Monday, June 30, 2014
Rally Today - 6:00 p.m. at the State Capitol
Rally Today - 6:00 p.m. at the State Capitol
Victory for Religious
Liberty
The Supreme Court decision in favor of Hobby Lobby is a tremendous
victory.
The decision was a close call but nevertheless, a victory!
Please attend a rally at the Connecticut State Capitol today to
show gratitude and support for a fundamental and founding principle in this
country.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
New Britain High School Grads Told: 'Remember Where You Come From' - Courant.com
By KATHLEEN McWILLIAMS
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
No baloney Obama still claims scandels are phony
Rallying supporters in Minnesota the day after new revelations about wrongdoing at the IRS related to the targeting and harassment of his political enemies, President Obama doubled down on claims that the mounting scandals around his administration are fabrications. The Hill: “President Obama charged that his Republican opponents had ‘nothing to offer except cynicism and fear and frustration’ during a fundraiser Thursday in Minnesota. The fundraiser capped off a day Obama spent with Rebekah Erler, a working mother who wrote the president to detail her financial struggle. ‘It moved me,’ Obama said of the letter, adding that he only went into politics to help people like her. Obama said he remembered what it felt like to be struggling to figure out ‘how you lead a good life and raise your kids, not looking to get wildly wealthy… trying to make ends meet. That’s what we should be talking about every day in Washington,’ he said. ‘We talk about everything else. .. We talk about phony scandals. We talk about Benghazi. and we talk about polls and we talk about the tea party and we talk about the latest controversy... We don’t talk about her.’”
Thursday, June 26, 2014
HUD Demands Misused Funds be returned and The Blame Game Starts!
FRANKSMITHSAYSNB
EDITORIAL:
The O’Brien administration requested the funds for a project that did not exist but Alderwoman Suzanne Bielinski was quick to place blame onto the following administration {Mayor Erin Stewart’s } for not pushing the project through.
Miss Bielinski, how could Mayor Erin push for
something that never existed?The O’Brien administration requested the funds for a project that did not exist but Alderwoman Suzanne Bielinski was quick to place blame onto the following administration {Mayor Erin Stewart’s } for not pushing the project through.
So now Erin is saddled with an additional " Deficit" of $900,000 dollars because you Democrats voted for the phony request from HUD.
BIG BREAK IN IRS CASE WILL CHANGE SCANDAL’S COURSE
New evidence about the actions of the IRS official at the center of the investigation into the agency’s systematic targeting of President Obama’s political adversaries is intensifying the firestorm over the alleged corruption. IRS executive Lois Lerner apparently pushed for an audit of one of the administration’s most outspoken critics in the Senate. In emails with a colleague, Lerner claims to have mistakenly received an invitation to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to give a speech to a non-profit group in 2012. Lerner wrote that the group offered to pay for Grassley’s wife to attend. Lerner wanted to sic investigators on Grassley, even though, as her colleague observed, the offer was not improper. How did Lerner, a then-unknown IRS division manager, end up with a speaking invitation to an Iowa Republican Senator? We can’t know because Lerner refuses to testify. What other notable Republican did she suggest be targeted? We can’t find out because the agency “recycled” the hard drives that the IRS says include her sent items from the key period of the targeting. But what we do know is: Pushing for the selective prosecution of a high-profile administration adversary in the Senate is a big deal and will change the way this case moves forward.
“We don’t want her in jail, we want the truth. We want the truth more than anything else...” – House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif. on “The Kelly File” making his first-ever demand for a special prosecutor into the targeting of the president’s political enemies. Watch the full interview here.
Response by an unknown teacher to Chris Powell’s Editorial
The Opinion page of the Sunday (6/2/14)
Herald carried a column written by Chris Powell of the Journal Inquirer in
Manchester. Powell’s article discussed the now abandoned proposal to reform
teacher evaluation practices in Connecticut along with standardized testing of
students. Standardized test results of students were to become an integral part
of the State’s standards for teacher evaluations.
Whew! I’m glad that idea was
stalled. As usual, Powell was right on point with his assertions. He used as
beautiful examples of being glad that the process was stalled, two letters that
had been written by Connecticut public school teachers, one from “tony” West
Hartford and the other from “gritty” Bridgeport. Powell’s major point was that
decline in effectiveness of public school education is not that the caliber of
teachers has declined but rather, the caliber of students; put another way ,the
“tony” West Hartford students are not necessarily smarter than the “gritty“
Bridgeport students, just better prepared, perhaps.
In my opinion, teacher evaluation
reform should concentrate on the improvement of instruction and not tie in as a
major factor standardized test results of students as an indicator of teacher
quality. The students in a teacher’s classes are as varied as snow- flakes as
will be the effectiveness of that teacher with each student. Teachers must be
skilled in identifying the strengths of their students and also, ways to
capitalize on those strengths. Teacher evaluators must be equally skilled in
identifying the strengths of all teachers. Evaluators must be able -prepared-
to offer suggestions for improvement in areas of instruction as well as
praising the strengths of a teacher.
All people learn differently,
including teachers.. It’s harmful to judge them on basis of standardized test
scores.
Sally sale for this weekend
Sally has House for sale at1900 Mount Vernon
Road
Southington, CT with furniture and a car 2000 for less than 4K with low mileage .
Southington, CT with furniture and a car 2000 for less than 4K with low mileage .
For arrangements
call her at 860-828-2907
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
A BAD NIGHT FOR DEMOCRATS
If you can divine a national trend from a runoff election in Mississippi, be our guest. But rather than pondering the motives of 3,188 Mississippi voters who made the difference in a bitter, hyper-local election, there’s a more useful consideration today. What’s at stake nationally this year is control of the U.S. Senate, and Republican chances of taking the majority went up significantly Tuesday night.
Sap Data Center Power
'Conaatose'Servers
Decommissioning servers is a difficult
process, as Barclays learned in its nowe
successful effort to rid itself of underused
systems. By Patrick Thibodeau
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A
N ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY plan to
cut carbon dioxide pollution, in part through ef-
ficiency improvements, could put pressure on data
centers with servers that are doing very little work
- or none at all.
Many high-profile data centers rurl by the likes of Apple, eBay
and Google incorporate alternative energy into their power mix,
and all boast about the efficiency of their op-
erations. But a recent Uptime Institute survey
suggests that a large number of data centers
"are running substantial numbers of servers
that do nothing.
Nearly 25% of the more than 1,000 enter-
prise data center operators and executives who
responded to the Uptime survey said that at
least 10% of their servers are "likely comatose."
And the actual numbers may be higher.
"Most data center operators can't even tell
you how many servers they have, never mind
their utilization, so caution in interpreting
THINKSTOCK
those numbers is indicated," said
Jonathan Koomey, a research
fellow at the Steyer-Taylor Center
for Energy Policy and Finance
at Stanford University. "The
percentages for comatose servers
are likely much bigger."
Managing underused servers
and improving efficiency isn't
easy, as Bardays has discovered.
Last year, Bardays decom-
missioned about 9,100 physical
servers, which represented 12% to
17% of the financial services com-
pany's total server footprint. Those
systems collectively consumed
2.5 megawatts, and Bardays
became a model for the industry
when it took them out of service.
That success was the end
result of a multiyear effort to
develop a decommissioning
process.
That program began after
Bardays took on a number of re-
dundant systems in its 2009 ac-
quisition of the North American
operations of Lehman Brothers.
Initially, the decommission-
ing process was chaotic. "What
we learned was the biggest impediment to success was people's
reluctance to click the 'approve' button" on a change ticket, said
Paul Nally, a director at Bardays.
Shutting down a database server might involve a dozen tickets,
but there was no order to the process. The Bardays IT operation
used an orchestration software tool to ensure that the approach
followed a series of orderly steps: Database administrators went
first, followed by storage administrators, then operating system
specialists and finally the people who did the physical work.
To overcome concerns about decommissioning, Nally said the
process was made as "safe as possible" and "reversible." With
those controls in place, he noted, "people's reluctance to hit
'approve' sort of abated."
Shutdowns take place over three weekends. On the first
weekend, there's an inventory check to make sure the server is
where it's believed to be; a week later, the server is shut down
via an automated workflow; and the server is
removed from the rack on the third weekend.
The three-week process allows Bardays IT
teams to quickly recover a system if a mistake
is made during the decommissioning.
There were some errors early on, but the
process has improved with the adoption of a
consistent, repeatable plan.
Decommissioning ser~ers is "cleaning up
after yourself," and in doing so "you remove a
lot of noise from the environment," said Nally.
The end result, he added, is a more nimble and
efficient IT operation. +
COMPUTERWORLD.COM 7
Decommissioning servers is a difficult
process, as Barclays learned in its nowe
successful effort to rid itself of underused
systems. By Patrick Thibodeau
..............•..........................•.................
N ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY plan to
cut carbon dioxide pollution, in part through ef-
ficiency improvements, could put pressure on data
centers with servers that are doing very little work
- or none at all.
Many high-profile data centers rurl by the likes of Apple, eBay
and Google incorporate alternative energy into their power mix,
and all boast about the efficiency of their op-
erations. But a recent Uptime Institute survey
suggests that a large number of data centers
"are running substantial numbers of servers
that do nothing.
Nearly 25% of the more than 1,000 enter-
prise data center operators and executives who
responded to the Uptime survey said that at
least 10% of their servers are "likely comatose."
And the actual numbers may be higher.
"Most data center operators can't even tell
you how many servers they have, never mind
their utilization, so caution in interpreting
THINKSTOCK
those numbers is indicated," said
Jonathan Koomey, a research
fellow at the Steyer-Taylor Center
for Energy Policy and Finance
at Stanford University. "The
percentages for comatose servers
are likely much bigger."
Managing underused servers
and improving efficiency isn't
easy, as Bardays has discovered.
Last year, Bardays decom-
missioned about 9,100 physical
servers, which represented 12% to
17% of the financial services com-
pany's total server footprint. Those
systems collectively consumed
2.5 megawatts, and Bardays
became a model for the industry
when it took them out of service.
That success was the end
result of a multiyear effort to
develop a decommissioning
process.
Bardays took on a number of re-
dundant systems in its 2009 ac-
quisition of the North American
operations of Lehman Brothers.
Initially, the decommission-
ing process was chaotic. "What
we learned was the biggest impediment to success was people's
reluctance to click the 'approve' button" on a change ticket, said
Paul Nally, a director at Bardays.
Shutting down a database server might involve a dozen tickets,
but there was no order to the process. The Bardays IT operation
used an orchestration software tool to ensure that the approach
followed a series of orderly steps: Database administrators went
first, followed by storage administrators, then operating system
specialists and finally the people who did the physical work.
To overcome concerns about decommissioning, Nally said the
process was made as "safe as possible" and "reversible." With
those controls in place, he noted, "people's reluctance to hit
'approve' sort of abated."
Shutdowns take place over three weekends. On the first
weekend, there's an inventory check to make sure the server is
where it's believed to be; a week later, the server is shut down
via an automated workflow; and the server is
removed from the rack on the third weekend.
The three-week process allows Bardays IT
teams to quickly recover a system if a mistake
is made during the decommissioning.
There were some errors early on, but the
process has improved with the adoption of a
consistent, repeatable plan.
Decommissioning ser~ers is "cleaning up
after yourself," and in doing so "you remove a
lot of noise from the environment," said Nally.
The end result, he added, is a more nimble and
efficient IT operation. +
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
A Portrait of Two Closet Cases:
How Barack Obama and Rock Hudson Are Alike (Hint: a complicit press worked a clear agenda to protect their secrets for years). Oh, and they’re also both gay as rainbows.
http://hillbuzz.org/how-barack-obama-and-rock-hudson-are-alike-hint-a-complicit-press-worked-a-clear-agenda-to-protect-their-secrets-for-years-oh-and-theyre-also-both-gay-as-rainbows-39568
Monday, June 23, 2014
AP Chelsea Clinton, $10M Apartment, $3M Wedding, $600K Job: I Just Don't Care About Money
By Leslie Larson, New York Daily News
» Massachusetts Mayor: Stop sending refugees! » News -- GOPUSA
Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts, Domenic Sarno
Obama’s bad bet on Maliki
- Dexter
Filkins: “President Obama won the White House in part by
promising to end the war in Iraq, and since then he placed his faith in Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki to help him do so… In early 2009, a group of American
diplomats in Iraq warned the White House that it ran the risk of creating a
dictator. They were largely ignored, and when Maliki won [re-election] a year
later Obama gave him his full support.”
Important Meeting Notice
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The "Fair Housing Law" in Connecticut is the most
misunderstood law impacting rental property owners. Its scope and coverage is
far-reaching with many landlords being "Simply Clueless" about
tenant rights and this law.
Some
Fair Housing Questions;
These questions are just the tip of the Iceberg, the wrong
answer will cost you thousands if a discrimination complaint is filed against
you!
I encourage all landlords to attend our Fair Housing Workshop on Wednesday June 25th at 6:30 in the auditorium at Shelton City Hall, 54 Hill Street. This a must attend event if you rent apartments in Connecticut, Attorney Tucker McWeeny will do the presentation, more details are below. Bob De Cosmo President, CTPOA Inc. |
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Mayor Stewart takes action for the city's children
Mayor Erin
Stewart transfers $19,000 from her office budget so as to repair two of city‘s swimming
pools that have broken pipes caused by the awful winter weather.
This act, by her, is making sure the city’s children will be enjoying a good summer.
fs
This act, by her, is making sure the city’s children will be enjoying a good summer.
fs
With No Keystone Pipeline, Canada OKs Oil-to-Asia Plan
Disappointed by the Obama administration's decision to delay approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, the Canadian government has approved the construction of a major pipeline to deliver oil to Asia.
The Northern Gateway project will run 732 miles from the oil sands in landlocked Alberta across British Columbia to a new marine terminal in the Pacific Coast town of Kitmat, according to global news agency AFP.
It would transport about 525,000 barrels of oil daily for shipment across the Pacific to Asia, most likely to China.
If approved, the Keystone XL pipeline could carry 700,000 barrels a day from Alberta to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he was "profoundly disappointed" that President Barack Obama has delayed a decision on the Keystone and added that Canada needed to diversify its oil exports, which now go almost entirely to the United States.
As long ago as December 2011, Harper disclosed that he had warned American officials that if Obama put the Keystone on hold, his government would ship Canadian oil to Asian markets
He told CTV News: "I am very serious about selling our oil off this continent, selling our energy products off to Asia."
But opponents in British Columbia have threatened to block the pipeline over fears that it would make the province vulnerable to an oil spill, damaging the scenic coastline, The New York Times reported.
About 220 large oil tankers would visit the Kitmat facility if the Northern Gateway project is built.
Enbridge, the company that would build the pipeline, must meet about 100 conditions imposed by a regulator before construction can begin, according to the Times.
The government's approval is predicated on Enbridge fulfilling those conditions.
According to AFP, the project will cost $7.3 billion.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
US Rep. John Larson meets his match at an East Hartford Senior Center!
While
attempting his ten minute presentation for his social security proposal he was
immediately confronted by a person calling him a liar with his asking why don’t
you just pay back all the money you took from the social security fund? And then a woman took the floor with her blaming
the Obamacare and the death panels. When
Larson asked what death panel and who is on that panel? She immediately replied “Obama’s people.
This is what
he gets for hanging around with Madame Pelosi as you may all recall wasn’t she
the one, when referring to the Obamacare bill, “ We didn’t have time to read
the bill but let’s pass it and read it later.”
fs
Friday, June 20, 2014
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Jesus, Republicans and NRA banned on school website | Fox News
Andrew Lampart a Woodbury Ct. Student High School's computer blocks conservative information.
Obama announces he is sending up to 300 troops back to Iraq as advisers - The Washington Post
Short of what our Generals were seeking for presidential action.
Senators blast Obama foreign policy as political war over Iraq heats up | Fox News
We need a president to make decisions
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014
McKinney faces difficult odds in GOP race for governor - Connecticut Post
40 k short for state's election funding.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
Reaction to Mayor Stewart's Veto
FRANKSMITHSAYSNB
EDITORIAL:
Former Mayor
DeFronzo and now a State Commissioner coupled with John McNamara Democratic
Town Committee Chairman spoke eloquently with many poor residents they arranged
to fill the council chambers, attempting to persuade the common council
membership to override Mayor Stewart’s Veto proposal.
With the
common council passing the Mayor’s Veto proposal Mr. McNamara decided, to not
take the loss with his appearance of weaken power over his control of his
council minions but, resorted to usual attack mode on his web page blaming
Mayor Stewart and Mr. Ken Malinowski for the reduction for the HUD funds for
Community Services.
Apparently,
Mr. McNamara doesn’t understand the workings of a democracy but, favors a
socialistic preference with controled results.
CAN OBAMA LET BAGHDAD FALL?
As Americans flee Iraq ahead of an advancing column of Islamist soldiers hell-bent on toppling the U.S. backed government in Baghdad, the likelihood of American military involvement is growing. Though the Obama administration, not usually a stickler on legal constraints of the executive branch, is claiming legal obstacles, it seems hard to imagine that any American president would allow Baghdad to fall to a group as despicable as the ISIS, militants so vile that even al Qaeda won’t claim them as their own. More than 4,000 Americans were killed liberating and then pacifying Iraq, at a cost of an estimated $1.7 trillion. Plus, failing to stop the worst of the worst now may mean a third invasion of Iraq at a later date. (Read Dexter Filkins’ concisely excellent explainer to get the picture.) But for a president who has factored domestic politics more heavily into foreign affairs than perhaps any in history, nothing is ever straightforward. After all, no one thought that Obama would flinch on Syria after promising attacks amid a genocidal onslaught, especially with lots of liberal support. But he did.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
HILLARY: THE MORE THEY SEE HER, THE LESS THEY LIKE HER
Most politicians would kill for a 54 percent favorability rating, but for the 2016 Democratic frontrunner the number is a troubling sign. As Hillary Clinton’s campaign blitz surrounding her latest book drags on amid gaffes and fudgy facts, her previously stratospheric ratings have begun to slide. A new Gallup poll shows Clinton down a dozen points since leaving her post as secretary of state, with a 5-point drop since February. Partly that is because Clinton’s candidacy is forcing perceptions through a more partisan prism and partly because she is disappointing the massive expectations she and her campaign organization have created for her.
Mayor Stops helping the Rock Cats team
Mayor stops
helping the Rock Cats in getting their property taxes lowered that is owed to
the town of Berlin for the portion of the stadium is in Berlin since they
decided to move to Hartford. Therefore,
they will be required to pay the full tax owed to Berlin effective July first
this year.
Maybe the city of Hartford will pay this tax bill for them??
fs
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Mayor Stewart’s Veto Tonight’s Common Council Meeting An Issue
HUD
Compliance is Mayor Stewart’s main issue for her veto of the common council
vote of adding aid to various community agencies citing she is not about to
bite the hand that feeds us with her referring to former Mayor Tim O’Brien not
abiding to HUD’S rule and regulations which caused HUD’s taken away 1.6 million
dollars away from the city for O’Brien’s ignoring HUD’s demands.
fs
fs
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Mayor Stewart's Veto
Erin Stewart just
vetoed critical funding for human services and community organizations in our
city!
Mayor Stewart had proposed reducing
and eliminating $126,432 allocated by the city from federal HUD grants
to organizations that provide needed human services that help people
in our city. When City Council Democrats, without a single Republican
vote, restored some of the funding that Stewart had cut, She responded by
vetoing $371,000 in critical funding for services for children and youth,
feeding the hungry, helping women and families harmed by domestic violence,
keeping the homeless warm and more.
By John McNamara, Chairman for the Democratic town committee
Monday, June 9, 2014
FIRST IN FOX NEWS FIRST: POLL SAYS VOTERS REJECT TALIBAN TRADE
A Fox News poll that was in the field just as news broke about President Obama’s decision to circumvent Congress to release five Afghan Islamist militant commanders in exchange for one U.S. soldier found voters worried about the consequences for the future but generally split on whether they agreed with the choice. But we haven’t seen much, if any, polling to indicate how voters feel now that details have emerged about the deal, especially allegations of desertion and even collaboration against the soldier ransomed by the president. Today, we get our first snapshot of what voters think and it’s not pretty.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Rat Cats?
“The Rock
Cats move was a kick in the groin,” Was Mark Bernaki’s comment in a local media
but, most New Britain residents are referring to them as being “ Rat Cats”.
The planned move to Hartford is not occurring for another year but most of the Rock Cats followers will be boycotting the remaining local games as their message to the Rat Cat owners.
The planned move to Hartford is not occurring for another year but most of the Rock Cats followers will be boycotting the remaining local games as their message to the Rat Cat owners.
fs
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Friday, June 6, 2014
East Side NRZ Meeting Held Thursday Evening!
Mr. Bob
DeCosmo was asked to attend this meeting and to point out the methods on how to
improve the neighborhood problems.
The arranging
of selecting three hot spots or streets in the area where problems exist. Since the group meets on a monthly basis he suggested
getting volunteers to meet more frequently in order to address any upcoming
problems with the selected streets.
He did
mentioned to contact the code enforcement of the city to bring attention to the owners
of the existing violations on their properties and if they ignore the notice
from the city then the city can send the necessary help to do the needed work
and place a lien on the property. The
Mortgage company [ Bank} will then be behind the city’s lien and will certainly
raise its concern with the owner immediately.
Unfortunately,
New Britain, does not have any grants available for the city property owners
however, banks and foundations could be approached to obtain the necessary funds.
Another area
of concern is the training of landlords on how to do the proper background checks of future tenants
in avoiding trouble tenants that would create havoc with the
peaceable quit in the area.
fs
New Britain Taxpayers get a11% Tax Increase!
After hours
of lengthy discussions by the common council membership it approved Mayor Stewart’s proposed
budget of 4.88 mil increase tonight. Mayor Stewart must be commended for her budget proposal without her concerning herself for her re-election bid. She has honestly acted what is best for the city and its taxpayers. She has won my vote trusting she has garnered all the votes of the citizens that elected her to the office of mayor. The lengthy discussions that occurred was caused by the Democrats attempting to add more free stuff to the budget that they always support.
Councilman Jamie Giantonio must be commended for supporting the Mayor's proposed budget citing it is 'responsible and not balanced with inflated revenue numbers" which stopped the DeFronzo, Trueworthy and Platosz push to get more free stuff as aforementioned.
Councilman Jamie Giantonio must be commended for supporting the Mayor's proposed budget citing it is 'responsible and not balanced with inflated revenue numbers" which stopped the DeFronzo, Trueworthy and Platosz push to get more free stuff as aforementioned.
fs
Thursday, June 5, 2014
In a May 17 commencement speech at Morgan State University, Attorney General Eric H. Holder once again dismissed the problem of voter fraud as being inconsequential. Efforts to curb it, he claimed, are merely attempts to deprive minorities of their right to vote.
It's not just that Holder personally persists in ignoring the many cases of such fraud that have been documented by historians and journalists. His entire Justice Department studiously ignores evidence of possible fraud and steadfastly refuses to do anything about it. I know this from experience.
From 2010 until 2013, I served on the Fairfax County Electoral Board in Virginia. In August 2011, we notified the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria, as well as the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department (which coordinates election-crime prosecutions) in Washington, D.C., of possible voter fraud by non-citizens. In checking with the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, the board discovered 278 registered voters who, when they got their driver's licenses, told the DMV they were not U.S. citizens. Before we canceled any of the seemingly illegal registrations, we gave all of these voters the opportunity to confirm their citizenship. None of them did so. Almost half of them (117) not only had registered to vote, they had voted in state and federal elections.
NRZ Agenda for tonight's meeting
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DESPERATION DROVE OBAMA STUMBLE ON BERGDAHL
Why did Team Obama so badly botch the publicity of the release of five Islamist militant leaders in exchange for an accused Army deserter? The deal was sure to have been controversial, but might have, if done with humility and a low-key approach, engendered respect. Instead, the publicity blitz backfired on the administration. New Fox News polling explains how the struggling White House team ended up here, with Democrats in open rebellion and President Obama’s old rivals in Hillaryland taking potshots at his judgment? Desperation seems to be the thing. After a damaging turn with the revelation of widespread abuse of veterans at government hospitals and deepening concerns about the administration’s foreign policy setbacks in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia, the president’s previous strong suits are a shambles. The desire to return to the high point of his presidency, the killing of Usama bin Laden and subsequent Afghan drawdown, was understandable. But with a milky foreign policy speech at West Point, N.Y. and then the accused deserter PR fiasco, Obama finds himself in even worse position. But the poll shows us why he got greedy for a big win.
Madame Nancy Pelosi with her "Disdain" for Seniors
FRANKSMITHSAYSNB
EDITORIAL:
We can all recall her famous Obama Care statement when she
announced we do not have time to read this bill lets pass it and read it later.
Within this bill it established a death panel which was
reputed by all the citizens that were aware of its ramifications.
Well the Obama group with Pelosi’s help change this direction
by calling “Rationing Care”
All I have to say to the seniors whatever it is called we are
all doomed.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
The Rock Cats Mystery!
Former Mayor
O’Brien and his right hand Mr. Sherwood was replaced by the good doctor who was
the Mayor of Hartford's former aide.
They all had to know about the planned move of the Rock Cats to
Hartford. One would suppose when Erin won
her election O’Brien decided to not apprise her of the pending negotiations with
Hartford, by the Rock Cats.
fs.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
City Officials: Rock Cats Will Sign 25-Year Lease If Hartford Builds Stadium - Courant.com
By JENNA CARLESSO and JON LENDER
CTPOA TO SPEAK AT NRZ MEETING ON REHAB PLANS | New Britain Eastside Neighborhood Revitalization Zone
Mr. Bob DeCosmo will speak of the CT-CPOA
BRISTOLTODAY.COM: Rock Cats may teach New Britain a lesson Bristol already learned
By Steve Collins, Staff Reporter
Rock Cats In Talks To Move From New Britain To Hartford - Courant.com
Mayor Stewart calls it rumors?
Monday, June 2, 2014
Alderman Salvio corrects Alderman DeFronzo’s comments in his letter to the editor.
This letter is a personal response to
one that appeared in The Herald on Friday, 5/30/14 from David DeFronzo. Some
facts need to be made clear before getting to the main thrust of this letter:
Mr. DeFronzo is currently an Alderman serving on the New Britain Common
Council. a position he held all throughout the Administration of Tim
O’Brien and one he holds today; when O’Brien took over as Mayor in 2011
New Britain’s mil rate was 36.63, when he left two years later, it was 44.?? ;
some people realized a reduction in their real estate taxes because of a
statewide/ordered Revaluation that lowered most property values - while most
personal property taxes increased. Mr. DeFronzo carefully obfuscates these
facts by asserting that Mayor Stewart has “opted” to hit taxpayers with an 11%
increase to balance the budget. Does everyone see how sly and underhanded is
his wording? What Mr. DeFronzo intimates is that Mayor Stewart should be
held responsible to taxpayers for all of O’Brien’s feckless administrative
practices, practices he (DeFronzo) proudly supported along with other Council
Democrats. It’s important to mention here that before the 2011 municipal
election, Herald writer, Robert Storace wrote profiles of all the candidates;
in DeFronzo’s profile it was reported that he said, he “strongly supported”
that O’Brien budget.
At the public hearing on the budget,
18 people spoke about Youth Services a few on education, taxes and one
fire department cuts. But, Mr. DeFronzo says that cuts in these areas are
significantly high; what he doesn’t say is that that there are other
negotiations still going and that there is still time before final
reconciliations on the 2014-2015 need to be completed. Now Mr. DeFronzo knows
all this but he’s trying to scare people into thinking that doomsday is here
and that our Mayor is responsible.
Mr. DeFronzo tries to demonstrate
what a forward thinker he is but fails to acknowledge that what he attempts to
credit as his thinking/ideas are things that are already being done. DeFronzo
uses “weasel words” such as there need to be “real concessions” and “real
discussions”. One can infer from these remarks that any discussions that
have gone on and any concessions made are FAKE !
Near the end of his “Treatise” on
how to balance a budget and run a government DeFronzo cites the need for
accurate revenue projections and the need to find sustainable revenue sources.
WOW! Recently, Common Council members received a document showing the PHONY
REVENUE PROJECTIONS of the 2013-2014 O’Brien budget. Now, a few paragraphs ago
, I cited that Robert Storace reported in his profile on Mr. DeFronzo, that
DeFronzo said in 2011, that he “strongly supported the 2013-2014 O’Brien
Budget ! This entire letter by Mr. DeFronzo to me, is simply an attempt to pull
the wool over taxpayers’ eyes about what O’Brien did to New Britain and to
place the blame on the current Mayor. It won’t work !
Lou Salvio, Alderman