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Redan Dawg Says:
Mark Richt is head football coach at UGA. I think it should be up to Mark Richt to decide if he is going to take a kid who qualifies academically in to UGA. Richt has proven he has the ability to make this type of decision in the past, and he runs a high-character program and has no problem throwing kids out who fail to maintain the criteria of the program. It is not like his kids are running wild ala Colorado. He has the highest discipline program in the SEC for Pete's sake! I won't name names, but would Zook or Fulmer have booted a 5 star O-lineman if their O-line was as thin as ours last year? NOT A CHANCE. What about suspend 8+ players for a game vs Clemson? He has proven he can handle the disciplinary duties, yet is treated by the university as if he is incapable of making those type of decisions.
I am sure Richt feels stabbed in the back right now. Some of you can relate. Have you ever told a client you could do something, only too have it not get approved up the chain? What a crappy feeling. We are not talking about a little "ooopsie" here either. We are talking about a kid having to spend the next four years of his life in Arkansas!!!!!!! He had a chance to go to any school he wanted, and now he's in Arkansas. Unreal.
I don't care what Grant did. It's not about that. The point for me is that Richt has passed on other players due to character issues. If he thought Grant was worthy of coming to UGA, he thought so for a reason. Do you not think Richt knows Gartrell (Stephenson Head Coach) well enough to get an honest and credible assessment of the situation? It's not like Grant is from New York, he plays for a guy Richt knows well.
The worst thing about this is timing. If this happens on February 8th, I got no problem with it. I have a VERY big problem with it happening 3 and a half months after signing day. It is too embarrassing and handicapping to Richt, and even worse for the kid. It is extremely unfair to any potential student-athlete to be recruited for 2 years and begged to come to a program, buy in to it, recruit your teammate, and then have the rug pulled out from under you like that. Grant committed in January. The "background check" could have been done in a week. And don't tell me it's Richt's fault for recruiting him! It is Mark Richt's JOB to make the decision of who he wants to recruit! Let the man do his job. UGA administration should be ashamed of themselves.
THCDawg Says:
I don't know all the details, but Grant passed muster with CMR. Thus, I think the admissions committee should have at least given him a chance. I am very disappointed.
Sicemdawgs77 Says:
I can understand with the Tony Cole incident that UGA would be cautious about another incident. But I think that the timing is off. Why didn't they (UGA) decide earlier as opposed to a few days before July? What about giving the kid a second chance? I am not happy about this!
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They say that life isn't fair.........that to err is human.........that one
is not condemned eternally for a sin.........that one shouldn't judge lest
himself be judged........all these ideas are closely held in our Society. When
one breaks the law, one is absolved after serving their sentence and only if one
returns to unlawfulness is their prior behavior taken into consideration. In the
greater Society, this is how we operate, but in business, in Government service,
and in other pursuits there are standards of qualification which supercede those
norms, where one's character is measured by their history and their deeds. In
today's world, security concerns disqualify many from certain fields and our
Courts have upheld the right of those hiring to do so. Even a petty offense can
prevent one from obtaining a lucrative position in upper management, for
companies take very seriously the representation of the whole enterprise by its'
excutives for the market is a vicious arena.
Now we begin the last week of June with the disconcerting revelation that a recruit, Michael Grant, has been denied admission to the University of Georgia. Since the details aren't shared due to the concern over litigation, we are all left to speculate as to why. Informed individuals such as Grant's Coach in High School have shared that Michael was expelled from South Gwinnett as an underclassman for misconduct but allowed that during his playing years at Stephenson High that Grant was a good citizen. Gartrell should know since his own son was not only a teammate of Grant's but a Georgia recruit as well.
Further speculation has indicated that the University Admission's Board now scrutinizes all prospective Student Athletes' backgrounds so as to avoid the entry of those who have checkered pasts and which could bring shame and embarrassment to Georgia, this the supposed fault of one Tony Cole. Now one is led to inquire as to just how did Cole become a Student Athlete in the first place, for his application was ALSO rejected by this very Board. Answer: the current President of the University of Georgia, one Michael Adams, overruled the Board at the bequest of former Basketball Coach Jim Harrick, who had championed the character of Cole in spite of a horrendous childhood and numerous brushes with the law.
Head Football Coach Mark Richt approved the recruitment of Grant and the extension of a scholarship to play for the Dawgs based upon his High School performance and his academic qualifications. Did Richt know of Michael's earlier difficulties? Don't know, you'll have to ask him, but Richt did take it upon himself to contact Arkansas Head Coach Houston Nutt to see if there was a place for him. Fortunately for Grant, he did.
I began above with a recitation of our commonly accepted Societal norms for behavior and if what has come out about Grant is true, then yes he has sinned before. I also stated that one is considered a citizen once more after serving out their penalty for unlawful behavior and will add that after a period of time, our Courts will expunge them from the record if one sins no more. Are we to then assume that the standards set by UGA are necessarily strict and immutable over and above the standards that the rest of society is held to? If so, then how does one reconcile the ex officio actions of President Michael Adams in the Cole case and why has he himself not been held accountable?
Though I do concede that UGA is within their rights to apply standards for entry, why is it that our Athletic Coaches appear to not be aware of the extent of scrutiny and why aren't interested Student Athletes made knowledgeable of them before or during their recruitment? This situation has and will result in embarrassment for Georgia and will quite possibly impact Football recruiting in the future. Once again, the legions of faithful Dawg fans are shamed before the World during the off-season and once again subject to the ridicule and taunting by rival fans.
All of this could have been prevented and avoided, but when a University's
very structure and foundation is subverted by its own President without any
repercussions, you simply cannot portray yourself or the University with the
same, exacting level and degree of high character which is demanded of a
prospective Student Athlete without being a hypocrite.
RedClayHound Says:
We all need to know the entire facts of this case before passing judgment. This all boils down to one concern. Did Mark Richt, knowing all the facts in the situation that the committee knew and based their decision on, agree with the committee's final decision?
If so, too many of us UGA football fans are unnecessarily making a mountain out of a mole hill here. On the other hand, if Mark Richt, knowing all the facts, disagreed with the committee's decision and still favored Michael Grant being accepted by UGA, then folks, we have a problem.
If the latter is true, I would only hope the committee has the experience and judgment superior to Mark Richt, who has judged young men's character for many years, and has proven that he will not tolerate anything but high character, for it's now evident that the committee has the final say in who our football coaches can recruit and sign, not Mark Richt nor the Athletic Department!!
Let me add, the timing of this decision, whether correct or not, flat out stinks. I only pray that the parties involved knew of this decision long ago, and just did not find out like the public did nearly five months after Signing Day!!
Richtfan Says:
This is a most unfortunate situation for the kid. While I cannot condone what he did while an underclassman in high school, I think the administration at UGA must have it in for the athletic department. Coach Richt has proven that he's more than capable determining who does and doesn't fit into the program at UGA, and he should be allowed to make those judgments and let his decisions stand in the light of public scrutiny.
I don't know all of the facts and we probably never will, but I think it's a terrible negative recruiting tool that will be used against UGA in the future. Michael, apparently, is a good kid who made some grave mistakes when he was younger. It is sad that those mistakes, only now, have come back to haunt him. In the process, UGA loses out on a player whose ability and potential were sorely needed at UGA at a specific time.
JarrodCone Says:
Integrity: The main thing I want the UGA program to encompass even before winning. Mark Richt has already proven that he is a big believer in this and that is why the Michael Grant situation is a big surprise to all of them. I'm a big believer that something else will come out that proves the right decision was made on Grant and while his talent and speed will be missed, I think it's a great message to send out to future recruits: Your actions will hold you accountable.
Would we rather be the program that turns away a big recruit and stays clean in the long run or take a chance on guys like Willie Williams who may burn Miami because they lack the guts to move on without him. I think UGA will be fine without Grant, but I wish him all the best at Arkansas because I do think he is a good kid that will get it together.
There are plenty of recruits out there that can fill up our rosters every year without having to take chances on "troublemakers." I understand that kids with this label can turn it around (Odell), and it's a tough call, but I just think if we can steer clear of the majority of these guys we can avoid potential Tony Cole situations.
It's being speculated that not all the information relating to this has been made public. If, for example, it became known that Grant had another "incident" between the time he accepted his scholly and now, then the Admissions gatekeepers may have been perfectly justified in barring him. However, even if that does turn out to be the case, I do believe they are venturing into dangerously litigious territory when they set a precedent for having different review processes and sets of entrance criteria for athletes versus other incoming students.
BackpackingDawg1 Says:
I think there are some very good things to take from the Michael Grant situation.
First of all, we probably won't know for a few years if the decision to keep Grant out was a good one. Whether or not someone is going to be a problem student is tough to predict, and we don't even know what it was that got Grant in trouble with the committee. Sometimes these marginal kids work out (see, Jason Respert), and sometimes they don't (see, Tony Cole). Since we don't know what it is that got Grant the boot, it's really impossible to have an opinion at this time if the admissions committee over-reacted or not. For myself, I'm rooting for Grant and hope he finds success at Arkansas and stays out of trouble.
However, here is what we do know:
- There were rumors last year that we weren't even going to recruit Grant
because of off the field issues. Some were convinced that we weren't even going
to offer, not because of talent, but because of personal behavior issues. I was
kind of shocked that we did end up offering him.
- An effort is truly being made by the University to make sure that ALL students that are accepted meet the standards of the University. This is a good thing. We don't want to become Tennessee or Arkansas or South Carolina. We don't need to. We can win without sacrificing our school's integrity. Florida is starting to let their integrity slip (with the Crowder issue, among others). This will hurt them in the long run, not help. Many of their alumni know this and are very very nervous.
- This can serve as a wake-up call to high school kids that want to play for Georgia. Keep clean. If not, you may wind up in Arkansas.
- This can serve as guidance to our coaches who are recruiting right now. Concentrate on the kids that excel on AND off the field.
- This can serve as a wake-up call to Michael Grant. Actions have consequences.
- Hopefully, this will help repair the reputation of the University, especially after the Harrick debacle. As an Alumni, I'm glad we are being particular. I don't ever - ever - want this University to sacrifice it's academic integrity again by bringing in students who may very well harm the University's reputation by their actions. It's not worth it, no matter how fast they may run the 40.
BTDawg Says:
This situation is yet another sign that there should be no faith placed in the higher-ups running the University of Georgia. Born and raised a Bulldawg fan, I love UGA more than the school I currently attend, the University of Southern California. But incidents like this make me incredibly pleased I chose USC over UGA (the fact I still get to Sanford for some Saturdays doesn't hurt either).
Why would I want to attend a school that is unwilling to give a student with excellent grades and academic repute, not to mention unbelievable God-given football talent a chance to prove that he is more mature than an incident that occurred two years in his past? Additionally, this young man was recruited by a coach who has the highest repute and has said one of his first priorities in recruiting players is that young man's character.
Adams has placed no faith in a coach that has given you no reason to has any lack of faith in the players he has recruited. Coach Richt has shown little tolerance for players who have had a second chance and blow it. Look at Randall Swoopes. He's also shown he's capable of building young men with issues into upstanding human beings. Examples: Odell Thurman and Arnold Harrison. This is just the tip of the iceberg on the character development of Coach Richt and his staff.
The University's reaction reveals their weaknesses at the top. First, it
shows how the Administration is not in touch with what is going on with the
University. By not seeing what Coach Richt has done with the young men of the
UGA football team, they show they lead the school with blinders on. A further
example is the terrible relations with the very institution that helps the
University raise money. His eyes were so closed, or maybe his head had bloated
so much it cut off blood flow, that he failed to realize the trademark on the
school's name had run out. Total stupidity. Second, it shows how Michael Adams
cares so little about how the University is presented to its fans, alumni, and
perhaps most important for the University's future, its prospective students.
Michael Adams owes Mark Richt more than he knows. Without the fantastic efforts the coach makes to represent the University well, he would be even more on the chopping block. The University owes a ton to the success of the football team. What other event can the University call upon that can draw 30,000 some odd alumni (figuring the 20k for students and 40k for the serious football fans, which is conservative) who will come back, enjoy themselves, and go, hey I remember how great this was. I want to keep this place great and then proceed to open up their checkbook. I witnessed that very event at USC this past year an uncountable number of times. And most of that was because our football team had such tremendous success. Saturdays in Los Angeles had nowhere near the enthusiasm they've had in our last two seasons than in the mediocrity preceding it. Michael Adams needs to open his eyes and realize just how much Mark Richt has helped him and stop punishing him for running a top notch program.
On another note, this situation is in very few ways related to the Tony Cole situation. Tony Cole had been booted from three schools, had a criminal record, and was vouched for by a coach with a very questionable record. A coach who has had NCAA investigations follow him everywhere. And it's not anti-UCLA bias on my part either, rather, I liked him at UGA and wanted to believe he changed. I should have been smarter than that though. Not only did he bring in Tony Cole, he allowed his son to disgrace the school, helped high school players cheat to get into school. In a straight comparison of Tony Cole and Michael Grant, Tony Cole has risk written all over him where Michael had a SINGLE problem.
Tony Cole: poor academics (flunked out of school, had difficulty getting in), poor character recommendations. He gets to UGA and blows off responsibilities. Michael Grant, with above average, if not great academics for a man with football on his plate, had incidents as an underclassman in high school. His coach, who had sent multiple student athletes to UGA who have been of at worst decent character, had nothing but great things to say about him.
Sure, the athletic admission review council that was established after the Cole situation seems like a decent response to the situation. However, they made a huge mistake with Michael Grant. Unfortunately, they're a group of individuals who will not be punished for their failure to think through and analyze a situation logically. Michael Grant, however, is, for making a decision two years more immature. With his academic standing, I'm willing to be he matured a great deal his last two years. But I suppose the "experts" on this council wouldn't know that about a young man.
The University owes Michael Grant a sincere apology. I certainly wish him the best of luck at Arkansas and here's hoping we're never the victim of his tremendous abilities. Mark Richt deserves even more congratulations for his helping Michael. To put him in that situation and to still vouch for him is a tremendous statement for the kind of man Coach Richt is. UGA is blessed to have him. Georgia football will go on without Michael Grant. His commitment to play for the University was a big day for the school. His talents will be missed. The effect we'll all feel from this will mostly be that we may never see Thomas Brown at tailback anymore.
In closing, I'd like to say I love the Dawgs and maybe this situation wouldn't disappoint me so much if I didn't expect so much more from the University. Good luck to Michael and I'll see you in Sanford.


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I am continually amazed at what Obama gets away with, He and his administration are so unbelievably corrupt and yet those who have the power to stop the corruption turn a blind eye to all that he and his administration are doing to this country. He and his entire administration should be impeached and he should be imprisoned the same as any other person who steals an identity and commits fraud. When is this country going to wake up to the corrupt behavior of this administration—including both congressional bodies? I am angry and totally fed up with this present administration and what they are doing to totally destroy us and this country! We have got to return America to the country our forefathers intended! God help us if we don't!
Impeach Obama!!! He is an imposter. We must get rid of all bad in congress and the President.
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Another piece of shit fucking judge that needs to be rolled out with the rest of trash.
One of Obama's SS # is 042-68-4425 and info on the "search" is at http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=275861 as well as HUNDREDS of other sites. 042 tells you it was issued in Connecticut. The first 3 will tell you the state (or portion thereof) of the issuing state. There is general info on the coding of SS numbers on most any privite eye site.
If you continue to dig, you will find reports of Obana having several different SS numbers. I don't pretent to know if any of this is true or not, but just as his birth certificate, I think we have a right to KNOW before he allowed to run again!!
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Obama did what all illegals do. He stole SS numbers. He isn't a legal American citizen much less a natural born one.
All children in USA must produce a valid birth certificate before they can enter school… All Americans that work must produce a legitimate social security number.. Why in the h— is Obama not required to do so.. Do hese people think he is god or what???
Have these judges and democrats and libs given their entire mind over to the Obama creature???
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Its not your vote that counts, it's who counts it that matters. If you think we will have an honest election think again!
There are officials in all 50 states that are legally responsible to verify eligibility of the candidates. Will they? Have they? No…No…No.. Times 50. Who writes the software in the election computers? Who verifies it to be correct and untampered? SEIU Sister to Acorn!
Loss of our Nation… Just the penalty for violating the Constitution and the intent of the founding forefathers. We will all pay the price
I believe his grandmother worked in the ss ofice and his mother was a crook in all matters ===it seems they taught him well …….as the man – who wasn't his father – put him in the hands of a bigger crook and a Marxist …obviously obama has been a crook all his life — what's more and worse is that he is a Chicago scumbag………….with all that honest Dems (and there must be some _) would make excuses for him – like "well, the poor boy , coming up the hard way has really done a great (?)_ job …..My comment ? gggrrrrrrrrrr
What more does it take to get this usurper out of the white house, so that we can begin healing our nation? I understand that the media is afraid of black riots, but those of us who have lived and served during riots are not afraid! We will heal from that too, and the results are usually looting and urban renewal! Our nation is a laughing stock as long as this usurper muslim can continue to hide the information that we should have had before the election of 2008. How many more millions of illegal campaign funds will be collected by obummer before a republican with intestinal fortitude steps up and calls him out on it. What are they afraid of? I would try myself if I didn't know that I would be told by the corrupt democratic appointed judges that I have no standing…Who does? I am so tired of government corruption. Even in the Nixon days we had accountability!
I guess the Rodney King beating tape by L.A. cops, would not have been allowed if this law had been in place, huh? Cops can't violate the law. We ned to be armed and fight back when they attack us.
to all legal tax paying american citizens{its time}when in the coarse of human events,you know the rest.peter finch in the movie network said it best,were mad as hell and aren,t going to take it anymore.1st send back all the illegal aliens{thats against the law to you politicians}2nd bring home our troops,most of the world hates us anyway,except when they need someone beat up.let the rest of the world clean up there own messes.3rd think about it,what do we need these politicians for,that don,t do s–t for the legal tax paying american citizen anyway.obamdope out,frank serpico for president,chuck norris for vice president.its time.god bless america
Of everyone in the US, the president should be #1 in proving honest behavior. When all the doubts and (circumstantial?) evidence point toward ID theft, it is significant to every US citizen to know who this man is. Of particular pecularity is the efforts to Hide the Facts and to not redily turn over proof that all is OK.
I hear that conservatives are afraid that actions to remove him would result in loss of Black votes in 2012??? Do what's right regardless of the consequences!!!!!!!!
I will tell you why obama has a Connecticut SS number. It is because he was born overseas. I know for a fact that American babies born overseas may have a Connecticut SS number. I personally know someone who was born in the Phillipines while his father was stationed there. He has a Connecticut SS number. Obama is a liar. We know this. He is NOT a natural born citizen as his father is a Kenyan. Why he was allowed to run for president is beyond me.
That judge should of arrested him for ss number that didntv belong to him.
Obviously some money changed hands here! The Judge. who is probably a communist, feels that
Obama is above the law! It is amazing how corrupt our judicial system. I wonder if any of our 535
millionaires found this interesting??
I gues it doesn't matter if this judge continues to exist. It is coming with the dawn folks and we've bled and sacrificed before and continue to do so daily. put our boots folks and "Lets roll" on the fucking dictators.
The governments been having citizens drink the "koolaide" since 911 with 100% complacency from the MSLSD media. Newly released video of the explosion at the pentagon showss NO airplane- just a huge high explosive detonation. The turbine in one pentagon photo shows it to the same configuration as the one used (not 2,3 or 4 just one) in our tomahawk cruise missle systems. Of the hundreds of missing passengers on the 911 – not one of their bodies have been found. All the firefighters at WTC were accounted for-no passengers though and you couldn't make cell phone calls from planes back then anyway,. Obumer knows this like he knows his family photos reveal him to be a muslim and like his other relatives living under rocks have been found to be illegal aliens. Time to "roll on the sons of bitches" as Obumers buddy Hoffa likes to say.
It's time for 1776
Infowars dot com / for truth
The corruption of the government is complete bulderburg and mega banks have taken over.
Vote for the constitution
vote Ron Paul
He was able to run for president because he is a agent for the banking cartel they have the money and payed every one off to look the other way so they can set up the one world goventment and crush the Constution.
America better wake up and send all the crooks to jail. We better stand to gether or hang separate ether way you must chose. I want freedom from the crooks.
Get this ILLEGAL/MUSLIM out of office by IMPEACHMENT now, what/why are we waiting? He has already stated that he hate America, and is trying to Bankrupt/change the U.S. to his liking. He took an oath to uphold the constitution, and he has ignored it since he took office, I would like to set an exanmple, and make him stand trial, for all his crimes against America.
YOu big fat lying MFs what about your duty to uphold the Constitution and PROTECT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! All the people that support this WILL BE HELD LIABLE when the time comes. You are UNAMERICAN and are breaking the laws of this country! How dare you disregard this evidence that has been brought before you…protecting will not save your jobs! Elections have consiquences!!!! OBAMA IS NOT A CITIZEN….For this man to have over 955,0000 dollars to keep his info concealed in 12 states and 11 law firms is ludicrous and we will have the final say and he will step down and the rest of you idiots will be elected OUT!
Obama's DOES have roots in KENYA! I can prove it! Have you ever seen him celebrate anything from the Hawaiian tradition??? HLL NO! Because he is NOT HAWAIIAN! He is every bit Kenyan!!!!
Its time for a NEW REVILUTION starting NOW Gret out on the Streets people and Make your selves heard
Obama was suspect when the news media was JAMMING him down our throats… not one single negative comment was allowed even though the other candidates had negitave comments about them. Can"t discuss his wifes views… No talk of his family… Sooo when the news media who reports every negative thing in the world doesn't report negative things about Obama…. something smells fishy???? He has proven since he has been in office that he is set on destroying America with a smile on his face while his wife and daughters travel the world on the taxpayers money. If he was for the American people he would have the politcians cut their pay, their staff, their retirement and his own since they can all live well on their own holdings …NO other business gives the benefits to people that were fired that the government gives to the politcians
PT:1 He (OBAMA) is part of the great plan of the Goldberg's,Rothschilds, Rockefeller's, the Bilderberg Group, home land security( its there to protect the politicians from U not out side forces) these world bankers(wankers) can make and break countries over nite, they are pushing the western worlds environmental agenda which all sounds good on the surface but is Evil in its intent, what they are about is population control, You may say Hey thats a good thing? But they will choose which 500,000,000 ( thats just 10% of the worlds population 6.6Billion) which get to live the rest they intend to destroy, Do you like your chances of being 1 of that 10% your/our odds are not real good are they? they with Obama's help intend to collapse the US economy making the Dollar worthless over nite, then come the North American Union and a common currency the Amero Canada ,America & Mexico become One Common UNION thus you then now longer have the current US constitution as its will have been done away with as well as the 2ND amendment You will no long have the RITE TO BARE ARMS any one with a gun will be said to be a terrorist and will be arrested and imprisoned
PT:2 ( remember they want most of us dead( at least the God fearing christion west) The New World Order is now close( closer than you think) their type of Government in this new world order is Communism with ultra Capitalism Look around the world till you see were list structure is already in place and flourishing? *China* China is the Model for the new world order and are set to become the new world Police man as the US used to be, China Owns America now and most of the western/free?? world. These world bankers, Obama, Hillary,and yes even the Bush's Senior and Junior are all Freemasons despite which side of politics they are seen to stand on?? George signed of on the North American Union as has Canada with out telling or asking U the people, George also signed of on building Enemy holding Camps rite across the USA they are not for use to hold foreigners( or else they would already be using them now? They are for Us the people of the US, when the Dollar fails and we loose every thing, the President will declare a state of emergency in which he(at the hands of his minders/puppet masters) will have total control. To all citizens of the USA open your eyes and ears before its to late, U have already been sold out.
PT:3 These Freemasons thats what they call them selves today are the Old Knights templar of old and there fingers of influence run every where that there is power to control They are Satanist and that explains why Obama was put into power with no rite to be there and why you can no longer talk about god(Christ) in your schools, or even court rooms any more They(the bilderberg group and the like) want NO mention of Christ any where any more even the term AD;&BC are being done away with in the class room, Preaching Christ in the streets is being oppressed all over the free world, But its ok to speak of any other religion as The Satanist don't fear them ONLY Christ,
PT:4 The government spends money putting in rooms in schools so that Muslim kids have some where quite to pray 5 times a day But the Christian Kid just must Shut up and not be heard, I kid you not both George and Obama are Freemasons thus ultimately on the same team, David Rockefeller busted that * Don't you worry about election results We Control that* The west is screwed unless it stands up as 1 NOW. Oh and about all that money that Bill Gates gave for the poor children of Africa?? it was no to feed them it was for control of their population(population control) he also like so many wealthy influential people is also a Freemason
There is not a blog, there is not a website, there is not a g@##$d$% thing any one can do about impeachment of Obama in these days of graze. The election in 2012 is the only solution, believe me, been there before and only the sane can save America from his delusional plans, so don't bitch about it vote the baster out!
Let this judge be a victim of identity theft and I'll be he'll change his tune!
And we allow this judge to remain in power. I always thought that judges looked out to make sure everyone was accountable to the law. I guess I've been wrong all along!
These judges think they can make policy with their judgments and not follow local or Constitutional Law. These judges need to be removed from their position and brought upon charges themselves.
This is a fraudulant judge!! There is another spirit involved in this matter! see 2 Corinthians 4:4/Epesians 2:2 KJV Judge, IT DOES MATTER!!!


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TO BE SURE, there is a chance that Bush's most vociferous critics have it all wrong. Robert Zelnick, who chairs the journalism department at Boston University, and who covered military and intelligence operations in his previous career as a correspondent for ABC News, makes a reasonable case that the outing of Valerie Plame really is no big deal, that it's business-as-usual, and that Novak was caught up in the normal and customary business of Washington-style political score-settling.
The way Zelnick sees it (he stresses that he is merely an observer and has no firsthand knowledge), the Bush White House had every reason to think it had been set up — "hustled" — by the CIA, an agency with which it was already at odds. Zelnick suspects that the reason the White House revealed the tie between Wilson and his wife was not so much for revenge as it was to show that the CIA, once again, had undermined the case for war.
Wilson, by going public in the New York Times ("Very unbecoming professional conduct," Zelnick says), and then by turning out to be a contributor to and supporter of Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign, inspired rage inside the White House — rage that was not at all unjustified, in Zelnick's view.
But wasn't identifying Plame a crime? "Crimes are committed every day," Zelnick replies, noting that, during his reporting days, he and his viewers benefited from leaks regarding the progress of the Gulf War and the status of the Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile-defense program. Those leaks, too, were crimes.
But wasn't naming an undercover CIA employee worse — a bigger crime, in effect — than other kinds of leaks? "She's domestically based. There are thousands of CIA employees whose identities are technically secret," Zelnick says. He hastens to add that he disagrees with Novak's decision to reveal her identity: "I think I would not have compounded the felony, so to speak." That aside, Zelnick thinks Wilson's ties to the CIA were a legitimate story. Were he a White House official, he says, "I would have been very irate with Mr. Wilson, and thought we'd been set up — and maybe set up by the CIA." Indeed, CIA officials are sometimes reminded — with good reason — that, unlike the president, no one elected them. In this particular instance, that truism appears to have been forgotten.
Zelnick's theory presumes an answer to the most important question of all: what, precisely, was Valerie Plame's job, and what horrors, if any, will be visited upon her and others as a consequence of her identity being revealed? Zelnick — like Juliette Kayyem — believes Plame was not involved in any James Bond–style exploits. But who knows?
The idea that Plame was covert, but not all that covert, has been at the heart of Novak's defense. In an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press this past Sunday (following Wilson; too bad host Tim Russert couldn't get them on together), Novak stuck to the line he took in his October 1 column, contending that the revelation had been offered to him "off-handedly," and that he didn't attach all that much importance to it. And though he conceded that he was asked not to name her, he contended he wasn't asked with much conviction.
"If they'd said she was in danger, I never would have written the column," he said. Indeed, he added, if his source really didn't want Plame outed, all that person had to do was get George Tenet on the phone.
Novak's account was intriguing, raising the question of when a request not to name an undercover CIA employee is sincere, and when it is merely ass-covering. So, too, was Novak's explanation of why he originally called Plame "an agency operative," which suggests something rather serious: he said he tends to call lots of people "operatives," including "political hacks," and that it was more unthinking cliché on his part than considered description. In fact, Novak said, she is an "analyst," and he challenged anyone to look up his use of the word operative on LexisNexis. I took the challenge, and found that he has used the word about 200 times over the past 10 years. So score one for the Prince of Darkness.
Yet there are indications that Plame was not just an ordinary CIA employee with some degree of anonymity. There have been media profiles in which even her oldest friends expressed shock at learning of her real job. There is the fact that the CIA concocted an affiliation with a private company, giving her "non-official cover," which is reportedly the deepest anonymity the agency can confer. Experts say it takes a long time to develop an effective "NOC" agent, as they are known, and as a result there aren't that many of them. There was former CIA agent Larry Johnson's appearance on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on September 30. Johnson angrily asserted that Plame had been undercover "for three decades" — probably an exaggeration, given that she is 40 years old, but irrelevant to Johnson's other claims.
"One, she works in an area where people she meets with overseas could be compromised," Johnson said. "When you start tracing back who she met with, even people who innocently met with her, who are not involved in CIA operations, could be compromised. For these journalists to argue that this is no big deal, and if I hear another Republican operative suggesting that, well, this was just an analyst, fine, let them go undercover. Let's put them overseas and let's out them and then see how they like it. They won't be able to stand the heat."
Then there's Wilson himself. Though he has resolutely refused to disclose what his wife did for a living pre-Novak, he came awfully close on ABC's Nightline on September 30. After host Ted Koppel called Plame "an analyst," Wilson corrected him: "First of all, the notion my wife is an analyst — if she were an analyst then there would not have been the referral to the Justice Department." And when Koppel averred that "the one doesn't preclude the other," Wilson responded with this prickly retort: "Well, I think you ought to check your sources on that part of it."
Translation: Valerie Plame was a covert operative of one sort or another. Novak had it right the first time, whether he realized it or not.
SO WHERE DO we go from here? If Valerie Plame was, in fact, a covert operative, then the Wilson affair is a serious matter — far more serious than some in the media would like to believe. True to form, the Wall Street Journal's ultraconservative editorial page has already taken to labeling the scandal a "kerfuffle," by which it apparently means that this is one of those quintessentially political dust-ups, and is not to be taken seriously.
The problem is that this is a notoriously difficult story to move forward. Novak isn't going to reveal his source. So far, none of the six journalists whom the Washington Post says were approached has spoken, either; nor is any of them likely to.
Rumors and speculation are flying over the identities of the "two top White House officials." The name of Bush's chief political guru, Karl Rove, has come up repeatedly, and Wilson himself said in August that he would like to see Rove "frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs." But Wilson has since cooled his jets. Last week, in an audio clip on the Guardian's Web site, reporter Julian Borger claimed that "several of the journalists are saying privately, yes, it was Karl Rove who I talked to." But to whom did they say this? To Borger? It's unclear.
Another name that has come up is that of Vice-President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby. There's a certain logic to that. Wilson's mission was taken on behest of Cheney's office, and the vice-president was reportedly infuriated by Wilson's disloyalty. But at this point, it's all conjecture.
So should Novak or any of the other journalists identify their sources? Arguing that they should is certainly tempting: they promised anonymity to an official or officials who then proceeded to break the law by ratting out Plame. If ever there was an occasion to break the journalistic code of omertà, one might think this would be it.
In an essay for the Washington Post on Sunday, the paper's associate editor, Robert Kaiser, gives voice to heresy, writing that "if a senior official initiated contact, obtained a pledge of confidentiality and sought to plant the name of Wilson's wife and her status with the CIA, I'd argue it was time to blow the whistle."
In his Newsweek piece, Jonathan Alter makes an intriguing suggestion: one of the journalists should anonymously leak the name of the leaker(s). "After all," he asks, "don't we in the press routinely ask people in government to feel scummy and violate the spirit of confidentiality in their own institutions by leaking to us in the name of some higher public interest?"
But Kaiser and Alter are outliers on this. The traditional view is expressed by Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism. While criticizing Novak for using Plame's name ("a profoundly wrong thing"), Rosenstiel contends it would be disastrous for journalism if anyone revealed his or her confidential sources.
"This is an important way that the public gets information. It's how we found out about the Pentagon Papers, it's how we found out about Watergate," Rosenstiel told me. "It's a vital part of a pluralistic society. It's a vital part of getting at the truth of things in a democratic culture."
Rosenstiel is right, regardless of what might be good — or at least feel good — in this one instance.
Which means, unfortunately, that the Wilson affair may eventually disappear unless there is some unexpected blockbuster revelation. Oh, there are the calls for an independent counsel, which will only become louder if Attorney General John Ashcroft Clouseau fails to come up with anything.
But next to Arnold Schwarzenegger's pro-Hitler comments and crude pawing of women, and Rush Limbaugh's alleged pill-popping and racially charged football commentary, the Wilson affair lacks the sort of titillating detail needed to keep it alive. And, of course, no scandal analysis would be complete without noting the overwrought, endless coverage of Bill Clinton's pathetic sex life. No sex here, please. They're Bushies.
"Without the kind of electrifying information that's needed, this will mainly be a Beltway story," says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and author of the 1991 book Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics. "You can spin a scenario whereby this becomes really big, but the odds are that it won't."
Another way of putting it is that the Wilson affair may already be big, but we don't know it yet — and perhaps never will. Maybe this really is a kerfuffle, but who can tell us? Sadly, this scandal can't be measured in nipples squeezed or OxyContin swallowed, but in hypotheticals that we will never know: foreign operatives rendered useless (or worse), overseas operations shut down, weapons of mass destruction never found.
The first President Bush once compared intelligence leaks to "treason." The second President Bush, so far, has given little indication that he even cares, although to his credit he did offer some tough language this week.
Unfortunately, this is not an easy story to tell. It may never be told. And the Washington pundits, with a knowing nod, will chalk it up to one more partisan storm that blew over before anyone could quite figure out what it was all about.
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Tag: War with the Newts
(Some Very Handsome) Books Acquired, 10.18.2011 (Melville House Debuts The Neversink Library)
The good people at Melville House, debut The Neversink Library this week, a line of international titles that have been overlooked, neglected, and under-appreciated, many languishing out of print for years. I was pleased as punch to get three from the fall line up (another Neversink title coming out this Fall is a new edition of Karel Capek's War with the Newts, covered by Biblioklept affiliate Noquar just a few weeks ago). Pics of the titles below—you can see how handsome and unified the design is here.
Georgi Vladimov's Faithful Ruslan—
Set in a remote Siberian depot immediately following the demolition of one of the gulag's notorious camps and the emancipation of its prisoners, Faithful Ruslan is an embittered cri de oeur from a writer whose circumstances obliged him to resist the violence of arbitrary power. "Every writer who writes anything in this country is made to feel he has committed a crime," Georgi Vladimov said. Dissident, he said, is a word that "they force on you." His mother, a victim of Stalin's anti-Semitic policy, had been interred for two years in one of the camps from which Vladimov derived the wrenching detail of Faithful Ruslan. The novel circulated in samizdat for more than a decade, often attributed to Solzhenitsyn, before its publication in the West led to Vladimov's harassment and exile.
A starving stray, tortured and abandoned by the godlike "Master" whom he has unconditionally loved, Ruslan and his cadre of fellow guard dogs dutifully wait for the arrival of new prisoners—but the unexpected arrival of a work party provokes a climactic bloodletting. Fashioned from the perceptions of an uncomprehending animal, Vladimov's insistently ironic indictment of the gulag spirals to encompass all of Man's inexplicable cruelty.
The President by Georges Simenon—
At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement— self exile—on the Normandy coast, writing his anxiously anticipated memoirs and receiving visits from statesman and biographers. In his library is the self-condemning, handwritten confession of the premier's former attaché, Chalamont, hidden between the pages of a sumptuously produced work of privately printed pornography—a confession that the premier himself had dictated and forced Chalamont to sign. Now the long-thwarted Chalamont has been summoned to form a new coalition in the wake of the government's collapse. The premier alone possesses the secret of Chalamont's guilt, of his true character—and has publicly vowed: "He'll never be Premier as long as I'm alive . . . Nor when I'm dead, either."
Inspired by French Premier Georges Clemenceau, The President is a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a probing account of the decline of power.
I think this is the one I'll dip into first: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W.H. Davies—
An untutored Welsh tramp who became a popular poet acclaimed by the conservative Georgians and the vanguard Ezra Pound alike, W. H. Davies surprised his contemporaries with the unlikeliest portrait of the artist as a young man ever written.
After a delinquent childhood Davies renounced home and apprenticeship and at twenty-two sailed to America—the first of more than a dozen Atlantic crossings, often made by cattle boat. From 1893 to 1899 he was schooled by the hard men of the road, disdaining regular work and subsisting by begging. Crossing Canada to join the "Klondyke" gold rush, Davies fell while hopping a train. His foot was crushed and his leg amputated. "All the wildness had been taken out of me," Davies wrote, "and my adventures after this were not of my own seeking."
Praised by Osbert Sitwell for his "primitive splendour and directness," Davies evokes the beauty and frontier violence of turn-of-the-century America in prose that George Bernard Shaw commended to "literary experts for its style alone." The insurgent wanderlust that found an American voice in Jack London and Jack Kerouac is expressed here in a raucous true adventure story by the man Shaw called "the incorrigible Supertramp who wrote this amazing book."
War With the Newts — Karel Capek
Even though the plot of War with the Newts may not shock audiences accustomed to its "human-invention-intended-for- good-becomes-in-the-end-not-so-good" story, readers shouldn't neglect this often-overlooked science-fiction classic from 1937 by notable Czech writer and satirist Karel Capek. Humans, motivated by a range of impulses: greed, curiosity, and sometimes even the best of intentions, have created an uncontrollable menace and brought about the end to their dominion over the planet. Computers, robots, even monkeys have spelled doom for mankind, but Capek warned, in this short and sparkling book, that while masses of intelligent amphibians must be dealt with cautiously, true danger arises from our manipulation of the natural world, the unceasing capitalist drive to increase production by exploiting the weakest, and our inability to foresee the consequences of our actions.
The action begins when a drunk but benevolent sea captain discovers a new species of amphibians inhabiting the waters near an isolated island in the Pacific Ocean. These docile creatures are able to breathe on land, walk on their hind legs, and communicate using rudimentary sounds and gestures. The captain trains them to speak a pidgin English and dive for pearls before arming them so that they might fend off the sharks that prey on their young. Once he receives generous financial backing from a Dutch conglomerate, he ships them to similar islands where pearl harvests have been been impossible or unproductive. Eventually big business determines that the tireless and fecund newts are valuable for the expansion and development of economic activities near the coasts and under the seas and develop a global marketplace for trade in their labor and bodies. Educated, well-equipped, and trained to use with the most advanced technologies, the newts produce the greatest expansion of wealth in the history of the world before taking it all for themselves, returning the continents to the bottom of the ocean while requiring a small cadre of humans, relocated to the mountains, to produce the steel and weapons required to support their new Atlantis.
Written as a history book, Capek brilliantly footnotes his narrative with carefully crafted primary sources: newspaper reports, academic studies, religious tracts, political manifestos and corporate minutes in order to illustrate human reaction to new, unsettling circumstance. A nimble author blessed with the knowledge and skill to write comfortably about a wide variety of subjects, Capek captures both the progressive and cautious voices that shape human reaction to the slow advancement of a new and underestimated intelligence. He shows that agreement against economic interest is impossible; labor, for instance, bemoans loss of work to newt hordes while agriculture comes to rely on the millions of new mouths that have to be fed. Scholars measure, analyze, and categorize; anonymous tract-writers urge an uneasy populace to take up arms against sea-dwelling usurpers while the young and fashionable flock to newt cults, giving themselves up to sexual licentiousness they relish the mysterious and taboo.
But though Capek capably documents trivialities, most of his accounts reflect the time in which he lived and wrote, between the two great European wars, situated between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's new Germany, at the height of colonial exploitation, not yet separated by a century from the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the American Civil War. In a report written by the "Salamander Syndicate," the organization responsible for the organization and dissemination of the world trade in newts justifies the "humane" husbandry, categorization, and sale of newts according to their physical attributes. Exemplary newts are invited to join committees and expound on their visions for a future shared with humans. Echoes of American abolitionist thought appear in the debates waged in the media regarding the existence of newt art and culture, their assumed "soullessness," and the minimal levels of education required for their lives as workers.
The newts, masters of human technology, eventually take over. Humans, fleeing to higher ground, are incapable of bringing the fight to the seas. War with the Newts is an indictment not only of our ability to take without question unearned economic value, but also of our inability to halt the mechanisms by which we accrue those benefits once it becomes evident that the process of enrichment, by itself, is detrimental to the common good. This is a very good book, a satire of the institutions that will fail when we need them the most, created by a writer whose demonstrated virtuosity deserves more attention.


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A popular article on InfoWars about young men. Unfortunately, the author did the usual "Man up" bit concerning boys. Many of these guys are older and have no idea what the younger men face. So they wag their finger at the younger guys forgetting that they were raised in an era that was not anti-male.
When are we finally going to admit that we have a very serious problem with this generation of young men in America? We have failed them so dramatically that it is hard to put it into words. We have raised an entire generation of young males that don't know how to be men, and many of them feel completely lost.


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Just found out over at fsvids.net that Brian Joubert injured his foot while attempting a triple lutz. He had to go to the hospital and had stitches put in . Apparently, the blade cut a tendon and touched a bone. OUCH!!!!!
He has not withdrawn. He is still optimistic saying that he should be 100% back by worlds . Let's hope so


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SailNet Community (http://www.sailnet.com/forums/)
- General Discussion (sailing related) (http://www.sailnet.com/forums/general-discussion-sailing-related/)
- - wind direction & jetstream question (http://www.sailnet.com/forums/general-discussion-sailing-related/89363-wind-direction-jetstream-question.html)
wind direction & jetstream question
I have been preparing my watkins 27 sailboat to cruise to the USVI from Maryland,
however I am not sure about the prevailing wind direction at diferent times of year after leaving Ft Lauderdale, Fl. I understand dec-may is the best time to be safe from hurricanes however doesn't the wind & jetstream typically head one direction part of the year and the other the rest? If anyone knows these answers or where I should research please help!
Re: wind direction & jetstream question
You should check the Pilot Charts for the Atlantic/Caribbean. I would trust those over which way the jet stream's going. These observations are the result of years of recording, before we even knew there *was* a jet stream.
Here's a link, just dial up the month(s) you want:
Atlas of Pilot Charts for the Major Oceans of the World
Jet stream usually divides weather systems, but what's happening on the surface is often very different from what's happening six miles up.
Re: wind direction & jetstream question
Use the noaa weather fax to see the correlation between the jet stream and the weather systems. At this time of year, the lows are north of the jet stream and the highs are south.
I do not think the jet stream will come play in your plans.
The jet stream is west to east generally, it does form omega blocks and tale other forms on occassion.
The 500 mB analysis of the weatherfax will show the jet stream position (the dark line).
This is one with which I am most familiar.
Northeast Pacific WX Briefing Package
Take a look at this one.
Gulf and Tropical Atlantic WX Briefing Package
Currently I see no jet stream on that weatherfax.
Re: wind direction & jetstream question
Ditto on Pilot Charts: http://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.por...ubConstant=APC Lots of land effect in play when near shore. The upper air winds are not really what you need to look at. Pressure systems that effect sailing are in surface forecasts. Use this NOAA link: Radiofax Charts - Boston to compare upper/lower level winds. In the summer, the Atlantic is usually dominated by high pressure. Getting toward fall, the high weakens and northern lows become more predominant. They can raise hell with the opposing Gulf Stream.
Jimmy Cornell's World Cruising Routes has a great section on weather patterns, trade winds, etc.
Hope these help... and welcome. There are lot of helpful, knowledgeable people on this board.
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The Somali Twitter community hit back as international delegates met in London on Thursday to discuss piracy, poverty, famine, and armed conflict plaguing the country. Somalis around the world were enfuriated by what they perceived as a disproportional focus on piracy and terrorism during the talks and an under-representation of Somali voices. Many expressed doubt about the aims of the conference, believing that foreign interests were the main motivation behind the talks. Delegates from 40 countries including Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, the prime minister of Somalia's Transition Federal Government, attended the conference. The radical Islamic group Al Shabab, who are fighting the government and control large parts of Somalia, were not represented but reportedly warned of any "unwanted interference".
Out of all the speakers during the morning session Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu's words were the only ones to reverberate with many Somalis.
"We cannot hold conferences away from Somalia .. we have to be there," Turkey's foreign minister says #ldnsomalia
Turkish Foreign minister's speech touches the Somali soul truly. #LDNSomalia
having a conference on the future of Somalia outside of Somalia is stupid. #LDNSomalia
Davutogli also urged other countries to follow Turkey's example and show support for Somalia by sending diplomatic missions to Mogadishu.
Turkey's For. Min. "We have to be present on the ground...this is psychologically important." Open embassies like us, he says. #LDNSomalia
During the public morning session the Somali prime minister was not given a chance to speak fueling the impression that Somalis had been sidelined in the debate. However, Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed had been the third person to speaker, after British prime minister David Cameron and UN general secretary Ban Ki Moon.
when is Silaanyo gona have a say? Bet they will let him speak in the end when everyone switches of #JustCurious to hear his view #LDNSomalia
President Sheikh Sharif: In order to find permanent solutions for problem of piracy we have to support all areas of Somalia #LDNSomalia
Youth group Young Voices of Somalia published five YouTube videos the day before the conference showing young Somalis living abroad deliver their message of what they believe would help their home country:
Ahead of the conference Somalians on Twitter urged their countrymen and others to set the hashtag #realsomalia24 trending. The campaign hoped to counter the pervasive image of a war torn country in peril.
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During the conference this cartoon was circulated on Twitter depicting the view that the conference is little more than a new 'Scramble for Africa' with foreign countries looking to protect their own interests in the region.
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Why do they keep referring to 'stakeholders' of 'Somalia' ? Somalia is a country not a bloody company! #LDNSomalia
For some the talks reminded of Somalia's colonial past, where it had been divided between French, British and Italian rule
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Across the world shouts of "shiver me timbers" fill the air. Wednesday is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. This tradition is ten years in the running, and doesn't look to let up any time soon. It is simple, every September 19th there is a free pass to say anything in "pirate" jargon.
At the Maritime Museum in Beaufort, people flock to see pirate artifacts. Today, participation was even more lively as many tried out a pirate saying or two.
Curator of Nautical Artifacts David Moore says they always see a big turn out at the museum around Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Moore says many of the pirate sayings aren't historically accurate.
"Three hundred years ago, if you were to meet a pirate he would sound just like any other person from that time period. He would be speaking in the native language or brogue."
Moore says pirates 300 years ago would use more nautical terms, but phrases like "avast ye land lubbers" were thrown into the mix from famous books like Treasure Island, or movies featuring pirates.
"And like the internet, once that idea is out there it stuck," says Moore.
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by Lew M. Simon, Democratic District Leader, 23rd A.D. Part B
On Tuesday during our major storm that brought everything to a halt in our community, the Neponsit Property Owners Association had a scheduled millennium party for the residents of Neponsit. President Mike O'Connor, being the trooper that he is, decided the party must go on. No cancellation.
After spending one hour chipping ice off my window, we were greatly pleased to see a large number of Neponsit residents braving the storm like we did. There was music by one of Rockaway's own. Congressman Anthony Weiner deserves a medal of honor for tracking in from Brooklyn to attend this event. A great time was had by all.
While still on the major storm, the Department of Sanitation should be ashamed of themselves for the condition of the Rockaway roads. God help anyone who lives on a beach block because you're iced in. Although main roads may be clear, major work is needed up and down local streets. Why is Rockaway the stepchild of the city?
We're very surprised that this condition occurs in our community since Sanitation Commissioner Kevin Farrell lives in Rockaway Point. We would love to escort Commissioner Farrell and his staff to see the job done to Rockaway. At the same time the Department of Sanitation has not made any pick ups of garbage this week. We would like to see the city bring out their trucks with dumpsters so they can dump the snow in the bay.
We urge everyone to pick up the phone and call the commissioner's office at (212) 788-9846 or the chief of staff/executive assistant to the commissioner, Marsha D. Kaunitz, at (212) 788-4125. Tell them you are outraged and District Leader Lew M. Simon gave you this number to voice your outrage.
It is now the fourth anniversary of the death of my mom, Jennie Simon. My mom was a great unselfish person, always giving of herself. My mom served as a Junior Girl Scout leader, president of the AARP, Rockaway chapter, active member of the Hammels Senior Center and always worked for the Philip Port Unit of the American Cancer Society.
My mom was a great champion of all the causes I got involved with-- always there in support of her son. I remember back to 1987 when we were fighting to stop a homeless shelter on Beach 44 street for 400 homeless men. We believed warehousing people was not a great way to live. Mom and I happened to be at one of the civic meetings when all of the elected officials and some of the civic leaders were - recognized with plaques for what they had done. My mom was quite annoyed with the fact that although I had been a chairman of a committee of the All Rockaway Planning Council and had organized petitions and meetings opposing the shelter and bringing unity for the first time in Rockaway, my name was not mentioned. My mother said it was a disgrace. My mom screamed out, "What about my son?" She was told to shut up or be escorted out. The windup was we were thrown out of this meeting. But, my mother taught me to hold your head high and be proud of what you do.
Mom and I always spent quality time together. We ate dinner together for one hour and argued about what to watch on TV. I wanted to watch Road to City Hall on NY 1 and my mother wanted to watch the country western channel.
My mother was very proud of my sister Fran and her beautiful grandchildren. Her favorite was my oldest niece, Bambi. Mom babysat for Bambi in the first years of her life.
Mom loved to go out to all the community meetings and have her voice heard. When she won prizes or money at an event, she always donated it back. She believed that was the right thing to do and God would bless you for it.
Mom loved to cook and spoil us kids rotten. During the holidays, we especially miss all the great cooking. We remember the homemade chopped liver, matzoh ball soup, noodle pudding, spaghetti and meatballs or best of all her wonderful smile. I just want to close by saying we know mom's in heaven as a supervising angel smiling down on us. We love her. We miss her and she will never be forgotten.
During mom's illness in 1995, when mom was slipping through our fingers, I thank God for the friendship of a man I call my father, Terry Flynn, sr., and his family who gave me the strength to go on at the same time he was a candidate for Civil Court. One night my mom took a turn for the worse and they had to operate to put a shunt in her neck because her veins had collapsed. Terry stopped everything to be by my side and give me the strength to go on.
Mary Flynn sr. and jr. visited mom in Peninsula Hospital and made sure she had a TV. Many times both mother and daughter Geraldine Chapey and Eugene Pasternack visited her in the hospital. Geraldine has a strong bond with her mother and we understand the importance of a loving mother and family.
Our next trip to Atlantic City will be on Saturday, February 12. We leave at 5:30 p.m. and return at 8 a.m. The cost is $23 with $17 returned. Call my office now for reservations now. I am listed in the Rockaway phone book.
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My 7.5 year old Lab just had a tumor removed from his paw. The pathology report was vague as to wether or not it would re-occur. The vet suggested I have a consult with a canine oncologist. She says there are vaccines available for treatment among other things. I was wondering what others have gone through so I am prepared.
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Latino, African-American Applicants Unfairly Denied Sandy Relief Funds?
Local housing rights organization Fair Share Housing Center (FSHC) says it has obtained data from the Christie Administration that shows that Latino and African-American residents applying for two major Sandy relief programs were denied by the state at higher rates than their Caucasian counterparts.
According to the FSHC, 35-percent of African American applicants and 18 percent of Latino applicants applying to the Homeowner Reconstruction, Rehabilitation Elevation and Mitigation (RREM) program were rejected by the state; while 13 percent of Caucasian applicants were denied from the same program.
Similarly, FSHC says 38 percent of African Americans and 20 percent of Latinos that applied to the Resettlement Grant Program had their applications rejected; while 14 percent of Caucasians were rejected from the same program.
President of the Latino Action Network (LAN) Frank Argote-Freyre and members of the New Jersey chapter of the NAACP reviewed the data along with FSHC and noticed inequities in both the amount of Latino and African Americans that applied for the programs, and the amount of Latino and African American residents that were approved to receive relief funds.
Argote-Freyre says he wants to know how the Christie Administration plans to correct the error.
"Given the misinformation presented to the Spanish-reading community by the Governor's relief website, I think Governor Christie should explain what he intends to do to help those who were unfairly rejected or who missed deadlines due to the administration's neglect," Argote-Freyre stated in a press release.
"We hope that these data, supplied by the Christie Administration itself, will help to shed light on why these programs are not working."
LAN is currently in litigation with the Christie Administration. The group claims that information provided on the English version of New Jersey's Sandy recovery web site was omitted from the Spanish version of the web site, and left many Spanish speaking Sandy victims unable to take advantage of grant program benefits.