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Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy
Guide to Columbia County, Pennsylvania ancestry, family history and genealogy in courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, Revolutionary War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.
|Columbia County, Pennsylvania
Location in the state of Pennsylvania, United States Genealogy
Location of Pennsylvania in the U.S.
|March 22, 1813
|County Seat
|Columbia County Courthouse
35 West Main Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Columbia County Website
- 1 Columbia County Pennsylvania Historical Facts
- 2 Description
- 3 Columbia County Pennsylvania Genealogy Resources
- 3.1 Bible Records
- 3.2 Biographies
- 3.3 Cemeteries
- 3.4 Census
- 3.5 Church Records
- 3.6 Court Records
- 3.7 Emigration and Immigration
- 3.8 Ethnic Groups
- 3.9 Gazetteers
- 3.10 Genealogy
- 3.11 History
- 3.12 Land and Property
- 3.13 Maps
- 3.14 Migration
- 3.15 Military
- 3.16 Naturalization and Citizenship
- 3.17 Newspapers
- 3.18 Occupations
- 3.19 Periodicals
- 3.20 Poorhouse, Almshouse
- 3.21 Probate Records
- 3.22 Repositories
- 3.23 Taxation
- 3.24 Vital Records
- 4 Genealogy Societies and Libraries
- 5 Columbia County Pennsylvania Genealogy Websites
- 6 Columbia County Pennsylvania Places
- 7 Columbia County Pennsylvania Genealogy References
Columbia County Pennsylvania Historical Facts[edit | edit source]
|Beginning dates for major county records
Parent Counties: Formed from Northumberland and Luzerne Counties 22 March 1813.[1]
County Seat: Bloomsburg
Neighboring Counties: Columbia County residents may also have records in:[2]
Description[edit | edit source]
The county was named for Columbia, a poetic name for the United States that alludes to Christopher Columbus. It's county seat is Bloomsburg. It was organized March 22, 1813. It is located in the Central section of the state.[3]
Boundary Changes[edit | edit source]
- Before 1813: Columbia was part of Northumberland County.
- 3 May 1850: Montour County formed, giving Columbia County its current boundaries.
For animated maps illustrating Pennsylvania county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Pennsylvania County Boundary Maps" (1673-1878) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.
Records Loss[edit | edit source]
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.
Columbia County Pennsylvania Genealogy Resources[edit | edit source]
Bible Records[edit | edit source]
Biographies[edit | edit source]
- Columbia County Biographies at Columbia County, Pennsylvania USGenWeb Archives]
Cemeteries[edit | edit source]
Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.
|Online Grave Transcripts
|Published Grave Transcripts
|County Cemetery Directories
|Names in Stone
|Billion Graves
|See Pennsylvania Cemeteries for more information.
Census[edit | edit source]
For tips on accessing Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy Federal (or United States) census records online, see: Pennsylvania Census.
There are no county or state census records available for Pennsylvania. County and city tax records can be used as a substitute when census records are not available.
Church Records[edit | edit source]
Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. In Pennsylvania, church records are often used as a substitute for birth, marriage, and death information. For general information about Pennsylvania denominations, view the Pennsylvania Church Records wiki page.
The Columbia County Historical and Genealogical Society maintains files on over 300 area churches. The files are comprised of church histories, membership rolls, marriage records, and more. An index to the files can be accessed by going to the "Resources" tab on the home page and then clicking on the "Churches and Cemeteries (Files)" link. Society volunteers will search the files for others. Those interested are encouraged to contact the society by telephone (570-784-1600).
Finding Church Records at Other Repositories
Additional church records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy Church Records in online catalogs like:
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
- FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Places Search).
County-wide Database - Multi-denominational[edit | edit source]
- 1708-1985 - Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 at Historical Society of Pennsylvania – $, free to members of the society; Also available at Ancestry.com – $; 7,542,774 entries. This database is incomplete for all counties.
- Contains church records of:
- Berwick: First United Methodist Church; St. Paul Methodist Church; United Methodist Church
- Bloomsburg: First Presbyterian Church; Lutheran Church; Trinity Reformed Church (United Church of Christ); Wesley United Methodist Church
- Catawissa: First United Methodist Church
- Espy: St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Fowlerville: Lutheran Church
- Millville: United Methodist Church
- Philadelphia: Columbia Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church; Covenant United Presbyterian Church
Lutheran[edit | edit source]
St. John's Lutheran Church, Catawissa
- 1789-1864 - St. John's Lutheran Church, Catawissa, Baptism Index 1789-1864 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free. Batch C504341.[4]
- 1840-1873 - St. John's Lutheran Church, Catawissa, Marriage Index 1840-1873 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free. Batch M504341.
Court Records[edit | edit source]
Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy court records are housed at the Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy Courthouse. For many counties copies of court records may be found at the Pennsylvania State Archives and in the FamilySearch collection. Note that within these collections some films may contain the same records, but have different titles. Other titles are not duplicates. See Finding Court Records at other repositories within this section for links to the online catalogs for these two collections. Films at the Pennsylvania State Archives are not available for inter-library loan. If court records are available FamilySearch films may be available at a local Family History Center. Call ahead for availability.
Court of Common Pleas[edit | edit source]
The Courts of Common Pleas are the trial courts of Pennsylvania. Major civil and criminal cases are heard in these courts. Judges also decide cases involving adoption, divorce, child custody, abuse, juvenile delinquency, estates, guardianships, charitable organizations and many other matters. The Common Pleas courts are organized into 60 judicial districts. Columbia County shares its judicial district with Montour County. Judges of the Common Pleas courts are elected to 10-year terms. A president judge and a court administrator serve in each judicial district.[5]
1814-1861 Common Pleas dockets FHL Films 955613-14. Includes naturalizations, divorce petitions, deeds, insolvency, contracts, and lunacy.
Clerk of the Court[edit | edit source]
The Clerk of Courts prepares and maintains the records for the Criminal Division of the Court of Common Pleas. The Clerk signs and affixes the Seal of the Courts to all writs and processes, administers oaths and affirmations, and assumes custody of the seal and records of the Courts. The Clerk certifies and distributes orders of the Court. The Clerk also certifies and prepares bills of costs for the defendants and utilizes the computerized financial management system to disburse fines, costs and restitution.[6] For the Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy Clerk of Courts address see the Courthouse section on this page.
Prothonotary[edit | edit source]
The office of the Prothonotary is the custodian of all civil matters in the county. This includes naturalization, immigration, equity actions, judgements, federal and local tax liens, city liens, family court, arbitrations, license suspension appeals, appeals to higher court, commercial code filings, applications for passports and divorce proceedings. See the Courthouse section on this page for the Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy Prothonotary office information.
Orphans' Court[edit | edit source]
See Vital Records
The Orphans' Court is responsible for a wide range of matters. The name of the Court is derived from the more general definition of "orphan," that being a person or thing that is without protective affiliation or sponsorship. This would include those not capable of handling their own affairs, minors, incapacitated persons, decedents estates, nonprofit corporations and trusts. It is the role of the Court to ensure that the best interests of the person or entity are not compromised.
It is believed the name of this court was borrowed from the Court of Orphans of the city of London, England which had the care and guardianship of children of deceased citizens, in their minority.[7]
For Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy Orphans' Court contact information see the Courthouse section on this page.
- 1814-1869 Orphans' Court dockets FHL Films 955824-27. Indexes are found at the beginning of each volume.
Finding Court Records at Other Repositories
Additional court records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy Court Records in online catalogs like:
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
- FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Places Search).
Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]
For information about emigration into Pennsylvania, see the Pennsylvania Emigration and Immigration page.
Ethnic Groups[edit | edit source]
Germans[edit | edit source]
Gazetteers[edit | edit source]
Genealogy[edit | edit source]
History[edit | edit source]
Published Histories[edit | edit source]
- Freeze, John G. A History of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. Bloomsburg, Pa.: Elwell and Bittenbender, 1883. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.
Land and Property[edit | edit source]
Land records in Columbia County began in 1800. These records are filed with the Register and Recorder's office in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts, indexes, mortgages, leases, grants, sheriff sales, land patents, and maps. Property records include liens as well as livestock brands and estray records.
The following are examples of available resources:
Online Land Records
- 1974–present Columbia County offers free online access to indexes. Fees apply to view images.
Land Records on Microfilm
- 1813–1973 Deeds, 1813-1866; Index, 1813-1973. FHL film 955506 (first of 36 films)
- 1813–1973 Mortgages, 1813-1830; Index, 1813-1973. FHL film 954842 (first of 14 films)
Additional Resources
Note that the "Maps" section below includes maps related to land ownership.
See Pennsylvania Land and Property for more information about using land records, especially about original land warrants, surveys, and patents filed at the state land office.
Additional resources can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Columbia County Pennsylvania Land in online catalogs such as:
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog.)
- FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Places Search.)
Maps[edit | edit source]
- Maps of Pennsylvania (1673-1878)
- Ancestor Tracks has posted free downloadable images from the 1876 Atlas of Columbia & Montour Counties, Pennsylvania. This atlas located in the Library of Congress shows major landowners and geographic sites at the date of publishing. While the physical maps are in the public domain, the images we have taken of the maps belong to us and are not to be used commercially. We hereby give permission to use them strictly for personal use; please attribute to Ancestor Tracks.
Migration[edit | edit source]
Military[edit | edit source]
Naturalization and Citizenship[edit | edit source]
Naturalization records can contain information about immigration and nativity. Prior to 1906, it is rare to find the town of origin in naturalization records. See Pennsylvania Naturalization for more information about the types of records and availability.
Naturalizations granted at the county level were kept by the office of the Prothonotary. Naturalizations could also be granted on the Federal Court level.
Naturalization records available for Columbia County, Pennsylvania include the following:
Online Naturalization Indexes and Records
- 1901-1930 – Naturalization Petitions of the U.S. Circuit and District Courts for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1906-1930; and 1901-1906 on Fold3.com - ($), indexed, National Archives publication M1622, Middle District court was created in 1901, for earlier dates try the Eastern and Western District court records
- 1901-1930 - Middle District, US Circuit and District Courts: Naturalization petitions, 1906-1930 located in U.S. Naturalization Records - Original Documents, 1795-1972 (World Archives Project) database on Ancestry.com - ($), indexed, National Archives publication M1622, Middle District court was created in 1901, for earlier dates try the Eastern and Western District court records.
Original Naturalization Records on Microfilm
- 1814-1861 Common Pleas Dockets FHL film 955613 (first of 2 films)
- 1814-1847 Naturalization Papers FHL film 955615
Finding Naturalization Indexes at Other Repositories
Additional naturalization indexes can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy naturalization in online catalogs like:
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
- Abstracts in FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Places Search).
Newspapers[edit | edit source]
Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy newspapers may contain genealogical value including obituaries, births, marriages, deaths, anniversaries, family gatherings, family travel, achievements, business notices, engagement information, and probate court proceedings.
To access newspapers, contact public libraries, historical/genealogical societies, college or university libraries, or state archives in the area where the newspaper was published.
For information on state-wide newspapers see Pennsylvania Newspapers
Newspapers of Columbia County
- Pennsylvania Newspapers
- Chronicling America US Newspaper Directory
Online Newspapers
To learn if there are newspapers online for a specific town or city in Pennsylvania, see news.google.com/newspapers and search for the town or the name of a newspaper
Online Newspaper Abstracts
- PA-Roots Newspaper Articles for Columbia County.
- The Columbia Democrat Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, 1837-1850.
- The Columbian Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, 1866-1910.
- The Campaign Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, 1866-1866.
- Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg General Advertiser Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, 1850-1866.
- Local Newspaper Collection, Bloomsburg University, Harvey A. Andruss Library.
- USGenWeb WPA Project 5175 Columbia County Marriages
Obituaries[edit | edit source]
Obituaries are generally found in local newspapers where the person died. However, sometimes an obituary is found in the location from which he or she originated. To find an obituary, see the information under the Newspaper heading
|Sometimes the fastest way of finding obituaries is to call or email the local public library in the area where the person died. If the library does not have newspapers, a librarian often will know where they are kept. If a death date is known, and the newspapers are at the library, someone on staff will usually make a search for a small fee, or will indicate someone who will do the search.
Online Obituary Abstracts
PA-Roots Obituaries for Columbia County.
Occupations[edit | edit source]
Indentured Servants[edit | edit source]
Periodicals[edit | edit source]
Poorhouse, Almshouse[edit | edit source]
Probate Records[edit | edit source]
Probate matters in {{{1}}} County are handled by the Orphans' Court and start when the county was created.
In addition to wills and administrations, the Orphans' Court also handles: audits of accounts of executors, administrators, trustees, and guardians; distribution of estates; appointments of guardians; adoptions; appeals from the Register of Wills; inheritance tax appeals, and various petitions and motions.
Online Probate Records
Original probate records for some Pennsylvania counties are available free online as digital images at FamilySearch.org. The dates vary significantly for each county and not all counties are listed. Some counties may only have probate indexes. This Pennsylvania collection of images may be browsed through the links listed below:
Complete Collection:
- 1683-1994-Pennsylvania, Probate Records, 1683-1994 at FamilySearch.org
Columbia County Only:
- 1773-1974-Columbia County Probate Records
Online Probate Indexes
- 1683 - 1993 Pennsylvania Wills and Probate Records 1683-1993 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
Original Probate Records on Microfilm
- 1773-1833 Indexes to Mortgages, Wills and Administrations, and Miscellaneous Records FHL film 955505
- 1814-1869 Orphans' Court Dockets FHL film 955824 (first of 4 films)
- 1813-1912 Wills and Administrations FHL film 954833 (first of 9 films) - Includes Index 1813-1974
Repositories[edit | edit source]
Archives[edit | edit source]
- The Pennsylvania Archives collection contains county archive records that can be searched onsite. Currently the Archives' staff cannot provide research or make copies of these records. Their collections include Almshouse Registers; Tax records; Birth, Death and Marriage Indexes and Records; Midwife records; African American records; Wills; Deeds; Naturalizations; Coroner's inquests; and Orphan's Court dockets. A list of the Archive's county holdings are on Microfilm or Manuscript form.
- National Archives at Philadelphia
14700 Townsend Road
Philadelphia, PA 19154-1096
Phone: 215-305-2044
Fax: 215-305-2052
Courthouse[edit | edit source]
- Columbia County Courthouse
35 West Main Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Phone: 570-389-5600
- Register and Recorder's Office
Columbia County Courthouse
35 West Main Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Phone: 570-389-5632
- Office of the Prothonotary
Columbia County Courthouse
35 West Main Street
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
Phone: 570-389-5614
Family History Centers[edit | edit source]
Family History Centers (FHCs) are branches of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and are located all over the world. Their goal is to provide resources for family history research.
The main FHC for Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy is the Berwick Pennsylvania Family History Center. For additional nearby Family History Centers, search online in the FHC directory.Family history centers provide one-on-one assistance and free access to premium genealogical websites. In addition, many centers have free how-to genealogy classes. See family history center for more information. Search the online FHC directory for a nearby family history center.
Libraries[edit | edit source]
Museums[edit | edit source]
Societies[edit | edit source]
- Columbia County Historical and Genealogical Society.
225 Market Street
P.O. Box 360
Bloomsburg, PA 17815-0360
Phone: 570–784–1600
- Montour County Genealogical Society, MCGS
205 Ferry Street
Danville PA 17821
Phone: 570-275-6177
Genealogy Room: Thomas Beaver Free Library, 2nd Floor
The collection includes records for Columbia, Montour and Northumberland Counties. Research requests may be submitted in writing using a printable form which includes the fee schedule.
Taxation[edit | edit source]
- 1778-1787 - Columbia County, Pennsylvania Tax Lists 1778-1780, 1781, 1783 & 1784, 1785, 1787 at PAGenWeb - free.
Vital Records[edit | edit source]
Vital records are handled by the County Orphans' Court. Between the years 1852-1855 Pennsylvania made a failed attempt to record birth, marriage and death events at the county level. While the records for that time period are available, there were few events recorded. County marriage records were kept in earnest in 1885. Births and deaths, at the county level, were begun in 1893 and kept through 1905. Abstracts and copies of vital records are available for some counties, but most are incomplete. For the most complete set of records, always contact the County Orphans' Court.
See also How to order Pennsylvania Vital Records
- 1893-1905 All genealogical requests to the county clerk for birth or death information are forwarded to the Columbia County Historical and Genealogical Society.
Birth[edit | edit source]
Early births 1893–1905 are located at the County Orphans' Court. See the heading Court Records on this page for contact information.
Indexes for Pennsylvania birth records are available through the Department of of Health for 1906 and 1907. Once an individual is located in the index a non certified Birth certificate can be obtained by writing and sending $3.00 to:
Division of Vital Records
ATTN: Public Records
P.O. Box 1528
New Castle, PA 16103
- 1852-1856 - Columbia County Birth Index 1852-1928 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free.[8]
- 1852-1854 – Pennsylvania Births Ancestry.com – ($) Index with images.
- 1893-1905 USGenWeb indexes several birth lists for Columbia County.
Marriage[edit | edit source]
Pennsylvania marriages are located at the county level. Contact the Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy clerk's office for these records.
- 1677–1950 Pennsylvania Civil Marriages, 1677-1950 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1700-1821 - Pennsylvania Marriage Records Ancestry.com – ($) This database is incomplete for all counties.
- 1725-1976 - Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1709-1940 - free index. Not complete for all years. This index is not necessarily intended to index any specific set of records. This index is not complete for any particular place or region. This collection may include information previously published in the International Genealogical Index or Vital Records Index collections.
- Pre-1810 – Pennsylvania Marriages Ancestry.com – ($) This database is incomplete for all counties. Includes 35,000 marriage records from vol. VIII of of the second series of the Pennsylvania Archives.
- 1852-1854 - Pennsylvania Marriages Ancestry.com – ($) Index with images.
- 1885-1950 - Pennsylvania County Marriage, 1885-1950 Extracted marriage records – free. This database is incomplete for all counties. May also contain marriage records earlier than 1885.
- 1895-1907 USGenWeb indexes several marriage lists for Columbia County.
- Marriage Records of Columbia and Montour Counties at Ancestry.com - ($); book transcription; Marriages taken from newspapers Columbian Democrat and The Intelligencer.
Divorce[edit | edit source]
Divorce records are available through the office of the Prothonotary. The office of the Prothonotary is located in the courthouse building.
Death[edit | edit source]
Early deaths 1893–1905 are located at the County Orphans' Court. See the heading Court Records on this page for contact information.
Indexes for Pennsylvania death records are available through the Department of Health for 1906 through 1962. Once an individual is located in the index a non certified death certificate can be obtained obtained by writing and sending $3.00 to:
Division of Vital Records
ATTN: Public Records
P.O. Box 1528
New Castle, PA 16103
- 1852-1873, 1893-1905 - Columbia County Death Index 1852-1873 and 1893-1905 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch - free.[9]
- 1852-1854 – Pennsylvania Deaths Ancestry.com – ($) Index with images.
- 1893-1905 - USGenWeb indexes several death lists for Columbia County.
Finding Vital Records at Other Repositories
Additional vital records can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Columbia County, Pennsylvania Genealogy Vital Records in online catalogs like:
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
- FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Places Search).
Genealogy Societies and Libraries[edit | edit source]
Columbia County Pennsylvania Genealogy Websites[edit | edit source]
Columbia County Pennsylvania Places[edit | edit source]
Populated Places[edit | edit source]
Columbia County Pennsylvania Genealogy References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), [FHL book 973 D27e 2002].
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Columbia County, Pennsylvania" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_County,_Pennsylvania.
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_County,_Pennsylvania accessed 2/2/2017
- ↑ Genealogical Society of Utah, Parish and Vital Records List (July 1998). Microfiche. Digital version at https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/2/23/Igipennsylvaniac.pdf.
- ↑ The Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania http://www.pacourts.us/T/CommonPleas/ accessed 10 July 2012.
- ↑ Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania, Clerk of Courts in http://www.pacourts.us/T/CommonPleas/ClerksOfCourts.htm (accessed 25 Aug 2012)
- ↑ The Philadelphia Courts at http://www.courts.phila.gov/common-pleas/orphans/ accessed 10 July 2012
- ↑ Genealogical Society of Utah, Parish and Vital Records List (July 1998). Microfiche. Digital version at https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/2/23/Igipennsylvaniac.pdf.
- ↑ Genealogical Society of Utah, Parish and Vital Records List (July 1998). Microfiche. Digital version at https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/2/23/Igipennsylvaniac.pdf.


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crazykiller - Monday 05/06/2006, 16:53
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There is a famous wine company, (in the top twenty five of the world,) that was looking for a few summer interns. They searched among the thousands upon thousands of students at the most prestigious colleges across the United States. Twenty five of the top performing students were chosen, flown in, sheltered, wined and dined, and then given a tour through their processing plants, and then through a battery of interviews with the higher ups in the company.
One of my boys was one of the chosen.
At first, the interviews and mixers went well; my son clearly had the advantage over the other students. He knew what to say and when to say it, and had no hang ups or nervousness in speaking to those interviewing him. As a home schooled student, he was used to interacting with many different ages and even with people in authority over him. Questions that stumped the other candidates were easy for him to answer. Once he would give his answer, the others chimed in with likewise answers. He was known by those within the company to be the favored applicant from California.
Then he toured the processing plant.
As soon as the bus carrying all the students drove onto the land, my son could see all the demons. They were so utterly numerous, that it left him speechless. They were vicious demons, some looking like fighting warrior men, while others were animals such as bulls with large horns or dragons with sharp claws and teeth. Others were so black and covered with filth, that he knew they must have come from active satanic worship, from somewhere on the property.
As he walked past the vats of wine and hard alcohol, (this surprised him; he had no idea that they also made hard liquor,) he could see shadows darting in between the containers. He seen the workers there, with their own demons attached to them, following them wherever they went. He bound up the demons that came near him, and the angels that surrounded him were very, very angry at the demons. They shielded my son from the demons attacks.
He described the place as a bus depot for demons. It was a place for the demons to laugh and party with each other, while they waited to hitch a ride in one of the bottles, and then into a human host. Gambling, addiction, pornography, and of course alcoholism, all the vices were there, just waiting to be imbibed.
On his final interview, he was to meet with the head of the department. As soon as he seen the man, he knew that he was a practicing satanist. There were so many demons on this man, that he had to struggle to make out the face of the man throughout all the black swirling smoke that covered him. When my son shook hands with him, my sons hands started to burn. The burning didn't stop until he left the property. The man spoke very fast and very quietly, almost with a hiss, making it hard to hear him. He refused to repeat anything he said, or answer any questions my son asked him about working there. The interview was a total failure.
When my son came home and walked in to the room, he looked extremely tired. He asked me to bless him. I told him I would in just a minute, (I was in the middle of doing something,) but the Lord Jesus stopped me in my tracks. "When he asks you to bless him, what does that mean?"
So I stopped what I was doing and went to get the blessed olive oil to bless him.
As I got closer to him, I could see some demons still tagging on to him. "Oh my!" I said to my son, "I see you have some stragglers on you!"
I bound them up in the name of Jesus, before even getting to the oil, because I did not want them to do something to stop me from blessing him.
As soon as the oil touched his throat, my son stumbled and fell forward, but I was able to catch him. I said "I cast you out in the name of Jesus!" I was angry at the demons and my voice showed this. "Trouble him no more!"
But for the first time in my life, the demons answered me back. "Only if HE," they sneered, "troubles US no more!"
I gasped in shock, and thought 'you don't have the right to tell us what we can or can not do!' So I answered them, "THAT will be for my Lord to decide!"
Then they left.
He told me that they had bothered him on the way home, and he kept casting them out, but it was difficult to get rid of them all. The blessed olive oil was needed to do the job.
He complained of his sinuses hurting, and of feeling like he was coming down with the flu. I realized then, that the seeds of those demons were still in my son. As he had stood there in that alcohol processing plant, and breathed in all those horrible fumes, he was breathing in all those spores too. So I had him use the nebulizer to breathe in some colloidal silver, to kill off those nasty spores. He said that his eyes began to hurt, from looking at all the demons. So we prayed that the memory of witnessing such horror would go away.
My son assumed that because that final interview was so awful, he would not be getting a job offer from the company. So he didn't even send the company the standard thank you letter for the interview.
But weeks later, he was offered a summer intern position in a different department. The person who offered him the job, is the same one he would be working for. He flat out told this person that he didn't think he could work there, because he refused to drink alcohol. The person told him that it would not be a problem; he did not drink alcohol either.
Then this man broke all protocol, (he could have gotten into such trouble for this!,) and asked my son if it was because of his religion. My son heard the Lord tell him that it was o.k. to tell him his religion, so he told him that he was a Christian, and that he didn't believe in drinking alcohol.
The man's voice perked up at this, and he said, "so am I! I don't believe in it either!"
So they got to talking, and by the end of the conversation, my son was torn. He gave him the weekend to decide if he should take the job or not.
On one hand, the job itself would be a bonus; he would get to work with some artificial intelligence, which he has dreamed of doing for years. (This son of mine dreams of building a robot that believes in Jesus.) It would be his first foray into that kind of experience.
On the other hand, dealing with the demons would be a chore. However, he was assured that the office he'd be working at is on a different compound, and has nothing to do with the main one he had visited.
But the deciding factor came when he had prayed and asked the Lord what he should do. It was then that the Lord told him that He wanted him to go work there for the summer, to be there for the man. For some unknown reason, God wanted him there to help him. So he said yes, and accepted the job.
As a side note, a few weeks later my husband had asked me to wrap some bottles of wine to give as gifts to his clients. As I was wrapping them, my hands started to burn. I had to stop because the burning became so severe. I asked one of my sons if he could see anything, and he said yes, and that it was the wine that had the demons in it. This surprised me, for this wine was from a very small and private vineyard that was owned by a Christian home schooling friend of my husband.
I share this post with some apprehension, for I know there are many Christians out there who drink, and they can get quite upset when their drink is in question. Yet from all that we have seen in the unseen world, liquor of any kind, yes even wine from a Christian, is filled with demons.
(In the bible, the word wine can refer to fermented grape juice, or just grape juice that is not yet fermented. Our family has seen no demons in plain aged grape juice. It's when man tries to change it so that the alcohol level is increased, that trouble seems to occur.)
Proverbs 20:1 – Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
(Mocking and raging are demons.)
Ephesians 5:18 – And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Romans 14:21 – [It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
1 Thessalonians 5:22 (KJV) Abstain from all appearance of evil.


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Open Thread for June 7…….
Hello everyone out there!
Another Special Tuesday Election Coverage coming at Ya!
We'll who the winners are going to be…..
The Oil leak is slowing being taken care of…
The Gaza supply ship story continues…..
And The Mets get three wins!……
The Celtics will not just roll over…..
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How are you doing?
Comment by Daniel G. | June 7, 2010 |
So I heard ole Rush Limbaugh got married for the 4th time over the weekend and paid Elton John $1 million to perform at the ceremony.
Now I gotta ask, if this one goes the way of his other 3 marriages will the conservatives blame Sir Elton's gay union? I certainly wouldn't be surprised.
Comment by Scott P | June 7, 2010 |
Glad EJ took yhe old addict for a mill.
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 7, 2010 |
James B, NBA Finals update:
Boston defeated the LA Lakers 103-94 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles last night in Game 2, tying the series at 1-1 with Games 3, 4, and 5 at Boston the next couple of days.
My NFL 2010 season predictions:
NFC South-New Orleans (defending SB champs)
NFC East-Dallas
NFC West-Arizona
NFC North-Green Bay
AFC East-NY Jets
AFC North-Pittsburgh
AFC South-Indianapolis
AFC West-San Diego
Comment by Conservative Democrat | June 7, 2010 |
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating claims that the computer giant Apple has refused to sell its new iPad to people of Asian descent, apparently over smuggling fears.
The Attorney General's's civil rights bureau was tipped off by an Assemblywoman from a Chinese-American section of Queens, who complained publicly last month that her constituents were being asked unusual questions when they sought to buy the devices. The iPad was not yet for sale in Asia at the time of the complaints in May.
"Our Office received complaints over the treatment of certain individuals of Asian descent at two Apple stores in New York City," said Cuomo communications director Richard Bamberger in an email.
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 7, 2010 |
I guess an Asian person could get a White or Black friend to walk in and buy it for them
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 7, 2010 |
I meant it was silly to think one could "ban" a group of people from buying a product so widely available
There was a great Seinfeld epispode about this!
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 7, 2010
How about the one where they wouldn't sell you their product if you wanted to pay cash for IT????
Sounds like tuition where they REFUSE to accept cash for class payment
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 7, 2010 |
Conservative Democrat
I am happy camper
I am SOOOO excited
I NOW HAVE three candidates I am supporting
Robert Ford
Brian Doyle
Alvin Greene
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 7, 2010 |
For those voting on the Republican BALLOT
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani backed South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster for governor Monday, giving the prosecutor a high-profile endorsement less than 24 hours before voting begins in the Republican primary.
McMaster also announced the backing of former Gov. David Beasley on Friday, and previously claimed support from Arizona Sen. John McCain.
Haley counts former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin among her backers, while Barrett's supporters include former Vice President Dick Cheney and former presidential candidate Fred Thompson. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee supports Bauer's campaign.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38207.html#ixzz0qCPKMGCy
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38207.html#ixzz0qCP7WYjO
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 7, 2010 |
* Haley also been endorsed by Club for Growth, Mitt Romney, and Jenny SULLIVAN Sanford (the lady formerly married to GOVERNOR Sanford)
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 7, 2010 |
Double Dip Recession folks I think. All because of Obamas BOGUS Stimulus Plan.
Comment by Daniel G. | June 7, 2010 |
jack MY ELDER
SAD NEWS for us trying to expose the horrors of war
U.S. military officials confirmed to NBC News today that a 22-year old military intelligence analyst has been taken into custody for allegedly providing the document-posting website Wikileaks with classified gun-camera video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack that killed innocent civilians in Baghdad.
Specialist Bradley Manning of Potomac, Md., whose arrest was reported yesterday on Wired.com's "Threat Level" blog, was reported to Army officials by former hacker Adrian Lamo, according to the tech website.
Manning allegedly bragged to Lamo that he had provided Wikileaks with the Apache video, three other classified gun-camera videos including a controversial bombing in Afghanistan, classified Army document evaluating Wikileaks as a security threat and as many as 260,000 classified cables.
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 7, 2010 |
Double Dip Recession folks I think. All because of Obamas BOGUS Stimulus Plan.
It is more TRAGIC is the fact in DECEMBER 09 the limit was lifted on the Stimulus
and YET unemployment continues to RISE
and MAY 2010 was the WORST month for the DJIA since
yep since 1940
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 7, 2010 |
Daniel G
On or about Jan. 1, 2011, federal, state and local tax rates are scheduled to rise quite sharply. President George W. Bush's tax cuts expire on that date, meaning that the highest federal personal income tax rate will go 39.6% from 35%, the highest federal dividend tax rate pops up to 39.6% from 15%, the capital gains tax rate to 20% from 15%, and the estate tax rate to 55% from zero. Lots and lots of other changes will also occur as a result of the sunset provision in the Bush tax cuts.
Tax rates have been and will be raised on income earned from off-shore investments. Payroll taxes are already scheduled to rise in 2013 and the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) will be digging deeper and deeper into middle-income taxpayers. And there's always the celebrated tax increase on Cadillac health care plans. State and local tax rates are also going up in 2011 as they did in 2010. Tax rate increases next year are everywhere.
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 7, 2010 |
Daniel G
The GOP will be able to hit a HOMERUN on taxes if the tax increase happen in 2011
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 7, 2010 |
Daniel Z if SOMEHOW you get this message
Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse
Today's corporate profits reflect an income shift into 2010. These profits will tumble next year, preceded most likely by the stock market.
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 7, 2010 |
The recession may be double-dip not because the President is some kind of foreign-born Marxist but because everyone's pulling back way too soon in the face of expectations of bankers' future expectations of so-far-non-manifest inflation while unemployment is close to record highs.
See various expositions and protests by the Nobel Prize winning Princeton economist Paul Krugman, e.g.
The Pain Caucus (Sunday 30 May)
Lost Decade, Here We Come (today, Monday 7 June)
Madmen in Authority (today)
Not only the Mediterranean countries, but the Germany of Angela Merkel and the United Kingdom of David Cameron with Nick Clegg (featuring George Osborne, Conservative, Chancellor of the Exchequer) are promising very painful cuts that may likely echo the 1930's and 1970's in prolonging and extending needless human pain. It's as if everyone wants to forget John Maynard Keynes (a Liberal) and rely instead on the banker's theories of those who advised Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Ramsey Macdonald, Stanley Baldwin and the Weimar Republic. (Good thing FDR didn't follow his 1932 campaign promises to slash the bloated Federal government of Herbert Hoover.)
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 7, 2010 |
Only things bogus about Obama's stimulus plan are that because of obsolete ideology and self-interested pressure groups too powerful to overcome, it's too small, too short-lived and directed to some of the wrong places.
It's premised on employment levels we have yet to see.
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 7, 2010 |
I should have said short-sightedly self-interested pressure groups: for most of them, the satisfaction of their short-term interests will eventually be more than cancelled out by the economic recession and/or stagflation, and that's not even counting the results of blind, undirected populist anger.
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 7, 2010 |
Providence Mayor David Cicilline (D) opens campaign for Patrick Kennedy's 1st Congressional seat.
¶ [The Democratic primary is on Tuesday, September 14. Cicilline will face State Rep. David Segal and former State Dem. Party Chairman Bill Lynch (son of a Pawtucket mayor and brother to RI Atty-Gen. Patrick Lynch, who's seeking the gubernatorial nomination in the same Democratic primary). Businessman Al Gemma, says this story, will also enter this race, whose winner will face Republican State Rep. John Loughlin II, and perhaps independent, Green or Moderate Party candidates.]
01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, June 8, 2010
By JOHN E. MULLIGAN
[Providence] Journal Washington Bureau
Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline officially kicked off his campaign for Congress Monday with speeches at a Woonsocket bridge in need of repairs, a Smithfield factory where he touted job training and an East Providence retirement community where he called for more public transportation subsidies.
Democrat Cicilline used those stops and others on his tour of the 1st Congressional District to call for new or expanded federal aid to help a variety of interests, from small business proprietors to the elderly.
In a telephone interview, the mayor cast himself as the candidate with the best background for delivering such programs. He faces former state Democratic chairman Bill Lynch and Providence state Rep. David Segal, in the primary election, with businessman Anthony Gemma also planning to join the Democratic race June 15. State Rep. John Loughlin II is the Republican candidate.
Cicilline, who stressed his experience as a municipal executive who knows that "balancing a budget is about making choices," said the billions of dollars for the programs he proposed should come from the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. But the mayor did not state directly whether he supports President Obama's plan to begin winding down U.S. troop commitments next year. Cicilline also declined to specify how soon or at what rate U.S. forces could be extracted from that war, but said it should be done "as quickly and responsibly as possible."
Cicilline said, however, that he understands that the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan cannot be concluded "overnight." He said he would defer to the judgment of military leaders about the timing of a withdrawal of U.S. troops.
Cicilline also proposed killing tax breaks for oil companies and extracting more savings from Medicare and Medicaid by eliminating duplication and fraud in those programs. He said he believes that estimates of such savings in the newly enacted overhaul of the health-care system were too conservative. Therefore, he reasoned, there is more money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved and spent on other federal programs. He offered no specific estimates….
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 7, 2010 |
James, where is the post on the new iPhone..
Comment by BenjaminDOG | June 7, 2010 |
As the first-ever Deputy Prime Minister from the UK's Liberal Democratic Party (founded around 1988), Nick Clegg presented Parliament on Monday with some far-reaching, although not novel, proposals for political reform, regional devolution and constitutional change. Some of these ideas had originated during previous governments without reaching full fruitiion.
From the Lib Dem Voice blog:
Nick Clegg makes "impressive" debut at despatch box as Deputy PM, sets out radical political reform plans
By Stephen Tall | Published 7th June 2010 – 9:25 pm
Nick Clegg debuted in front of the House of Commons today in his new role (yes, it is still new: it's only a month since the election) as deputy prime minister. And he used the occasion to set out how the new coalition government will make good the political reforms radical political reform plans that languished neglected during Labour's 13 years in government. The government's plans include:
* A referendum on the Alternative Vote
* The right to recall MPs who break the rules
* Fewer, more equal-sized constituencies
* Making the House of Lords wholly or largely elected
* Fixed five-year parliaments
* Devolving greater powers to the Scottish Parliament by implementing the recommendations of the Calman Commission
* A referendum on devolving more powers to the Welsh Assembly
Nick Clegg's website excerpts parts of his speech, reproduced below. But if that's not enough for you then you can read the full debate exchange courtesy of Hansard here.
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 8, 2010 |
Most of us have heard of "astroturf roots", those artificial imitations of spontaneous grassroots popular groups that are really artificial paper-thin fronts for logging, mining, drilling, gambling or construction enterprises.
What I (and many others) didn't know is that some local Stop Wal*Mart campaigns, involving hundreds of neighbors, preservationists, environmentalists, small businesses and trade-unionists opposed (for all kinds of good reasons) to the arrival or expansion of a Wal-Mart, have also received financial, organizational and legal help from a firm hired secretly by big national or regional retail competitors of Wal*Mart, such as Safeway supermarkets or Royal Ahold NV.
See this article from The Wall Street Journal:
Rivals Secretly Fund Opposition to Wal-Mart
By ANN ZIMMERMAN
MUNDELEIN, Ill.— Robert Brownson long believed that his proposed development here, with its 200,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter, was being held hostage by nearby homeowners.
He had seen them protesting at city hall, and they had filed a lawsuit to stop the project.
What he didn't know was that the locals were getting a lot of help. A grocery chain with nine stores in the area had hired Saint Consulting Group to secretly run the antidevelopment campaign. Saint is a specialist at fighting proposed Wal-Marts, and it uses tactics it describes as "black arts."
As Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has grown into the largest grocery seller in the U.S., similar battles have played out in hundreds of towns like Mundelein. Local activists and union groups have been the public face of much of the resistance. But in scores of cases, large supermarket chains including Supervalu Inc., Safeway Inc. and Ahold NV have retained Saint Consulting to block Wal-Mart, according to hundreds of pages of Saint documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and interviews with former employees….
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 8, 2010 |
I think Helen comments are serious
I think Helen Thomas knows what I have suspected for a long time
the presidency of Obama means the death of millions of Jews
and she is warning them to leave Israel
I imagine the guilt must almost be UNBEARABLE to be Jewish and work for the Obama administration
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 8, 2010 |
What a goofey nut you are
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 8, 2010 |
I'm glad Helen Thomas has retired. She's been losing it for some time now and her off the wall comments to the rabbi were pretty outrageous. I remember when my grandmother made a comment to her minister that blacks should just have their own state. We didn't let her out unsupervised in public after that. And we certainly didn't expect her to cover White House press conferences.
Comment by Scott P | June 8, 2010 |
My SC GOP prediction
1) McMaster
2) Bauer
3) Barrett
4) Haley
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 8, 2010 |
Tory minority budget passes House of Commons thanks to Liberal abstentions
When I first saw this story on My Yahoo!, I thought it was about David Cameron's Conservative minority getting its budget through the British Parliament with the acquiescence of the Liberal Democrats. But this is about Canada, with her own minority Tory government, which the Liberals (as in Britain) being too broke and afraid to risk a new election.
American readers will be all-too-familiar, from both Washington and their own state capitals, with must-pass budgets being used to force through extraneous bills that couldn't otherwise win enactment. The Canadian Senate, an appointed lifetime body, is so familiar with this that it may give the omnibus bill a hard time.
Parties: The NDP is the New Democratic Party (formerly Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, CCF), a social-democratic farmer-labor party in the Socialist International together with the Labour Parties of Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Great Britain, as with the social-democratic parties of Germany, Austria and Scandinavia.
The Bloc Québécois is the voice in Ottawa of Quebec nationalism and separatism, parallel to but independent of the provincial Parti Québécois.
The Progressive Conservative Party (itself the result of a merger) was one of the ancestors, together with the more-stridently right-wing Reform Party, of the present Conservative Party of Canada, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper (ex-Reform). However, not all the old Progressive Conservatives approved of this merger, and since Canadian Senators don't need a party's support in order to get reelected, apparently at least one of them kept his original P.C. label. (A parallel would be a member of the British House of Lords who called himself a Social Democrat or a Liberal rather than a Liberal Democrat.)
Tory budget clears Commons as Libs hold fire
By Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA, June 8th – Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government has passed its fifth consecutive federal budget with the tacit support of the Liberal opposition.
The 2010 budget bill sailed through the House of Commons by a vote of 138-126 on Tuesday, with 30 Liberal MPs absent to ensure the budget survived — along with the government.
NDP and Bloc Quebecois members voted against the budget en masse.
The massive, 900-page piece of legislation now goes to the chamber of sober second thought, where Independent and Liberal senators are promising to give it a rougher ride.
Senator Lowell Murray, a Progressive Conservative, says he'll serve notice of a motion in the Senate on Wednesday designed to split the budget bill and send it back to the Commons.
Murray is among a number of critics — including Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff — who argue the budget implementation legislation is an end-run around Parliament because it includes a host of controversial, non-budgetary items.
The budget bill amends some five dozen laws, including giving the environment minister the power to bypass environmental assessments on major projects.
"Oil is still flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, yet the Liberals helped the Conservatives adopt a budget bill that hands responsibility for environmental assessments to the industry-friendly National Energy Board," NDP Leader Jack Layton said in a release immediately following the vote.
"Trojan-horse bills such as this one are the last refuge of a government trying to make unpopular changes."
The legislation also paves the way for the privatization of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. and alters the Canada Post monopoly on overseas mailing.
The Canada Post changes were introduced by the Tories as stand-alone bills in both 2008 and 2009, only to die on the order paper.
Bloc MP Christiane Gagnon accused the prime minister of "short-circuiting debates and … undermining the role and power of the public's representatives."
Ignatieff, too, recently called it a "dumpster bill" and "an abuse of power." But his party wasn't prepared to defeat or change the legislation for fear of causing a federal election, which they're not prepared to fight and say Canadians don't want.
Only 47 of 77 Liberals, led by Ignatieff, were in the House for the final budget vote. The last three Conservative budgets have survived courtesy of the Liberal party, while the Bloc Quebecois supported the first two under Harper in 2006 and 2007. …
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Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 9, 2010 |
Just like some partisan spin doctors we know of in Washington and Whitehall, the Canadian Prime Minister's Office (not the External Affairs department) is trying to micromanage, sometimes for domestic party considerations, every public word uttered by the professional civil service's diplomats and international experts.
Tory message control reaches around the globe
Tue Jun 8, 4:11 PM
By Mike Blanchfield And Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press
The long arm of Tory message control has reached around the world in an attempt to orchestrate virtually every public utterance by seasoned diplomats, from Britain to Bangladesh, an investigation by The Canadian Press concludes.
The secret to this unprecedented attempt to stage-manage Canada's most experienced high commissioners, ambassadors and diplomats is the Message Event Proposal — a finely developed information tool aimed at giving the Prime Minister's Office total control over communication.
MEPs obtained under the Access to Information Act reveal how Stephen Harper's office has employed the device to micromanage Canadian diplomacy in the United States, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Asia and Africa.
Even the most able and trusted of Canada's foreign service officers have been subjected to strict controls — not by their bosses at the Foreign Affairs Department — but by the PMO through its public service arm, the Privy Council Office.
"There's no question it has a bit of a chilling effect on people, because they know that they have to avoid being off-message at all — and that's what the government wants," said one currently serving diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity because of fears of career reprisals.
The central direction of foreign service officers is unparalleled, says retired diplomat Gordon Smith, who served Conservative and Liberal prime ministers as Canada's ambassador to NATO and the European Union, was a former deputy minister of Foreign Affairs and a senior official at PCO.
"What other conclusion can one draw? But it reflects a very considerable concentration of power in the Prime Minister's Office," said Smith, who left government to join the University of Victoria in 1997.
"I cannot recall one occasion, when I was in those posts, I ever cleared a speech back through Ottawa." …
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Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 9, 2010 |
Would you spend two million dollars, even if they were Canadian, on a temporary artificial lake to impress the world media?
G8 'fake lake' slammed by opposition
Mon Jun 7, 10:17 PM
Opposition MPs are ridiculing the Conservative government for spending almost $2 million to create an artificial indoor lake and cottage backdrop inside a Toronto media centre for this month's G8 and G20 summits.
Summit organizers are constructing the artificial lake inside Toronto's Direct Energy Centre to showcase the actual site of the G8 summit hundreds of kilometres away in Huntsville, Ont., on June 25-26. The temporary media centre will host all but about 150 of the estimated 3,000 journalists from around the world covering the G8, as well as the G20 summit in Toronto's downtown core on June 27-28.
Opposition parties have targeted Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government in recent weeks over the costs of the back-to-back international summits, which so far carry an estimated $1 billion price tag on security alone.
During Monday's question period in the House of Commons, Liberal MP Mark Holland asked why the Conservatives would "splurge" on an indoor lake during meetings where Canada will be preaching fiscal restraint to the rest of the world.
"The government is literally going to flush it down the drain when the 72-hour spend-fest is over," Holland told the House. …
… Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff labelled the dual summits "the world's most expensive photo op," citing a leaked G8 communiqué that he said showed no progress on maternal health, climate change or the environment. On the issue of banking reform, Ignatieff said it appeared that all decisions would be left for another G20 summit in Korea at the end of the year.
Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe labelled the G8 meeting a "tourist event," while NDP Leader Jack Layton called it a "billion-dollar boondoggle that is ballooning" under the Conservatives' wasteful mismanagement.
"We've got a government here that has to create an artificial lake, when Canada has more lakes than just about any other country in the world," Layton told the House. "It's the taxpayers who are going to end up at the bottom of the fake lake, with a fake Muskoka behind them." …
… continued here
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 9, 2010 |
Yet another Canadian political story with overseas parallels: a Lib-Lab coalition or merger (perhaps called the Liberal Democrats)?
Liberal, NDP insiders talk merger
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 | 12:14 AM ET
CBC News
Senior insiders with the federal Liberals and New Democrats have been holding secret talks about the possibility of merging their parties to form a new entity to take on the Conservatives, CBC News has learned.
Many Liberal insiders confirmed that discussions between the two parties are not just focused on forming a coalition after an election or co-operation before one, but the creation of a new party.
The new party would possibly be named the Liberal Democrats and there has been tentative talk about what a shared platform would look like and an understanding that a race would be required to choose a new leader.
"Serious people are involved in discussions at a serious level," Warren Kinsella, a former adviser to former prime minister Jean Chrétien, told CBC News.
Warren Kinsella, former adviser to Jean Chrétien, says Liberal and the NDP insiders are discussing the possibility of forming a new party. (CBC)
Kinsella would not say who was involved in the discussions, saying he did not want to "deter" people.
He added that with the Liberals polling at around 25 per cent support, a merger necessitates consideration.
"The reality is that we are in a bad position," Kinsella said.
"We don't want to see the Liberal Party of Canada disappear and I'm sure there are a lot of New Democrats who are getting fed up with their fate."
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/06/08/liberal-ndp-new-party.html
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 9, 2010 |
The leaders of both the Liberals and the NDP quickly denied these reports of merger talks:
As always, they could be perfectly right (deflating someone else's trial balloon) or they could have been rushed into fast forced denials of something that may have substance.
We probably won't know for a while (after all something has to go into politicians' and journalists' memoirs).
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 9, 2010 |
The BIGGEST election story of yesterday and possibly a QUARTER century
yesterday night Alan Greene Defeated Vic Rawl BY 17 POINTS to become the Democrat nominee for US Senate
Alan Greene had NO WEBSITE, and I spoke to him the day before the election and he was not even CAMPAIGNING
this keeps my dream alive that anything is possible in politics
so to the future Ron Gunzburger for Governor of Florida
and Jenna Johnson for President
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
* Godless Communist for Sheriff
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
Obama's Job Approval Rating has tanked to 40% in Florida.
GO HAWKS….Bring home Lord Stanley's Cup to Chicago!
Comment by Illinois Jim | June 9, 2010 |
Go Blackhawks!
Do not end up like the Boston Ruins!
Nov 2010 should mean large gains for he GOP. 2012 is too far away but anyone elected right now should be worried especially if that one is looked upon as obstructionist, anti Israeli, or an advocate of this premature and expensive health care law.
Comment by Manila Calling! | June 9, 2010 |
I'll repost this here, because everything gets buried so deep no one ever sees it again:
Orly Taitz, a relentless pursuer of the Not Born Here theory, won only a quarter of the California GOP primary vote for Sec. of State. But that's still over a third of a million of California's more politically-conscious citizens. GOP candidates and managers must be breathing deeps sighs of relief.
California voters approved the cockamamie open primary (which could send two Democrats or two Republicans to face each other in November 2012) at the same time they kept the ban on public financing of elections. I put down at least part of this madness to a Republican 2010 primary that was more significant than the Democratic one, in the relative absence of high-profile vote-catching ballot measures.
By 7 to 1, voters did approve a non-controversial measure that exempts the added value of seismic retrofitting (quake-proofing) of an existing building from property tax revaluations until it's sold.
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 9, 2010 |
Can somebody please ban Leal from this site FOREVER ?
He's the main reason why Politics 1 was shut down because of his uppity bullshit.
Comment by Conservative Democrat | June 9, 2010 |
Lets say the Republicans take control of BOTH houses of Congress
You know what happens to the health care bill?
But a bunch of huffing and puffing that the likes of Manila Daniel and Leal will be pissing in their pants over
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 9, 2010 |
Might as well repost something from another one of this site's many, many threads…
Alvin Greene is 32 year old, unemployed, has no website, no money, and no campaign signs.
Oh, and also, he is facing felony charges for some kind of lewd online behavior.
I want to know if My Name is Jack will vote for his party's nominee over Jim DeMint in South Carolina. Considering Alvin Greene, and the Ron Paul supporter who the party last nominated for the U.S. Senate in 2008, SC Dems may really be the party of TPL after all!
Jim DeMint can probably take the rest of the campaign off. He could now confess to having had affairs with both Nikki Haley and Lindsay Graham, while in Argentina, and still win handily.
Comment by Corey | June 9, 2010 |
See my reply at your original post
Interestingly I voted yesterday in the Republican primary so I could vote for my friend Tim Scott in the first CD race
He finished first with over 32% of the vote in a nine can didate field
He will face Paul Thurmond in the runoff in two weeks
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 9, 2010 |
Nice! Welcome to the GOP jack. I hope Tim Scott wins.
Did you also vote for Nikki Haley? I am very impressed with her. I have a hunch Barrett drops out fairly shortly (if he hasn't already today).
Bob Inglis is toast as well.
I think TPL needs to become Alvin Greene's Press Secretary.
Comment by Corey | June 9, 2010 |
Sorry Corey. TPL displays the blind hatred of anything Obama that makes me think he is Glenn Beck on some days. In other words–a true REPUBLICAN.
Comment by Scott P | June 9, 2010 |
I voted for Bauer
Figuring he would be easiest to beat
Although Sheheen is a decided underdog
Because of all thats happened I rate his chances at 1 in 4
Thats decidedly better than a few months ago when I would have rated him about 1 in 8!
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 9, 2010 |
Since the discussion's migrated here, let me repeat and rephrase my question: is there still a Working Families Party in South Carolina, and whom has it nominated or endorsed?
I'd imagine some animosity between the WFP and Jim DeMint, who was prepared to leave TSA without a head, rather than accept one who wouldn't explicitly commit to continue denying airport screeners the right to organize and bargain collectively.
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 9, 2010 |
I know they nominated Jim Rex(who lost to Sheheen in the Dem primary ) for Governor
I doubt if he runs now
Im uncertain if they have nominated a Senate candidate
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 9, 2010 |
Yikes. Karenna Gore Schiff has separated from her husband of 13 years.
I still think this is all for some reality show.
Comment by Corey | June 9, 2010 |
Is Rush Limbaugh still married? It's been almost a week.
Comment by Scott P | June 9, 2010 |
According to Gunzburger's site, Vic Rawl had the Working Family endorsement.
Has he dropped out and endorsed Greene or might he run as the Third Party candidate in November?
Will South Carolina be one of the states where the Dem Senate nominee might finish in third place? How many states will that be the case?
Comment by Corey | June 9, 2010 |
Corey of Buffalo Grove
Alvin won against a candidate who had a website, campaign manager, website designer, and secretary
It is amazing story
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
Corey of Buffalo Grove
Yesterday I voted for more Democrats(3) then I had in my entire life
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
I suggest that Scott P., check out Kristi Noem, the Republican opponent of Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin in South Dakota.
Republicans have nominated a hotter candidate than the Dems' favorite pin-up girl.
Why? Because we can.
Comment by Corey | June 9, 2010 |
Eh, sounds like SC Dems nominating this nobody didn't change anything. So the guy with experience would have gotten 35% and this guy might only get 25-30%. Big deal!
On the other hand Nevada Republicans really screwed the pooch nominating their weakest candidate against weak incumbent Harry Reid. Angle is from the farthest fringe of the Tea Party and wants to eliminate Social Securiy and bring back Prohibition–that'll fly in Nevada!
Comment by Scott P | June 9, 2010 |
I think with Vic losing WE can now re-open the Macaulay_ Culkin presidency vault
I love Politics
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
Demint was a cinch for reelection anyway
Its an interesting sidelight and funny as Hell
But has no practical effect
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 9, 2010 |
So much for the Democrats' 50 state strategy with nominees like Alvin Greene in South Carolina and well…. nobody, in South Dakota.
Bye, I think.
Comment by Corey | June 9, 2010 |
Corey of Buffalo Grove
without being able to see Ms Noem's ears I cant truly evaluate her physical appearance
but I am GLAD the GOP has discovered their FEMININE face
BEST of luck with that
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
The Hawks play tonight at 8pm on NBC
and I hope all can make it out to the Bar to give Corey and Jim emotional support on this game
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
Jack I saw your comment on the story about the oil spill hoping BP goes bankrupt. I'd like to see the same thing. Ole Sean Hannity was almost in tears when he mentioned that possibility the otehr day. Of course he was praising BP for doing "everything it can" and blaming the environmentalists who I suppose he thinks somehow actually caused the disaster.
I guess if these right wing talk show hosts aren't shilling gold they're shilling for oil.
Comment by Scott P | June 9, 2010 |
Shed a tear, if you so incline, for the old Anglo-Persian, later Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, whose threatened nationalisation by Mohammed Mossadegh helped overthrow him in a 1953 coup organised by the young CIA's Kermit Roosevelt that brought back the Shaw and hanged Mossadegh.
Anglo-Iranian later became BP.
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 9, 2010 |
My limited Googling finds that the Working Families Party had a state convention on May 15th, and among the candidates they endorsed was Col. Robert Burton (USAF, ret'd) at the wrong end of a 4-5 loss in Cong. Dist. 1:
_8,402 ( 44.34% ) : Robert D Burton (DEM)
10,549 ( 55.66% ) : Ben Frasier (DEM)
18,951 ( 100.0% ) : Total (DEM)
One WFP or WFP-leaning blogger sees something darker in Alvin Greene's candidacy, the dread hand of the GOP:
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 9, 2010 |
According to the Green Papers, the Working Families Party endorsed one successful primary candidate, Jane Ballard Dyer (D) in the 3rd CD.
Their other three candidates lost: Col. Burton in the 1st, Vic Rawl for U.S. Senate, and Jim Rex for Governor.
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 9, 2010 |
Frasier has run for the Demo nomination in every primary since 1972
And finally wins
His claim to fame?
He used to be ba chaffeur for Dixiecrat Rep L Mendel Rivers
Once again
Who cares?
A Democrat hasnt won that seat since 1978!
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 9, 2010 |
L. Mendel Rivers, former chairman of Armed Services?
There was a name to be conjured with (if Strom or John C. Calhoun weren't available).
My ancient 1972 Almanac of American Politics tells me that his 1970 successor in the 1st CD was his godson, Mendel Davis, although James Edwards put up a good fight for the GOP (49% to 41% with 10% going to Mrs. Victoria De Lee, independent).
¶ The very last relic on the Boston City Council of James Michael ("Last Hurrah") Curley's era was Albert "Dapper" O'Neil, a dyspeptic, sometimes racist, sometimes sexist former driver for Mayor Curley.
'Dapper' O'Neil, champion of personal politics, dies at 87 (The Boston Globe, December 20, 2007)
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 9, 2010 |
I worked for Davis in the special election to succeed Rivers after his death
Davis passed away a few years ago
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 9, 2010
Look I voted for TWO OTHER candidates that were on the TOP of the ballot and they both lost
Robert Ford and Brian Doyle
so the notion it was because he was at the top is silly
Perhaps… it was part of MILITARY INSTRUMENTAL COMPLEX to try and defeat DeMint for voting against the Defense budget
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
you should be ECSTATIC Alvin Greene DISAPPROVED all your prejudice assumptions of SC RESIDENTS
I drink to you OLD MAN
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
What you got against old people
Nut nut?
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 9, 2010 |
Frasier's run in every primary since 1972?
Jeez, time to give it up!
Comment by Scott P | June 9, 2010 |
I just drank to and you get upset
Dont you understand praise
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
This year he finally wins
The guy is rather eccentric but in a nice way
What is amusing is that Frasier is very conservative
So if Scott wins the Republican nomination
The GE will feature two Black conservatives duking it out
Of course it will be no contest
Frasier is not taken seriously except by Leal types
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 9, 2010 |
jack MY ELDER
I dont even know who Frasier is
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
Yeah sounds like Bill Haas here in Missouri. He has run for mayor of St. Louis in every election since 1993, never getting more than single digits in the Dem primary (which is tantamount to winning the election). He did get some national attention in the 2005 race when he pondered committing suicide on his blog (which he later claimed he never seriously considered)
In 2008 he ran for Congress against ultra conservative incumbent Todd Akin and actually won the Dem primary. Of course that district is uber Republican and Haas got the usual 30 some odd % a Dem nominee gets. Still it was quite the feat for him to actually win a primary after all these years!
This year he decided to challenge Akin in the GOP primary. If he gets out of the single digits I'll be shocked.
Haas is a nice guy, but definitely eccentric. His current job? Greeter at Wal-Mart. That's with a business degree from Yale.
They should really make a documentary about these perennial longshot candidates. I know I'd see it!
Comment by Scott P | June 9, 2010 |
Holloway suspect targeted in sting, not arrested
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
Hell Leal you didnt know who Greene was either!
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 9, 2010 |
Sure I did
I voted for GREENE and I had a phone interview with him on Monday
and I discussed his run with Brian Doyle
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
You did?
Please tell us all about this "conversation" Leal
Since apparently by his OWN admission he didnt campaign
And NO reporter has apparently talked to him
But somehow YOU did
How did you get his number?
All this is very intesting Leal
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 9, 2010 |
"How did you get his number?"
Maybe it's written on Al's forehead.
Now whats all this about him and a felony charge?
Comment by Manila Calling! | June 9, 2010 |
Congrats Blackhawks!
And good night Bobby "Golden Jet" Hull where ever you are!
Comment by Manila Calling! | June 9, 2010 |
"How did you get his number?"
Project Vote Smart
WE talked about 09.11.01, withdrawal from Iraq & Afghanistan, Medical Marijuana, North and South Korea becoming ONE country, Pakistan, and the future of his campaign
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 9, 2010 |
English flag to fly over No 10 during World Cup (BBC)
Page last updated at 22:15 GMT, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 23:15 UK
¶ Mr Cameron said he hoped MPs from across the UK would cheer for England
David Cameron has said he will fly the flag of St George over No 10 during the football World Cup in South Africa.
The prime minister told MPs that the move would not cost anything and he hoped it would help unite the nation behind the England team.
He said he hoped that no matter what part of the UK MPs represented, they would be shouting "come on England".
Mr Cameron wished the team and manager well ahead of their first match, which is against the US on Saturday. …
…continued at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/politics/10274536.stm
If Puerto Rico had qualified for the World Cup, but the USA had not, would the Puerto Rican flag (Cuba's with the red and blue reversed) have flown in front of the White House?
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 10, 2010 |
The (Columbia, S.C.) Free Times' account of Jake Knotts' remarks about Republican gubernatorial nominee Nikki Haley makes him sound even worse than I thought. (Perhaps it was the alcohol consumed at the Flying Saucer during and after his interview on "Pub Politics".
Read the continuation of the following:
Knotts Calls Haley a "Raghead," Issues Non-Apologetic Apology
Senator Talks to Free Times Before Publicly Apologizing
"We got a raghead in Washington; we don't need one in South Carolina."
— S.C. Sen. Jake Knotts
With a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his face outside a Columbia bar, Republican S.C. Sen. Jake Knotts called Indian-American GOP gubernatorial hopeful Nikki Haley a "raghead" several times in a June 3 Free Times interview while explaining how he believed the Lexington representative was hiding her true religion from voters.
"She's a f#!king raghead," Knotts said.
He later clarified his statement. He did not mean to use the F-word…
…read much more in this vein at this Free Times page
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 10, 2010 |
Another charmer! Maybe he meant she was on the . . . err, maybe he meant she has this religious background which makes her as normal as any other female I've known!
PS: Do you think Hillary used to scream too?
Comment by Manila Calling! | June 10, 2010 |
Here's your Ballot; What's your Hurry?
From Radio Netherlands Worldwide's web site:
Station voting a success, says Dutch Railways
Published on 9 June 2010 – 10:23pm
Thousands of Dutch voters used Wednesday's opportunity to vote in the country's parliamentary elections at a railway station. According to a representative for Dutch Railways, at least 40,000 people cast their votes at polling booths located in 45 of the country's railway stations.
At Utrecht's Central Station, such long lines formed that organisers not only had to set up an extra table to handle all the voters, but also employ a private security guard to ensure that everything remained orderly. At Amsterdam's Central Station, there was still a long queue as late as 20:00.
Voting at railway stations has taken place before, but only on a small scale. Dutch Railways called the action a success and said it would offer voters the chance to vote at stations in all future elections.
© Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 10, 2010 |
Fast Food drive thru's, anywhere they sell lottery tickets or cigarettes, and supermarkets would be best here in the USA.
Comment by Manila Calling! | June 10, 2010 |
Projected State of the Dutch Parties after the ruling Christian Democrats fall to fourth place behind the Liberals, Labour and the far right (anti-Islamic) Freedom Party.
150 is the number of seats in the Dutch Parliament
76 would form a majority.
31 VVD (centre-right liberals)
30 PvdA (Dutch Labour Party)
24 PVV (Geert Wilders' Freedom Party)
21 CDA (Christian Democratic Appeal)
15 SP (Socialist Party)
10 GroenLinks (GreenLeft)
10 D66 (Democrats 66)
5 ChristenUnie (Christian Union)
2 SGP (Protestant party)
2 Partij voor de Dieren (Party for the Animals)
0 Trots op Nederland (Proud of the Netherlands)
See: http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/liberal-vvd-party-wins-historic-dutch-election
Published on : 9 June 2010 – 10:01pm | By John Tyler
with interesting party symbols and a pie chart as well as a layman's summary of the parties and possible coalitions.
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 10, 2010 |
My MASSACHUSETTS brethren aka Manila Calling
I hope you realize Haley is Methodist
and prior she was Sikh not Hindu
carry on
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 10, 2010 |
Thats not the religion I was talking about.
I think she would have liked George the best myself.
The Beatles were more important than God you know.
John Lennon said so.
And Yoko Ono was a terrorist!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Comment by Manila Calling! | June 10, 2010 |
why I am the USUALLY the only one holding the AFRICAN pride banner here
I cheer on Jackie BROWN.. no one backs me up
I cheer on Robert Ford.. and I ONLY have my best buddy SE-779 back me up
I cheer on Arthur Davis.. Conservative craps on him
I announce I will vote for GREENE.. and jack calls him a loser
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 10, 2010 |
** Conservative Democrat craps on him
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 10, 2010 |
James B, Corey, IL Brandon, IL Jim, Jack, Benjamin Dog, Daniel G., Manila, Dem Soc. Dave, etc:
The Big 12 conference in college football is officially DEAD as of this morning with Nebraska bolting to the Big 10 and Colorado (as expected) going to the Pac-10, who will also get Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, OU, OK-St to join as well.
Mizzou who was supposed to join the Big 10 is on their own and left in the cold in the fading Big 12.
Comment by Conservative Democrat | June 10, 2010 |
heck even the republicans were ready to dump Steele
until I shouted the magic word COINTELPRO
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 10, 2010 |
Yeh I remember some Republican National Committee persons being quoted in the media
That they were getting ready to lower the boom on Steele
"Until T P Leal yelled Cointelpro!"
Im surprised the Dog didnt have an article on that
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 10, 2010 |
Conservative Democrat
Who says it is dead
Team can change
The Atlantic -10 didnt die when VIRGINIA TECH left
the beat goes on
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 10, 2010 |
The jury is out on Greene TPL….
what the fuck am I stuck in 1957 MY ENTIRE LIFE
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 10, 2010 |
Invest in Polaroid!
Comment by Manila Calling! | June 10, 2010 |
James B, Texas Governor Rick Perry is going to pressure the Pac-10 to make sure Texas and A&M stick together if both schools jump into the Pac-10 conference which is looking more and more LIKELY.
Put TX, A&M, Texas Tech, OU and OK-St including Colorado and you have the Pac-16 with a first ever conference championship.
Comment by Conservative Democrat | June 10, 2010 |
During your "conversation" with Greene
Did he agree with you that President Obama is a terrorist?
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 10, 2010 |
I hope there is a halfway sane independent running for the SC Senate seat. I know I couldn't bear to vote for either Greene or DeMint.
Comment by Scott P | June 10, 2010 |
RI gubernatorial debate in an hour, at 7 p.m. EDT on http://www.wpri.com (or Channel 12, Providence)
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 10, 2010 |
The video stream was awful if you didn't have high capacity memory and connections; it was overloaded by "Connect It" giving the questions as they were asked; I've seen this done far more efficiently by less sophisticated and less power-hungry apps. The TV broadcast also had some engineering glitches, especially sound from URI in southern RI.
I apologize to the former state legislator Victor Moffit (R) for my throwaway comparison in an earlier thread about experience: both Moffit's Republican opponent, John Robitaille, and the Moderate Party candidate Ken Block made big points about their LACK of experience in elective public office.
Atty-Gen. Patrick Lynch (D) made a few good points but reinforced my dislike of him.
Gen. Treas. Frank Caprio (R) still makes a good impression to me, and is certainly a Democrat, but there are fiscal points where he seems too conservative.
Lincoln Chafee (Ind.), a former Republican Mayor of Warwick and U.S. Senator, still looks like the best of the bunch at this point, although I disagree with him on several policy proposals, such as imposing a 1% sales tax on currently-exempt items such as drugs and newspapers.
As I've said before, I wish there were a true left-wing candidate, such as State Rep. David Segal (D, Providence & E. Prov.; formerly Green Party member of Prov. City Council), who's instead running for the Democratic nomination for Patrick Kennedy's 1st District Congressional seat. An unambiguous left-winger would make this race less lopsided.
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 10, 2010 |
Correction: [Frank Caprio is a Democrat (D), not (R).]
Comment by Democratic Socialist Dave | June 10, 2010
Did he agree with you that President Obama is a terrorist?
Wasnt brought up
Although WE did bring up Osama and Osama's financial bankruptcy desires for the USA ,Alvin must have previously talked to my co-worker Carl( Ron's SC baby)
Comment by Timothy Leal | June 10, 2010 |
Nutty as usual
That was some "conversation"(heh heh heh)
Comment by My Name Is jack | June 10, 2010 |
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Try it again: Romeo and Juliet never gets old
Shakespeare's most famous romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, is getting a new jolt of electricity from the Live Arts LATTE troupe.
LATTE is the "youthful" arm of Live Arts, offering productions that feature mostly teenaged actors. The company does not shy away from difficult pieces, however. Last season included the Greek classic Antigone, re-imagined for the experimental LAB space by director Clinton Johnston.
Four hundred years after its inception, local director Amanda McRaven, who recently spent several months touring with the Staunton-based Shenandoah Shakespeare, challenges her cast to tell Shakespeare's story with clarity, enthusiasm, and as if the audience did not know the fatal outcome.
"As a company, the Romeo and Juliet cast will learn how to put this story into their mouths, their bodies, their guts–not just their heads," McRaven claims. Her vision for the production includes music, dancing, and swordplay.
Just in case you've forgotten: The play opens with a street brawl between two feuding houses, the Capulets and the Montagues. Quickly, Romeo Montague is introduced as a brooding pacifist who, on a dare from his best friend, crashes the annual Capulet bash where he sees the young lady of the house, Juliet, and falls immediately in love.
She reciprocates his desire, and they secretly wed. The strife between the two houses escalates to bloodshed in the streets, and Romeo is ultimately exiled for killing Juliet's cousin Tybalt. Confusing messages, missed meetings, and youthful passion result in tragedy for the young couple, of course.
The themes of Romeo and Juliet– impossible love, tyrannical parents, and unreliable communication– have kept audiences on the edge of their seats for generations. This lively young cast infuses Shakespeare's words with renewed vitality.
"McRaven's focus on innovative physicality creates a strong ensemble and beautiful stage pictures," says Jennifer Peart, education director at Live Arts.
Even though you have undoubtedly seen it before, this one by the Bard is worth a second or, perhaps, third viewing. See it all again through McRaven's artistic eyes. You may find something new and memorable.
Romeo and Juliet opens Thursday, November 7 and runs through Saturday, November 23, at the LAB space at Live Arts, 609 E. Market St. Early Bird shows at 7pm on Thursdays. Other shows at 8pm on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and at 2pm for the Sunday matinee. $5 on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sunday; $7 on Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets are available only at the door. 977-4177 x 100.