Shame On Pa. Legislators -Death Rides The Highways
It sticks to you. It just won’t go away, that disgusting feeling, that sense of hopelessness that people who are elected to protect and to serve are so full of baloney they might wind up hip deep in their own political waste.
What sticks to you is Daniel Rubin’s column in the Philadelphia Inquirer, spotlighting one of many people whose lives have been shattered by accidents, fatal and otherwise, that have been caused by people using hand-held cell phones. Rubin’s column did what a great columnist should do. It made me mad and mindful.
The fact is that Pa. State Representative Josh Shapiro’s bill to ban held hand cell phones while drivinng was defeated by some lying members of the Pa. House, liars because they promised t0 vote for it and then reneged, as Rubin so eloquently pointed out. To those who voted for the legislation, thank you. To those who voted against it, just remember as you go about your day that even more death may ride the highways because of your failure at common sense prevention.
To those of you who use hand held cell phones while driving, just think of how one single moment can change your life forever.
Jersey Vision – Can It Happen In Your Town ?
The recent corruption crackdown in New Jersey has startled even the most experienced observer, but it came as no surprise to this observer and my band of friendly journalists. First of all, government is all about money, contracts for everything from paving to parking. The smaller the community, the easier the pickings. Who to watch for: anyone with control over zoning. Zoning is a powerful tool. The majority of zoning board members, zoning professionals and small town mayors and commissioners are honest, but keep this in mind. ANYTIME A COMMUNITY SUPPORTS ZONING THAT IS CONTRARY TO PUBLIC SAFETY, ANYTIME ZONING CREATES CONGESTION AND IS UNFAIR TO BUSINESS COMPETITION, IT MIGHT BE WISE TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK. A MUCH CLOSER LOOK.
READ ALL ABOUT, IF YOU CAN?
Sunday, August 2nd VOICE OF REASON, at 9:30 on Comcast Network is a show that highlights the failure of Philadelphia to take care of the future by educating its citizens. This program is about the 550 thousand people who are not literate enough to compete in the modern workplace. It’s about the 200 thousand who do not have a high school diploma. Frankly, its the story about the failure of Philadelphia’s educational system from generation to generation. And you wonder why the jobless rate is so high in Philadelphia?
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Josh Shapiro had a big cell phone bill prosposed and the other legislators were dirty rotten liars, and so Daniel Rubin wrote about it, and Larry read his article and became mader than hell and doesn’t want to take it anymore. He is in love with Shapiro and can’t stand to see Josh have any type of setback.
Perhaps Shapiro is an inexperienced politican that doesnt have the respect and gravitas to get an important bill passed, maybe the other PA legislators think he’s a weak pantywaist who just runs his mouth and does not deserve any help. It’s more effective to hang a guy like Josh out to dry, and thats exactly what they did, he’s all shrivelled up now. And Rubin is a lover of Shapiro and writes about him in such a powerful way that Larry wants to send him a big Valentine, hoping Rubin will return the favor.
Gentleman the three stooges of politcs, journalismm, and cable television have spoken on the dangers of cell phones while driving- take heed- and phone a friend from the road while driving at high speed, and thank God these stooges are not interfearing with your freedom-yet.
For gods sake get a spell checker. Even my ten year old was appalled. That goes for the captain too.
THE TIME TO HESITATE IS THROUGH
NO TIME TO WALLOW IN THE MIRE
JOSH SHAPIRO SET HIMSELF ON FIRE!!!!!!!!
COME ON BABY LIGHT MY FIRE!!!!!!!!
BY THE WAY, JOSH SHAPIRO’S BILL WAS A POS!!!!!!
NUMEROUS STUDIES SHOW HANDSFREE CELLPHONES CAUSE PEOPLE TO DRIVE JUST AS BADLY AS HANDHELD ONES. WORSE THAN WHEN THEY’RE DRUNK!!!!! HIS BILL WOULD NOT BAN ALL PHONES!!!!!!!! THAT IS HALF ASSED MEANINGLESS FEELGOOD LEGISLATION!!!!!!!!! AND HE COULDN’T EVEN GET IT PASSED!!!!!!!! HAAAAAAA!!!!!!
JOSH TOOK A MASK FROM THE ANCIENT HALLWAY!!!!!
The NJ corruption problem was not about small town zoning matters. It was about money laundering and Rabbis selling body parts. Apparently he doesn’t follow the facts of the story or chooses to mislead readers about the type of corrution that has really occured and who was involved. Civivl servants were only a small part of the story, and zoning????
This blog is getting crazy. Larry, how many mistakes can you make in one post? How many different typefaces can you use?
This legislative failure of Shapiro’s doesn’t bode well for our efforts to pass FREE AIR legislation. Of course, Jim Morrison is right about Shapiro’s bill being halfassed. It doesn’t matter whether a cell phone is hand held or handsfree. Studies have shown that both kinds similarly impair drivers. If Shapiro’s bill wasn’t going to bar all handsfree phone use as well, then the legislation would fail in its putative primary purpose of making pedestrians and other drivers safer.
The bill didn’t fail because people lied to Shapiro, Larry. It failed because people voted against it. Perhaps they saw the deep flaws in it. Perhaps they wanted to keep Shapiro from claiming credit for a piece of legislation that might look good on the surface. Whatever their reasons, that’s the representative democratic process in action. The only vote that matters is the vote for the record. Shapiro doesn’t seem to be quite the golden boy some had built him up to be. Based on this result, he’s more like the golden shower boy.
This excerpt from an article written by a motorcyclists’ group shows why Shapiro should be strung up for attempting to misinform the public about the dangers of cell phone use while driving. The handsfree models are equally as bad, but he suggests to people that they are totally safe.
Here’s a link to that article. Maybe golden boy Shapiro will read it before he attempts to reintroduce his publicly irresponsible and dangerous bill.
http://www.motorcyclists-against-dumb-drivers.com/cell-phones-and-dui-drunk-driving.html
Kudos to Leo for seeing through the smoke screen of Shapiro’s flawed proposal. Leo also helps to underscore how little Larry thinks an issue through before writing about it. Larry is clearly just running to the defense of his buddy Shapiro. Now of course poor Josh will come here to read Larry’s couragous defense, only to find a bunch of numnuts who hang out in his blog exposing how ridiculouly flawed Shapiro’s legislation really was. Josh, it looks like your buddy Larry has done more harm than good for you on this one. Maybe Larry is really on the side of those double crossing PA legislators, otherwise why would he do this to you Josh? Josh we hardly knew ye!
When you have a ponytail and listen to as much NPR as I do, Captain, you start to realize how half-baked, lazy, and sloppy most mainstream media reporting is these days. Shapiro should be ashamed of playing a political game with people’s health, which is effectively what he did by introducing a bill that would have no effect and lull people into a false sense of security. That’s tragically bad representation of the people by someone with his own political career agenda.
OEL SET HIS BALLS ON FIRE!!!!!!
SHAPRIO SET HIS BALLS ON FIRE!!!!!!
COME ON BABY CALL MY CELL PHONE FROM THE CAR THE WAY ALYCIA LANE CALLED ED RENDELL!!!!!!
ALYCIA SET ED’S BALLS ON FIRE!!!!!!!
I’m very confused by this blog. Why are we even speaking about a State Rep from PA? I’m the first VP from Scranton. I should be the story here. I’m the local interest not Larry’s wonderboy.
Jim you confuse me as well. You speak in verse and rhymes that allude my grasp. I can’t keep up with your cutting edge humor.
Captain you’ve gone from Larry’s closest supporter to one of his toughest critics. Only that madman OOOJ is tougher on Larry on a regular basis. Did you have a falling out with Lar?
On my way to DC.
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I may be an elitest cheese and Chardonney guy but the prof and cop were definitely not White House visitor types. They were blue small minded blue collar types that just don’t get my message. At least that episode is behind me. I can now resume the task of resurrecting the nation.
In honor of my soul mate Josh Shapiro. Hang tough big guy!
When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up… To more than I can be.
I just came here to ask if anyone has a Xanax or thirty I could borrow.
I was happy to see that Dan Rubin’s car did not qualify for clunker cash.
But he could not help but take a back handed swipe at American cars
After driving one for 18 years. Nothing ever satifies cheap liberals
like he and Larry. He also had to point out that he donated his near worthless
Vehicle to Habbitat for Humanity, to underscore that he was both generous and
Virtuous. Let’s see, the scrap value of that vehile might be $100,I wonder
How much of a deduction he will try to take, and how much
Value Habbitat gains,after the cost of towing his car to scrap yard.
These liberals never cease to amaze with their inante arrogance, they even
Write about it in the newspaper and presume nobody will notice or challenge
them. Captain, three Stooges doesn’t even begin to describe Rubin, Kane, and
Shapiro.
see i haven’t missed much.oh for the old,pre obama, days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w4f04zrF2s
For those that don’t know about history … Here is a condensed version:
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.
The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1 . Liberals, and
2. Conservatives.
Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That’s how villages were formed.
Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement..
Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q’s and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.
Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. Those became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.
Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.
Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn’t fair to make the pitcher also bat.
Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud or Miller. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, engineers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.
Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.
Here ends today’s lesson in world history:
It shoul d be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.
A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to tick them off.
And there you have it.
Let your next action reveal your true self .
This is for you Jim Morrison (and Josh Shapiro)
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house were born
Into this world were thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm
Aw, but the producers don’t produce anything either. They just claim to own the means of production and use laws to maintain that fiction. They like exploiting others to do all the actual production and running of everything while they sit around like Babs and me, stoned out of our gourds on Xanax and Oxycontin. I learned all that when I was working in the school library.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqfuZ7hiap0
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Just call me Deep Throat.
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Laura sorry to hear your time in DC was such a drag. Perhaps if you weren’t in constant contact with Anti-Americans like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid your experience may have been more favorable.
It was more fun with Georgie when we were snorting coke from each others bodies and drinking manhattans and martinis all day. D.C. changed all that. Sitting around bombed on Xanax just isn’t the same. Georgies Ritalin didn’t even get him off. I hate D.C.
LAURA THREW SOME HOT PARTIES BACK IN THE DAY!!!!!!!!
LOVE ME TWO TIMES LAURA ONCE FOR TOMORROW AND ONCE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DIED WHEN YOU RAN THEM OVER!!!!!!!!!
Writers on the storm
Writers on the storm
Jim Morrison’s a bore
Listening to him is a chore
Writers on the storm
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg4-2009aug04,0,1683308.column
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Cell phones don’t kill people. People kill people.
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I discuss missile raunches, stimulus package and happy endings with Srick Wirrie today. He give me rots of ideas to hit on women at disco. He smooth operator. I get El Camino with astroturf rike him.
Jim stop signs are tricky things. So I ran one and killed a guy. Big deal. They didn’t charge me with anything not even running the stop sign. I went on to become the first lady as befits a special woman of my elite status.
I did not even have a cell phone back then. You should see me drive now.
Joe, you sound more and more like a Republican every day. I myself wonder what the hell the government is trying to do with the clunker car policy. The idiots that are behind this massive government spending debacle are as inept as those proposing a ban on cell phones in cars. As far as I know the people that could afford gas guzzling SUVs are able to purchase a new car without a government incentive. Those of us who couldn’t afford the latest Tahoe or Yukon have been driving fuel efficient cars for years. Where is my $4500 dollar rebate? My car is now a POS but since it’s fuel economy is rated above 18 mpg I don’t qualify for one red cent in government bailout money. Yet Mrs Soccer Mom living in a gated community, driving around in her Chevy Suburban gets the $4500 incentive to go out a buy a new car. Who is footing the bill for the $4500 rebate? Why am I still driving around in a 12 year old clunker? Where is the justice?
Raura boinking Jim?
Ed it’s all about a feel good ‘solution’ and a failed policy. It gives the President tangible ‘evidence’ that his stimulus is ‘working’. Car sales are up. The problem is that the concept and policy are flawed thus the stated intent of the plan is not really working unless the goal is to have everyone driving a Prius.
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Why are we looking to NJ for guidance on ANYTHING Larry? If they didn’t have 100 miles of pristine beach, they’d be completely bankrupt.
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I take Srick Wirrie to karate dojo for good workout. No happy ending at dojo. I take him to house of brues afterwards for sax.
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersComService4/idUSTRE57368E20090804
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Kim Raura bonking everyone. Get in line you handsome dictator you.
Joe Ford Chrysler and GM all had much better sales because of the CAR program. I find you and your pres quite stimulating. Stimulate away baby. Mama wants.
I drive American. I buy American. I am the first VP from Sranton.
Biden/Rendell 2012
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Raura you too hot for 60 something Ribrian. You been riding cowboy too rong. You need change of scenery. You fry over here and I show you my missile base.
Check out the gun show!
http://jalopnik.com/5242770/the-onion-shirtless-biden-washes-trans-am-in-white-house-driveway
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hello larry-how about a few kind words for bill clinton and hillary clinton,and you wonder why i was a diehard clinton fan……..
jack russell you Crinton tottie. Srick Wirrie is a srimeball. He make me rook rike boy scout. You deranged and have eyes half closed with Crintons. Put your spandex on and ride your bicycle.
You cum to Korea. You can drive car and use cellphone too. Always happy ending.
Cellphones don’t kill people. People kill people.
Cellphones don’t run over deers. People kill deers.
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Did you know that The Deer Hunter was filmed in Scranton? Did you know I’m the first VP from Scranton?
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Yo genious, The Deer Hunter was filmed outside of Pittsburgh, not Scranton. Your thinking of The Office, genious. Maybe you and Michael Scott can exchange roles. Both would be upgrades.
Larry….. “The Kane File”? What is up with all the different fonts and colors on your blog? Are you trying to put lipstick on a pig? No matter how hard you try the end result is weak and the discourse that follows usually heads in another direction. People don’t want to hear about Josh Shapiro or his proposed bills. And the Jersey Political scene was absolutely not about zoning issues. It was about graft and money laundering. Get on the ball Larry or we will tear you a new a-hole. BTW have you turned in your clunker yet? $4500 is nothing to sneeze at. I’m sure you have a clunker or two in your driveway right now. Go ahead Larry you can use a break from the government’s taxing of those making more than $250,000 per year.
Ed you are a sap. But I want to thank you for the clunker money.
I am delighted with my new car, they were basically giving them away,
Plus the clunker money! It feels great to have been rewarded for
Having been irresponsible owning a Chevy Suburban with all the candy, but
That’s how Lord Abott rolls!
Waiting on the 7:01. That’s how the first VP from Scranton rolls.
Lord Abott I didn’t see you as a Suburban kind of guy. Escalade perhaps. Hummer maybe. How many princes and princesses in the Lord’s family? You don’t speak like someone from 8 is Enough.
Larry use to drive a gas gusler. Back in the day he drove big Plymouths. Then Mercedes. Now Toyotas (can he get a clunker rebate trading his Corolla in for a Prius?). He is a chamelion. He changes with the tide. Everything but his blog topics. They sit there for days and smell like the shells on the beach at Atlantic City.
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Joe, the Suburban was used to pull my horse trailer,
Bought it before there ever was an Escalade or Hummer.
Those vehicles would have been to ostentatous
For lord abott anyway.
You sir, suffer from hoof in mouth disease, how
do you do it? You never cease to amaze with those
Crazy comments, seems lile they maybe drilled
Too deep with a couple of those hair plugs.
Lord meet me at the Purple Parrott for a few drinks some Saturday night and we can work it out.
The TV industry is reviving the Samford and Son Show This Season. Fred has turned in his clunker for a new Chevy Silverado and LaMont is attending Yale on a special scholarship after working as a community organizer in Watts. Elizabeth, Fred’s former wife is still dead but with new advances in stem cell research she just might make a special appearance during the sweeps month. Instead of dealing in junk Fred has accepted government stimulus money to research what to do with all of the clunkers which have been turned in for new more fuel efficient autos. It’s a big task but Fred has the experience and expertise to get the job done. In the first hilarious episode Fred starts a gigantic tire fire off the East LA Freeway.
Fred, although you are a man of colour and inspired by the economic stimulus program, I must protest the senseless burning of perfectly good tires. They could be burned in trashcans in Watts on cool evenings to keep bros warm.
Call me burning tire because I like to keep bros warm too.
Fred you should recycle those tires and strip the useful parts off the cars before crushing them and selling them as scrap metal. Even a privileged hard partying vehicular homicide girl like me knows that you can make several hundred dollars off a wreck baby. Feeling cold hon?
Larry, I went to PeP Boys after learning my car didn’t qualify for clunker status and decided to get some tires and have the air conditioner looked at. Pep Boys was running a buy three and get one free sale on tires. It sounded good to me and I went for it. The signs were all over the store buy 3 get one free. Well that was last month’s sale and besides that they didn’t have the tires I wanted. The guy “upgraded” my tire purchase and gave me white walls to boot. (Larry, I must be the last white man who has white wall tires on his car). When it came to the air conditioner they told me I needed a complete overhaul plus a new compressor. The “mechanic” even showed me how the compressor wasn’t working. Little did he know that I just had the compressor replaced. They wanted an extra $750 dollars to fix it. Long story short I took the car back to the shop that fixed the air in the first place and all I had was a leak in the line which he fixed for practically nothing. Moral of the story….. Make sure your 12 year old car is a clunker that can traded in for $4500 dollars, or don’t shop at Pep Boys……….
LAURA BABY LOVE ME TWO TIMES BABY
ONCE FOR TOMORROW AND ONCE TO KEEP A BRO WARM
LOVE ME TWO TIMES
I’M GOING AWAY
White walls, haven’t heard that term in a long time.
Next time try; Tirerack.com and have the tires mailed to your
house, then take to Walmart for installation.
Sounds crazy, but huge savings, also many useful
Reviews from consumers about how tires performed, good to
know before you buy. Its sick the way pepboys and
other places are will to steal from consumers, you drop
Your guard with nice tire deal, then they jam a tire
Iron in your rectum to make back the money.
That’s how Manny, Moe, and Jack roll. They are
Even worse than Larry, Josh and david
MANNY MOE AND JACK TOOK A MASK FROM THE ANCIENT HALLWAY!!!!!!!
THIS IS THE END WHERE THE FREE MARKET LETS MANNY MOE AND JACK RAPE CONSUMERS!!!!!!!!!!
COME ON LAURA LIGHT MY TIRE FIRE!!!!!!!!!
Ed, don’t you think that FREE AIR would solve the problem you have with the Pep Boys? What if, instead of being fleeced, you went in and they offered you FREE AIR for your tires? And you didn’t have to buy anything else? Wouldn’t that be just a little piece of heaven right here on earth?
Relaxing on the 7:01.
If the world were only as simple as free air at Pep Boys. We big boys have big boy problems.
We trade plutonium to Kim Jong II for a couple of Al Gore’s bimbos that sneak across the border. We send Bill Clinton as an Emmisary because he’s been begging for a high profile, low risk mission a la Jimmy Carter. He can’t stand to be in Hillary’s shadow.
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Larry how hard would it be to have your webmeister change the time to daylight savings? I’m sure that is included in your $35 monthly website hosting fee. You should get everything coming to you.
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Joe come to the bathroom in the quiet car. Mama wants to run her fingers through your hair among other places. Rowwwwrrr.
Joe they wanted to send my father in law but the risks he would vomit on Kim were too high. We don’t need pappy Bush starting WWIII with a preemptive barf strike. I know the danger because I puke sometimes when Babs and I are chugging Xanax. See you in the bathroom Joe.
Laura I’m a happily married man. My wife Jill is 15 years my junior. She’s a dried up shrew like you but she will still do the fossil. I don’t think sex on Amtrak is a good idea. You need to be buckled up for the crash that is imminent. Besides bathrooms on the train are small, messy and cluttered. ?The first VP from Scranton needs manuevering room to get his groove on.
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In the second episode of Sanford and Son Professor Gates visits Fred to discuss race relations. Fred forgets his key and the two have to force their way into his house. Aunt Ester, from across the street sees a man hanging out of a window at Fred’s and calls 911. When the police arrive the Professor and Fred are inside having a malt 45. The white cop asks Fred for some ID and Professor Gates tells Fred it’s unconstitutional. This racist white POliceman has no right to barge into a man’s home and demand an ID. Fred starts getting upset and tells Elizabeth he’s coming to join her. Aunt Ester comes in and for some comic relief Fred says “I thought all of the Gorillas left town with the Circus.”
In the next scene Fred, Professor Gates, the white Cop and Obama are all sitting around a table in the White House garden. Fred asks Obama “how did you get the butler’s job at the White House?”
I hear that the President served Colt45 to Gates and Crowley.
Laura – JW Marriott – Room 666 – 2PM
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Mr. Foxx your setting back race relations with yoru posts. You should have some schnitzengrubens with Laura Bush.
Cleavon, this website has set back mankind 40 years.
Spaceballs.
Frankensteen.
redd foxx-good stuff-break out the ripple..
Joe Sestak is a real man who served his country with
honor. Arlen Spector is a political turncoat who has already
turned dirty aginst Sestak. Spector is going to be destroyed politically
and then the cancer will reassert itself and that will be
the end of Snarlin Arlin-good ridence!
Lord abott……. is it possible for you to remember the good things Arlyn has brought to the Commonwealth of PA? Just ask Larry. He will fill you in on all of the good things Mr. Specter has done for us. Go ahead Larry tell him all of the wonderful things Specter has done for us……. Larry? ……… C’mon Larry this is right up your alley. Tell Mr abott why we should vote for Specter over Sestak. Or have you second thoughts on the man who jumped ship to save his own hinney. A man so political that the shear thought of losing has driven him to change political parties. This moron who wanted to investigate the Patriots and undo the Super Bowl results. Larry now is your chance to set the record straight.
Arlen didn’t leave the Republican party; the Republican party left Arlen (and Reagan for that matter). The Senator from Ohio is right. The Southern nincompoops are ruining the GOP alongside Dobbs, Limbaugh, et al.
John Hughes has died suddenly. Larry please tell us how you and your family enjoyed his 1980s teen angst movies. Also share your personal relationship with Hughes and some of the interviews and chance encounters you had with him. We are really anxious to read your tribute to this great director. Say stuff like he was one of a kind, and no one could capture an entire generation the way he did, your insights are so keen and spot on when you reflect upon the death of celebrities, its really your core competency. Well, you are also good at shilling for Shapiro, Spector, Rendell and Fumo, but thats a whole other blog topic, is it not?
Hey Crunch! I am in charge of obituaries on this site, not you. You sound like your being sarcasstic, I hope not. Death is serious and this site has become an obituary site, and it won’t be long before this site dies, and then where will you losers go? Be nice to Larry so he lets us come here and mourn the late great celebrities of our time.
I forgot to mention Frank McCourt, the over rated self hating Irish Catholic writer who told a lot of tall tales to get attention. The cancer finally got him, he died a long slow death that was far worse than those damp dank Limmerick winters. He was hungry and shivering in death as God made him pay his final pennace for the terrible lies he told about his family and the good people in the Catholic church who helped his pathetic sickly body become strong enough to emigrate to America and cash in. He was a lazy union public school teacher who didn’t give a damn and milked the system. Where are the students he supposedly “taught”? They are silent because nobody remembers or cares about him. Even Larry didnt mention him!
Good morning Philadelphia! I’ve been away sulking for better than 3 weeks. Sent packing by blog critic and puppetmaster Ed. Told I was boring and no longer relevant. After perusing the blogs on this site for the past several days I think this site needs me more than I need to contribute. Where have all the storytellers gone? We’re left with a bunch of Shecky Greene wannabes that can’t spell, write or put a cogent thought to print. Very sad. Very sad indeed. Well at the risk of making Ed throw up in his mouth I have a tale to tell. And Ed is a very busy man puppeting multiple characters these days. No disrespect Ed we know you are doing it for the team. Anyway…
The lovely Ethel and I were in Atlantic City last weekend celebrating our 45th anniversary. I know you are saying why on the weekend Lar it is much more expensive on weekends. Well it was a difference of $200 a night at the Atlantic City Hilton ($321 weekend vs $121 weekday). Oh brother! Needless to say it was Ethel who had to be there on our anniversary day. I’d forego that technicality for $200. Did you know that the AC Hilton is not even affiliated with the hotel chain? They just bought the name. Unbelievable. Anyway. Ethel has the whole weekend planned out. Did I mention that it took 2.5 hours to get down there on the AC Expressway? Not bad enought they charge you a toll. Bumper to bumper traffic most of the way. What a racket. Anyway. We have to walk on the beach. Then back on the boardwalk. Dinner at Chelsea Prime. Surprise evening. So after walking on the beach for 26 blocks smelling the seashells washed on shore that someone else alluded to. Yikes it smelled like all of my obituaries were stacked up on the beach. Awful. Maybe I should write a blog about that? Anyway. Next time you are at AC and walking the boardwalk pay attention. There are some freaky people on the boardwalk. Too many tatoos (any # is too many; 8 or more is really bad judgement), too much loose, flabby flesh, too many bad haircut/hairdoos, too many degenerate gamblers and too many of those freakin pushcarts. The pushcart guys think they run the boardwalk. Where do they get off charging $20 to go from one end to the other. A taxi would be less (which is what I’ll take next time thank you). Enough with the beep-beeping of the pushcart guys… Did you ever wonder what The Donald was thinking when he build the Taj Majal? What chessy looking monstrocity. What was he thinking when he had the place built? Maybe I can capture the entire East Coast Indian vacation market by building a cheesy replica namesake of the Taj. Not likely Donald. It’s no wonder you are always in debt. You are a dope. A dope with a lot of credit but a dope none-the-less… I digress. We stopped by Chelsea Prime at the Chelsea Hotel on our walk back. Very nice. Looking forward to a nice NY Strip. We went up to the Chelsea pool. What a bunch of freakin yuppies. Yikes. Oh brother. Back to the “Hilton” to shower, shave and get changed. Back to Chelsea Prime. Awesome steak. Ethel has me on a salad and only a handful of meat diet regimine. It sucks. Nice to get out and taste meat again. Baked potato. Key Lime pie. Very nice. While Ethel was babbling on about 45 years of marital bliss I’m thinking how much Atlantic City sucks. How we could have stayed at Borgata for $75 more and missed the whole retail boardwalk experience. Anyway. After dinner Ethel instructs me to get into a pushcart. We are whisked down the boardwalk back to the Resorts. I must confess my distain for the pushcarts changed dramatically when I was a passenger instead of a walker. Everyone was looking in the cart to see who was in it. I’m sure they were all saying to themselves “Hey that looks like Channel 6′s Larry Kane!” I thoroughly enjoyed the ride. Ethel sprung for the $20. Sure, it all comes from my account anyway. Thank you CN8. Anyway. She takes me to this club in the Resorts called Boogie Nights. A dance club playing all music from the 70′s. Oh brother. Can I tell you some stories. I probably have already worn out my welcome here. Until later. Until then Ed you are the captain of this blog. Steer it carefully. You know my namesake is “left full rudder”. You need to provide some balance here.
Wow Larry perhaps you should have gone to Rehoboth with me. You want to see freaks? Accompany me to the Purple Parrott.
For those of you against the Healthcare steamroller please read below and make your feelings known. If you want bad healthcare go to Canada!
http://www.mrcaction.org/538/petition.asp?PID=21894561&NID=1
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45 wonderful years and my Larry never strayed once, oh maybe once but it was with a John Lennon look alike. He could never get enough of the Beatles. Now that my Larry is back blogging maybe I can wean him off the adult depends. He’s been having a few accidents lately and I’m never too sure when or where they will happen. I got him the Dick Cheney super absorbent brand. They use them at GITMO for detainees who have trouble adjusting to the after affects of waterboarding. It seems that just the sight of water makes them pee their pajamas. And people say that waterboarding doesn’t work.
I have to mention how happy my Larry is now that Ms Sotomayor has passed the Senate vote for the Supreme Court. Of course my Larry knew all along that Ms Sotomayor would become the first Hispanic woman to serve on the court. He can’t wait until the whole world becomes a melting pot of diversity. We now have a black president and hispanic woman on the Supreme court and who knows what’s next? I feel like I’m living through one of those Hollywood PC movies. You know, all multi cultural and racially diverse characters who all get along except for the angry white man with a bomb or who has kidnapped the president’s daughter. John Malcovitch or Dennis Hopper usually play the deranged white guy. Speaking of deranged white guys, that fellow in Pittsburgh really did a number on those women at the LA Fitness Gym. The guy couldn’t get a date for 19 years and finally snapped. Sorta makes me wonder where my Larry would be now if I didn’t say yes when he proposed to me the fourth time.
Don’t even get me started about how much I hate successful white men. They are angry and abusive, all of them are like the guy in Pittsburg, they just have not acted out yet. I hope to live to see the day when minorites, gays, and lesbians run every aspect of government and the private sector.
Gloria thanks to the current President that day has arrived. God help us all.
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Poor people are complaining becasue they are not participating in cash for clunkers. They dont have enough money to buy new and they dont want cheap gas guzzlers destroyed becasue they want to drive them. Here’s a news flash, poor people should only be allowed to drive old used four cylinder cars without air conditioning (government should disable air compressors in their cars). They are the cheapest to run and when the government decides outcomes as they have begun to do, taxpayers should not subsidize their driving of innefficient cars, they have no right to them under Obamanomics, and it will be written into law. They should only be allowed to service their cars at governmnet service stations and cannont customize in anyway. Once they get off the dole then they can move up to a six or eight cylinder with air. That’s how its going to be, the government knows what’s best for them and the rest of us too.
Captain I thought you knew more about Schwinns than cars. Is your tight spandex binding and affecting blood to brain?
Poor people can ride SEPTA around the city and Amtrak outside the city. If it’s good enough for the first VP from Scranton it’s good enough for them.
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Gloria, how they hanging darling? After years of not wearing a bra you must look like Watusi Tribeswoman who’s seen one too many Wildebeest cross the Seringetti plains. Speaking of Wildebeest did you hear about the man arrested for having sex with a horse? The woman who owned the sexually promiscuous mare staked out the barn looking for the return of the horse’s somewhat confused lover. When the man, who’s sexual appetite for the four legged female variety returned the owner approached him with shotgun in hand and had him arrested. The man claimed it was his first time but in his wallet they found nude pictures of him and the horse. I guess we could call it a whorse.
Action News at noon is coming on!
Larry, why don’t you talk about Chuck Shummer? He is the father of the clunker program. You could make him one of those Democrats that you endlessly praise, except Shummer has actually done something worthwhile,versus Shapiro who is a cry baby and a nebish.
John Hughes brought me many a laugh that i didn’t even know was from him. Uncle Buck, Lampoon’s Vacation, Home Alone, among others. Too bad his life was cut short. I doubt he wanted the Stephen Speiburg accolades since he’s been in seclusion for so many years but I got to say they don’t make movies like his any more. Movies today suck. I don’t know when i saw a really good movie. Maybe Grand Torino was a pretty good flick but other than that nada not a watchable one in the bunch. This is the hight of the summer blockbuster movie season and I can’t even find one movie that is worth my money. I’d rather sit home and read a book.
The movies are terrible Ed. I was playing basketball with my friend today and we were trying to think of a movie worth seeing. I suggested Julie and Julia amd he was like are you a homo? He’s right, two middle aged men going to see that movie seems pretty gay. There’s not much out there, but those John Hughes movies you cite are by no means great movies either by any historical metric. They were coming of age, or just light entertainment flicks, but nothing from Hughes was substantive enough to stand up over time.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is a classic, Quisp, by any standard. The first Vacation was as well. Home Alone was terrific. Hughes may not have been a Hitchcock but he certainly left a genre of films for a generation. Name a better film producer in the 80′s. And, yes Quisp, your conversation was highly homosexual.
Jane Fonda, I was fonda your spacesuit in Barbarella. I fantasized about having sex with you in a gravity free spacestation while drinking Tang. How would you get traction in a gravity-free state? You probably would have prefered to do the nasty with Cosmonauts, you Commie Pinko.
When in Philadelphia, I always ride SEPTA.
I cannot name a better film producer in the 1980s by volume or light entertainment value, but he is no Fracis ford coppo;;oa or Hitcock as you point out Gene.
Thinking about seeing the Julia movie was a very gay thought I admit, but I am having trouble supressing it the more I see the promos. I have subliminally planted the idea to see the movie with my wife and am hoping she suggests the idea. Otherwise I will sneak into a darkened theater and watch it by myself, must see Julia!!!!
Ed Rendell and I are are at Home Depot this morning handling out flyers and kissing babies (we also saw a demo on ceramic tile installation). Still time to stop by and meet the next President and VP!
Biden/Rendell in 2012!
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While Barry’s away, the first VP from Scranton will play!
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Larry Kaighn, what’s the with you? I don’t get it, your supposed to be Larry Kane bitching about mundane everyday occurances? It could be funny if you were more creative and a better writter, but as written, its very laborious and unrewarding to read. Does anyone else share my sentiment or do all you enjoy his posts? Actually there’s only three people that write here, so perhaps I am just asking the other guy his opinion.
Hey Quisp, you going to see Julia, sissy boy? Don’t feel bad, I want to see it too. I don’t think there could ever be a movie that attracts more white woman. You won’t hear gun shots, babies crying, or laud talking during this film! Everyone is going to be quiet and polite and laugh at appropriate times, no one will talk back to the actors on screen. It might be worth going to to see how civilized people once enjoyed going to the movies on a Saturday night and how respectful they acted toward each other. That’s it, I’m going! Hey Quisp, I’ll go with you if your wife doesnt want to go. I bet Larry is reluctantly going with his wife, but secretly wants to see it too.
CC and Quisp you can join me here at the Purple Parrott. Sounds like you guys are down with an ‘all guys’ night. A couple of Bellinis some Barry Manilow maybe a walk on the beach after. What do you think?
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Hey Joe, Quisp and I will come down and pound a few with you. Glad to hear you like Julia too, she’s a real man’s woman. Kind of like Janet Reno but way more attractive, although Janet use to wrestle alligators while mother watched, so that’s an attrative quality in a big man-like woman.
I like a big powerful woman who tells me what to do and when to do it. Feminine woman are for feminine men, masculine woman are for masculine men.
Nancy Pelosi is calling the people who go to town hall meetings to discuss healthcare Natzis! I did not believe it, but just saw an actual video of her statement. Apparently the Democrats don’t want this open forum to continue becasue it is exposing so many flaws and problems. Democrats what to shut down open debate under the false pretense that Nazis and people sporting swastikas are showing up.
As a Democrat Nancy Pelosi really embarasses me. She is such a loose cannon she makes me look like Mr Prim and Proper. First of all thanks Nanc. Secondly Barry does not need your help with his failed healthcare program.
Parrott is rockin tonight guys! Why don’t you swing down here to Rehoboth and we’ll get down and dirty in the sand.
Joe I just got a crate of KY personal lubricant from Babs. Want to party with me?
5:11AM hmmmmm. Are you an early riser or just getting in? It must be a lot easier for a free spirit like you now that you are under the constant scrutiny of the press and Secret Service.
Where and when? I must tell you I was on a bender at the Parrott last night. I think I lost a couple of hairplugs. I’m a bit of a bloody mess.
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I am constipated, and need some suggestions. My wife packed me with suppositories last night before bed, but nothing yet. I hope I don’t have a bowel obstruction, you know people have had a death watch on me for years, but I’m not going to give them the satisfaction!
No, just 3 times more annoying.