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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
James Smith, Editor Speaks at the Kiwanis Club Meeting
The Editor of Both The New Britain Herald and The Bristol Press, James H. Smith made an outstanding presentation for the Kiwanis club of Newington, held at the Paradise Restaurant on East Street. The main focus of the even was a discussion of the reporter’s bible; The United States First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
He pointed out that this amendment speaks of the freedom of the press, and that the Congress shall make no law regarding the rights of religion, freedom of speech, He stressed that as citizens we have the right to peaceably assemble, and last but not least he reminded us that the first amendment allows our citizens to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
He expressed that he as an editor believes in a paper that carries both views: the liberal and the conservative. I personally have been noticing those changes taking place in the recent edition of the New Britain Herald and the Bristol Press as well.
He showed his human side that printer’s ink flows in his veins by pointing out that his father was a typesetter, setting each letter for the story to become part of the lead plate casting for the printing of each page of the paper. That system was replaced with the advent of the computer in 1975.
Another human interest side of his story was his describing when his four year old grandson sat on his lap by the computer asking to see his name typed out and immediately asked to see a print copy. He went on pointing out the young children want to see the printed copy of the newspaper but the students of today would much rather read the paper on line and not feel excitement of feeling their way from page to page and be surprised in reading the next story that awaits them.
Members of the Kiwanis expressed concern that the lack of advertising in the papers is hurting the industry. Mr. Smith pointed out that the advertising manager was not present but he would attempt to address this concern. He simply stated that companies like G. Fox , and Wise & Smith department stores are no longer big spenders for advertising their wares.
He did discuss the reporters need to keep their stories 650 words or less due to the spacing allowable in a column of the paper.
I am happy to point out that this report is only 419 words, so hopefully I will receive a passing grade!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Editor James H.Smith of The Herald and The Bristol Press Speaks Tonight
The Executive Editor of the New Britain Herald and the Bristol Press Will Speak tonight at the Paradise Restaurant at 7 P. M. The public has been invited by the Newington Kiwanis Club to attend.
Mayor Stewart's Positive Leadership
Mayor Stewart has been a positive force in getting New Britain back on a positive road to the future.
“Taxpayers especially realize this”.
The New Britain Council Democrats, with dirty tricks expert Phil Sherwood leading the way are doing anything under the sun to try to discredit Mayor Timothy Stewart.
Riding the Obama mantra of, “change you can believe in”, O’Brien and the Democrats thought they couldn’t lose when Obama got elected President. But nobody really knew the global economy would go into the tank. People losing their homes, their retirement nest eggs, their children’s education plans and virtually, their lives have all been distressed. But NB Democrats and carpetbaggers say, “We can do it better.”
What a travesty!
Conflict of interest situations involving Trueworthy, Catanzaro and Collins cause the NB Human Resources Agency (HRA) to lose tens of thousands of dollars in HUD funds through CDBG funds. Mayor Stewart comes to the rescue, applies for and gets exemptions for most of the funds. Who does nothing to improve the situation? You guessed it – the conflict of interest perpetrators, Trueworthy, Catanzaro and Collins – more a victim than a cause. Do they thank the Mayor? NO! Instead, they try as usual to crucify him.
Last week HUD Officials came to NB to review conflict of interest situations. To this day, Trueworthy has done nothing to remove his conflict situation, nor has Collins.
Catanzaro resigned from the HRA Board but a year too late.
The democrat‘s answer? The Mayor can apply again for exemptions. Just don’t count on it. Most Democrat council members don’t understand what is really going on – they just follow Trueworthy, Bielinski, and Sherwood. With our citizens and taxpayers be dammed.
From now until November, dirty tricks experts Phil Sherwood and the possible candidate; Tim O’Brien will do nothing positive for New Britain with Sherwood’s assistance; however, they will do anything they can to negate all the good things Stewart has done for New Britain, its citizens and taxpayers.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
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Senator Gary Lebeau has suggested that the legislature be changed from a part time bicameral (2 bodies) legislature with 187 elected representatives, to a full time unicameral( one body)legislature of only 60 seats.
This appears to be nothing more than a cheap attempt by the Democrats to seize total control over our state government and should be resisted at all cost. By utilizing Lebeau's brainstorm, one party simply needs to control 40 out of the 60 districts to become a supreme dictatorship that renders the governor powerless--regardless of which party the governor may belong to. With a 2/3 majority over this "superlegislature," the legislature would have the power to simply override the governor on a regular basis and would become the "defacto governor," leaving our governor to be nothing more than a figurehead for the "superlegislature."
With Senator Lebeau's history for dirty partisan politics, I have no doubt that he has already plotted the gerrymandering of the entire state to ensure that his party would control all 60 of the 60 seats. I am also sure he likes the prospect of how the new full-time salary would impact his state pension. If you think that the legislature causes enough damage during the 2 to 3 months they are in session, imagine what they could do if they were in session year round. Just take a look at Congress if you want a vision for what this could do to our state.
This is such an obvious attempt at a power grab, that only a brainless twit could be fooled by it. The rest of the state is not ready for the sleazy politics that East Hartford has to offer. Nice try Mr. LeBeau.
OBAMA SOAKS THE RICH: CHURCHES, DAY CARE, HOMELESS SHELTERS
OBAMA SOAKS THE RICH: CHURCHES, DAY CARE, HOMELESS SHELTERS
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on March 28, 2009
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President Obama's glib assertion that his reduction in tax deductions will not reduce donations is absurd. His pathetic defense at his press conference - that he would still give a $100 dollar check to charity even if he only got $11 less of tax deduction from it was both disingenuous and beside the point.
And his comment that his reduced deduction would only impact one or two percent of the nation misses the point that it is these folks who are doing almost half of the donating.
In 2006, the most recent year for which data is available, four million taxpayers had adjusted gross incomes of $200,000 or more. They comprised 3% of the tax returns, made 31% of the income, but donated 44% of all charitable contributions. Together, they provided charity with $81 billion in that year.
Obama's plan will cost them $10 billion in extra taxes on the income they allocated to charitable donations. How can the president be so glibly certain that they will not curtail their charitable contributions by a like amount or even more?
Imagine all the harm Obama's program will cause. Churches will be hit most hard. They account for the largest share of charitable donations, but universities, disease research, hospitals, soup kitchens, and cultural institutions will also be hard hit. So will international relief efforts that funnel aid abroad through churches or directly.
It is totally dishonest for Obama to pretend that his curtailment of these deductions won't hurt the poor. It will most directly impact them since most of the charities Obama is hurting focus on helping the impoverished.
This proposal is not about saving money. It is about controlling it. By, in effect, transferring at least $11 billion a year from private philanthropy to government spending, Obama empowers the public sector at the expense of the voluntary one.
President Obama's recommended reduction in the tax deduction for charitable giving reflects his fundamental belief that only the government can or should help the poor. He wants to keep the impoverished directly dependent on the government - and the Democratic Party - for their daily bread.
The voluntary sector has always been the backbone of compassion in the United States. Our charitable donations dwarf those of any other country. And our system of tax deductions for giving permits us to decide what charities are worthy of our generosity - a decision Obama will transfer to the politicians under his program.
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Friday, March 20, 2009
ACORN Demands For RICO Investigation
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Demands for ACORN to be investigated under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)
ACORN’s Mob-Style Tactics Discussed at Congressional Hearing
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By Matthew Vadum Friday, March 20, 2009
In recent months demands for ACORN to be investigated under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for repeated incidents of electoral fraud have been growing.
But voting-related fraud is just the tip of the iceberg.
ACORN runs a mob-style “protection” racket known within the radical direct-action group as the ”muscle for the money” program, a lawyer told the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties today.
Lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh filed an unsuccessful lawsuit last year against ACORN, specifically, a court injunction in Pennsylvania against ACORN’s voter registration efforts in last year’s presidential campaign. (A transcript of the Oct. 29 hearing in Moyer v. ACORN is available here.)
What else is Acorn hiding
Heidelbaugh says that ACORN, which I profiled in the November issue of Capital Research Center’s Foundation Watch, has provided protest-for-hire services and extracted donations from the targets of demonstrations by shaking down those targets mafia-style. (Heidelbaugh’s written congressional testimony is available here.)
The taxpayer-subsidized ACORN network, which owes millions of dollars in back taxes, also played a major role in the subprime mortgage mess that has undermined Americans’ support for free market problem-solving and set off a worldwide chain of financial troubles.
And then there’s ACORN’s eight-year-long coverup of the million-dollar embezzlement by founder Wade Rathke’s brother. When ACORN board members Marcel Reid and Karen Inman demanded to see the financial documents, they were expelled from the group.
What else is ACORN hiding?
(Crossposted at American Spectator)
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Perez Trial Set For Corruption
Hartford Mayor's Corruption Trial Set for Fall
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The corruption trial of Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez has been set for this fall, with a jury to be picked beginning in September.
Hubert Santos, Perez's lawyer, met briefly with prosecutors and a Superior Court judge Thursday morning and set an October trial date.
The mayor is charged with receiving a bribe, fabricating evidence and conspiring to fabricate evidence. The charges stem from $40,000 worth of renovations done at Perez's his home by city contractor Carlos Costa.
Last month, a motion was filed seeking the dismissal of bribery charges, citing grand jury testimony which the mayor's his lawyer says contradicts the state's allegations.
A hearing on that motion is scheduled for May 8.
cfp - Pelosi's Solution to Illegal Immigration--Deport ICE Agents!
Nancy Pelosi’s Solution to Illegal Immigration-- Deport ICE Agents!
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Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Shrieker of the U.S. House, vehemently objects to use of the term “illegal aliens” to describe--well, illegal aliens.
Like most smitten-by-dumb liberals, Pelosi prefers the term “undocumented.”
As in “undocumented Democrats.”
As reported, in part, at http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/18/pelosi-tells-illegal-immigrants-work-site-raids-american/” title="Fox News.com">Fox News.com:
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently told a group of both legal and illegal immigrants and their families that enforcement of existing immigration laws, as currently practiced, is ‘un-American.’
The speaker, condemning raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, referred to the immigrants she was addressing as ‘very, very patriotic.’
‘Who in this country would not want to change a policy of kicking in doors in the middle of the night and sending a parent away from their families?’ Pelosi told a mostly Hispanic gathering at St. Anthony’s Church in San Francisco.”
Pelosi’s tirade is typical of the leftist nonsense for which she is renown. Calling illegal aliens “very, very patriotic” begs two obvious questions:
1. Because they come here illegally and are not subjected to the background, criminal, financial, and medical examinations required of people who obey the law, no one, Pelosi included, knows a damn thing about these people, except that they have no business being in America and are a huge drain on taxpayers.
How in the world can invaders be described as “very, very patriotic” by anyone with even the slightest grip on reality?
2. “Patriotic” to whom, Speaker Pelosi? Illegal aliens refuse to learn English, do not accept American culture, and remain loyal to Mexico, their third world, failed state.
As to her idiotic question, “‘Who in this country would not want to change a policy of kicking in doors in the middle of the night and sending a parent away from their families?” the answer is a resounding: All who give a damn about rule of law and American sovereignty and culture!
Not counting Hispanic racists and Marxists like Pelosi, that adds up to a majority of American citizens!
The next time Pelosi haunts the premises of St. Anthony’s Church in San Francisco, she should address a more appropriate subject, like the Catholic Church’s teachings on abortion.
In doing so, Pelosi should ask, “Who in this room would not want to change the Church’s policy of thwarting a woman’s Constitutional right to kill an unwelcome baby in her belly?”
Other than her own hand, Pelosi might find scant few hands risen in support of child infanticide, even among invading criminals from Mexico!
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Two Faced: Dodd Protected Bonuses, Now He Wants Them Out
Two Faced: Dodd Protected Bonuses, Now He Wants Them Out
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By: Jim Meyers
Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd on Monday criticized the bonuses given to executives of American International Group Inc. and suggested that the government could tax the recipients to recoup some or all of the payouts.
But it was Dodd who inserted language in the $787 billion stimulus bill that exempts the bonuses from taxation.
AIG lost $61.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008, the biggest quarterly loss in corporate history, and has received $173 billion in federal aid. But the company is paying $450 million in bonuses to employees of its financial products unit.
Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, thundered on Monday: “This is another outrageous example of executives — including those whose decisions were responsible for the problems that caused AIG’s collapse — enriching themselves at the expense of taxpayers.”
While the Senate was constructing the stimulus package last month, however, Dodd added an executive-compensation restriction to the bill, which provides an “exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009” — which exempts the very AIG bonuses Dodd and others are now seeking to tax, Fox News observed.
That amendment is law.
Incredibly, Dodd has now demanded a full briefing from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury on why “clauses weren’t attached to the four AIG bailouts to halt bonuses,” according to the New York Daily News.
“Why wasn’t the Fed putting conditionality four different times they provided resources to AIG?” Dodd asked.
Fox News also noted that one of AIG’s financial products unit’s largest offices is based in Dodd’s home state of Connecticut, and that he was the largest single recipient of campaign donations from AIG during the 2008 election cycle.
Dodd received $103,100 from AIG, more than presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain got, and nearly three times the $35,965 Sen. Hillary Clinton received.
Meanwhile, the News is reporting that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said his office will investigate whether the bonus payments are fraudulent because they were promised when AIG knew it wouldn’t have the money to cover them.
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Layoffs At Stanley Works
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Stanley Cuts 36 Jobs in New Britain
New Britain-based Stanley Works is cutting 36 jobs at its hand tools manufacturing facility in New Britain, the company announced Tuesday. Thirty-four people are being laid off. The jobs of two additional workers are being eliminated after they retired, a company spokesman said.
The company blames a volume decline due to weakness in the economy.
Late last year, Stanley announced 2,000 layoffs and three plant closures worldwide, including its wire-making facility in Clinton.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
State Representative Announces Exploratory Committee
During a news conference held at the Italian Fraternal Society on Monroe Street in New Britain, State Representative Tim O’Brien has made his official announcement that he is planning to establish exploratory committee in order to evaluate a feasibility study committee to ponder his potential in running for the office of Mayor in the upcoming election and does plan to seek the advice of all the residents throughout the city before concluding his decision.
He is considered to be on the liberal side, however; he is also known for listening to the moderate side of the issues and many times does support their viewpoint.
Unlike so many other politicians, at least Representative O'Brien is willing to listen and consider opposing views.
