the convention site in order to communicate view points or messages to the delegates that are coming to the convention.

AMY GOODMAN: Other lawsuits?

MARK SILVERSTEIN: The other lawsuits, one of –- the other lawsuits are under the Colorado Open Records Laws. We know that Denver has been allocated $25 million—well, $50 million in federal money to reimburse it for security related expenses. Denver has budgeted $25 million of that for purchases of equipment. So, we have asked under the Colorado Open Records Laws for information about the budgeting and expenditure of that public money. Denver has resisted providing any details and so we do have a lawsuit trying to get disclosure of that information. Another of the lawsuits, also under the Open Records Act, just seeks the Policy and Procedure Manual for Denver’s prearraignment detention facility, the city jail. It is were recent arrestees are taken. We have concerns about how prepared Denver is for what might be mass arrests of protesters during the convention.

AMY GOODMAN: Is there clearing out of the jails going on right now?

MARK SILVERSTEIN: I do not know the answer to that. I do know that in discussions, almost a year ago now, the ACLU and other groups asked the city officials, could you—in the case of minor violations of the law, how about giving someone a notice to appear in court rather than making a full custodial arrest that requires taking someone to a detention facility, processing them, and having them post bond? The police response at that time is—well, that would require a change of policy. Our current policy, we were told, was that for protests, they do not give citations, they make full custodial arrests.

A couple months later, there was a demonstration with 80 people sitting in the street in symbolic protest of Columbus Day. They were all arrested, taken to the city jail. And even after they had posted their bond money, some of them –- it took six, eight, ten, twelve hours to be released. And we have written to city, saying, look, if the city jail is overwhelmed by only 80 arrests of protesters, what is going to happen if Denver, like New York City in 2004, has over 1000 people arrested? We are afraid the city jail just is not prepared for that many arrests, that that would overwhelm the staffing and infrastructure of the jail. So, we were trying to get the policies of the jail for this and for other reasons. And the city essentially said, no, we cannot release that to you for security reasons. So, we filled that lawsuit under the Open Records Laws and have already gotten most of the policies.

They are emptying the jails?  Seems to me like they should empty the INTENSIVE CARE UNITS....

HEY COPS!!!  QUICK!!!  Gotta stop that 75 year old lady from....carrying a sign and yelling!!!

YO DENVER.  DNC.  PEOPLE.  GET REAL..... (sigh)

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

I Hope This Isn’t True….

If it is, it’s really sad for Elizabeth and the kids......

Barack Obama’s VP shortlist might have gotten shorter: The National Enquirer yesterday published a story claiming it had caught John Edwards meeting with an alleged mistress and illegitimate child. Then again, the Enquirer hasn’t been able to produce quotes, photos or even eyewitness accounts. And the mainstream media seems to be ignoring it, for the most part.

I would suppose they are ignoring it for Elizabeth’s sake.  Then again, they didn’t give a shit about Chelsea Clinton when they raked Bill over the coals....

One of the commenters said that the hotel’s surveillance video has it all on record, and I also read that the security person also saw it all.

Ken Layne says this is why the media is playing ostrich....

But nobody wants to touch it, and not just because the unseemly National Enquirer is the main source. The scandal is unmentionable because it’s a story that makes everybody look bad—nobody gets any political points for advancing the strange tale of John Edwards and Rielle Hunter.

Since 2006, there have been stories about Edwards and the New York woman he hired to produce little web videos for his campaign website. The news first appeared in Newsweek, which is not a tabloid, and which noted that Edwards met Hunter in a New York bar. The “webisodes” he hired her to make were notable enough to earn a mention in Business Week (also not a tabloid), which even posted one of the now-rare segments. Then the videos she produced—for a reported $114,000, which is pretty good money to make some clips for a website—were all mysteriously removed from Edwards’ political action site. That was reported last September by political reporter Sam Stein at the Huffington Post, not by a tabloid.

Speaking of Huffington Post.....this Lee Stranahan article is pretty good.  And he is right.  I think eventually the media will Have to address it.  And it WILL hurt the party.

It’s still very sad.  If it’s not true, or if it is, his family has to go through this crap.

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Sunday, July 27, 2008

It’s Not Convention YET…..

All y’all Superdelegates still have time to change your minds....Hillary still hasn’t released her delegates.......’cuz if Obama IS the Democratic nominee, you’re gonna get another Republican in the White House, no matter WHICH way you vote.

Politico is reporting that Obama’s “Democratic” search team has put up Ann Veneman for a VP candidate??????  WTF????  This isn’t April Fool’s Day, is it???

Barack Obama’s vice presidential search team has floated the name of a member of President Bush’s first-term Cabinet, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, as Obama’s running mate.

The search committee, now led by Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder, raised Veneman’s name — among others — in discussions with members of Congress, said two Democrats familiar with the conversations.

The mention of Veneman’s name surprised Democratic lawmakers. The low-profile Republican was close to food and agriculture industries but clashed with farm-state Democrats and environmentalists during her tenure, which lasted from 2001 to 2004.

Thanks to Crooks and Liars for exposing yet another Crook and Liar…

And to Digby’s commenters for starting to regret the Kool-Aid....there’s room in PUMA for You.....

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