In Wake of Murders Of Police Officers, The Court System Needs A Watchdog
Message to the Pa. State Supreme court: The latest murder of a Philadelphia Police officer, John Pawlowki, is the final straw in a series of court mishaps that have allowed hardened criminals to remain on the streets. The police department is doing all that it can with the manpower allowed. The suspects in many murders of police over the years are people who fall through the cracks of the court system because of judges who are lenient, uninformed, and oblivious to real threats.
The justice system in Philadelphia has been in trouble for many years, and the crime problem has been made much more dangerous by judges who allow potential killers on the streets. Guns are obviously an issue, but judges who casually approve low bail for violent offenders, share a great deal of the finger-pointing in the current wave of murders of police heroes.
Is this a radical idea? Not at all. Law enforcement has a foundation of police officers, prosecutors and judges. The police in Philadelphia are selfless. The DA is as tough as they get. Some of the judges are making a mockery of the justice system by not paying attention.
The Pennsyvania Supreme court should appoint a tough watchdog to monitor judge’s behavior in cases of violent crime.
And while they’re doing that, the justices should have a talk with Judge Craig Washington, who had the gall to try to hide a photo of officer Pawlowski in his courtroom, located in the 35th Police District, where the fallen officer was assigned.
It would be interesting for the court system to see what Judge Washington’s judicial record is. After all, arraignment judges are the first line of defense in the court system.
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For once in a long time I finally agree with Larry on an issue. Not only the topic but most of the content. The only surprise is that he didn’t recommend Ed Rendell for the watchdog position. Watchdog or not the judicial system is broken and somebody should keep the animals caged. Even the Police Comish Ramsey wants that.
The fact that thugs on the street don’t hesitate to shoot an officer only makes things tougher for the rest of us. Where once the police officer was treated with total respect, in today’s climate if I were an officer it would be shoot first ask questions later……..
how does the mayor feel about this? for a crime mayor, he’s been awfully silent on what has long been an obviously broken judicial system. according to a Pew poll, 45% of people think crime is the biggest problem, the second biggest % was 8! I grow tired of “gun laws, gun laws, gun laws” when every story is about some career criminal getting off easy or getting trained in prison.
Larry, thank you for changing the blog topic in a timely matter. Thank you for putting some thought into it. I really thought you were getting ready to take a tough stand but you stopped short. Too bad, Lar, you missed a chance to stand up and be counted. Instead you mollified your comments as not to hurt anyone’s feelings or draw any attention. Can’t tarnish the Kane image on this silly blog I guess. So much for hard hitting… I do think that a died-in-the wool liberal such as you are is starting to show some chinks in his liberal armor. Follow the light, Lar.
Comrade Leo:
“Though there are so few of them, the GOP fanboys are jealous.
Jindal was like a nightlight at noon in Arizona. He and Palin will not save the GOP. The GOP is intellectually and politically bankrupt.”
Comrade Leo, I think that you, as the captain of the Good Ship ‘Pomposity’ should sail off on the Sea of Serenity back to the Land of Liberalism and into the sunset. As much as we long to hear your daily rants about the GOP and your constant propping up of liberal babbling, it’s time to sail off. Clearly you are in the zone with President Obama now in charge. Your liberal mandate will be done – good, bad or indifferent. You have the votes to push all sorts of pork and socialistic nonsense through Congress. Enjoy the next 4-6 years. The tide will turn again, my friend. Yes, the GOP is flailing about trying to become relevant again after 8 years of an unpopular Bush Administration and a resulting disasterous election. There will be a backlash in this country if the Obama Administration pushes the socialistic agenda too far. Most Republicans are not the ‘right wing nutjobs’ you routinely portray them as. They are fiscally responsible Americans that work hard and don’t want to share the money they work so hard to earn with people that don’t share the same hard working ethics. Anyway, enough of my rant. Perhaps you should steer the Good Ship ‘Pomposity’ towards subject you are better qualified to speak about like FREE AIR or Larry’s grammar.
Larry-The answer is the death penalty. Career criminals with 23 or 26 arrests or however many clearly are never going to contribute to society.and we shouldn’t be penalized financially by keeping them alive in jail.Way overdue scenario.
Leo-Fanboys ? Are you trying to be ironic ? The biggest fanboy of them all when it comes to Obama points a finger somewhere else.Too funny.You’re so hung up on speech givers,they’re the political equivalent of the news readers that you always deride.Speaking of which,in other times you may have been enthralled by the likes of Hitler,Castro,Mao & more recently Hugo Chavez.All good speech givers,all disastrous for their countries.Lets just hope your favorite speech giver doesn’t turn the country into another Philadelphia.
YFAP, didn’t you think the DP was where Larry was heading before he wussed out?
OOOJ-Who knows? He did say “final straw” but stopped short of any definitive answer.Larry has always been opposed to the death penalty, so this would be a huge switch.
No pun intended… Throw the switch, Larry!
OOOJ & YBP, thanks for the lulz. You’re really too much. Just don’t forget to take those anti-psychotics or you’ll lose that slender grasp on reality.
I’d like to see evidence of this. What’s your source, Larry?
You realize that we have an elected judiciary, right? What do you propose to do to judges who are accountable to the voters? Aren’t the voters the ones who should decide which judges to retain? Are you advocating some kind of anti-democratic regime that will overturn the will of the voters?
Also, Larry, we currently imprision a greater portion of our population than any other nation on earth. Incarceration rates are also racist. African-American men are represented in prison populations in far greater proportions than in the general population. Is your solution to lock up more African-Americans who have had no advantages in their lives? I think the money needs to go to social programs to try to help establish stronger families and community, some way of giving impoverished kids a chance and some hope, not to some program designed to punish more severely.
Amazing that you cannot see that judges give pretty selflessly, too. Their jobs are unenviable and their pay isn’t all that great. Maybe they should just get made up and go on TV where they could read insipid populist drivel and make well into six figures.
Also, OOOJ & YBP, I don’t portray all GOP members as nut jobs. I have a good deal of respect for those who abide by the ostensible principles of their party with respect to fiscal restraint and limited government (i.e., fiscally conservative, socially liberal). However, those moderate members of the GOP have been squeezed out by the intolerant social conservatives, who want big government but want it to enforce their religious values on everyone. Those are the Palin nutjobs, and they’re the ones, along with dorks like Limbaugh and Rove, who led the party into the wilderness. Hey, I’ve got an idea: let’s get the federal government to overrule state governmental decisions and intervene in the Schiavo woman’s right to die! Hurrrr.
Yo captain Leo remember red sky in the morning sailor take warning.
The tyranny of bleeding hearts in this country has left Americans with a “slender grasp” on civility. Bleeding hearts make excuses, blame society and government for the atrocious and beastly behavior of thugs and sociopathic personalities. Their response to antisocial behavior is to form an intervention group or teach thugs that their behavior is not their fault. It’s the environment’s fault. The bleeding hearts fear for the loss of democracy and individuals’ rights. Easy for them to say living in a crime free suburb or a high rise Condo with a doorman. I have no problem with bleeding hearts donating their time and money to social injustices. When the court system mandates that prisons release inmates due to overpopulation what is a society supposed to do? Criminals with rap sheets as long as one’s arm roaming the sidewalks of Phila reminds us the bleeding hearts are winning.
You’re right, Ed. We should have a police state. Screw civil rights. Let’s not worry about appointing watchdogs to make sure people are not unjustly incarcerated. Let’s only worry about putting more people in prison. Screw ‘em if they didn’t actually deserve it. Let’s build bigger prisons, too. Pretty soon, we could shift ghettoized areas to areas behind bars. I’ve got it: let’s just build walls around North Philadelphia and West Philadelphia. Shoot anyone who tries to get out. Private contractors could run the place. Then things will be bliss for everyone! Hurrr.
More money for social programs ? Right,because they’ve worked so well in the past.Here’s an idea,get married,have children & raise them properly.Don’t depend on the government to do your job.Sound familiar or should I get more meds ?
Larry, I thought of another judicial reform you might like. How about a new arraignment system: GUILTY AS CHARGED. If you’re arrested by the police, then you are GUILTY OF THE CHARGE, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL, and DO NOT COLLECT $200. It’s more efficient. Dangerous people and anyone else the infallible and honest police dislike are off the streets. UTOPIA! (Well, almost. We still need FREE AIR!) We could save money, and we wouldn’t have to inconvenience anyone with jury duty.
YBP, if only it were that easy. Socioeconomic situations are just a wee bit more complicated. You’ve got those GOP social conservatives who want to deny the ability for people to have abortions or who want to prevent poor people from having abortions. Kids are born into situations in which their parents cannot provide for them. So I guess you blame the kids for the sins of the parents. Punish them for never having a chance. Let’s cut off all social funding and build that wall around poor inner city areas!
Maybe not that easy,certainly not that complicated.But go ahead & blame the GOP if that makes you feel better.I would just expect that,at some point,someone says,hey this isn’t working,maybe we should rethink this idea of having babies & not supporting them.Not complicated at all actually.
Another cop shot today,this one survived,his assailant did not.
Leo tell me something that I haven’t heard from every bleeding heart. And what’s with the temper tantrum? The bleeding hearts are winning……..
Another cop shot. The only difference is that he probably didn’t ask any questions first………..One dead civilian (if you can call this guy a civilian). As I stated earlier the police are not going to give any one the benefit of the doubt. It will be shoot first than ask questions……… BTW apparently another Muslim. Leo any idea on how society let this poor soul down? Could it have been that long walk to the El station to mug riders? Or maybe his baby’s mama’s daddy’s baby’s mama’s sister didn’t devote enough time to his upbringing
Ed-Really,another Muslim? Seems as though the local Muslims didn’t get the message about Islam being a religion of peace.
I’m getting out the jackboots to join the state that valorizes the police above all else.
I dig the racism, too, guys. You’re all swell.
Social programs,racism,which cliche is next ? By the way,you’re the only one to suggest the wall around North & West Philly.
YAP I think the neolibs are declaring war. That fence idea by Leo is pure genius. Why bother with prisons when we can just wall the thugs off from the rest
of society. No judges no courtrooms no parole just maximum security and plenty of birth control. Gaza….. American style. I think that’s really what the neolibs want. They all talk about human decency and individual freedoms but what they are really looking for is conformity….. conformity to their way of thinking.
Yap, and yes his mama’s daddy’s baby’s sista’s aunt was interviewed and she was wearing a full blown burka. I’m assuming the family is practicing the peaceful religion of Islam. I want to say and there is nothing wrong with that but I can’t………
Larry, you’re right on today, finally. Except you stopped short of identifying Judge Wahington as the racist that he is. Imagine a white Judge removing the picture of a slain black police officer so as not to offend a white defendant who was also likely a racist. The city would be burning and the cable networks would be ablaze with the story of racist Killadelphia. Larry, you need to indentify black racism when you see it, Yvonne Allison will not write a story to alert you about it, nor would you post it for a week and ask readers to pass it around.
Did anyone enjoy seeing the attepted cop killer lay dead in the street for over an hour today? It made me feel great! When will mayor Nutter investigate whether there is a conspiracy to shoot cops among a radical black group not yet identifed by law enforcement? It took awhile for Rizzo to figure out Move posed a threat, and it took mayor Goode’s cludless leadership to turn Move’s crazy agenda into a catastrophe. This new group might be more dispersed throughout the city, but with an agenda to shoot cops to kill when confronted- its very possible and time to find out before another police officer is killed.
Leo, its racist of you to assume that if someone is black and happens to be a criminal they are automatically socially disadvantaged and unable to make good choices. Not all black men have been abused and deprived and many of the black criminals come from good families with stable homes. Personal responsibility Leo! Even if your mother puts her cigaretts out on your genitals, it doesn’t make you a cop killer, regardless of race.
It’s like the Limbaugh audience, only I can’t hear you fapping to his porcine visage on the radio when you’re typing.
The ironic thing about Leo’s posting is that no one on this site brings up Rush Limbaugh but Leo himself. Must be that the Leos of this world are generating Rush’s large audience……. and Leo what the hell is fapping? Something Rush would say?
I BRING UP RUSH LIMBAUGH BECAUSE HE IS THE MOST DREAMY GUY EVER. HE KNOWS ALL. HE TELLS ALL. HE IS A GENIUS AND I WISH THAT THE LIBERALS HAD SOMEONE AS COOL AS HE IS. HE MAKES IT COOL TO BE A GREEDY RACIST AND A HYPOCRITICAL PIG.
Leo is now posting exclusively in capital letters. Does that mean he is really upset or that he is fapping to much???
Now the GOP fanboys are sock puppeting me. Amusing stuff to find after dinner, fellas.
If you fap too much you’ll go blind
Leo, are you sure it wasn’t one of your Uber Liberal Lemming cronies? Sounds far to coherent and literate for a GOP fanboy.
YFAP, isn’t there already an unbuilt but very real wall separating North and West Philly? You know like Herb Tarlick had around his cubicle on WKRP… Most people no where its safe to wander and where it’s not… In the world of the Liberal Lemming, there is neither a crime so heinous nor a string of crimes so severe that the poor culprit should be treated any differently than the rest of us. The poor chap merely has socio-economic issues that more government spending would fixed years ago. It’s actually our fault for not sending the right LLs to DC to enact the right legislature years ago.
London Daily Mail editorial 1/6/2009
Obama’s Victory–A British view
A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of the cult.
A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.
A victory for Hollywood , the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros, Moore, and Sarandon. Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.
Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative.
Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition.
A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers’ unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.
A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.
Congratulations America !
Winston, sounds exactly like one of our regulars!
OOOJ-Philadelphia is now one large contiguous unsafe place.Of course if we had more funded programs all of our problems would go away.By the way,isn’t Street under investigation for his pet program,Safe & Sound ? That,in my opinion,is what happens to funded programs.
M.O.V.E.
With all of the news coming out of Phila you’d think we are living in some third world country. Headlines like “cop shot”
“boy 12 shot” “high school brawl” “gunman killed” “body found” “rapist caught”……. and that’s only a typical weekday’s headlines.
Now it comes to pass with the recession Phila can’t help fund the “National Gay Week Extravaganza”. What is mayor Nutter doing over there in city hall? Doesn’t he realize who got him elected? It certainly wasn’t the rapist, the gunman, or the high school brawlers. Yet everyday we hear about them in the paper and on the news. (sometimes the names change but the stories are the same).
So now the gays are in an uproar over lack of funds to promote their Gay Bash. I say if these gays want to promote their festive affair go out and have a brawl or shoot and rape someone because that’s a cheap way to get recognition. Besides if they get caught the judicial system will just put them back on the streets again.
Larry, you’ve assembled quite a crew here. They’re so upset by the resounding losses the GOP suffered in the popular vote that they’re apparently contracted rabies. They’re frothing! Please start a new FREE AIR like initiative to help them!
Also, Larry, the sound of right wing fapping coming from your blog comments section is making it difficult for people in Center City to get their work done. Please see about keeping it down.
You shouldn’t worry about that,quite a few of the C.C. worker are government employees,oxymoron that that is.Fapping is expected,if not condoned.Perhaps in your department as well, eh ?
With the job market being what it is and after reading that lovely column by Larry Kane I’ve decided to take the watchdog position in the Philly court system. I’m dedicated to taking a bite or two out of crime. No need for more DAs or judges. Just put me in a room with the accused and I’ll have these evil doers singing like Patti LaBelle at an Obama fund raiser.If that doesn’t work I’ll use the Leo Bloom technique of fapping on the perp’s leg….. That is the accused perp’s leg.
Woof woof woof!!!!!
Sorry folks I just got another job offer. President Obama wants me down at Gitmo. He saw my resume posted on Craig’s List and thought I could get some answers from the detainees before Nancy Pelosi makes him shut the place down. Let’s take a bite out of terrorism….. the imported kind, not like the homegrown terrorism found on the streets of Philadelphia. Sorry Philly …..maybe Lassie is available.
First aid is here.
http://www.bigfatwhale.com/archives/bfw_397.htm
Lassie, I always thought that you would stand by me forever. Whats gotten in to you? Are you trying to get adopted by the Obamas? What a Whore……..
I am a Republican Timmy. When there is trouble at the old mill we dont whine to the government. I take care of business on my own.
Timmy I am a Republican bitch not a whore.
Larry, your blog has gone to the dogs. Time to change blog topic.
Lassie we should hook up. I’m a freak and registered with the ACLU. It could get freaky. How old are you anyway?
Backoff short stuff Lassie is my girl.
Lassie! Oh Lassie!…. where are you girl? Come here Lassie……. Lassie I said come back here you whore! and stay away from those movie mutts. Especially Ol Yeller, I don’t like the way he’s looking at me.
All doogie style stuff aside, we may be in only the second inner of a depression. The Obama tax hike-soak the rich- plan may go over like Herber Hoover raising tariffs in 1930s. I am not a sky is falling guy, but the market is telling us its a bad idea, giving subsidies to homeowners wh overspent is another huge mistake, its spurring mortgagors who are current to say, i’m no fool to keep paying either, people are payingon their cars and defauling on house because they know car will be repossed but house will not- its ass backwards Larry! Most Boomers are self indulgent babies who can’t control themselves or their spending, if our parents were the bravest generation then we are the most selfish generation.
All of the polticians outrage (Kerry, Barney Frank etc) is quite amusing. It’s true the bankers deserve a good bitch slapping, but now the politicans are forcing them to cancel any kind of event so as not to be seen spending TARP money. When a $500k event is cancelled in Kansas or New York, who suffers? The hotels, the caterers and waiters, the maids who clean rooms, the taxi divers, bell hops, prostitutes,coffee shops etc. John Kerrys outrage and the resultant contraction of convention activity is going to hurt the people he claims to care about most. In Barney’s case it means more male prostitutes will not get a drug fix or buy a starbucks and pack of ciggaretts, which in NYC is almost $10, most of which is taxes, which helps the city!
Remeber me Lassie? I’m the Jack Russell Terrier that use to be on the Frazier show, I was his dad’s dog. Remeber on the break we use to run around the back lot togeher, talk conservative politics, then I’d get so excited I’d come up under you and lick your hot Lassie-ness. I know we were mis-matched and I always wanted to find a way to fully satisfy you, but it wasn’t meant to be. I hope you don’t mind hearing from me Lassie my girl…
Speaking of Jack Russell Terriers, where is our man Jack? come on back Jack, I know you’re still reading this if you’re still alive, and I hope you are, people on blogs sometimes die, but no one ever knows for sure.
George its me jack. i go by other names these days. crazy world out there. i see leo needs his rabies shot. he makes the rest of us democrats look bad. i should have kicked his ass months ago.
George …. hitting the old liquior cabinet a little early aren’t you? BTW your doogie is running loose on the streets. If Leo was around you’d be chastised for your attempt to write without using spell check. I know I can’t write without it.
As for Obama, Larry is very happy with his start as Commander and Chef. Mr Robin Hood himself couldn’t be prouder. Taking money from the rich and providing a safety net for the poor is what his deal was all about from the get go.
Lassie, you’ve come home! I know you’re not really Jack, he died of a broken heart after Hillary didn’t make it all the way, its so sad.
Ed, do you like it doogie style? Doogie Houser style, who is Neil Patrick Harris, who is gay in real life. Ed, I often hit send before I proof reading because I want to get my ideas to you as soon as possible then I take a drink, then another, then another, and it all makes a lot of sense, even what you write.
George molests collies.
Ed #63 is just not that creative, you can do better.
Does Barbara Steisand look like she has a vagina for a mouth? I think she is a vagina mouthed singer, yet we hear nothing from the liberal media about that. I spent over 10 years working on Frazier and we all use to joke about her crossed eyes and vagina mouth. It would make Kelsey Grammer crazy when she tried to talk intelligently about politics, she barely has a high school education, as does most of Hollywood, yet they think they have such great insight. Now that Obama is going to get to enact the great white liberal social experierment we’re going to find out if liberalism really works.
Larry, you’re no longer in the top tax bracket, so you probably dont care about the tax hike, but do you want to pay for the summer houses of your over-leveraged white neighbors, or bail out clueless innner city blacks who drained all of their home’s equity, spent it on shinny jewelry and brightly colored hats, and now face foreclosure? When Obama hugged and kissed that poor black woman who said she was going to lose her house and he said he wasn’t going to let it happen the world changed; the message is the government will save you from your self no matter what. Her case might have been real and truely sad, but the message he telegraaphed that day was that irresponsible homeowners will be bailed out, help is on the way. And if you’re black , relax, Obama has an even better program in mind, its called screw the white banker and scream racism if he tries to foreclose. All this crazy conservative talk makes me want another taste of Lassie, not Ed pretending to be Lassie, but the real conservative Lassie that I once loved, come on girl…..
I heard people was on here talking about me and Move. Yea, I screwed that up, but me and Earnest Edwards got rich rebuidling Osage Avenue houses that had to be torn down, but that’s how I roll. I be telling my son to tell mayor Nutter to investigate those black guys with Santa Claus beards and shaved heads. Thats the gang thats killing the cops. They learning some perverted radical form of Islam in our prisons, and they takin a vow to shoot cops to kill when confronted. I figured this out from watching TV, and then I tell my son, except he too stupid to tell anyone, he think he knows it all,that dumb ass hired a racist assistant who dont work, but that’s how he roll. Larry Kane, will you investigate my theory about these bearded black men for me?
Timmy and George I’m home. all i real want is another chivas you stiffs. and hillary in the white house.is that asking too much?
did leo get run over by a bus?
or is he Eddy?
George, I’m Timmy not Lassie. You’re nuts………. but I do believe in your theory about some black men in Philly having a vendetta against the police force….
Top 10 List of Dog Names Yet to be Used:
10) Ubu from Family Ties
9) Sparky from South Park
8) Baxter from Ron Burgundy
7) Beethoven from Beethoven
6) Einstein from Back to the Future
5) Toto from Wizzard of Oz
4) Polly Purebreed from Underdog
3) Lady from Lady and the Tramp
2) Odie from Garfield
1) Krypto from Superman
And just for the record, it’s Eddie, not Eddy on Frazier.
Puppeteers, you should now have enough sock puppet names to last until Larry finally changes the topic.
I’ve just written a new book. It’s called “Larry and Me”…….
I’m already trying to get Clint Eastwood to play the part of Larry in the movie version.
I’ve made so much money on the Marley and Me movie that I went out and purchased the masterpiece “Dogs Playing Cards”. The Original….
Who said the sky is falling?…. Oh yeah that was George, ever the optimist. I’ll bet he owns a Pitbull and it’s name is Snarley. And that sign he has on his front lawn doesn’t say beware of dog, it says “beware of OWNER”.
OOOJ, thanks for the correction, but you’re not the pooch that worked with Kellsey Gramar, when he writes to me its always Eddy, not Eddie, and never Ed!!
You guys should heed George’s admonishmnets, he’s not as crazy as you think, and I hate to agree with Ed, but if that’s George as Wilson Goode he’s probably on to something there too. God sent George to this blog the way he sent David Koresh to Waco, except George is a blessing, not a curse, that drives internet traffic for Larry. I heard George is going to be out of the country for a few weeks, just watch how dull it gets in here when he’s gone, you guys will miss him, even Ed!
Larry, with the snow storm looming I hope the Mrs has purchased enough milk and bread, as OOOJ would say. I just read the headline on philly.com; 14″ in “some” places. I didn’t bother to read the article…… George is going out of town (he said out of the country, I guess that means abroad according to the media,) (personally I think it means he is serving time for some misdemeanor)
(could be cross burning or painting swastikas on Bernie Madoff’s penthouse door) Anyhow like the dogs in the Iditarod the dogs around here are spent. Why not change the blog topic while we are still able to function without a respirator. beep beep beep beep beep___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Larry is all set for the weather. I got his boots and woolies out of the closet and had him run over to home Depot for some extra salt. The fact that he got lost going to the store was no matter. The last time he went to Home Depot was when they had free air. At least he thought they had free air. Actually Home Depot was advertising free air conditioner inspections.
Wow Ed, You got me down better than I expected you would. I view myself as two standard deviations of IQ above you, but I may have to reconsider. I will be away or the more pretentious “abroad” for a few weeks on business and pleasure. The beauty of this downturn and deflation, which none of has ever really experinced, is that everthing is on sale if you’ve got cash. My guess is the right wing nut jobs (myself included) and Leo and Larry have cash. One common element among all of us is that we are prudent with money and will come out fine even if there is a depression. Its amusing to me to hear materialistic consumers talk about how all of this helps them focus on the things that matter, like health and family and religion. Spare me! but that is the upside of all this crap, America will refucus away for rampant consumerism and hopefully discover some of the things that made our parents generation happy. Like making a big turkey soup together and eating it together. Using a snow day to teach your kids to drive in the snow safely, shoveling the snow of the old lady next door without her asking and not expecting anything in return (except some nice antiques when she dies ;)
Okay gentleman, i am off to Europe and the Middle East, I could check this site from there, but beleive it or not I have better things to do. See you in few weeks.
IQ, George it’s ironic that you would bring up a measure of intelligence that doesn’t include any aspect of being a social being. If you want to have a pissing contest why don’t you just come out and say so. I hope…… (another irony) that you can get some “turkey” soup while you are over there. Have a good time . And when people start throwing shoes at your head don’t forget to duck.
BTW George thanks for using spell check. i finally understood one of your posts.
Ed, if my plane goes down or I’m taken hostage by a crazy Islamic fundamentalist group when I’m in Dubai, and it becomes known to everyone who i really am, (and Larry will be quite surprised) will you pray for me?
George, I’m praying for you already….
Although I am not real sure what I’m praying for. Maybe I’m praying that you realize that speaking so forthrightly is a not healthy, for children and other living things……..
Thank you Ed. Hopefully this storm doesn’t delay my flight, see you in a few weeks.
George don’t take a layover in Korea. They don’t fly on Sundays. On second thought………. have a good time in Seoul
Timmy and George come home. Mrs Kaighn baked you some potatos kugels for you.
Ed #82 and on was not me. Larry, who is that cheap Jew internet broadcaster cant figure out a way to keep real people on here with real identies that sign on and we know who they are. larry when are you gong to do that? I’ m stuck here at JFK with a bunch weird homosexuals looking at me typing on my computer theres a big storm, its crazy this so called cultural divrsity, the action in the bathroom stalls is crazy!
See if Larry Craig or Leo are in the stall next to you. I won’t let Timmy use airport bathroom stalls.
When I said this blog had gone to the dogs, I was mistaken. It appears that it has been reduced to Ed and George trying desperately to keep it alive. ABANDON SHIP! This ship is taking water.
BTW, George have a safe and restful trip. You will be missed. Don’t worry though, you won’t miss anything here. If you want to comment on Larry’s next blog, here it is:
“Ed Rendell, punished by Obama for backing Clinton in Primary? His rightful ascension to Washington post blocked by petty Obama? Josh Shapiro’s rightful place as new Governor of PA blocked as a result?”
Story at 11…
Could it be, the end of Larry’s blog as we know it. George now winging his way to the Mid East, Leo still outside shoveling his sidewalk (or maybe a little old lady’s sidewalk)and OOOJ waiting for someone to post a message before he ever responds again, and YAP I know you are out there somewhere… Did I miss any one? Ah yes the sock puppets. Not even a muffled yelp from even one of them. If I missed anyone I’m sorry…..Oh…. what am I thinking about, Larry……where the hell is that guy?
Rahm Emanuel is a piece of garbage. There is no wonder that I couldn’t bring myself to vote for Obama. Like Leo, he wants to use Limbaugh as a Republican leader. Limbaugh is a CONSERVATIVE not a Republican. I may agree with some things that Limbaugh says but I am not as extreme as he is on many issues. I need the government I want the government. It’s just that I think our government is not the cure all for all for that ails us. I want a trust busting overseer, I need penalties for businesses that ship jobs overseas, health care is beyond being a monthly expense, illegal immigration is a major problem, inner city crime and family values is a shame. The Democrats have no answers to these realities. They just want to throw dollars at it and pick your pockets while doing so.
Larry, the GOP invited Limbaugh to speak because he’s a CONSERVATIVE, not a REPUBLICAN. Fact of the matter is that they’re all CONSERVATIVES, not REPUBLICANS. The fiscal conservative social liberal (aka the SMALL GOVERNMENT REPUBLICAN) has ceased to exist. However, I understand that some children in educated households still believe in the SMALL GOVERNMENT REPUBLICAN, even though the smarmy jolly fat guy with the cloudy-eyed followers is a CONSERVATIVE.
I can has FREE AIR?
Larry, the Dems encouraged Franken to run because he’s a DEMOCRAT, not an UBER LIBERAL. Fact of the matter is that they’re LIBERALS, not DEMOCRATS. The moderate, semi-fiscal responsible social liberal (aka MODERATES) has ceased to exist. However, I understand that some children in educated households are allowed to watch FOX News for a more balanced opinion, even though the swarmy, election fraud leading, never funny, former comedian is a DEMOCRAT.
Can you do the correct LIBERAL thing and send Comrade Leo a coupon for FREE AIR? and
Comrade Obamakov seems to have problems selecting people who have paid their taxes.Ron Kirk now has to pay some $10,000 in back taxes,is he the third or fourth one with tax issues ?
……….ODE TO A DYING BLOG…………
Writers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Down, down, down, into the darkness of the grave
Gently it goes, the beautiful, the tender, the kind
Quietly it goes the intelligent, the witty, the brave
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned…….
YFAP, maybe that’s Obama’s plan for reducing the deficit. If he nominates enough people who aren’t paying their taxes, they collect enough back taxes to reduce the deficit. Ingenious!
Ed, be careful or you will reveal your kinder, gentler, feminine side with poetry. Wouldn’t George have a field day with that if he wasn’t choking his camel in Dubai?
Democrats don’t actually have to pay taxes. They just raise our taxes.
Yo! Larry! how’bout throwing us another bone (sorry Lassie). You’ve been MIA too long. That faint whimper you hear is the sound of mournful fans waiting for your return. Your blog is like one of those Saturday Matinee serials. Every time you post a column you keep us on the edge of our seats wanting more. (Larry I’ll even let you use that endorsement on the book jacket of your latest “novel”).
Larry and I are actually neighbors. Well sort of. He’s in Boca and I’m in WPB. We actually eat at the same restaurants. Difference is that Larry gets there before 5PM for the Early Bird Specials.
Larry’s blog is very much like the drive-by media that I rant about everyday. They wander aimlessly around for days looking for a topic. Then they randomly find a topic of interest and write about that. They arrive with a preconceived notion. They don’t take time to do any real investigation. They don’t take a position or a stand. They return to wandering aimlessly.
Rush, Actually Larry and myself have a little condo at Del Boca Vista Phase Three. We are trying to sell it. But at the moment no takers.
You though Mr Money Bags, I though you could do better than WPB. I thought you were rubbing elbows with the likes of Bernie Madoff and Ted Kennedy in PB. If you’d like my Larry and I will be at Applebee’s around 4ish. Join us. Their early bird specials are to die for.
Mrs Kaighn or whoever you are, you are an imposter. I am Larry’s wife of 43 years. I am his inspiration for this website. I wash his dirty underwear. And I slept with three of the Beetles while Larry was interviewing the 4th.
I see Comrade Obamakov is cozying up to Comrade Putin in hopes the Iranians will drop their nuclear program.Can you spell naivete ?
Larry, have you seen that RNC Chair Steele has been chastised and forced to apologize to de facto head of the GOP, Rush Limbaugh? Apparently, Rush doesn’t like being told that his comments are ugly and counterproductive. Sorry, Mr. Steele, but you work for the gasbag CONSERVATIVE, not the REPUBLICANS. LOL.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/rnc-chairman-apologizes-to-limbaugh-in-flap-over-his-role/
101 Rush — Funny that the vast majority of people making more than $250,000 voted for Obama, who was proposing to raise their taxes. Could it be that not everyone with money wants more tax breaks at the expense of the country generally? Funny, but you’re in the minority on that one.
Also, to borrow from the GOP warchest of the Bush era, how dare you criticize the president in a time of war and economic crisis? You are giving aid and comfort to our enemies, sir. If GITMO weren’t closing, I’m sure you’d belong there as an enemy of the state.
You sir are a small minded individual brainwashed by the drive-by media, the ACLU and the most recent messiah Barrack Hussein Obama. There is no hope for you or your kind. If you are counting the Hollywood idiots and all the Democrats who make their money off the dole and clearly don’t see a need to pay taxes, then you may be right.
Also, they wouldn’t let you have your Viagra or any of those Dominican boys in GITMO. Just saying.
Hypocritical drug addict.
Larry, I didn’t see you at Reading Terminal Market. Are you going to support the FREE AIR ARMY or not?
Wow,talk about fixation,six posts in two hours & ten minutes about one person.Isolate,demonize,focus on the individual,I seem to have heard that before.
Sir are you refering to Barrack Hussein Obama? Although I hear that he never inhaled.
YBP, Michael Steele? The REPUBLICAN Party? I laugh at your inability to count, but find the application of your observations about fixation to the posts about Obama humorous. It’s never what people actually say but what you wanted them to say. It amuses me almost as much as I amuse myself.
Leo-That’s truly indecipherable.In your attempt to impress you merely left the reservation,much less in control than the boy genius persona you love to project.
You sir are not amusing to the great unwashed masses. You are annoying. A mindless twit brainwashed by the great liberal minds of your youth. Walking hand and hand with the braintrust of Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd and Nancy Pelosi. God be with you sir unless of course you are agnostic.
It is somehow disconcerting to know that you are sitting alone in your den amusing yourself.
Screw you Rush. I;m the new leader of the Republicans because I’m a woman but I’ve got a strap on if that does anything for you. How dare you get an apology when I am the one who deserves the attention and Ann COulter is second. Mister king of all media.
Michelle it’s clear you’ve never been a secretary. Your keyboarding skills rival Joe Biden’s oratory ineptness. I’ve got brainpower packed away in my mind than you have bootage packed away in your designer jeans. Do not mess with El Rushbo you Ann Coulter wantabe.
I got cancer in my breasts and now they will end up looking like McCain’s cheek.
Sonny Lee give Michelle moustache ride anytime. No ride ride for Rush. He fat ass.
Sonny you old son of a gun. Conservative women are hotter than any Liberal Left Wing nut jobs. Left wing women are mean nasty and belligerent ovarian deprived misanthropes. They have ridden so many radical type hip joints that they forgot what getting off is all about. All they care about now is their mission in life.
Their mission to castigate every Republican. Or should I say castrate every Republican?
Castrating Republican dicks is a what the Left calls a jont venture…..
The real dicks of the world like Leo “amuse” themselves at their own leisure. Translated that means Leo spends most of his time pulling his pud.
Sonny Lee pull his cart. Is that same thing Rush?
I’m amused by all the attention. Thanks for tugging, Rush. You’re the best, so fat and creamy.
HELD HOSTAGE – DAY 8
Larry, I’m begging you to change this blog topic. The conversation has spun out of control. Uber Liberals and Conservatives tugging on each other. Intervene!
Leo 127, have you been drinking with Jack Russell?
Rush I’m getting extra painkillers and I does my best for my clients, do you want to get some? I can’t get those boys you like but stop by the library for a good time sailor. We ain’t had no republicans for sho.
Forget the boys but I’m in. Got anyone in an American flag getup? Can I bring Vitter?
w00t! I’ll be there with the Crisco.
Because Larry didn’t rise to support the FREE AIR ARMY, which would have done a lot to clean up SEPTA, jack russell did what all good buddhist monks would do. He threw himself under a train.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/from_the_source/Apparent_suicide_disrupts_Broad_Street_Line.html
Rest well under there, jack. You gave your life for the cause.