The Most Terrifying Rumor in Radnor

Better look lively Radnor. Rumor has it that the quid pro quo for Bill Spingler working for candidates to get Radnor a Democratic Majority is he gets to be Prez come January? That is a horrifying thought....

Hmmmmm, better not let that happen....all the progress will go right out of Radnor....

Not that any of this is unexpected, is it? After all, Bill Spingler never does anything unless something is in it for him, does he?

Only thing Bill doesn't get, is he can't control the chatter over the lunch counter.....people do chat, don't they? Sometimes they just don't pay attention to who else is listening to that cell phone call, right?

All the political dies hards better stop talking and get busy....

Up In the Clouds of Delusion: Delco Republican Party Chairman Tom Judge

Delco Republican Party Chairman Tom Judge said he was shocked by the Republicans’ loss in Radnor....“They were out campaigning every night,” he said. “There was no break, they were there and I certainly appreciate it. The committee people got the vote out and that’s the most important thing.”

HUH????? That IS the stupidest thing I ever heard. Seriously, did he see the crap the Radnor Republicans foisted on an unsuspecting populous as "campaign literature"? Did he check out the candidates? Has he checked out the candidates in the last few years? Were any traffic accidents the result of those god damn stupid school board signs?

ROFL. Up in the clouds of delusions that one is....Psssst? Has anyone seen Mimi Auchincloss yet? Rumor has it she was in seclusion yesterday? Has she sent out a post election wrap up? Or is she still working on the spin? Will Tom Judge end up being the only Delco Elephant sailing off into retirement? Or will the Meemster follow suit?

My goodness, politics sure will get more fun 'round Radnor now I think....but again, don't go crazy...no stimulus money to buy Land Rovers in Wayne....

Party leaders pleased with election outcome
Published: Thursday, November 5, 2009

It was simple math and abysmal voter turnout that nixed Democratic countywide candidates’ chances in Tuesday’s election, according to county Democratic Party Chairman Cliff Wilson.

“We now have a registration in most places that is fairly competitive, in some places where there’s an edge,” said Wilson. “(But) if we get every one in four of ours out (to vote) and they get every one in three out, they win.”

Democrats did make substantial gains in Millbourne, Radnor, Chester and on the William Penn School Board, which went Democratic for the first time in 30 years. But Republicans had the better night, with solid wins countywide and in Haverford, Sharon Hill, Morton, Norwood, Ridley Park, Marple and Nether Providence.

.....He noted that even in Radnor, the GOP county candidates still beat their Democratic opponents. That points to voters being more motivated by local issues than party affiliation in areas Republicans lost, said Reilly, which means his party is still alive and well despite the gradual equalizing of voter registration in the county over the past several elections.

Delco Republican Party Chairman Tom Judge said he was shocked by the Republicans’ loss in Radnor as much as he was by a win in Sharon Hill, which went Democratic in the 2007 municipal election, but he was not surprised by how well the countywide candidates did.

“They were out campaigning every night,” he said. “There was no break, they were there and I certainly appreciate it. The committee people got the vote out and that’s the most important thing.”

This was Judge’s last election as chairman of the party, a position he has held for 34 years. He is expected to become “chairman emeritus” following a special election Nov. 10 to select an interim chairman that would serve out the remainder of Judge’s term to April 2012. Reilly said he is the only candidate to have filed a petition for that position with a special party election board.

Who is Watching Us Eat on The Main Line?

Ok even more super creepy then a cyberstalker, is this little thing in Philadelphia Magazine for November, 2009 in their PulseChatter on page 24 which talks about hidden cameras in upscale restaurants including an unnamed Main Line Restaurant. Ok yes, it sounds like a bad episode of "Cheaters" but seriously, if people aren't supposed to record your conversation without permission, what about filming you without your permission?

It's just creepy because where are the cameras? Are there any in the ladies room? The men's room? Where? And which restaurant on the Main Line does this?

Boy gentlemen, better watch that happy hour Tom Foolery, huh? Because we all know the Main Line is famous for high fallutin' boys who take that wedding band off and pretend they are slezoid singles once in a while, don't we? And every time I see one of those men in particular smiling with his wife in the society pages, why it just is enough to make me barf.

Pulse Article
Restaurants: Say Cheese!
Where your dinner and Big Brother intersect
By Don Steinberg

In these high-tech times, the fact that you may be videotaped by hidden cameras while you dine in your favorite restaurant may not be as surprising as it is creepy. But more and more restaurants are going the surveillance route. Melissa Scully, director of operations for Garces Restaurant Group, points cameras at entrances of all five of Jose Garces’s places, for security. The owner of one upscale Main Line restaurant has no fewer than nine cameras installed in his place. “It makes you feel comfortable that you can see what’s going on,” he says.

.....Turning the cameras on tables is the newer development: Our Main Line restaurateur says he does watch diners live via laptop when he’s not in the building...While restaurateurs still likely care more about that fork than the guy who dropped it, in this surveillance society, it doesn’t take much imagination to envision where this could be headed. Consider Doohan’s advice: “Married men: Don’t bring your girlfriend.”

Hmmm, what is the moral of this story? Don't pick your nose in public.

Just Snarky Has A Cyberstalker!

Well blog faithful, I thought I would point out that for some reason unknown to me, people claiming to be Lisa Paolino and Michael Sembello seem obsessed...with my blog? Seriously aren't they supposed to be busy saving the world or something? Shouldn't they be on a honeymoon canoodling somewhere?

On October 14th, I put up a post about something in a local magazine that made me giggle. It was kind of an end note to a drama filled saga. Well, it brought back Radnor's apparent undead in a slew of comments under this post.

The latest comment appears to have the true chracteristics of stalking and harassment:

October 30, 2009 6:52 AM
Michael Sembello said...
By the way, as a follow up, I find it Interesting that you will only post comments that you screen which happen to be negative about most people without checking you facts. I challenge you to put my comments on your page. I do have the ability to find out who you are and will not stop confronting people like you until you speak with me personally. I would like to know what you do for a living and wouldn't it be better to put the time that you take to run a negative blog into something positive. You don't know me and I don't know you, but maybe if we had a nice conversation, we could help change the world and promote positive thinking. For example, I will send you videos and photos of all of the children that Lisa and I just helped in catastrophe stricken Indonesia.

OK first of all, I have published all of their asinine comments they have sent me to date. (And newsflash, I am under no obligation, moral or otherwise to do so as this is my blog.) I even gave them their own snarkalicious post that they seemed to crave like a pair of publicity whores over their apparent nuptials.

But noooooooo....the obsessive behavior continues.

This is my response:

Dear Michael,
Hello? This is MY blog. Not yours. Not Lisa's. And if this is Michael I would be surprised. Either that or you are as egomaniacal as Lisa, huh? Because y'all are a wee bit too obsessive for the purported jet setting power couple you claim to be.

Lisa always accuses her critics of not fact checking, it is her M.O., her raison d'être.

If you wish to threaten people like Lisa has spent her whole life doing, knock yourself out. But seriously, for someone who wants to have a nice conversation it is sure Sybil like to then threaten me isn't it? Again why I think this is Lisa.

I am not going to promote your social agendas, it's not what I care about. If you want to start a blog devoted to your charitable mission that is simply marvy, but I do not work for you, nor would I care to. You see, if I had the voice you claim to have, I would concentrate on the issues that plague people in this country, the one that gave you birth: The United States.

As for this little snippet of yours:

"I do have the ability to find out who you are and will not stop confronting people like you until you speak with me personally. I would like to know what you do for a living"

There is a thing called stalking and harassment. And right now, you are bordering on both.

I talk about a lot of things on my blog, but truly, Lisa Paolino has never been the focus as much as she would like to be. You are not on my radar, what you do with your life is not on my radar...don't you get it? I don't care.

Go away. Live your life in Florida, do your thing. Your obsessiveness, Lisa, will always be your undoing.

I mean what the fuck? She's yesterday's news, and she claims to be a publicist? Do they seriously think Cyberharassment and Cyberstalking will get them the recognition they want for their new charitable endeavors?

This guy Sembello is supposed to be a big deal, professional musician? Oy vey. What a matched set they make if this is him.

Each comment is a little more spiraled out of control. It is indeed an interesting psychological study in pathological behavior. If any other blogger is being harassed by these people, please, feel free to share.