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

it's NOT classified

why throw fear into ORDINARY CITIZENS.

do your fucking jobs. the jobs include taking a NIGERIAN EXECUTIVE WHO STOPS BY A CONSULATE TO REPORT STRANGE GOINGS ON BY HIS SON (this is UNHEARD of by the way) seriously. you KNEW something was up.

really, patting someone down is NOT classified. and really, not letting someone relieve themselves for the last hour of a flight is FUCKING TORTURE (or it would be in MY case as i am on prescription diuretics)

steven and christopher, you have my sympathies. i'm sorry the cia or the tsa or homeland security or the fbi or WHOMEVER didn't do their jobs and now we can't have shite on our laps on a plane ride or get up for the last hour (how is THAT going to make a difference i ask you. it's STUPID)

ok, i'm going to stop now


TSA Threatens Blogger Who Posted New Screening Directive

By Kim Zetter

Two bloggers received home visits from Transportation Security Administration agents Tuesday after they published a new TSA directive that revises screening procedures and puts new restrictions on passengers in the wake of a recent bombing attempt by the so-called underwear bomber.

Special agents from the TSA’s Office of Inspection interrogated two U.S. bloggers, one of them an established travel columnist, and served them each with a civil subpoena demanding information on the anonymous source that provided the TSA document.

The document, which the two bloggers published within minutes of each other Dec. 27, was sent by TSA to airlines and airports around the world and described temporary new requirements for screening passengers through Dec. 30, including conducting “pat-downs” of legs and torsos. The document, which was not classified, was posted by numerous bloggers. Information from it was also published on some airline websites................

cia sat on underwear bomber report: blame game erupts

bottom pic: TSA Special Agent John Enright, left, speaks to Steven Frischling outside the blogger's home in Niantic, Connecticut, after returning Frischling's laptop Wednesday.
Photo: Thomas Cain/Wired.com

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to the family and friends of sgt 1st class ronald jay spino

my thoughts and prayers go out to you. i am so very sorry for your loss

Soldier with Waterbury tie reported slain by insurgent
BY MICHAEL PUFFER REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

A soldier who grew up in Waterbury and graduated from Holy Cross High School was killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, according to members of his family.

Sgt. Ronald Spino, 46, of Fayetteville, N.C., was unloading supplies at a base Tuesday when an Afghan insurgent shot him in the back, according to his brother, Glen Spino of Avon. He said the insurgent wounded two Italian soldiers as well.

Various military spokespeople would not confirm Spino's death on Wednesday. The military is bound by law not to release names of casualties for 24 hours after a slain servicemember's family has been notified, military officials said.

Glen Spino said military counselors knocked on the door of the Florida home of his parents, James and Rita Spino, Tuesday night to give them the news.....................



pic: Sgt. Ronald Spino, 46, of Fayetteville, N.C., was unloading supplies at a base Tuesday when an Afghan insurgent shot him in the back. (Contributed Photo)

Army Sergeant, Waterbury Native Killed In Afghanistan

WATERBURY - A Holy Cross High School graduate and Army sergeant was fatally shot in Afghanistan Tuesday, his mother said today.

Sgt.1st Class Ronald Jay Spino, 45, was killed while doing his job, said Rita Spino of Venice, Fla. He was a paratrooper-nurse, she said.

He and his wife, Betty -- whom he met in the military -- have a house in Fayetteville, N.C, Rita Spino said. He joined the Army in 1993 at age 29.........

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hey da liebs

why don't we bomb the WHOLE FUCKING WORLD? deport everyone in the us who is of muslim faith.

sounds like a plan to me da liebs! you won't rest until you (well not YOU personally. why get YOUR hands bloody when our sons and daughters can do it FOR US?) kill EVERY ONE OF 'EM will you?

we're so beloved NOW, just think what THAT would do for our rep

Joe Lieberman: How About Another War?

posted by John Nichols

Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, who began openly and aggressively angling for a war with Iraq just weeks after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, and who has been the most ardent advocate for expanding the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, appears to be determined to use the thwarted Christmas Day attack on a Northwest Airlines flight as an excuse to launch another crusade for another war.

Lieberman, the neoconservative solon who wanted to be the Secretary of Defense in the administration of John McCain (his 2008 candidate for president) and who would gladly play the same role in the administration of a Sarah Palin or any other saber-rattling Republican, is proposing the launch of a new preemptive war on Yemen.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian accused of attempting to explode a plastic device aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Friday, has told authorities that he traveled to Yemen to link up with al-Qaida operatives.............

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cool car

merry christmas (eve that is)!!!

NO video, but click the link for a VERY good christmas song: with special commentary

our christmas menu

everything homemade (unless i note otherwise)

lasagna (i didn't make the noodles this year. i do NOT have the time)
meatballs (separate from the lasagna i have a vegetarian niece)
applesauce
cranberry sauce
vegan lasagna with added vegetables; mushrooms, butternut squash, eggplant, and whatever else i find in the fridge
mushroom tarts (some vegan some with cheese)
glazed carrots
cauliflower cheese tart (and something cauliflower vegan for me)
creamed corn (big bub won't eat any other kind of vegetable)
yukon gold spuds (i don't know how or what i'm going to do to them yet)
sweet potatoes (i don't know how or what i'm going to do to THEM yet either)
green bean casserole with HOMEMADE mushroom sauce and HOMEMADE fried onions
pickles - store bought
olives - store bought
italian bread-store bought

then my sister brings a GIANT salad and a roasted beast and some other kind of meat. she also brings a ton of desserts. one of my neice's husbands brings a big ol' ham. my OTHER (non cooking) sister makes ice. oh, and she bought an ice cream cake too.

ummmmmmmmmmmmm

i'm not even sure i have ANYTHING to say here except yeah, that's bambino and yeah, that's a bottle of mad dog 20 20 and yeah, it's a connecticut story

Woman Arrested for Demanding Three-Way Sex With Couple - Anna Bambino

this is what we woke up to this morning in connecticut

oh my goddess, this is WONDERFUL!!!

from move on via dependable renegade