this is a no biggie

but it pleases me a great deal to point out a da liebs f**k up

Lieberman fumble spoils voting records

PETER URBAN purban@ctpost.com

WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Lieberman spoiled the perfect voting record of two fellow senators Wednesday in a blunder that drew guffaws from at least a few of his colleagues.
As chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Lieberman assured members that they could remain and finish up business when a vote was called in the Senate chamber.
Lieberman told the members that the vote would be "held open" as a courtesy for them but it turned out he was mistaken. The tally was closed, and 12 of the 17 members of the committee failed to have their vote recorded.
Among those who missed the vote were Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. Neither had missed a vote this session.
Lieberman also missed the vote, his sixth of the session........

more charges to gault

and i don't care WHAT those women say, they KNEW what was going on. how the hell can you have a 14 or 15 year old grrrl in your house and NOT know what gault was doing to her, with her, at her? the answer is YOU DO KNOW. if you suspected the grrrl was being abused by her family (and i'm NOT implying she was mind you) THEN YOU GO TO THE AUTHORITIES. you don't leave her in your house along with gault and gault's OTHER 'wife'.

i would ask ms cray at this point what HER relationship with gault was like. what did SHE do with him. what did he do to her and with her? that's what i'd like to know.

NO EXCUSES you three.

no no no - there was no innocence in that house from the three adults

Charges added in case of girl found locked in small room

(West Hartford-WTNH) _ Authorities added kidnapping charges today against a man and two women accused in the yearlong disappearance of a teenage runaway who was found locked in a hidden room in their home.
Adam Gault, his common law wife, and another woman who were all living in the house at the time were back in court. Their lawyers tell us that their clients are innocent, but court documents paint a disturbing picture of gault's relationship with the girl.
Gault, 41, was faceing tougher charges today and his arrest warrant contained shocking and graphic new information.
It says the 15 year old girl found hidden in a closet in Gault's West Hartford home had an abortion in May, and DNA testing points to Gault as the father.......
.........Kimberly Cray, 26, was also charged with kidnapping.
"The kidnapping is based on the fact that since my client lived in the house she must have been aware of what was going on," says Cray's Attorney Michael Georgetti, "and that's simply not true."
A friend of Cray's was in court to offer support. She says Cray saw Adam Gault as someone who saved her from a life of abuse and thought Gault was doing the same for the 15 year old in the closet................

Charges Added In Case Of Girl Found Locked In Small Room

HARTFORD, Conn. -- A man accused in the yearlong disappearance of a teenage runaway was a match for DNA collected after she had an abortion, according to a warrant for his arrest Wednesday on an additional sexual assault charge.
Police also added kidnapping charges Wednesday against the man, Adam Gault, 41, and two women who lived with him in the West Hartford home where the missing Bloomfield girl was found in June, locked in a small storage room.
All three made brief appearances in Hartford Superior Court to face new charges of kidnapping. They did not enter pleas. All three previously pleaded not guilty to charges including reckless endangerment..........

the thing is, i really don't see any great contrasts

between these vets. now or then. they're all heroes

thank you ALL for serving

War Talk Exposes Contrasts
New Vets Strangers To Older Vets' Trials

By JESSE HAMILTON Courant Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN - The distance between the gray-haired men in the audience and the young men at the head of the room was maybe 25 feet, but the gulf between their experiences of war was vast.Four men in their 20s sat before an audience in the rear of the Russell Library on Wednesday night, speaking the new language of war, the vocabulary of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. They came to relate their fresh war memories, to tell people what they saw and did, and how they felt.Two of those who came to listen were Vietnam veterans, and their comments exposed the great contrast between America's wars and what a difference three decades made. From Jack Coyle, who wore a Vietnam veteran's cap: Did you get enough food and water over there? What's the real morale level? In Vietnam, the firefights were less frequent than the troubles with disease and vermin; how was it this time? And what about post-traumatic stress disorder?........

the thing is, i really don'

hey da liebs you steamin' piece o' you know what

the iraqis were NOT OUR ENEMIES until WE ivaded their country. THEY DIDN'T FLY PLANES INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, THE PENTAGON AND A FIELD IN PA. they could have cared less about us. sure now some of them (lots actually) want to 'get' us. who wouldn't want to fight back someone who illegally, unjustly and immorally invaded THEIR country? i know I WOULD fight back tooth and nail.

da liebs WAKE UP. stop singing that one note. WE DO NOT BELONG IN IRAQ. we never did. we wreaked havoc, chaos and despair over there. we f**ked up badly. when are YOU going to see the light?

Lieberman escalates attack on Iraq critics


By Manu Raju
July 31, 2007
Ever since Connecticut Democrats refused to back him for a fourth term in Congress, Joe Lieberman has been burnishing his independent credentials in the narrowly divided Senate while becoming increasingly critical of the Democratic Party on the war in Iraq.Lieberman, the Democrats’ 2000 vice presidential nominee, insists he is not actively considering joining the Republican Party. But he is keeping that possibility wide open as his disenchantment grows with Democratic leaders. The main sticking points are their attempts to end the war in Iraq and their hesitation to take a harder line against Iran.“I think either [Democrats] are, in my opinion, respectfully, naïve in thinking we can somehow defeat this enemy with talk, or they’re simply hesitant to use American power, including military power,” Lieberman said in a wide-ranging interview with The Hill. “There is a very strong group within the party that I think doesn’t take the threat of Islamist terrorism seriously enough.”Lieberman says he is annoyed by the mudslinging on Capitol Hill and Democrats’ unwillingness to work with President Bush. But his critics say he has contributed to that polarization by his rhetoric and refusal to compel Bush to find a new way forward in Iraq.............

yesterday was the second anniversay of the avon mountain crash

i've written about it several times. i travelled over that mountain for years and years. even on GOOD days, it was white knuckle driving. not so much if you were alone and no other cars were around you. it was when there WERE others on the road (which was 99.9% of the time). people are idiots. on your tail. even in snow and ice. they've taken steps to cut down on the idiocy. they've marked the road better. they've put up more signs. they have added police 'pull over areas'. it's STILL not pretty though.



my friend mark was in that accident. he was airlifted out. he doesn't remember anything about the accident at all. however, he is reconstructing it. he's talking to everyone he can that was involved. it's changed his life. not that he wasn't a good man before (he was), he just is a far better man now. he's writing a book. i was privileged to read the first four chapters. it's amazing. the amount of research he's put into it. the people he's talked to (including those that directly helped to save his life; a doctor on his way to work, someone who was working at avon old farms inn who heard the accident and rushed out. several firefighters and police and on and on) and the places he's been. oh, one more thing. all of the profits from the book are going to the families of those affected by this tragedy.



2nd anniversary of Avon Mountain crash



Sunday Marks 2-Year Anniversary Of Avon Crash

ravings of a semi-sane madwoman: the BEST part is

ravings of a semi-sane madwoman: the BEST part is

i'm aghast

he claimed the FIVE YEAR OLD was the agressor

please understand this can happen when someone is 80. age means nothing. it is NOT about sex. it is about abuse AND about power. i don't know the history of this man. i don't know if he has a previous record. i don't know if he has dementia (seems like he doesn't according to the authorities).

my point is even when we're FIVE YEARS OLD we're blamed. we WANTED IT, we were ASKING for it.

80-year-old man ruled mentally competent in sex assault case

Bridgeport-AP) _ A Bridgeport judge has ruled that an 80-year-old Trumbull man is mentally competent to stand trial on charges of sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl.
The judge ruled yesterday that Anthony Azzopardi is mentally fit to go on trial. Azzopardi had been previously been committed for 60 days to the Whiting Forensic Institute in Middletown.
The alleged victim's parents had taken the girl to a doctor in April of 2006 for treatment of a urinary infection. Police say the girl told the doctor she had been sexually assaulted on several occasions by Azzopardi at his home.

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........According to police, the girl was taken on April 5, 2006, by her parents to the doctor because of a urinary infection. During the examination, the girl disclosed that she had been sexually assaulted on numerous occasions by Azzopardi while he was babysitting for her at his home, police said. When officers confronted Azzopardi with the allegations, he allegedly told them the girl had been the aggressor and had sexually assaulted him. He also claimed she had thrown him on a bed, pulled his clothes off and sexually assaulted him. He said she then laughed at him and started playing with her dolls............

Police say that Azzopardi claimed the girl had been the aggressor and had sexually assaulted him.............

'no one has done me as she has'

i admire you 'the ashford woman'. you are NOT alone. you are no longer a victim either. you are now a SURVIVOR.

even though hooks thinks jesus is going to save him, i don't. nothing case save hooks. he doesn't DESERVE saving. funny how people find religion after committing such heinous crimes.

you are a brave woman and you will get by. never forget that

Confrontation In Court
Victim Challenges Her Attacker As He Is Sentenced

By TRACY GORDON FOX Courant Staff Writer

DANIELSON - Standing in court Tuesday, just feet from the truck driver who kidnapped, raped and threatened to kill her, his 31-year-old victim demanded that he look at her before he begins serving 30 years in prison for the crime."I am a human being," the Ashford woman told Thomas E. Hooks in an unwavering voice. "You have made me afraid of nothing, but you made my family afraid of everything. I will never think of you again after today, but I assure you, you will think of me for the rest of your life."As Superior Court Judge Antonio Robaina sentenced Hook, 51, of Florida, to 30 years in prison for kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault, prosecutors said he probably will be charged in a similar attack in Maryland, where authorities matched his DNA in a rape case..........

a connecticut librarian has proof the gonz lied

yet, not only won't he step down, the pussies who COULD do something about it (the democrats) WON'T

take your vaginas outta your momma's handbags and EFFING DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE WHOLE ADMINISTRATION

a giant shout out to you as well ms nocek
Patriot Abuse
I Was Gagged By The Patriot Act While The Attorney General Was Free To Tell Falsehoods About It.

By JANET NOCEK
When the USA Patriot Act was being reauthorized in 2005, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales claimed that not one single abuse of the "national security letters" provision had been reported.It must be his poor memory that caused Mr. Gonzales to tell Congress that no abuse had been reported. What else would explain why he did not mention the reports that described abuses and mismanagement of NSLs - which we now discover were in his possession before his testimony?I was one of four library colleagues who challenged an NSL in the courts around the time of its reauthorization. We were under a gag order because of the nondisclosure provision of the NSL section of the Patriot Act. This happened even though a judge with high-level security clearance had declared that there was no risk in identifying us as recipients of an NSL.
We were therefore not allowed to testify to Congress about our experience with the letters - which seek information, without court review, on people like library users...........

it's getting uglier and uglier to live in west hartford

i am upset black and blue square was not only passed and built but it effed up our budget AND mill rate AND goddess only knows what else.

i am upset about west hartford center losing it's charm (in all fairness, it was starting to lose it's charm a while ago). i'm upset about the influx of traffic ALREADY starting in town.

i'm upset the kinds of things outlined in this article happen. i am a GIANT critic of what has happened to our town and what is happening to our town. yet, i would NEVER think to harass anyone OR threaten anyone OR destroy property.

it is morally reprehensible and i hope the guilty parties are caught AND made to pay

2 Recipients Denounce Mailed Cartoon
Item Is Described As Racist, Attack On Teaching Of Tolerance

By DANIEL P. JONES Courant Staff Writer

WEST HARTFORD - Two residents who received an offensive cartoon in the mail after speaking publicly in favor of West Hartford education spending say the image goes beyond anti-Semitism and attacks the idea of teaching tolerance and diversity in schools.Police continue to investigate the anonymous mailings, which arrived at several West Hartford residents' homes last week. At least three residents complained to police."My suspicion is that sentiment is not unique to West Hartford," one of the residents who received the cartoon said Thursday. "I wouldn't be surprised if it was picked up from some ultra-conservative fringe group. It certainly had earmarks of a [white] supremacist organization.".........

pauline's picks

from editor and publisher


pauline picks a photo gallery from the hartford courant on the storm the other day

pauline

from cv rick

alma the lamanite

a true story in eight parts. read it. it's worth it

you KNOW i had to publish this picture

(and please note the reason they think mom kills all of her babies)

Baby panther adopted by dog

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Man's best friend helped save this tiny cat.
A 15-day-old female panther named Milica has been adopted by a Rhodesian Ridgeback after her mother refused to feed her and tried to kill her in the Belgrade zoo.
"The mother panther has killed all her cubs since 1999," zookeeper Dragan Jovanovic said.
"We believe she has been traumatized by the sound of NATO bombs" during airstrikes in the Serbian capital intended to stop former President Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown against ethnic Albanian separatists in 1999, he said............

i hope my car starts today

i have a dental appointment later this morning (a root canal. yeah, i'm dying to get there...).





i was driving home yesterday from my pop's house to mine, going down south quaker lane. all of a sudden, i was in the middle of a GIANT POND. i couldn't see it was raining so hard out or i wouldn't have ventured into that much water. i didn't stall and my brakes continued to work, so i'm guessing all will be fine. man did it RAIN. as i said, i was driving and i really couldn't see very much. thank the goddess i was going slowly anyway. if i lived further away from my popi i wouldn't have ventured out until the rain calmed down (well when i left, it really wasn't coming down that hard. within 30 seconds though, BAM)





ONE LITTLE RANT - HEY all of you ASSES. when it's raining out it's a STATE LAW TO TURN YOUR CAR LIGHTS ON. what the hell is the matter with you? you know it was hard to see out. it's important for OTHERS to see YOU while driving. i don't care if you care about yourselves or not. I CARE ABOUT ME, MY FRIENDS AND MY FAMILY. TURN YOUR DAMN LIGHTS ON YOU GIANT BUNCH O' STEAMIN' ID-JITS





Tornado-Like Storm Blows Through State
Residents Left To Clean Up After Damaging Storm





Residents clean-up after powerful storms



Was It A Twister? Maybe
Officials To Assess Storm Damage Today To See If Any Tornadoes Touched Down


picture: TIA ANN CHAPMAN( July 19, 2007)
Cars wade into flood waters at the corner of Prospect Street and Capitol Avenue in Hartford

sunflowers for make a wish

how cool ARE sunflowers? answer: wicked cool!

and to benefit the make a wish foundation to boot. let's all get out there and buy some

Buttonwood Farm Sunflowers for Wishes - July 21-29, 2007

Buttonwood Farm Ice Cream Inc., best known for its 50+ flavors of homemade ice cream and original waffle cones, will host its fourth annual “Sunflowers for Wishes” fundraiser to benefit the Connecticut Make-A-Wish foundation from July 21-29, 2007 from 10 a.m. to dusk each day

More than 300,000 sunflowers are expected to bloom on ten acres of farm land yielding sunflower bouquets that will be sold for $5.00 each. One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, to help create wishes for Connecticut children battling life-threatening medical conditions. Sunflower-themed t-shirts, notecards, and Buttonwood’s own sunflower ice cream will also be offered to support the Foundation. And new to the farm this year, Buttonwood Farm will introduce hayrides through the sunflowers, bringing joy and happiness to everyone who visits.Dates: July 21 - 29, 2007, 10:00 am - dusk.Buttonwood Farm, 473 Shetucket Turnpike, at the junction of Routes 201 and 165, in Griswold, CT(Click here for map)Phone: (860) 376-4081

do you know anything about mickey?

if so, please DO contact the meridan humane society (phone number at the end of the story. click the link. there's a video too!)

Mickey the miracle dog

Meriden-WTNH) _ The Meriden Humane Society is offering a reward to anyone who has information about the neglect of a Schnauzer named Mickey.
Shaven and bathed but still covered in scabs, Mickey recovers at the Meriden Animal Hospital. The dog was abandoned in the overnight hours on Monday at the Meriden Humane Society. The animal's carrier was covered in filth according to Humane Society worker Jillian Cheney.
"It was literally the smell of rotting flesh and feces. It was horrible," said Cheney. "It looked like it had been attacked by something."
It turns out, maggots had embedded themselves into the dog's skin and were literally eating away at the dog.
"The pain he must have been going through and the smell must have been horrible," said Cheney.
The Humane Society it hoping reward money might entice someone to come forward with clues as to how the dog wound up in such a deplorable condition. ............

here he is

YOUR (not mine, i didn't vote for him) senator. i want NOTHING to do with him, other than to boot his ass OUT of the senate and ALL politics for that matter.
well here he is, your ONE TRICK PONY

Lieberman continues staunch stand on Iraq War

by News Channel 8's Mark Davis

(Hartford-WTNH) _ A year ago, Senator Joe Lieberman was in the final weeks of a bruising primary election he would eventually lose over his support for the war in Iraq.
As of today, Lieberman is the sole member of Congress from Connecticut not calling for a troop withdrawal from Iraq. Fourth District Congressman Chris Shays has recently announced that he wants all troops out by the end of next year.
Many Republicans are even abandoning the president and despite that, Lieberman says he does not feel like he's being isolated now by both political parties and the public.
"A retreat would be major American defeat and a victory for Al Qaeda and Iran," said Lieberman. ......

my interpretation of the

dream swatch

(note: i used 18 stitches instead of the pattern's 24)

i made it as a going away gift for katy. she's moving (at least for a while) to nyc.