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Goodbye Britty.

We had to say goodbye to our dear dog Britty today.  I went to feed her this morning and she simply couldn't stand or walk.  I adopted her from Animal Friends in August of 2001, and she was a very sweet and loving dog.  She went deaf about two years ago, was diagnosed with Lyme disease last year, and went blind several months ago, but she maintained a healthy appetite, and could still get around fairly well (despite the occasional collision with the coffee table) many times with a spring in her step like she was still a puppy. Just this September I had to chase after her when she went tearing down the hill in our backyard, cutting her off before she slammed snout first into the fence!  I always said that when her bad days outnumbered her good days, we'd say goodbye, and it was clear a few weeks ago that the threshold was met.  We hoped to keep her going just a few more weeks, so we could say goodbye when I took my vacation week in February, but it was clear that we had to part ways today.  She will be greatly missed.

HA! HA!

One of the reasons I think Republicans are convinced that Democrats are engaged in any manner of election fraud is due to themselves being neck deep in election fraud.  Case in point:

Dinesh D’Souza, a best-selling conservative author and filmmaker, was indicted on Thursday on charges that he used straw donors to illegally donate to a 2012 Senate campaign....

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said that Mr. D’Souza encouraged others to give $20,000 to a Senate candidate and reimbursed them for the donations. Election law prohibits such arrangements and caps donations at $5,000 per donor to any one candidate.

 

Today's View

Where I Live N'At

Our Post-Racial Society

Glad we've moved beyond this.

During her brief tenure as general manager of The Milk Shake Factory on South  Side, Denise Beloncis was given authority to hire subordinates -- as long as  they were "the all American girl," according to a lawsuit she filed today in  U.S. District Court.

Ms. Beloncis, 43, of Crafton Heights, signed on in August 2012 to run the  store, which is a branch of Trafford-based Edward Marc Chocolatier, according to  the complaint in U.S. District Court.

Her supervisor "told [Beloncis] she could not hire men," according to the  complaint by attorney Samuel Cordes. "Rather, Belonics was instructed to hire  'the all American girl.' The all American girl was to be blonde, blue-eyed and  college educated preferably a Duquesne University student."

Mr. Cordes said he did not know why Duquesne students were preferred.

Ms. Beloncis complained that the policy was illegal and hired an African  American woman, according to the complaint and Mr. Cordes. Ms. Beloncis was  fired in November 2012, according to the complaint.

Obviously, there are two sides to every story, but are lawyers really going to take on this kind of complaint if there isn't something more?  I've been told many times, when an attorney asks you a question, he or she already knows the answer, and has the evidence to back it.  Also, outside of western Pennsylvania, a degree from Duquesne is meh.

 

 

Corbett the Coward

Apparently our Governor is afraid of people who disagree with his agenda.

With a burst of boos and chants of "We Will Vote," more than 300 protesters  expressed outrage and disappointment after Gov. Corbett canceled an appearance  Friday with seniors at Central High School.

The governor changed his plans at the last minute, citing concerns about "any  theatrics the adults had planned."

 

Voter ID Law Struck Down

What I expected.  Frankly, ever since the 2012 election, it seems the Corbett administration has shown little interest its little voter-supression effort.

A Commonwealth Court judge on Friday ruled the Pennsylvania voter ID law  violates the state constitution by imposing an unreasonable burden on voters,  dealing the controversial requirement its most serious blow in nearly two years  of litigation.

On Talent

I have no idea why people are influenced by what "celebrities" say.  Their talant is the ability to read without stuttering while looking good.  After several takes.

Chris Christie

Has some explaining to do!

Chris Christie, the early front-runner for the 2016 Republican presidential   nomination, is facing a crisis after emails appeared to show that senior   aides conspired to inflict an extraordinary act of revenge against the town   of a local mayor who was a political foe.

The private messages detailed how advisers to the New Jersey governor brought   traffic gridlock to the town of Fort Lee after its mayor had refused to   endorse his re-election campaign last year...

Mr Christie, 51, previously denied that his staff were behind the mysterious   closure of access roads to the George Washington bridge, which connects New   Jersey with New York, last September.

The throttling of traffic to the bridge, which is the busiest in the world,   caused four days of gridlock in Fort Lee, whose mayor, Mark Sokolich, had   refused to support Mr Christie’s re-election...

Yet the emails, which were subpoenaed by an inquiry, showed the governor’s   senior aides directly ordering the lane closures — and even celebrating the   resulting jams that caused misery for thousands of drivers.

“Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” Bridget Anne Kelly, Mr   Christie’s deputy chief of staff, wrote to David Wildstein, a senior   Christie appointee at the port authority. “Got it,” he said.

So far as I've seen, these e-mails to not indicate that Christie himself ordered the lane closures.  However I have to ask, did he make some sort of off-hand Henry II type "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" comment?

UPDATE:  You can stick a fork in him.  He's done. 

So, at a minimum, he’s admitted that he’s a shitty manager. It wasn’t some random clerk, it was his deputy chief of staff and his appointee to the Port Authority (and high school classmate, and lifelong friend) who conspired to do this bad, bad thing. Christie knew someone in his administration conspired to do something “unacceptable” for months, and he was only able to find out who from a press report.