Fornwhat?

I absolutely love all three of my three kids.

I do. Always did, always will.

And even though I've had my doubts over these many years, after the big wedding at Stroudsmoor was concluded, I kind of knew that my youngest, that my biggest doubter had finally come to terms with the reality that was always staring her directly in the face: That while her parents where far from perfect, they would love, protect and defend her to the very end.

Ebon, the picture says it all.

Your mom loves you. So do I. So do a lot of other people

Your passage to a budding and beckoning wonderful life makes me feel as if I've done something right during all of these mostly turbulent years.

Jason and Ebon?

Sounds like a plan to me. I'm all in.

G'nite

Omaha Beach

Somebody else did that.



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Scumbag

Two words: Scum and bag.

Put 'em together.

At this troubled and worrisome point, anybody who defends this charlatan is stupid, a liar, a thief or a scumbag.

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Invasion of the President Snatchers

This guy is a walking/talking argument FOR abortion...



His Kiev goose is cooked. Come election season, the rout will be on!

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No Doubt

After a nine year hiatus...



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RiverFest 2012 on PA Outdoor Life

Since this segment was aired on the very day we were filling the rental truck, I never had a chance to see it.



I'm surprised they missed Kayak Dude wrestling with the crocodile.

'Til next year.

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Off the rails

Jeez! I should have stuck to fantasy baseball. It’s…it’s safer in there.

Group wants city hall railing removed

Members of the recently formed Wilkes-Barre Taxpayers Association are seeking to bridge the contentious divide between their group and Wilkes-Barre’s City Council – in a physical sense, anyway.

Association member Linda Urban said in an email Saturday the group will send a letter to council and the city administration asking that the railing dividing the City Council chamber be removed. She calls the barrier “a form of intimidation.”

More needless gibberish coming from the Wilkes-Barre Dingleberry Association, a nebulous and self-serving group that represents no one and nobody, a ragtag collection of perpetually angry, put-off folks who can’t even remember who or what angered them in the first place.

These people fire off misrepresentations, repeat half-truths, name call, and mislabel everyone and everything they see fit to prop up their relentless efforts bordering on abject lunacy, but they are ultimately intimidated by an ages-old railing?

You tell me, man. I’m not insane, not yet. So I need some help with this one.

829-1314?

Please, please…enough.

I don’t give a flying funk about Penn State, Coach Paterno, Gerry Sandusky or what may or may not have happened when no one was looking or otherwise. I don’t care. The NCAA’s Death Penalty? Who cares?

For the most part, the decades-old legend was built on the thrashing of overmatched patsies.

Tell me I’m wrong.

I see the Republicans of Luzerne County done got together and voted themselves a new fearless leader.

While that’s all well and good, I fail to see how the questionable timing fits into a presidential election year at this late date.

What the new honcho needs to focus on is doing away with the imposter in the White House. Because, if we don’t lose the loser, we’ll all turn out to be life’s losers.

Where's Renita?

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Oblahblah: Nailed it!

Very early on in his disasterous presidency, I started referring to the all-knowing cryptic Marxist as Baroke Oblahblah, as in, everything is broke and all he does is go blah, blah, blah.

Going on Four...Years...Later...

See?

Despite senility, my instincts are still good.

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Necessary reading

Remember, it can't happen here!

New Study: Fluids From Marcellus Shale Likely Seeping Into PA Drinking Water

The study, conducted by scientists at Duke University and California State Polytechnic University at Pomona and released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, tested drinking water wells and aquifers across Northeastern Pennsylvania. Researchers found that, in some cases, the water had mixed with brine that closely matched brine thought to be from the Marcellus Shale or areas close to it.

You know, the only alternatives to these sorts of studies are the, ahem, the "studies" conducted by the drillers themselves.

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New garbage schedule

Things, times, situations and people change.

That’s how I explained it earlier today. It?

In short, since June the 30th…I have been busting my ball bearings. Lucky for me, I don't need them anymore. And as a result, Wifey and I are now residents of the Parsons section of Wilkes-Barre.

Save for the recent black-on-black (drug related!!!) shooting on Jay Street, it’s been downright boring up here. Not quiet, boring.

Before today, I was last cruising the Internet on that aforementioned date---June 30th. I made call after call to Bhopal, India. I talked to Patel after Patel, and all the while desperately trying but failing to decipher their repeated miscommunications to me. Barely discernable mutterings, in fact. Finally, I uttered some international language whereas business is concerned---Either turn it on or cancel my effing account! And just like that, here I am.

Note: Call centers servicing English-speaking peoples ought to be staffed by English-speaking people.

Thanks to this hot stretch of working by day and moving by night, I am far, far behind on the latest news, the local electronic buzz and all of that. And as of this moment, I could really care less.

As for the recent move from the Nord End to Parsons, I offer this: If all of this so-called “diversity,” criminality and reverse-gentrification gets a serious foothold in this neighborhood, my next move will be to one of those bucolic corners of the county where folks are allowed a chicken or two, a hog, a burn barrel and a few junkyard dogs out front. A place where there are no ordinances prohibiting a person from riding the rider mower in their boxer shorts.

Can you say “double-wide?”

Opal! You hot ‘lil bitch!

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