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Congresswoman’s car still parked in congressional parking garage three years after she left office
Once upon a time, there was a Republican congresswoman from Pennsylvania named Melissa Hart. Though she technically lost her congressional seat in 2006 and is now a registered lobbyist, it seems nobody has told her car. Her very dirty Volkswagen Jetta is still parked in the Longworth House Office building parking garage, reserved for members of Congress.
I don’t know what is more remarkable – that a member of congress would just seemingly forget about the car they had parked in their former official parking garage or that the parking garage security would just allow a car to sit there for years. The license plate displayed on the car expired last year.
If I was an al qaeda dirty bomb, I’d hide in the Longworth House Office building parking garage. It’s pretty clear nobody would mess with me there.
How about those Raiders?
AP Photo/Keith Srakocic
They’ve only beat four teams this season. It’s a shame Pennsylvania doesn’t have any more teams in the NFL for the Raiders to play.
I “watched” the game yesterday on the Raiders official website while I was really watching the Saints beat the Redskins on the TV. The Raiders game was actually exciting, waiting for the browser screen to update with the down and the field position. I was so focused on the actual field position that I didn’t even notice that the Raiders had scored with less than two minutes on the clock. I showed Sheri that they now had the ball on the 2 yard line and she had to point out that they had scored.
The ball was on the two yard line for the extra point.
Journeyman quarterback Bruce Gradkowski had a phenomenal game yesterday. He went 22 for 33 for 308 yards with no picks. He also threw 3 touchdowns. His quarterback rating yesterday was 121.8. I’d be lying if I really knew how that was formulated. All I know is that anything over 100 is pretty stinking good.
I grew up a Raiders fan, but my love for the Silver and Black has faded since I’ve been living in Maryland. At least I thought it did. I felt my fandom for the team rekindle while back home on vacation this past summer. I saw all the Raiders swag in the stores and it took me back to my youth.
I guess Luke Wilson has never been to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
AT&T, in response to some Verizon ads that trash AT&T’s minuscule 3G coverage, have hired actor Luke Wilson to make commercials touting how great AT&T is. instead of actually improving their 3G coverage, they spend millions of dollars telling people that how great they are.
Isn’t that just fantastic?
I have an iPhone which means that I can only use AT&T as my provider. No matter what Luke Wilson says, I know that AT&T’s 3G coverage sucks. Without 3G, the iPhone is just a pretty iPod that you can talk to people on. When you find yourself in one of the many areas the AT&T doesn’t have 3G coverage, a lot of the apps that make the iPhone great are unusable.
When I worked in Pennsylvania, my iPhone’s 3G coverage died the minute I crossed from Maryland into Pennsylvania. Because of this fact, I had to listen to XM radio on the actual XM radio instead of the Sirius-XM iPhone app on my iPhone. This would not have been necessary if AT&T’s 3G coverage wasn’t such a big bucket of suck.
Couple arrested for refusing to tip a bad waitress
Leslie Pope and John Wagner, Pennsylvania college students, were arrested because they refused to tip a waitress they said gave them terrible service the night they went to the Lehigh Pub. From Philly.com (via The Consumerist):
“You can’t give us terrible, terrible service and expect a tip,” said Pope, a 22-year-old Moravian College senior who’s a Pottsville native, according to the Lehigh Valley Express-Times.
They had to find their own napkins and cutlery while their waitress caught a smoke, had to ask the bar for soda refills, and had to wait over an hour for salad and wings, they told NBC10.
The pub, which was very busy that night, took the $73, but then called the cops, who treated the matter as a theft.
They were busy, but not too busy to call the police and have customers arrested because they refused to “tip” their crappy waitress. Not that I know what goes on in the mind of a nicotine addicted waitress, but if she knows that she is getting a tip from any table that has at least six people no matter what type of service she provides, those are the tables that aren’t getting good service on a busy night. Why would she? She knows that no matter why type service she provides, good or bad, she is getting a 18% tip.
I can’t believe that the cops would even show up for something like this, let alone arrest both Pope and Wagner for theft. Why didn’t they arrest the entire party? They arrested not only the person that paid the bill and refused to pay the tip, but their significant other too. Technically, the other four people in the party refused to pay the tip too. Why weren’t they arrested?
Only in America
Thanks to an old Google Alert I had set up at least a year ago, I read today that my former employer, the company that laid me off nearly two months ago because they wanted to “lower the head count,” received $282,000 in job creation tax credits from the state of Pennsylvania this past December.
This company didn’t create any jobs. They did the complete opposite of that. In the name of cutting costs, they eliminated jobs. How on earth do they get a tax credit for something they clearly never did?
Even before I was laid off, the company in an attempt to save money, was forcing all employees to take one week off each quarter without pay. How can they be allowed to do this when they are receiving tax credits because they are supposedly creating jobs?
I find things like this to be extremely disappointing and more than just a little demoralizing.
Harry Reid announces that he is for the public option, but only if states can opt out
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced today that the health reform bill he will bring to the Senate floor will have a public option, but it will include the provision that individual states could opt out if they want to.
My guess is that the only reason Reid is now for the public option is because he knows what everyone else knows; that 6 in 10 Americans are in favor of the public option.
Only a few months ago Reid said he was only for the public option if it was run not by the government, but by a private entity.
As I’ve blogged before, I’m really curious to see how the whole opt out thing would work. Not that I’m so curious that I would want to see a Republican governor deny the people in his or her state the ability to have access to quality and affordable health care.
I’m not that curious.
I imagine it would be a real wedge issue during gubernatorial elections. Living here in Maryland, I am blessed with seeing political commercials from candidates not only here in Maryland, but in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Virginia too. Right now there’s a heated campaign going on in Virginia for governor. The Democrat is getting attacked because when he says he wont raise taxes, it somehow secretly means he will raise taxes. The Republican is getting attacked because he once wrote that working women were a detriment the American family and that birth control should be illegal.
Imagine the attack ads against Republican candidates for governor when voters see commercials warning them that a vote for the Republican means they will lose their public option health insurance.
Who knows, maybe that’s the point.
Gun totting soccer mom found shot dead
Pennsylvania mother Meleanie Hain drew national attention last year when she showed up at her 5-year-old daughter’s soccer game with a handgun strapped to her hip.
She’s in the news once again and unfortunately for her, it is gun related. Meleanie Hain and her husband Scott Hain were found shot to death last night in their home in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
The police are treating it as a murder-suicide.
The couple’s three children, ages 2, 6 and 10, ran from the house last night and told neighbors that their father shot their mother. Read the full article »
Michael George will stay in jail
Comic book retailer and Pittsburgh Comicon organizer Michael George will be remain in jail as he awaits his a new trial for the murder of his wife, Barbara George. From the Detroit Free Press:
Michael George, who awaits a second trial in the 1990 death of his wife after his conviction last year was set aside by a Macomb County judge, has been denied a request to have his bond lowered by the Michigan Court of Appeals.
George, 39, was convicted by a jury in March 2008 of first-degree murder. Circuit Judge James Biernat set aside the verdict six months later, saying prosecutors unfairly used George’s admitted philandering to paint him as a killer.
The appeals court is still weighing prosecutors’ requests to have the verdict reinstated. George remains in the Macomb County Jail on $2.5-million bond. His wife, 32-year-old Barbara George, was shot to death in the back of the comic book store she owned with her husband.
Michael George used to own and operate the comic book shop I shop at, Comics World located in the Chambersburgh Mall in beautiful Scotland, Pennsylvania.
McCain communications director Peter Feldman pushed Ashly Todd story to reporters
This from TPM Election Central:
John McCain’s Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established — and even told reporters outright that the “B” carved into the victim’s cheek stood for “Barack,” according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions.
John Verrilli, the news director for KDKA in Pittsburgh, told TPM Election Central that McCain’s Pennsylvania campaign communications director gave one of his reporters a detailed version of the attack that included a claim that the alleged attacker said, “You’re with the McCain campaign? I’m going to teach you a lesson.”
Verrilli also told TPM that the McCain spokesperson had claimed that the “B” stood for Barack. According to Verrilli, the spokesperson also told KDKA that Sarah Palin had called the victim of the alleged attack, who has since admitted the story was a hoax.
The KDKA reporter contacted the McCain campaign office shortly after reading about the story on Drudge Report. The reporter spoke to McCain communications director Peter Feldman who pushed the racially charged story.
Considering the racially charged aspects to this story, that an angry negro thug attacked and maimed a white women simply because she supported John McCain for President, one might think that the McCain campaign would show restraint when dealing with this story. Instead, they do the complete opposite. They do their best to fan the flames of racism and bigotry.
Racist supporter monkeys around at Palin rally
Here we see a John McCain supporter and his Curious George doll nicknamed “Little Hussein” at a Sarah Palin rally held in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. What a shock that a man owning a plush monkey doll adorned with an Obama bumper sticker on it’s head would show up in attendance at a Sarah Palin rally. What are the odds?
Towards the end of the video, I almost feel sorry for this buffoon. It’s as though he realizes what an ass he is being and wishes he had not done it. He peels the bumper stick off Little Hussein’s head and looks around seemingly for a place to stash the monkey. You can almost see the gears moving in that head of his. He then notices the small boy in front of him being held by his father and decides to give the monkey to the little boy.
If I was the dad, I would be a little pissed off. I wouldn’t want my child learning it was OK to accept plush toys from creepy male strangers, especially at a Sarah Palin rally.
Michael George denied bond
Macomb Circuit Judge James Biernat decided that comic book retailer and Pittsburgh Comic-Con organizer Michael George has to remain in Jail until his new trial. He said he thinks Michael George would be a flight risk if he were allowed to post bond. Judge Biernat recently overturned George’s conviction for the 1990 murder of his wife Barbara. A new trial has been ordered to start on December 2, 2008.
The prosecution is attempting to have the court of appeals to uphold the original conviction.
Michael George used to own the comic book shop in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It’s the shop I buy my funny books from. When I buy funny books. [WXYZ-TV Detroit]
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