Just Not Down With The Farm on This One

Ok, look, I am a fan of community farming...key word is community. Does the entire Radnor community have the ability to grow things at the Willows? All I have seen is one big deer fenced in field is there something I am missing?

Greener Partners seems to use a lot of OPL (Other People's Land). Seriously, they say so right here:

Mr. Ingle co-founded Greener Partners to compel potential partner organizations to take underutilized land holdings and put it into sustainable agriculture using organic growing methods for the benefit of surrounding communities. Core components of this initiative are the education and community outreach programs.....Prior to co-founding Greener Partners, Mr. Ingle has spent much of his career in the finance industry. Mr. Ingle currently serves on the Board of the Tyler Arboretum in Media, PA, Heron Hill Winery located in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, and Brush Street Capital based in Detroit, MI.

Ok so I don't know this Jason guy, but if he has by his own website bio spent a lot of time in the finance indestry - he knows how to make money, right? And if someone answered this somewhere on another blog or a post here, forgive me, but what kind of non-profit status does Greener Partners have? Or is Greener Partners reall a for profit gig dressed in non profit farmer's overalls?

So the other thing is Greener Partners is running a "surplus" market now at the Willows. Do the proceeds go back to the Willows? Is there a permit for them to sell as an open market? Does Radnor make anything on this deal as a township? Don't businesses pay mercantile or business privilege taxes? If perishables are being sold is there a county health requirement in Delaware County?

I think the "surplus" market is a terrific way for people to feel more connected to this CSA thingy...but I still am not crazy about this arrangement...and having listened to the meeting live and then on replay, I have to ask WTF else is going on? If Greener Partners wants to rent the cottage, pay some real green...pay some real rent. And how much is the Radnor Conservancy share of the Greener Partners Farmer's rent at Ardrossan? I think THAT is ridiculous! Greener Partners should be paying to house their farmer no matter where he is. I don't think the Radnor Conservancy should get stuck with that, and furthermore and even more importantly, don't those fustian fuss pot Scott heirs have enough moola that they could just donate the living quarters to this farmer right now?

I really, really, really wish I had a comfort level and understanding of this CSA at the Willows, but every time someone involved opens their mouth it's more CYA on the CSA.

This Dan Sherry was right to ask his questions he ask (see you tube above - he's cute when he's making a point too). And that Spingler? Wowee! Dude has a BAAAAAAD attitude...cranky and unpleasant. He's like a troll. And then of course there was Lisa...all I have to say about the former commissioner is well, she really should have watched all the meeting tapes if she wasn't going to attend them, huh?

Well this is certainly drama....and you know what? If Greener Partners can pay rent, let them stay...but if they don't the perception will continue to be that they are using Radnor, the Friends of the Willows, or The Radnor Conservancy....and that succinctly put is just not kosher.

Oh, check out this editorial here from a political candidate named Harriet Waldron. It's not bad, but I don't agree that this surplus market is competing with the Wayne Farmer's Market or the grocery stores. Or WalMart. That's not the point, or it shouldn't be the point. The point of this exercise should be can these people pay their way and can this be opened up so residents of all incomes can participate?

As I See It: Does Radnor need to hire a farmer?
Published: Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Proposed Philly Paper Bail Out So Tierney Keeps a Job?

Ah yes, more spin from the King of Spin?
So he somehow convinced Toll to dole out yet more coin? Added a dose of union and someone else? Purportedly to "save" the Inquirer and Daily News? Ok Brian, time to stop playing little piggy and man up with balls down: you did this to save your own ass, didn't you?

But the looming question is this: is this what is best for Philadelphia's newspapers? And isn't there some other deadline coming up with some union?

My, My, My...color me NOT wearing rose colored glasses on this one. I don't think this is about the future of newspapers in Philadelphia. Sorry. I think it seems far more personal...wonder what Steve Volk will say?


WALL STREET JOURNAL: AUGUST 21, 2009.Philadelphia Paper's Publisher Files Plan
By RACHEL FEINTZEIG
rachel.feintzeig@dowjones.com

The Philadelphia Inquirer's publisher filed a plan Thursday to sell itself to a group of local investors led by a real-estate executive who was a key investor in the company's 2006 leveraged buyout.

Philadelphia Newspapers LLC filed its Chapter 11 plan as expected with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Philadelphia, detailing a proposal that would pump $35 million into the company and provide it with a $17 million letter of credit. The prospective new owners, including Bruce Toll, of home builder Toll Brothers Inc., have also offered to cover $25 million for costs associated with the company's exit from bankruptcy.

Under the plan, which still requires approval from creditors and a bankruptcy judge, Philadelphia Newspapers would wipe out debt of about $300 million with a combination of cash and real-estate offerings. Lenders owed $66 million from loans made to the company before its Feb. 22 bankruptcy filing, for example, will be repaid from a pool of $36 million in cash plus the rights to the publisher's downtown Philadelphia headquarters.

Unsecured creditors owed $350 million are expected to recover just 1% of what they are owed. Under the plan, they could share in 3% of equity interests in the reorganized company.

The company's lenders are already gearing up to fight the plan. Last week, an attorney for a group of lenders, including CIT Group Inc., labeled it a "horrible proposal," while the lawyer representing Citizens Bank, a unit of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, called for an "alternative" to be put forward.

But the publisher's chief executive, Brian Tierney, a close acquaintance of Mr. Toll, heralded the deal as a way to maintain "local ownership" of Philadelphia's two daily newspapers, according to a statement.

Posted on Fri, Aug. 21, 2009
Newspapers, creditors continue DIP financing talks
By Andrew Maykuth Inquirer Staff Writer

Fri, Aug. 21, 2009
Local investors bid $92M to keep newspapers
By Christopher K. Hepp

...The plan, then, represents a gamble by the current management that its offer to creditors exceeds the present market value of the company.

It also defines even more starkly the battle between Brian P. Tierney, the company's chief executive officer, and his local investors and Philadelphia Newspapers' largest debt-holders, firms such as Angelo, Gordon & Co. and CIT Group Inc., which have outlined a plan in which they would take over the company and install new leadership.

The company's reorganization plan calls for the present leadership to be retained and Tierney to remain as CEO.....In a court filing last week, lawyers representing senior creditors were dismissive of outlines of what turned out to be the company's eventual plan, describing it as "nothing but a prelude to additional litigation" and designed to allow some of the original investors in the paper to "salvage value from their investment."

The new owners, under the plan, would be a three-member group led by Bruce Toll, vice chairman of Toll Bros. Inc. He was one of the original investors who bought the company in 2006.

The group also includes the Carpenters Union pension fund and Penn Matrix Investments. According to the company, Penn Matrix Investments is owned solely by a wealthy Philadelphian who wanted to be anonymous for now.

Philadelphia Newspapers Hope For Debt-Free Bankruptcy
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What I find Interesting Today About Sick Vick The Eagles Pick...

...is that Michael Nutter, A/K/A Mayor Nutter Butter Sucker Upper is predictably siding with Jeffrey Lurie and The Eagles over the Shit Vick Pick. Never mind that the Eagles owe Philadelphia some serious coin in back taxes, right? Or is it Philly gets paid if Nutter bends over?

The other thing I find interesting is how this issue seems to be breaking down over racial lines? Am I allowed to ask that question? I am also tired of the give-the-ex-con a chance because how many ex-cons have you heard of who come back from jail to make millions of dollars? And will Richie Rich, oh I mean Jeffrey Lurie donate the equivalent of one year's salary for Michael Vick to area animal rescues? And I mean specifically, places that are NO KILL?

Well I guess after Michael Nutter's latest kiss ass fiasco that animal rights groups and rescue groups can add one more house to picket: Michael Nutter's...I assume they will protest in front of Jeffrey Lurie's house as well as Andy Reid's?

Posted: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 11:46AM
Nutter Affirms His Support for ''Second Chance'' for Michael Vick
by KYW's Mike Dunn

Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, speaking Wednesday morning on KYW Newsradio's "Ask the Mayor" program, stood firm in his support of the Eagles' decision to sign quarterback -- and ex-offender -- Michael Vick (above).

Nutter responded on "Ask the Mayor" to several listeners' questions that were critical of his support for the Michael Vick signing (see related story). Nutter held to his stance that all ex-offenders, Vick included, deserve a second chance:

"I think Michael Vick still has work to do and should certainly demonstrate his remorse and the fact that he was wrong in a variety of ways. He could talk to young people about the things that he did wrong, his experience in prison, why they should try to turn their lives around and be positive, productive people."

And Nutter said Vick, like any ex-offender, is simply trying to get his life back together.

Aug. 16, 2009
Michael Vick: "I Blame Me"
Expresses Remorse In 60 Minutes Interview, Vows To Help Put An End To Dogfighting

New York Times: August 19, 2009, 1:29 pm Michael Vick’s Apology
By Gail Collins AND Ross Douthat

Some Days You Just Have To Giggle...Paolino Quits, Blames Bloggers

Honestly, I was only gone a couple of days. You think she could have sent out a press release or something, right?

So here it is, Lisa Paolino has quit. She blames bloggers and a guy named John Nagle. Sigh....Lisa, darling, don't hate us because we're blogga beautiful....anyway, I will be having a lovely Bellini (made with Prosecco, naturally) in your honor in a few minutes, sweet girl. Cheers to you, dollface.

But ummm....let's be honest about something shall we? You can say you quit for whatever reason that gets you through it. However, don't blame one man and bloggers for what ails you politically. You made choices and missteps and you tumbled like many a politician before you. I know it's hard on the heels, but you're sailing away on the Love Boat, so smile, be happy.

justsnarky forgives you, Lisa, for coloring it Lisa to the end. But remember what my dear granny used to say "a winner never quits and a quitter never wins".



News: Radnor's Paolino resigns commissioner post
Published: Tuesday, August 18, 2009
By Sam Strike, Special to the Times

Lisa Paolino, a member of the Radnor Township Board of Commissioners for a decade and the first women elected to that governing board, resigned from her post Monday tonight.

Paolino, who was re-elected to the board in 2007 and last year lost a bid for state senate, said that after a decade it "was time for a change."

She said she was stepping down for various reasons, including spending time with her family and with her fiance, musical artist Michael Sembello, with whom she says she has plans to travel the world.

In her parting words, Paolino addressed "vicious" blogging that she said caused her and her family members public pain.

Lisa, I am not a vicious blogger. In truth I am witty and fabulous. After all I never asked you if you dated all of your clients, did I? And my last helpful suggestion? Practice your speech in front of a mirror next time and don't use adult children as props.

Michael Vick, Remorseful Dog Murderer? Rigggghhhht.

Michael Vick, you might be "ready to go", but it doesn't mean any of us want you around.

If you want to be part of the solution and not part of the problem then do us all a favor Michael Vick and stay away. And if that doesn't happen don't move to the Main Line for the A.I. experience of it all.

I have to ask: Would Michael Vick be working with the Humane Society and would he be remorseful (or say he was) if he hadn't been convicted and sent to jail?

Jeffrey Lurie. Why don't you pay the back taxes to Philadelphia? That would be of more value to Philadelphia and the fans than hiring a convicted felon. You know what they say, dogs today, people tomorrow.

Andy Reid. I guess I get your perspective. Look at your sons. Such upstanding individuals.

And Sports Illustrated? I am not torn on this issue. I am done with the Eagles.

Lock Up Your Dogs, Philadelphia. Michael Vick is On His Way

Would you trust this guy with YOUR dog? Let alone with your football team? Well apparently Jeffrey Lurie and Andy Reid do, which means we have another Philadelphia case of Double Douche Bags No Waiting.



Stunned I tell you. Stunned. And incredibly angry. I will NOT go to ANY Eagles games from now on, and encourage all of you dog lovers out there to do likewise. I hope every dog owner on the Main Line takes their pooch to Jeffrey Lurie's house and lets them all shit on his lawn as he has now shit all over all of us for hiring a convicetd felon. To me, dog abusers are right up there with pedophile priests. And when Vick bank rolled that dog fighting, he became an abuser. And oh yes, a convicted felon.



Too bad there isn't a canine version of Megan's List - maybe "Snoopy's List" where neighbors could go and check if any animal abusers are in the vicinty.

The Philadelphia Eagles always ia a class act - well look at coach - and his messy family life? Look at the owner - Eagles owe Philadelphia money while Forbes says he is a billionaire.

PlayaHater: Michael Vick Headed To The Eagles
August 13th, 2009

Every dog has its day.
Even Michael Vick.
The quarterback has signed a two-year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles according to ESPN.com

Dan Brown/Huffington Post: Michael Vick's "Second Chance" is a Garbage Redemption Story: Feast Away, Media!

As a lifetime Philadelphia sports fan, I'm reeling from the Eagles' signing of Michael Vick, justifiably the most hated man in sports.

I mean, the guy electrocuted, hung, and drowned dogs. He only confessed to doing it after all of his buddies blew the whistle on him. He operated his Bad Newz Kennels dogfighting ring for six years.

My initial reaction to the signing is disgust. What's the upside of adding this cretin to the team? Vick can run a "wildcat" formation, but he's certainly no contender to be an every-down player. Does that justify inviting the protests and ill will that will follow the Eagles everywhere, including at home?

Vick signs deal with Eagles
By ROB MAADDI (AP) – 34 minutes ago

Posted: Tuesday December 23, 2008 8:20AM; Updated: Wednesday December 24, 2008 9:35AM
What happened to Michael Vick's dogs ...
By Jim Gorant

Michael Vick, Eagles Don't Seem Like a Great Fit
Posted Aug 13, 2009 11:54PM By Nancy Gay (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Eagles, NFL Quarterbacks, NFL Analysis

Michael Vick to Join Philadelphia Eagles
Posted Aug 13, 2009 8:45PM By Tom Mantzouranis (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Eagles, NFL Free Agency, NFL Quarterbacks

Andy Reid was a total dismissive asshole during that press conference today. He fluffed off the dog fighting/dog torture/dog murder/convicted felon thing...but natch what did we expect? He does, after all, have some intimate experience with felons when he looks around his dinner table at Thanksgiving, yes?

Time to Git Your Gun?

Well that is reassuring. The Southern Law Poverty Center says home grown hate group/ militia groups are on the rise?



So basically as we have been chasing terrorists OFF shore, ON shore they have been growing?

SPLC Report: Return of the Militias

How very reassuring. It's nice to know in the U.S. the more things change, the more things stay the same.

All of this because we have a black president? Wow, and now we have a Latina woman on the U.S. Supreme Court?

We're not a country of brotherly love and freedom, We're a country of hate groups?

How truly sad and pathetic.

Ghost of Inquirer Future?

Perhaps the Tierney Machine has really started to run out of spinny, spin, spin? You know as a former Philadelphia Inquirer lover, I resent how he has gutted the paper like a summer trout. And the voices left to tell us something about where we live are shadows of their former selves.

Can we save the Inquirer/Daily News and boot Tierney? And take his "fucking house" to pay some bills, ok Judge? The future of Philadelphia newspapers should not be their destruction at his hands. Get rid of Tierney and his foot soldiers. Save the news.

What’s a Big City Without a Newspaper?
By MICHAEL SOKOLOVE
Published: August 6, 2009
New York Times

On a recent trip into Philadelphia, after I exited the Interstate and coasted to a stop at the first traffic light, a man walked up to my car. He wore a black apron with a change pouch and held aloft a copy of The Philadelphia Daily News, the city’s tart, irreverent tabloid. It gave me a warm feeling. Of course it did! I’m a newspaper guy. I worked as a reporter for The Daily News in the 1980s, and later for what we called “big sister,” the sober, broadsheet Philadelphia Inquirer. Even in better times, I would have been happy to see the product being hawked, but these days any small sign of life in the newspaper industry, even just the sight of someone reading a paper, feels positively uplifting. I handed over 75 cents for my Daily News, then drove on toward the center of the city — and U.S. Bankruptcy Court, where a hearing was soon to begin, part of an ongoing process that will determine the fate of the city’s newspapers.

Philadelphia is, of course, the city of Ben Franklin, a printer by trade who published The Pennsylvania Gazette, a newspaper, as well as Poor Richard’s Almanac. It is where the Founding Fathers drafted the nation’s most important documents — the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Word of the Declaration went out to the people on July 6, 1776, when it was published in the pages of The Pennsylvania Evening Post. By the early 20th century, the raucous, elbows-out era of American newspapering, there were 10 daily papers in the city. Now down to a besieged two, Philadelphia is a particularly good place to observe what appears to be big-city journalism’s last stand, when many of America’s metropolitan newspapers must quickly figure out how to become profitable again or face likely extinction....Certainly The Inquirer and The Daily News, when owned by Walter Annenberg, Philadelphia’s postwar press baron, were undistinguished, in no small part because they were subject to Annenberg’s political and personal pique. (He was said to have a blacklist of names that could not appear in print, an eclectic group that included Ralph Nader, Imogene Coca and Zsa Zsa Gabor, as well as the city’s N.B.A. franchise, when it went uncovered for a season because Annenberg had a beef with its owner.)

Annenberg’s sale of The Inquirer and The Daily News in 1969 to the Knight newspaper chain (which later became Knight Ridder) had the effect of elevating the journalism. The Inquirer established a formidable reputation by winning 17 Pulitzer Prizes between 1975 and 1990, a total second only to that of The New York Times in that period....The new owners put up $150 million of their own. Before filing for bankruptcy, they stopped payment on $400 million in debt. They have not, however, given up, and are locked in a standoff with lenders that Brian Tierney, the leader of the ownership group, has framed as a battle to preserve quality journalism in Philadelphia.

Tierney is the central figure in Philadelphia’s newspaper drama today — an imperfect, improbable savior who in his previous role as the city’s most prominent public-relations executive was hyperaggressive, and often bullying, in his interactions with reporters. No one would compare him with Franklin, except perhaps in his self-confidence. But he has taken to newspapering with a convert’s devotion. In one of our conversations, he had to stop talking for a moment as tears came rolling down his cheeks....

.....Tierney’s ownership group, Philadelphia Media Holdings, purchased the Philadelphia newspapers, along with their joint Web site, Philly.com, for $515 million. The papers had basically been orphaned by the McClatchy chain, which, after buying Knight Ridder, announced plans to immediately unload the chain’s least profitable papers, including the two in Philadelphia. Tierney told me that under his ownership, The Inquirer and The Daily News have been operating at a profit if you exclude the debt obligations. That sounds almost comical, like a homeowner saying his household finances are in terrific shape except for the mortgage he can’t pay, but it holds out the promise that print journalism without excessive debt, in Philadelphia and elsewhere, may be a sustainable, if not an overly lucrative, business....Tierney and his partners are still operating The Inquirer and The Daily News, but who ultimately owns them is to be determined in bankruptcy court. Some of the banks that initially lent money for the acquisition in 2006 have taken their losses and departed, selling the loans at deep discounts. The owner of the largest share of debt in the newspapers is Angelo, Gordon & Company, a New York firm specializing in “distressed debt.”

That firm is also a player in the Tribune Company bankruptcy; in the management of The Minneapolis Star Tribune, which is expected to emerge soon from bankruptcy; and in American Media Company, which publishes The National Enquirer and The Star. A banker at the firm, Bradley Pattelli, is involved in all those properties, making him a highly influential if little-known figure in American newspapers. (I talked to Pattelli twice on the telephone, but he would not speak on the record. At his request I e-mailed him questions, but he did not respond to them.)...Angelo, Gordon, however, appears to want to play a significant role in owning and operating the papers. Tierney contends that the company would quickly close The Daily News and, over time, cut costs in such a way as to decimate The Inquirer. It’s impossible to know. (And, depending on which way the economy turns, Tierney himself, who has already presided over substantial layoffs, could find that he has to make further cuts.)

Pardon my french, but oh bugger off Tierney, for spreading the newspaper equivalent of "we'll have to euthanize our old folks". You don't know that they will close The Daily News, but can we bet your and your ass kissing boys would be out the door? Considering what you have NOT done for the papers, perhaps that would be an improvement?

Also see related article:

Without New Financing, ‘Inquirer Will No Longer Be Published’

By JOHN P. CONNOLLY, The Bulletin
Monday, August 10, 2009

Will The Main Line Crumble Like Ancient Rome? Or Merely Soldier On?

So I have been thinking. Thinking about how the faux who have taken over the Main Line in the last few years would rather still pretend to maintain the image of "The Philadelphia Story", when the Main Line is more aptly described by the seedy scenes described in "The Philadelphian" - otherwise known as "The Young Philadelphians"


I mean The Philadelphia Story would be more fa la la la fabulous with a martini and all darling, but we all know the Main Line is getting rather seedy.

We have had Main Line Matrons beating the help with bags of organic carrots, and more recently a case of "Oh Grandma Please" as a 75 year old oops thought a child on a bike was a deer. We've also had tacky over moneyed helicopter parents involved in teacher firing scandals and chunky donations to private schools.




We have mystery noveau riche who have buried their identity in limited partnerships who want to raze that Main Line Castle La Ronda so they can build undoubtedly a Lego-like thing, and I hear people have a name in the ownership rumor mill and the people are hiding in plain sight? And we've had Upper Crust Cat Fights at Merion, where the names involved got out sort of, but oh dahhling we can't talk about that poor drunk whose husband left her for an older Philadelphia name can we? Why we've even had Society Editor Wars because the dinosaur survived and the real talent got laid off.

And let's talk politicians, shall we? The Main Line doesn't need to be Philly and be philled with all things Fumo. Why we have the peccadilloes of Radnor and Lower Merion politicians. We have a commissioner in Radnor who first was caring for a sick relative, and then suffered the consequences of something else that made her too ill to go to meetings but not too ill to cuss out her fellow commissioners? And now we hear yes she is indeed getting ready to consider career changes and jumping the old broomstick a third time? Can we say best wishes and don't let the door hit your ass on the way out? And what of Lower Merion? I keep getting anonymous comments I have not posted because they contain a name and I can't find anything concrete yet. But is it true a certain commissioner in Lower Merion recently changed their housekeeping arrangements? Hmmmm?

And then in Radnor we have drama over Bashore and Maine Vacations? Radnor and Sunshine Law for Dummies over and over and over again? Radnor being unable to break with tradition and realize there are actually people you can speak to in publlic who aren't Republicans? And Radnor's own tea sipping birther? We can't foget about him (not that he will let us, right Jim?) And then Lower Merion and LaRonda, and the assortment of jerks in their school district? Good old fashioned southern style busing? And the politics? I have a hard enough time with Radnor, Lower Merion is just one big Greek Tragedy isn't it?

Meanwhile, houses are going into foreclosure even in the swanky neighborhoods and every time I go anywhere on Lancaster Avenue in either municipality another store or restaurant is gone? Now Carmines in Bryn Mawr is gone but the owner that survived John Mimms (say that would be a kicky t-shirt wouldn't it?) is now converting restaurant to one called "Verdad"? And his new managing partner is Nick from Blush? Maybe Howard Taylor needs some relationship counselling? Nick Farnina is NOT all that and a side of Bearnaise. I think Blush is overpriced, and the food, not so stand out anymore. So I guess Nick is trying to be the next Marty Grims? I guess that is better than to aspire to be the next Neil Stein, right? And don't forget Wayne which went from interesting restaurants to all pub all the time with the unwelcome addition of JD McGillicuddy’s, which is joining the Great American Pub and The Boat House. If you like beer and burgers, then hike up your suspenders and git on over to Wayne. Wayne is putting itself right back into the hops and hooch grave it dug itself out of, eh? Only there is no more Dairy Queen to dull the pain, is there?

But seriously, and not being snarky, the Main Line is simply bullshit extraordinaire these days...the more things change the more things stay the same. The Main Line is steeped in tradition apparently, and only the wallets change names.

But eventually with all these emperors and empresses being caught in their skivvies from the halls of politics to the dining rooms of fine clubs,and all that goes up, must eventually come down. I have visions of Main Line McMansions becoming tomorrow's Roman Ruins and bag ladies with Prada bags....maybe they will only ever be brain giggles, but somehow I think some of this is already happening. Take a drive around and peek at some high end spec houses....the lawns aren't manicured any longer....and I hear loads of society types are among the only ones who can qualify for any financing in the cash for clunkers? But how does last year's BMW count as a clunker?

And yes, the Main Line madams are cutting back on the botox and bleach jobs...have seen a few economical box blondes lately and wow, they should have tried cooking dinner themselves in their designer show house kitchens and kept the colorist on...Ahhh, the Main Line...so divine, so dysfunctional....how utterly delightful it all is.

Can we talk about health care in the US?

Can we talk about health care Or will I get that Schneller and his damn birthers crawling up my derriere? (Check out this from CNN)


I am at sixes and sevens on health care. Why? Because I am not sure if I really want nationalized health care (BUT I am not necesarilly against it). Why? Because I am not sure if it will work if there is not a simultaneous reform of the insurance industry, get it?

Why do I say that? Because no matter how you slice it, no matter what side you are on in the debate, you should be intelligent enough to acknowledge that half of the problem with health care in this country are the greedy insurance companies.

I am always amazed at the basic things I have to beg for when I pay through the nose to be insured. It pisses me off quite frankly. And hold me back, Caribou Barbie, the now completely white trashy unemployed Sarah Palin is even weighing in.

I also do think the planted health care protests at town hall meetings are pure bullshit. Much like the birthers who want to be given back "their" country.



I am sick of all of them. Get a god damned job and pay your bills like I do and then we'll talk.

Guess The Honeymoon is Over?

Dalia dahhhling, divorce would have been cheaper...

Fla. Police: Newlywed Wife Hires Hit Man to Kill Husband
Dalia Dippolito Is Expected to Be Arraigned Today
By RICH McHUGH and IMAEYEN IBANGA
Aug. 6, 2009

Newlywed Dalia Dippolito appeared inconsolable when she arrived at her Florida home Wednesday morning and police told her that her husband had been murdered. But local authorities said her mournful sobs were just an act.

Boynton Beach, Fla., police allege Dippolito's tears and devastated demeanor were part of a carefully orchestrated performance, and that she actually hired a hit man to murder her husband of six months.

Husband files for divorce after wife tries to have him killed

Michael Dippolito officially filed for divorce after his wife, Dalia, was arrested for trying to have him killed. The court documents were filed Friday. The documents say the marriage is "irretrievably broken" and says the fact that Dalia allegedly tried to hire a hitman to have him killed shows that the marriage is over.

Also, one day before the hit was to supposed to go down last week, Mike Dippolito put the couple's townhome in his wife's name, giving her exclusive ownership of the property.

A lawsuit has also been filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court, asking a judge to throw out a deed that gives Dalia Dippolito the couple's townhome and to restore the ownership to her husband Michael.

The lawsuit says Dalia never really loved her husband, and married him last February only because she wanted to get her hands on his $232,000 townhouse in Boynton Beach's Renaissance Commons.

The lawsuit says quote: "She did not love the Plaintiff and only married him to unlawfully obtain his property. She knew she wanted the Plaintiff dead and her representations of love and devotion were false at the time they were made... The sole purpose for the marriage was to convert all of his property to her own use."

Police say Dalia Dippolito tried to hire a hitman to kill her husband Michael

Radnor and MIA Lisa Paolino: If She Won't Quit, Can You Fire Her?

....Not such a bad thing....but enough of denying the presence already! It's time to fish or cut bait, commissioner! Either come to work or resign because you can't just be the e-mail commissioner (not that I hear you have been particularly communicative but apparently they say your contact with your fellow commissioners has been saltier than an anchovy from Di Bruno Brothers? )

So here we are in August? And where is Lisa Paolino? And why do the collective assortment of men who run and control Radnor Township have no balls between them?

Lisa needs to resign. Shouldn't she have more self respect then to allow this to continue? Shouldn't Radnor have more self respect? (No wait don't answer that, they hired Dave Bashore and allow John Osborne to scuttle about in wrinkled togs)

I thought I would pay homage to Philly Foibles and their snarkilicious milk carton, and put her on a more adult beverage - just in case she is in say...Avalon...or Ocean City...and say someone is out stocking up on that non-state store system vino, well, who knows, this might just work, right?! Someone might see her, right?!

And like yowza! Check out the editorial page in Main Line Media -mmmm, mmmm, mmmm. Radnor Township and Lisa Paolino are just the blog gifts that keep on giving:

Main Line Suburban Life Letters to the Editor
Published: Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Problems are not new in Radnor

Radnor’s troubles did not just start in 2009. They had been around for years slowly growing behind closed doors. They became public in 2006 through The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jeff Price, thanks to one Board of Commissioners member who thought the actions of the board were improper. He or she was right. But the majority of the Radnor board kept the treasurer and Radnor residents in the dark back in June of 2006. In July of 2006 the Rev. Jeane Williams, one of the original writers of the Charter, spoke in support of the treasurer’s right to see the paperwork. However, it fell on deaf ears. All of the current Radnor Township Board of Commissioners who were on the board in 2006 should resign.

Jim Riley, Rosemont

No representation in 5th Ward
To the Editor:

Lisa Paolino’s continued absence has passed the point of absurdity and she should resign immediately. This has been addressed several times in both articles and letters to the editor in this paper.

Early on in this year Lisa said that her mother was ill and that she had to tend to her. Later, when contacted by Sam Strike, as reported here, she indicated that she had been ill and could not sit up for the long hours of the meeting (although claiming she was still working for her constituents).

This claim is fairly ridiculous. How can she be serving us if she is not here or at the commissioners’ meeting? By telephone? By e-mail? Sounds like we could outsource the job to India, doesn’t it?

This year, to date, has been one of the most significant years in many, many years for Radnor Township. Decisions are being made about firing people and laying folks off, about budgets and cuts in service, about hiring interim personnel and about the future of the township. At the most recent commissioners’ meeting, in addition to the townshipwide issues, there were two items that were specific to our ward (five-points intersection and cell tower on Bryn Mawr Avenue). Luckily Commissioner Hervada spoke up regarding the cell-tower issue since his ward is on the other side of Bryn Mawr Avenue; otherwise we would have had no representation at all.

At the June meeting I asked the commissioners to address the issue and all I got back was a referral to our Interim Counsel. A reading of our Township Charter and Code, regarding ethics, suggests that there is action that can be taken by the board. I will defer to legal counsel on this issue. Below are portions of the pertinent sections of -- 39-2 Responsibilities of public officers and employees.

Public officials and employees are agents of public purpose and hold office for the benefit of the public. ... They are bound to observe in their official acts the highest standards of morality and to discharge faithfully the duties of their office regardless of personal considerations, recognizing that the public interest must be their primary concern. Their conduct in both their official and private affairs should be above reproach ...

-- 39-3A Dedicated service.

Officials and employees should adhere to the rules of work and performance established as the standard for their positions by the appropriate authority.
John Nagle, Bryn Mawr, 5th Ward

You HAD a Friend in Pennsylvania...

At least four dead in fitness center shooting
Among the dead, gunman had note in gym bag
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PG video: From the scene

Wow, we just have to be so proud as Pennsylvanians - we breed dog abusers and psychos who shoot up health clubs in Pittsburgh and kill innocent women. I am not anti-gun, but I have to tell you that it should be much more difficult for people to obtain weapons. The system of checks and balances is broken.

Just like the healthcare system that is supposed to manage and treat mental illness is broken.

Just like the system of checks and balances that protects women is broken. Now look at the result? But no worries, somewhere Ed Rendell is playing Eliot Spitzer or "doctor", right?

10 Year Old Beats Puppy?

Ah yes, another reason to wonder if humans should be spayed and neutered...nothing like a pint sized sociopath, eh?

What kind of little savages are being raising in Pennsylvania? A 10 year old that beats the crap out of a puppy? His parents should do time and pay massive fines for spawning Satan in diapers. Maybe Norristown should just be nuked?



Posted on Tue, Aug. 4, 2009
Beaten puppy gets new home
By Bonnie L. Cook
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

A 12-week-old puppy so savagely beaten that both legs on her left side were broken has recovered and been placed in an adoptive home in upper Montgomery County, the executive director of the Montgomery County SPCA said today.

Carmen J. Ronio said that on June 16, the puppy was struck repeatedly by a youth wielding a stick in a parking lot on West Marshall Street in Norristown. The boy fled before police could apprehend him, Ronio said.

Officers found the gray and tan German Shepherd mix lying on her right side, breathing but severely injured....The puppy, named Rain for the weather on the day she was rescued, then underwent specialized orthopedic surgery at Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital in Audubon to repair the fractured limbs. The operation cost $3,600.

Ronio said the puppy, whom he described as happy and friendly, recovered in her cage at the shelter, where workers provided nursing care.

Rain went to a new home July 27, and quickly settled in.

"She adjusted to the house, is sleeping in the bed, and enjoying a fine life," Ronio said. Her owners work from their house; when they travel on business, she will go, too, Ronio said....A 10-year-old boy has been apprehended and charged with the beating...

Do You Recognize This Ass?

So ladies, even gentlemen, do you recognize this ass? Yes, apparently we have another naked guy burglar on the loose. Remember the one in Paoli last September (as in just after Labor Day 2008)? Did they ever capture that naked guy? Is this naked guy just a copycat naked guy?

I mean seriously, can't he just stay home and get funky with his web cam and order himself some lingerie from Victoria's Secret and call it a day?

EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW GROSS! What-eva' this guy sure is not attractive enough to be baring all for anyone. He is in definite need of manscaping.

Ok in all seriousness, I hope they catch him soon....after all it is not easy being the "butt" of all jokes.....

Of course, maybe this is a case for swinger magazine trash can diver extraordinaire John Osborne? Maybe Radnor can lend ol' Johnny out for a fee to split this ass wide open? He is so excellent at reconnaissance, right?

CBS NY: August 4, 2009 11:00 AM
Caught on Tape: Naked Burglar
Posted by Edecio Martinez

NEW YORK (CBS) Police in Abington, Pa. say they’re on the lookout for a burglar who shouldn’t be hard to miss... because he’s naked!

He also seems to have a thing for women’s clothing. It’s all making local residents more than a little uncomfortable.

The suspect was caught on surveillance video in the nude, after allegedly burglarizing an Abington apartment Friday. One witness said she saw a naked man fleeing from the apartment just after it had been robbed.

Surveillance video also shows the suspect wearing dark colored shorts and a white sleeveless tank top, apparently before he decided to "dress down."

The same naked thief is wanted in a second burglary the same day, according to police. A homeowner told CBS 3 Philadelphia the suspect went through her 14-year-old daughter's undergarments. Women's clothing was reportedly stolen from the dresser drawers, and obscenities had been written on the mirrors.

Posted on Tue, Aug. 4, 2009
The naked truth?Abington cops seek bare-bum bandit
By ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH
Philadelphia Daily News
sbarned-smith@phillynews.com 215-854-5926

Surveillance photos have exposed a man who burgled in the buff, Abington Township police said yesterday.

Police are working to uncover the identity of a 30- to 40-year-old man who they said broke into an apartment complex on Old York Road near Hamilton Avenue at about 4:45 p.m. on Friday....The man is between 5 feet 8 and 5 feet 11 with thinning hair and had been dressed in a white tank top and dark-colored shorts, police said.

Anyone who can help police crack the case should contact Abington police at 267-536-1100.