So those hyper political kids blogging away over at the SAC blogs and over at PhillyFoibles say that Chief of Police John Rutty is resigning or retiring? Isn't he like a home grown kind of fellow?
Well, he's not old, but is certainly a "lifer" as he has been around for what? Maybe 25 or 30 years? Would y'all think he could retire with a sweet pension by now if he so chose?
Philly Foibles referred to "Aunt Clem", which must be Clementina MacRone (or MACRONE)...it's a darn shame there is no history of Auntie Clementina anywhere, right? It's all kinda urban legend (and if folks want to tell the tale, but all means)...I'm not nearly old enough to remember all the tales of the Radnor Township power brokers of yore...
So is Rutty in or is Rutty out? And if Rutty is out, who is on tap to take the nod as Chief of Police? Or will Radnor learn from their mistakes and bring in an outsider? Those fine boys in blue are in many cases fine indeed to look at, but some of them are a little too storm trooper, eh? Maybe it's their outfits? They look like city cops don't they with those suqashed down caps?
But anyway, enough about outfits and attitudes, who knows what?
And if yet another person is leaving Radnor, who will run the township? Is Bashore around somewhere whispering "Après moi, le déluge?" or is he jetting off for another interview? And is it true 2 Radnor employees got suspended and if so will it matter with that funky made up accruak system that was à la Bashore?
Where is the media on this? Why is it all of this Radnor stuff comes out on blogs and then some reporeter somewhere chases it? Doesn't anyone talk to reporters anymore?
Radnor sure is getting stranger and stranger. Anyway, if you know something, weigh in?
And where is our girl Lisa in all this? Getting a tan somewhere?
So Bernie got 150 years and his "poor" wife now rides the subway? So where are the assets hidden? Do people really think stuff isn't squirreled away somewhere? And I love those victims I saw on CNN this morning. How could they NOT have suspected something was wrong? See I have this theory and that is when people are riding the greedy train and times are good, no one looks at the fine print.
Yet when times change?? All of a sudden they look at what they should have been looking at all along? Was it better when times were easy because when times are easy you aren't counting the pennies as closely? HUH? I count my pennies all the time, not just when the Dow Jones is freaking out....
Take local Madoff Joseph Forte for example? So he was found out and now he has been sentenced...and yes I feel sorry for these investors too, but after a fashion, should I? Shouldn't they have been more aware of who they were doing business with? I mean his background was not really financial, was it? Yet because all these folks were greedy and wanted to get rich quick, Forte sucked them in, didn't he?
I see it as the same with Bernie Madoff. He made off with their money, but why weren't all these folks watching the store? I think Bernie helped a great deal with tanking our economy, so where is his apology to me?
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A federal judge sentenced Bernard Madoff, the convicted mastermind of the largest and most sweeping Ponzi scheme ever, to the maximum sentence of 150 years in federal court Monday.
Judge Denny Chin of U.S. District Court in New York announced the sentence just moments after Madoff apologized to his victims.
Chin, who called Madoff's crimes "extraordinarily evil," said the maximum sentence was important for deterrence, and also for the victims, many of whom erupted into applause after the judge announced the sentence. Many hugged and some of them broke down in tears.
Shortly before he received his sentence, Madoff offered an apology.
"I live in a tormented state for all the pain and suffering I created," he said. "I left a legacy of shame. It is something I will live with for the rest of my life."
A federal judge sentenced Bernard L. Madoff to 150 years in prison on Monday for operating a huge Ponzi scheme that devastated thousands of people, calling his crimes “extraordinarily evil.”
In pronouncing the sentence — the maximum he could have handed down — Judge Denny Chin turned aside Mr. Madoff’s own assertions of remorse and rejected the suggestion from Mr. Madoff’s lawyers that there was a sense of “mob vengeance” surrounding calls for a long prison term.
“Objectively speaking, the fraud here was staggering,” the judge said. “It spanned more than 20 years.”
The sentencing came at the end of a 90-minute hearing in which victims of the $65 billion fraud told a packed courtroom that the judge should show no mercy and Mr. Madoff himself stood up from the defense table to acknowledge the damage he had inflicted and express regret.
(See more photos from T&P Fine Art in Philadelphia HERE)
Are the men in blue at Philadelphia Police HQ practising once guilty always guilty? This article today by Monica Yant Kinney presents a really creepy tale. About an artist whom I never heard of (not that I am such an expert, I just don't go to many openings) named Justin Nagtalon who goes by El Toro.
Justin Nagtalon made mistakes. But he swears he saw the light after getting caught leaving his mark on the world illegally in 2007.
"I did graffiti. I stopped. I realized, 'I'm 25. This is juvenile,' " recalled Nagtalon, a Philadelphia graphic designer and artist known as El Toro. "I did my community service. The system actually worked for me."
Since then, Nagtalon has drawn and painted his two-legged alter ego - a cartoonish, beanie-wearing bull also named El Toro - exclusively on stickers and canvases. Nagtalon, now 26, sells pieces at gallery shows for $200.
And yet, as I type, more than a dozen of the artist's paintings are being held hostage by the Philadelphia Police Department in one of the most unorthodox and creepy investigations I've ever seen. One of the city's most successful civil-rights lawyers calls the case "bizarre."
Around 3:20 p.m. June 19, uniformed officers entered the T&P Fine Art gallery near Ninth Street and Passyunk Avenue, where Nagtalon had a month-long show.
"I asked if I could help them," gallery manager Gina Tibbott told me. "They said they were here for El Toro's artwork."...."I asked if they needed any paperwork to do that," like a warrant, Tibbott recalled. "They said no."
Ninth District Officer James Quick did the talking...Quick had been hunting Nagtalon for months, but the artist had no idea the person behind the cat-and-bull game was a cop. In e-mails and on the photo-sharing Web site Flickr, Quick does not use his real name, title, or affiliation. He calls himself "The Police!!" and writes from an AOL account.
In February, The Police!! posted photos of Nagtalon with mocking messages. The artist was stumped.
"It could have been a cop. It could have been a 13-year-old I met at an art show," he said. "Whoever it was spooked the hell out of me."....After the raid, Quick ramped up his taunting. "When I hear from you we'll talk about different ways how we can handle this," he e-mailed June 20. "The more you cooperate the less trouble for both of us. I hate doing paperwork." That unsigned message came from PhilaPolice9th@aol.com. A police spokesman confirmed to me that Quick had written it, but it should be noted Quick did not identify himself or use city e-mail.
On Monday, Quick posted a photo of one of Nagtalon's paintings with a message, "Wanted by The Police!!" Then a version appeared with Nagtalon's driver's license photo on the "Wanted" sign.
Uhh, how many rights are being violated here? Has the Gestapo been reborn?
So we have an artist who used to be underground, and then he goes mainstream, yet he's still underground and guilty? Then we have a cop who seems a little Rambo named James Quick ? Who goes by "The Police!!" who seems like a cyber stalker and uses an e-mail PhilaPolice9th@aol.com ? And they confiscated an artist's work at a gallery opening? Someone been watching too many Law & Order reruns? Where was the warrant? Where was the probable cause? Where was the regard for an artist's rights?
Something seems funky here. I think this artist is more of a victim than anything else. I think he deserves his work back, and I hope he sues the City of Philadelphia and goes on Oprah or the Today Show or something to tell his tale (and makes a lot of money). This is totally frightening to me. It makes me fearful of the police who are protecting us, and is that unreasonable? And here I thought only Radnor and Lower Merion had over zealous cops? Who is to protect us from those who are supposed to protect and serve if they go off the farm like this? Will I get threats for voicing an opinion based in concern?
When I googled PhilaPolice9th@aol.com , this is what I got:
June 27, 2009 9:36 AM Anonymous said... Snark: Where do we post to start a new topic? I feel strongly that Radnor Township should address this issue------- We were in downtown Wayne last night, looking for a spot to eat. The newly opened (just about a month) Freehouse has already closed for good. I guess raw sewage spewing in the kitchen didn't do much for business. Talking to another restaurateur: it's on the market in the $700 K range. The place could never attract a clientele with all of its openings, closings, name/chef changes and then grand reopening --reverting to the Freehouse name that didn't work the first time around.
On Lancaster Avenue, the new Yum and Bum baby shop is already shutting down. Was that eight months it was in business? A pathetically barren Blue Horse Gift Shop has opened across the street where the short-lived antique shop was for half a year. The place has been open a week and it already has a 20% sale wall. Another beauty salon/spa (yawn) is under construction on the peaceful, soothing corner of US30 and Wayne Avenue, across the street from plus-size clothing store, void of human large gals it's supposed to serve. New rumor mill: The Finer Things In Life (more gifts) could be moving to that same strip of US30. Is the town of Wayne doing anything to try to solicit quality, needed commerce AND most importantly, doing anything to help sustain it, besides promoting Friday night hours and sidewalk sides? Yes, these building have different landlords who serve their own interests, but can't they, the Township and (imagine) a group of citizens come up with some direction? A steering committee to help set the direction of downtown business? We're all embarassed by the empty storefronts. And, often equally embarassed by what moves in when a lease is signed.
Got a request this morning to show you all photos from an anti-billboard protest. I will be happy to do so as billboards are not a good accessory for any commmunity - soooo tacky. This has to do with all that who shot john over billboards in Delaware County..including Bryn Mawr. UGGGGGLLLLY...
Oh hello Captain Hypocrite! You know, I am going to be snarcastic, because I just want to know, is it a prerequisite when you decide to run for governor that behind it all you are a lying cheating son of a bitch? Mind you, am I upset by this guy's affair? How can you be upset when this is what you expect from elected officials?
Hah! I keep waiting for new Rendell stuff to surface, anyone else concur? Only a matter of time considering his large appetites, shall we say?
I love it that the GOP wants to sing some moral high ground, that in truth, no longer exists in this country. All those god fearing, family values spouting bullshit artists. HAH! Democrats, Republicans, doesn't matter. Our young are getting the following reinforcement:
Wow, a lot of us grew up with Farrah...remember the Charlie's Angels dolls? Sigh...Farrah Fawcett is dead at 62...I can't even believe she was that old? She was one of those forever young people...Audrey Hepburn she was not, but nevertheless she was an "it" girl of our time.
Farrah Fawcett, an actress, television star and pop-culture phenomenon whose good looks and signature leonine hairstyle influenced a generation of women and, beginning with a celebrated pinup poster, bewitched a generation of men, died on Thursday in Santa Monica, California, according to Paul Bloch, her spokesman. She was 62 and had been battling cancer since late 2006.
...Let me count the ways...take this delightful YouTube for example:
Bill O'Reilly probably only has her one so he can (a)do her (b) whack off to her whack factor under the desk...sorry to be base about it, but again, this is why I refer to it as the Fox Made Up News Network...fa la la la la..that is more than enough brain power devoted to these two media sluts for one day....fa la la la la...
Last word? How can they call her a columnist? That is like calling Sarah Palin a politician to be emulated, isn't it?
I was out of town an couple of days, and look what the snarkometer picked up? Main Line Today Magazine has named this blog BEST LOCAL BLOG!!!
Why this is like winning a virtual Pullitzer! How delightful! Thanks!! Seriuosly, what fun! Oh and just for the record of the comment underneath where justsnarky is mentioned?
This comment:
Posted by Anonymous Is it true that the only way that you are truely picked as a "Best of the Mainline" is to be an advertiser in the magazine?
Uhhh..I certainly do not advertise anywhere, this publication sought out this blog as you can see right here.
Speaking of which, here is the blog interview in it's final form:
MLT: This is completely unrelated to anything except your hilarious and, yes, snarky blog. I LOVE IT. It’s about my favorite thing—so much so that I’d like to profile on you for Main Line Today. I’m guessing that you’d like to remain anonymous.
Justsnarky: I’m floored and amused at the same time. But here is how this works: Who I am is who I choose to be, and while I have a fab collection of hats and sunglasses, I am just a virtually available gal at this point. If you want me just the way I am, this is how it’s done: You leave me the questions you want answered on a comment to the blog, and I’ll answer you on the blog.
MLT: Since we’re on the subject of anonymity, here’s my first question: Why do you choose to remain anonymous?
JS: I ask, “Why not?” And who really cares in the bigger scheme of things? Everyone likes an air of mystery, so why such a big deal? Who cares—except those who might not like what a user of a nom de plume has to say? Except some disgruntled politicians?
MLT: Well, I suppose we could go on about the pros and cons of anonymity. But for now, let’s enjoy the mystery. I suspect that if you were public, you’d be hearing from more than a few unhappy politicians. That might really make you snarky. Speaking of which, I just looked up the term, and Dictionary.com came back with this: rudely sarcastic or disrespectful, snide. Also: irritable, short-tempered; irascible. Judging from your blog posts, all would seem to apply. What makes you so darn snarky?
JS: LOL. The funny thing about it is, when I chose the blog name, I just thought it was catchy as much as anything else. I wanted something fun. Now, whether my content is great or not is probably open to debate, but at least I try to be amusing and not take myself too seriously ... or politicians, either. I started this blog for me—no one else. I never realized people actually looked at it until I put on a counter. Have you ever done a Web-only interview before?
MLT: No, you’re my first. Did you start blogging because your point of view wasn’t represented in the mainstream media? Were you looking for other people who were more like you, or are you a lonely voice in the wilderness seeking company?
JS: OMG, no “Desperate Housewife” here, sister! I’m neither a lonely voice nor in the wilderness. I just started doing this because it was kicky. When it stops being fun or I get bored, I’ll stop.
MLT: Well, there’s no shortage of stuff to talk about—that’s for sure. But how do you find the time to follow it all?
JS: I watch the news and read some newspapers. And I admit I love NPR and prefer CNN to Fox “We Make Up the News” Network. An active mind is not such a bad thing to have—especially when the brains of some of my beloved friends have turned to applesauce. I look at blogs this way: It gives one the opportunity to say all those things they’d love to say at cocktail parties or dinner parties that wouldn’t be considered appropriate.
MLT: What do you think of the argument that blogs may have contributed to the political polarization of the country, since people can now just read whatever reinforces their point of view?
JS: Political polarization? Um, I think both political parties have done that on their own with what they put on the Web and elsewhere. Don’t blame bloggers, or assume the public is stupid. We’re not.
—Sara Robins
Well I guess my blog has arrived, tho' some days I am still not sure where it is going....thank you all for reading my blog.
The first one was from that sweet thing who makes those fab hats - yes Jackie's Hat Box gave me a mention - referred to la blog as colorful.
But today I noticed and then I got distracted by the joys of everyday life - slugs in the damn garden (well what do you want since it appears they have moved the Philadelphia area to Seattle for June)- but anyway, this fun new blog which is proving to be more snarkalicious than moi gave me a very seriously wonderbar mention:
Every once in awhile (okay, every week) I think I am wasting my time here. If no one reads it, you can’t even tick people off. Am I accomplishing anything or just whistling in the elevator? But last week we got tagged by a ‘blog we have been reading for a long time… Just Snarky. A great ‘blog with a great name, good writing and some very cool graphics. Thanks. It made our day!
Soooooo.....is it true that some in Radnor had a retreat to the State O' Maine? Who was the host? Was that a certain David Blake? And was that David Bashore around too? And Malloy Man and Piggy Blomstrom? What, no Osborne or was he skulking about in the woods in camouflage with infrared binoculars?
Anyway, thanks for the hot tip, please feel free to comment if you know more...I am soooo disappointed I wasn't invited....to be a fly on the cabin wall must have been interesting, huh?
So were all these kids always so friendly? And if this is true, why would current employees be going off with former employees? Why a meeting of the Radnor Bund?
Think of all the taxes being paid to special counsels, interim managers, interim solicitors? mmmmm,mmmmm,mmmmm...be it ever so inappropriate, there is no place like Radnor?
She's sick...yep, that is what she phoned in from her convalescence site...wherever that may be...She claims she is still serving her ward even though she is not going to meetings? How can that be? If a lot of the business of government should be transparent, does this give a new spin on behind closed doors? If she's so sick she can't go to meetings, how can she be out and about serving her constituents?
But when does she speak up? After Radnor residents ask the commissioners in a public meeting? WTF, Commissioner?? And she could do this until 2011? Will the next thing be a video link into the Radnor Township Building during meetings?
OMG. If she's really ill, I am really sorry...this just seems funky, huh?
In 2008 Radnor Township commissioner Lisa Paolino (Ward 5) missed only two of 21 public Board of Commissioners meetings — an excellent rate of attendance.
But this year she has only attended four out of 12 public meetings so far, and two that she missed were significant votes on the fate of the township’s former manager.
On Monday night two Radnor residents were the first to broach the subject in public, asking who was representing the constituents of the Fifth Ward on the board and commenting that her seventh vote is indeed important.
“I haven’t been attending due to medical reasons,” Paolino told Main Line Suburban Life Tuesday. “Just because I can’t attend and sit there for four hours for medical reasons doesn’t mean that I’m not performing my duties as a commissioner.”
And she maintains that she is indeed still active as a commissioner in the Fifth Ward, which is the Bryn Mawr section of Radnor Township. She is being paid the small stipend that commissioners receive quarterly....None of the six other commissioners has commented on Paolino’s absence in a public meeting.
Paolino has not said anything about resigning, but if she were to resign, the remainder of the board would appoint a person to temporarily fill her post until the next election, during which a special election would be held to fill out the remainder of Paolino’s term, which ends in 2011.
(On this see comments starting at 16:26 to like 20:12)
Check out the news on Round Radnor! WOW ! OH WOW! Who knows what? Where? When? How? Darlings, I can hardly contain my snarky self this morning at the joyous news that finally they discussed the elephant in the room at a Radnor meeting last night: as in where is Lisa Paolino, defender of the Republican faith? Where is our champion of justice, fair play,hard work, and naming public parks after section 8 housing in Philly?
Would that be hardly working?
Finally, people spoke...will Radnor act? Or will they ignore this? Radnor has a charter, right? So surely if one politician is glaringly MIA and aren't undergoing a sex change operation or some other involved medical procedure or have been committed somewhere, shouldn't they open their otherwise big mouth and say what's up? Or just resign and be done with it? After all, doesn't she get reimbursed for expenses or get some sort of paycheck for being a commissioner? What is the return on that investment, duckies?
Well...my oh my...will the papers cover this, or gloss over it? Who out there knows what? Maybe she did not know to go to the firehouse? I noticed from looking at YouTube that the meeting was at the firehouse as had been previously announced?
And why is Aimee Cuthbertson leaving really? Anyone looking into John Osborne, or is he just continuing to have his way with trashcans on his endless search for swingers he can be voyeuristic over? And how is dear old Dave? Is he selling his house yet? Moving? Suing? Playing golf? Ohhhh, darling chickens, doooo dish....this is more fun than the Bachelorette drama!!!
And oh my gosh, thank you whomever left the comment to check this out next - please note since all you left was a link I did not publish the comment...
We are pretty certain that you HAVE to be a lawyer to live in Radnor Township. Sorry sir, it’s the law.
So why is the Township so mis-managed? They just fired long time Township Manager David Bashore for alleged financial improprieties. However, while it is no defense of Bashore, the Township Commissioners appear to have been,
(a) complicit, (b) asleep, (c) addled, (d) all of the above.
Now the Township Commission has JUMPED into action. Lisa Paolino is making car arrangements so that she can actually attend a meeting. Enrique Hervada is seeing a therapist to find out why he is always so darn cranky, John Fisher is hoping to be Ben Stein’s understudy (Bueller? Bueller? anybody?) Commissioner Higgins is still trying to find the men’s room. Billy Spingler is laughing, can’t believe his numbskull constituents haven’t seen through him yet. Hank Mahoney has his head in his hands. He can’t believe John Osborne beat him. He still remembers when he had a reputation and was a respected member of the community…. “I coulda been somebody, I coulda been a contenduh, I coulda been Clint Stuntebeck instead of a bum… which is what I am.” And then there is Chairman Tom Masterson… a lawyer who advertises on the back of buses! Folks how many times do we have to tell you?! Lawyers who advertise on buses are one of the portents of the Apocalypse!
When are you Radnorites going to throw the bums out?
Screw You Sarah Palin, you ignorant twit. You wanted to be in the public eye, that includes taking your lumps with comedians and political pundits.
Your one daughter got knocked up in high school. I find that disgusting. So you can't have it both ways - you can't be an apparent advocate of teen pregnancy and then say but I don't want jokes about it.
What David Letterman said? It's called a joke you freak.
So now there is going to be a protest outside Letterman's studio regarding this? What bullshit.
You wanted the spotlight Sarah Palin, you political media slut? Well now you've got it.
David Letterman admitted pangs of regret over jokes he made last week about Sarah Palin's daughter.
He may be regretting them a little more now.
A Web site called www.FireDavidLetterman.com is organizing a rally outside Letterman's show at the Ed Sullivan theater on Tuesday June 16 at 4:30 p.m.
And while Letterman has repeatedly reminded viewers his comments were jokes, the campaign's organizers seem dead serious about getting the late-night stalwart canned.
See Dave, you shouldn't have apologized. She just wants media attention...again...Go back to Alaska, Caribou Barbie, and take your bullshit with you...not that I have anything against Alaska...
So let's start with this photo - looks like the gang walk of shame for Prom Refugees. Not as good as this RHS walk down memory lane...I dunno, I remember when it was cool to look young...why do these high school girls want to look so old? I mean half of their mamas are undoubtedly hitting the botox, and their daughters, well now, they are looking a little too old for so young, eh? So, ok, have been saving up the snark factor. Sometimes I just get sick of the bullshit and observe a while. And god knows the Main Line has a lot to observe...
Alas, I had to pass up a Real Housewife Interaction last week in Bryn Mawr...my Christian Louboutins were in the shop...some of my girl friends went, and oh my god, I had not seen them so excited since Shaun Cassidy was on the cover of Tiger Beat ...But there is an upside, I discovered a FABULOUS new blog devoted to apparently mocking the Real Housewives called The Real Housewives Are Nuts! Love it!
But I did not miss the opportunity to be in a nice box that doubled as an observation deck at the Devon Horse Show...and....for example, I observed that those women who try to pretend they are to the Main Line Manor Born should just give it up. And the bunch of you gals who think we aren't noticing those wee nips of whatever you are drinking these days? Hello, try AA on for size, you are not fooling anyone - just because it's a whole grain, it doesn't mean that liquor is organic - or you- the only thing y'all are is pickled. The hats, however, were kind of fabulous and so was that snarky Carson Kressley. What was an utter bore? Those ladies who were chatting about "upsizing" their engagement rings...think that is the term...ladies, what up with the bling one upsmanship? Go to the Jewelry Factory in Norristown and call it a day, because, like who cares? Are you all that self-focused that you can no longer wear the ring your better half bought you when he actually still loved your sorry shopoholic asses? Puleaze..can't you iChat about it from the privacy of your own Barbie's Dream House? But umm...watch it I hear Barbie's sister Skipper's house is on sheriff's sale this month...but I snarkgress...
And umm, can we dish? What is up with the online schizophrenic e-zine All Around Main Line? They do dating too? That website cracks me up - it can't decide what it is, so it's a mish mosh...and the comments left on the site, are stilted and just read like whoever is doing the site is posting their own comments too?
And before I go further, check out the even photos on Susan Scovill's website. Remind me again why Carol Springer wasn't the one put out to pasture?
What is up at Eastern College? They have all these events - do they pay mercantile tax to Radnor? Something on the 23rd of June are having two shows - why isn't Radnor collecting taxes, even an "amusement tax"? And this weekend's piano sales? And let us not forget our favorite charity case student at Eastern and her brood of tax sucking kids Radnor residents are paying to educate? How about Ms. Jackie O'Connor moves her on over to Newtown Square? I don't give fart what people say, I have read and re-read the article Suburban Journal: Say Goodbye to Collom Street, and sorry, I smell a scammer in suburbia...sure someone will roll up on this blog and have something to say about that, but hey, it's a free country.
And let's see, what else? Ok what up with those creepy looking Valley Forge cadets hanging in Wayne? I don't like that school - it breeds militaristic freaks and messed up druggie kids. Adds a certain urban flair to happy suburban downtown Lily Pullizter-fied Wayne, yes?
But you know that Valley Forge Military Academy, it's just a home to swine flu....and of course it seems they told people after the fact, but they do that a lot...and oh yes, Valley Forge Military Academy is now suing alumni too. The alumni want to toss the VFMAC College Prez over misappropriation of funds or something utterly Radnor like. And the VFMAC wants to double the size of it's campus someone told me? Oh goody, more crazy Tom Cruises to float around town. I am sorry but I think that school is creepy, and do kids go there because they want to or because their parents do not know what to do with them? What do I wonder? Will anyone get shot at summer camp this summer? Maybe Chastity Bono will be a camp counselor at the school after "his" sex change operation?
And what about the fake rug sales at Radnor's notorious Italian American Club? Anyone gotten at least one of those messed up flyers on the mail? That is a commercial enterprise renting a facility, so shouldn't Radnor be getting some sort of tax to make up that $4 million budget shortfall?
And speaking of Radnor, is Lisa Paolino coming back to work? I hope not. Retire already. Get married again, learn to knit, but pullleaze, stop pretending you are a politician, okay?
And what's up with the crabmeister letter in MLSL this week about that farm market for Sunday's in Wayne? You know the one written by one of God's faithful bitching about dirty housewives and subversive organic veggies? Mr. Daniel Toner I don't like your tone and dude, blue laws have been dead in PA a loooooonnnngg time. Glad to know you are such a God fearing, neighbor loving Christian. What's next dude? Anti-semitism ? Lordy, nothing beats all than a fake Christer who probably puts his kids in chastity belts too.
...here is also a concern about keeping Sunday as a quiet day and a holy day should the township grant permission for use of the lot for such noisy commercial activity. I urge you at the next commissioners meeting on June 15 to initiate action to prevent an open-air food market from causing township residents who attend these churches to be so inconvenienced by such crass commercial activity.
As a practicing attorney, I’m sure you’re familiar with the First Amendment of the Constitution in the Bill of Rights,
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”
It would appear that some may think that the township might be infringing on the First Amendment by permitting use of the parking lot to a commercial group interfering with the free practice of religion
Yes, blue laws no longer exist in Pennsylvania you crabby old jackass...man you are as bad as some other God fearing fakers I know. Ahh yes, on the Main Line, even religion is an excuse to be an asshole. A true Christian would find a way to make this market work, because face it you douche bag, you aren't getting scammed on this as a Radnor resident like that nonsense at the Willows, and is it just me, but does that fenced in land look like Stalag Radnor or what?
And speaking of Radnor, if that Judy Sherry doesn't win her case, nothing much substantive has changed in Delaware County. And oh yes, in other breaking news thanks to some guy with the totally pretentious name of Thaddeus Bartkowski III, soon they will be annexing most of Delaware County to the State of New Jersey. I have to wonder is that his real name or his stripper name?
And speaking of stripper names, how are those temporary employees in Radnor working out? Notice any difference? I haven't, have you?
And what up wit' Greener Partners? You know, where millionaires order their veggies? (Only in truth, I don't know anyone who has signed up for the platinum pricing this year). So if you are really good, you can paint organic veggies and all it will cost you is $75 made payable to the Wayne Art Center?
And oh yes, I forgot to mention when out at Devon, I noticed a familiar name in some events. Sigh...organic veggies is big bizness? As in horses an ponies oh my? And their name showed up in conjunction with the PHS Azalea Garden Party, which seems to be a springboard these days for the upwardly social (polite for yuppie and older social climbers)- Greener Partners gave a silent auction something...is Greener Partners a real non profit? Oh here is one of the slide shows from them - their website leads to flickr:
I must say, Farmer Rick looks like an Orvis Overseer. I love the photo heralding "Skunk Hollow Community Farm" because if it was a community effort, the community would have little plots to grow stuff. The only thing community is the community is donating their park land. These organic grifters should be making a veggie deposit to every Radnor resident...or have let them all in for free at the "Hoedown" But you know what bothers me? Greener Partners claims they are a non-profit, yet NOWHERE do they say what kind. Are they a 501(c)(3) or 501 (c)(4) or do they have an "applied for status"? After all if I go to benefit for them, I want to know, right? Mebbe we should all ask them on their BLOG? I think Radnor folk got snookered by these people. I think people should support the Radnor Conservancy and Friends of the Willows Cottage so Greener Partners can be made to pay rent...for the taxpayer lent land, the cottage, etc. Wish I got a free farmhouse with my job, right?
Here's what they say about themselves:
We are contributing to the resurgence of farming activity within the Greater Philadelphia region by transforming public spaces and underutilized land into community teaching gardens and forward-thinking farms.
Arrrghhhh...but they make money off of this and what is the return on community investment? Yes, it's great the land is being used, but they are using land of taxpayers and true non-profits and I just don't get what those lending the land are getting....
I happened to catch a bit of the Today Show time slot for Kathie Lee & Hoda. I generally try to avoid this part of the Today Show since Kathie Lee is and always will be mind numbing. (Just don't understand why everyone thinks she is so fab - Hoda, however, is real).
So they had this panel of women - writers, comediennes, not sure who - did not catch names-wasn't playing close enough attention.
Anyway they were talking about why women weren't nice to each other...I heard the word snarky ,even (and I wasn't invited!)
So I was listening to these ladies chat (well, not Kathie Lee, she sort of sat there most of the time with that post-menopausal Barbie Doll look she gets on her face.)
I felt like saying DUH, IT HAPPENS BECAUSE OTHER WOMEN ALLOW THE BEHAVIOR.
And wow, come on now,like bitchy starts in kindergarden.
For every stage of your life there are mean girls and bitches.
It starts inocently enough on the swing set, and boom! One day that girl you thought was your friend pushes you off the jungle gym or slide or swing...then it moves to middle school and the lunch table bullshit starts. Whisper, whisper, whisper If you aren't cookie cutter mini me versions of who is doing the whispering you are sunk if you do not stick up for yourself.
In high school the lunch table games continue, and then there are the other wonders of the modern world: cheerleaders. Cheerleaders are saccharin sweet on the outside, vicious mean girls on the outside. They think they are all that and a bag of chips...always found them to be more the camp followers of the football teams if you catch my drift.
In high school, you are just learning to be yourself, but you don't quite get that it is OK to be you and ignore THEM.
College it starts from jump, and if you are at a school with a Greek System, those mean girls and bitches rear their ugly heads during Rush. They can try to make or break your social life...if you let them. During this time, girls Rushing or considering going Greek wait feverishly for those little invitations to be slipped under the door....sigh even I got caught up in it...I got in where I wanted, but not all did on my floor....
Sorority Row bitches are everything made out in Legally Blonde and ever made-for-Lifetime-TV Movie- with Sorority in the theme. I am going to name names with one sorority I find universally obnoxious: the Thetas. Do they seriously think ΚΑΘ t-shirts with pearls (worn with either pony-tail or head band) are a fashion statement? I didn't then, I don't know.
Then you get out of college and you reach the Melrose Place stage of life. Single and hungry makes additional women mean. To them I always thought, well sister, you want him , take him. You'll be miserable as a young haus frau, and I will still be having fun.
The bitches get worse as they get older and come in several varieties: Man Eater Bitches, Fake Religious Bitches, Drunken Slut Bitches, Divorcee Bitches, Social Climbing Bitches,Political Bitches,PTA Bitches, Medicated Bitches, Crazy Charity Committee Bitches, and on the Main Line, Steal Your Husband Bitches and Temporary Lesbian Bitches.
Come on, we've all known them the fake lesbians - they go through nasty divorce and go girl for a short term duration to lick their wounds (pardon the pun). Then they realize it's easier to find some old dude and be a wife again...since they essentially dislike other women, it's hard for them to keep a girl relationship going. I have known of two who have done this - ironically they were a couple, now they are both back to men and remarried. Pretty funny.
The Charity Bitches are a hoot. They will run your ass over to chase after a society page photographer. Half the time they know nothing about the chairty they are one but it's an excuse to spa and shop in advance of events.
There are lots of those along the Main Line and in Philadelphia. You can often spot them at 20 paces: they look like they could mug a hamburger, but you wonder if the botox freezing their face will allow their jaws to work.
Women are mean. I am not mean, but I do not put up with mean girl bullshit as an adult, and there is a difference. I know who I am, they don't. Therein lies the difference. I also was lucky enough to know that from about 7th grade on.
So ladies out there, don't be doormats. Cultivate your inner snarky and your inner bitch to use when appropriate. Because the one thing you can go to the bank on is with regard to true mean girls is eventually everything that goes around, comes around. And with the society set, you can count on 'em to eat their young.
Ok mean girls, come and get me. Can't wait for the behavior justification.
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