oh, i'm guessing they're going to get way more

than 1,000 patients

this is sad. this is america. this is sad. this is america. this is sad. this is america. i have to keep telling myself that

For People With No Health Insurance, One Day Of Free Care

By ARIELLE LEVIN BECKER The Hartford Courant

They came by the hundreds in New Orleans, Little Rock, Kansas City and Houston, lured by the offer of free health care at a one-day clinic. For many patients, it was the first time they had seen a doctor in years. Nearly all of them had jobs, just no health insurance.

Feb. 3 will be Hartford's turn for a one-day free medical clinic for people with no health insurance. The National Association of Free Clinics, which has been hosting similar events throughout the country since September, and hundreds of volunteers will set up at the Connecticut Convention Center from noon to 7 p.m. Organizers expect to draw about 1,000 patients...................

oh honey not only is that bridge burned

it's been NUKED

Lieberman: It's 'Possible' I Could Run As 'A Good Old-Fashioned New England Moderate Republican'

Jillian Rayfield

Over the weekend, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said it's "possible" he could run for Senate as "a good old-fashioned New England moderate Republican."

As ThinkProgress pointed out, Lieberman gave an interview to Connecticut's "Face The State," and acknowledged the possibility that he will run for Senate re-election as a Republican.

Lieberman was first asked if there he could possibly return to being a "full-fledged Democrat," or if that is a "bridge burned."

He responded: "No, I don't think it's burned," but that "I haven't really focused on it, but I'd say from the get go, any one of these...it's good, to paraphrase Mel Brooks, it's good to be an independent. It gives me latitude."..............

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from andy thibault's cool justice report

please click the link below to go to andy's blog and read the whole story. it's important

Jan Smolinski's Shocking Testimony Before Congress 1-21-10

WHERE
IS
THE
OUTRAGE?

We still couldn't get the attention of the local police department. They dismissed Billy as a voluntary runaway case ...

... Eventually we uncovered information that led us to believe Billy had been murdered in Woodbridge, Connecticut, and buried in Seymour ...

... The police were not only slow to respond, but they also didn't properly report the case. It took four years for a report to be correctly filed with the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) ...

... The only person who has been arrested in this case is me. When we tried to hang missing person flyers on telephone poles in Woodbridge, the police arrested me.

Testimony by Janice Smolinski
Mother of Billy Smolinski
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security

Committee Members

H.R. 3695, the Help Find the Missing Act (Billy's Law)

Good morning and thank you Chairman Scott, Ranking Member Gohmert, and Members of the Subcommittee for having the courage to tackle the tragic disconnect in our country's effort to find missing Americans.

The Help Find the Missing Act has been named "Billy's Law" in honor of our son who went missing from Waterbury, Connecticut five years ago. It is my husband Bill and my greatest hope that the legislation, so well crafted by Congressman Murphy and Congressman Poe, will be signed into law in order to help bring answers and peace to the thousands of families wrestling with the horror of having a loved one go missing.

My husband and I are uncomfortable in the spotlight, but we hope that sharing our family's story can shed light on this national nightmare and illustrate the urgent need to pass Billy's Law. With over 100,000 people missing in this country, our family's story is not a unique one.

Our son's name is William Smolinski Jr., and his whole life we called him Billy. He was funny, and a bit of a goof ball, always trying to surprise us with a joke or a trick..........

pic: don't know the credit, but it was on andy's posting

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the website is still under construction

BUT if you're in the glastonbury hood, DO stop by

dee's one smart cookie


it's a gluten free, DAIRY FREE (which generally makes it VEGAN) bakery. my boss brought in a cranberry orange coffee cake the other day and it was divine!!!

here's their facebook link

because people who speak spanish

do NOT buy stuff. well, at least NOT in THIS establishment.

so NO spanish on the floor. oh, you can speak spanish to your heart's content in the DISHWASHING area. yup. THAT'S ok. NOT where the liberal scenesters can SEE AND HEAR you though you token stupid spics

Atticus Bookstore's Management Reviewing Language Policy

By MARK SPENCER

NEW HAVEN — - Here in this liberal stronghold, the news that Atticus Bookstore and Café had imposed a policy restricting employees to speaking English in public areas has been greeted by widespread criticism.

But it took most people a beat or two to get to the harsh words.

"Atticus?" said lawyer Steven D. Jacobs in disbelief. "You're kidding me."

Especially in recent years, New Haven has gone out of its way to distinguish itself as a place welcoming to immigrants, regardless of their legal status. Atticus appeared to fit comfortably, even enthusiastically, into this mosaic.

A stalwart for more than 30 years in a rapidly changing downtown, Atticus prided itself on its quality baked goods, promoted the arts and environmental causes and fostered an air of multiculturalism at its Chapel Street location in the building that houses the Yale Center for British Art.

"A lot of people are shocked that Atticus is doing this," said Deborah Malatesta, a spokeswoman for the New Haven Workers Association, the group that publicized the policy after it was contacted by two angry Atticus employees.........

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hmmmmm

I-95 billboard 'man and bear' prompt 911 calls

By Noelle Frampton, STAFF WRITER

RIDGEPORT -- A local car dealer's unconventional billboard advertising is attracting more than passing attention from motorists.

A life-sized mannequin perched with a teddy bear atop the billboard near Interstate 95's northbound exit 26 is also prompting occasional calls to the emergency "911" number from travelers who fear the figures are about to topple off.

But dispatchers at State Police Troop G barracks tell concerned callers that the "man" isn't real -- and that he and his companion bear have been up there for a while............

pic: A mannequin and giant teddy bear sit on top of a billboard, advertising BMW of Bridgeport, near exit 26 northbound on I-95, in Bridgeport, Conn. Jan. 15th, 2010. Photo: Ned Gerard / Connecticut Post

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it's the

taste of hartford this week

and a photo gallery from the courant of the participating restaurants


pic:

The Half Door, 270 Sisson Ave., Hartford, 860-232-7827

(JOHN LONG / March 6, 2006)

i wanted to link to this

it's an important story for our state. i am NOT a proponent of the death penalty. then again MY family was not murdered. executing someone for a murder, doesn't bring the original victim back.

one never knows though if i'd change my mind. i hope to NEVER have to consider that..........

Reliving Horror in a Test for the Death Penalty

By WILLIAM GLABERSON
NEW HAVEN — More than two years later, the details still have the power to horrify.

In the middle of the night, two parolees break into a tidy clapboard house in the central Connecticut town of Cheshire. They club the father, a doctor, and tie him up.

One of them rapes and strangles the mother, the authorities say. The other molests one of the daughters, 11-year-old Michaela. The father breaks free and shouts for help. But the intruders have set a fire: The girls, Michaela and Hayley, 17, tied to their beds, die of smoke inhalation.

The triple murder on Sorghum Mill Drive — widely compared to the Kansas killings in Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” — has transfixed the state ever since. The suspects, both habitual criminals, were arrested a block from the house. The crime prompted a searching review of the state legal system that had freed them...........

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we're ready

i know there's all sorts of confusion (and i'm being kind here) in haiti. LET'S GET MEDICAL HELP IN THERE RIGHT NOW. someone, anyone, TAKE CHARGE AND GET AID WHERE'S IT'S NEEDED



CT's Mobile Hospital Ready for Possible Haiti Deployment

Gov: 100 bed transportable unit is ready to assist

By ANJULI PORTER

Should the federal government need it, Governor M. Jodi Rell says "its here." Connecticut’s mobile hospital, a state-of-the-art 100 bed transportable unit, is ready to be deployed to assist in the Haitian relief efforts if the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) needs the extra assistance.

The Ottilie W. Lundgren Memorial Field Hospital is multi-functional and complete with electricity, water, heat and air conditioning. It is deployable has a flexible configuration of 25 bed units that can be operated jointly or independently of one another.............

here's a google link to a list of charities

(see this story before considering a donation to that organization. i personally am sending my money to doctors without borders for this relief effort. please consider helping out in ANY way you can. oh, i'm also going to donate some knit items to craft hope for haiti. dang, if i can't get my knitting right, i'll just buy some stuff from the etsy shop)

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this man follows a long line of OTHER

STUPID CONNECTICUT (alleged) CRIMINALS

(by the way that stop & shop is one of the stores i shop in)

Hartford Police Arrest Bank Robbery Suspect

HARTFORD - Police arrested a man who they say robbed a supermarket bank branch, then stopped down the street for a shave.

Paulin Macarthur, 46, was charged with first-degree robbery after a witness identified him as the robber, police said.

According to police, a hold-up alarm from the People's United Bank branch in the Super Stop & Shop supermarket, 150 New Park Ave., sounded about 5:35 p.m. Wednesday, police said............

from Aileen Bastos at the

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

here's the january 18th schedule

Picture Your Dreams

Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Day at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 12, 2010 – Join the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Amistad Center for Art & Culture in celebration of Martin Luther King Day, on Monday, January 18, with free admission from 10 am until 5 pm. Spend the day participating in family-friendly art activities, watching live performances, or simply enjoying a free day at the museum.

The day’s theme, “Picture Your Dreams,” is reminiscent of Dr. King’s famous 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech and prompts visitors to reexamine their own dreams. Activities focused on dreams include a hands-on quilt activity with artist Donald Boudreaux, drawing with artist Jeremiah Patterson, postcard collages with artist Stanwyck Cromwell, and the distribution of dream journals. More family fun will be available with a Storybook Time.

Docent-led tours of the exhibition Digging Deeper and Winslow Homer’s The Nooning will provide visitors with an in depth exploration of these fascinating works.

Visitors can also enjoy a live performance by Lift Every Voice and Sing (LEVAS) Community Gospel Choir and the Voices of Glory from the Sanctuary of Faith & Glory, or listen to The Amistad Center for Art and Culture’s Teen Advisory Group’s “Dream Playlist” in Morgan Great Hall.

In association with the Community Health Services’ Community Threads initiative, the Wadsworth will also show the film The Quilts of Gee’s Bend at 3:00 pm. This 28-minute documentary takes place in the Gee’s Bend quilt makers’ homes and is told through the women’s voices. This music-filled film takes viewers inside the art and fascinating living history of a uniquely American community art form.

Boxed lunches will be available in the museum café, and a complementary snack will be offered later in the afternoon.

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is located at 600 Main St. in Hartford, Connecticut. The Museum is open Wednesdays to Fridays, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please visit www.wadsworthatheneum.org for more information.

Sincerely,

Aileen

the amistad center

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i personally want to know where the child is

did they give her child back to her? if they did, then THEY (the authorities) are accountable

THREE TIMES THE LEGAL LIMIT with a 2 1/2 year old in the car? i'm actually GLAD she hit a police car (and no one was injured). that way, SHE'S OFF OF THE STREET.



Police: Drunken Mom Collides With Patrol Car

Nothing MORE important than tanning

Courant.com/community/enfield/hc-ap-ct-kidsincar-tanningjan07,0,7254238.story

my thoughts go out to all of the firefighters

and all of the residents. how horrid

if you'd like to help these people out i'd contact the red cross. i'll bet they can point you in the right direction (and while you're at it, you can donate blood)



More Than 170 People Displaced By Hartford Fire
By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY The Hartford Courant

HARTFORD - Will Rodriguez went to take a shower today and noticed his bathroom ceiling was on fire.

He pulled the fire alarm, alerted his upstairs neighbors, grabbed his kitten and left. Rodriguez talked about the fire tonight while cradling the kitten, Princess, in the lobby of a building across the street from his burning apartment at 50 Willard St.

Firefighters spent more than three hours battling the three-alarm fire, which crawled along the ceilings of the sprawling, 160-unit, brick building. More than 170 people were displaced........


.........The American Red Cross opened an emergency shelter at the Pope Park Community Center for residents with no place to stay..........



pic:

Willard Street Fire

(RICK HARTFORD / HARTFORD COURANT / January 6, 2010)

A Hartford firefighter is surrounded by smoke while fighting a fire at an apartment complex at 50 Willard Street Wednesday night. Willard runs from Collins Stree to Asylum Avenue.

ravings of a semi-sane madwoman: noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

ravings of a semi-sane madwoman: noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

some (like my boss) will think this is GOOD news

i didn't like EVERYTHING dodd did, but i did like him. i think he did the state good (unlike another senator who is a turncoat, weasel, let's bomb the shite out of EVERY country in the world but ours and israel, who shall remain nameless)

Sen. Chris Dodd To Retire

The Hartford Courant

WASHINGTON - Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd, a five-term Democrat whose political stock began falling after the financial meltdown and his failed 2008 presidential bid, has decided not to seek re-election in November, Democratic officials told The Associated Press early Wednesday.

Dodd was expected to make an announcement Wednesday. The officials who disclosed his plans would speak only on condition of anonymity ahead of the announcement. The Washington Post first reported Dodd's decision.

Word of his retirement comes hours after North Dakota Democrat Byron Dorgan announced he will not seek re-election.

Dodd, 66, is chairman of Senate Banking Committee, which was at the center of efforts to deal with the economic meltdown. And he has played a prominent role in the debate over overhauling health care, taking over for his friend Ted Kennedy during his illness and then after his death.

Given Dodd's bad poll standing, other Democrats have gone out of their way to give him the spotlight in hopes he could recover before November. With the embattled Dodd stepping aside, Democrats can now try to recruit a more popular candidate to run in Democratic-leaning state, bolstering the prospects of thwarting a Republican victory. Among the early favorites to replace Dodd is longtime Connecticut state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who is seen as one of the state's most popular politicians...............................

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the first stupid connecticut criminals of 2010

do i feel badly about publishing their names? well a bit BUT they were in the paper (linked below) AND they really did a stupid stupid stupid thing. don't do the crime if you can't do the time

Men Arrested After Asking Cops For Directions

BRANFORD — - Two men accused of ripping off car parts from dealerships along Route 1 were arrested early today after they stopped to ask a police officer for directions.

Ryan Densmore, 23, of Wallingford, and Travis Mckeaveney, 24, of Middletown, pulled up alongside officer Dominic Eula about 4 a.m. to ask for directions to Interstate 91. As they drove off, Eula noticed that their rear plate was covered by a paper towel and stopped them.

He found eight catalytic converters in the back of the car, along with metal cutting saws, saw blades and headband flashlights. The paper towel had been used to mask the plate from the dealerships' security cameras, police said.

"Somehow, they thought they'd be less conspicuous if they approached the officer for directions," Lt. Geoffrey Morgan said...............

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yeah, i'm from he-yah

via

i'm going to sign up

i already have a twitter account. just need to hook up with ct dot

DOT Tweeting About Traffic

and here's the ct dot twitter link