Odd. I must have overlooked the large numbers of bombing, stabbings, decapitations, throat slashings, and arsons that were perpetrated by militant Lutherans, Bahai, Greek Orthodox, or Missionary Baptists. Foolish of me. This is idiocy. Terror, rape, pillage, murder, and genocide (ask the Armenians, or some of our Lebanese friends) are and have ALWAYS been part of the Muslim experience. Back to the time of Muhammad the faithless and accursed. They're simply maintaining a family tradition. Those of us who are not part of that devil-worshipping cult are entirely correct to suspect them., You may believe in ''moderate Muslims''. Are you as quick to embrace the concept of ''moderate child molesters', or ''moderate cannibals''? Would you be comfortable with a building in the neighborhood identifying it as the meeting place of the Moderate Child Molesters of Struthers? Me neither., Let them go back to Riyadh,or Yemen. And stay there.
What in the world is wrong with you people?? What? This man is a crook and a thief and a liar. And has been for some time. He was a crook and a corrupt bum when he was sheriff. Those of us who were at the time working in local law enforcement knew it, it was a not-so-funny joke in more than one squad room. You had evidence of his corruption as sheriff, and proceeded to make him our ''representative'' to the Congress. Proving thereby that massive corruption is 'OK in the Valley'. You wonder why a string of cockamamie schemes (remember Commuter Aircraft Corp., Airship Enterprises, and several others) have sucked dollars and hope, and run for the exits? Because we have proven for more than 60 years that we will go to any length to stay on the good side of racketeers, corrupt politicians, avaricious unions, and the Democrat Socialist clans. Would you put a big company here if you had the choice? Not if you had a brain in your head, not so long as crooks like Jim Traficant are the image you want of the area we have called home.
Nonsense. Start at the beginning. The federal government has no, repeat, NO lawful or Constitutional role to play in this matter. None. Zip. Any more than the feds have a legitimate say in a local zoning case. If the state of Ohio or PA or whatever wish to take up the matter, have at it; Leave the folks in Iowa and Texas out of it. Near universal experience is that federal meddling makes the situation worse. Need examples?? The one thing that government at various levels COULD do, and won't, is to enact tort reform. Slap down the slimy tort-feasing shyster lawyers trolling for clients on evening TV. But, since most of the legislature, the Statehouse, the Congress, and the White House are infested with their cohorts, don't expect that to happen.
Better idea: Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US. What you are seeing in this case is a symptom of the problem, not the problem. There is an old, and somewhat tacky saying about polishing manure, or similar ones about putting lipstick on pigs. The comparisons are apt. It takes remarkable levels of self-deception to ignore the reality that the UN is nothing more than a collection of thugs and kakistocrats (look it up) aided and abetted by latter-day Neville Chamberlains. And has *always* been such. Close it down! End it! And send Ban-Ki Moon back to whatever well deserved mediocrity from whence he sprung.
Some 233 years ago, we fought a war to be out from under the rule of kings, dukes, earls, and barons. Now we have some clowns in black robes who seem to believe that they are on Earth to run everything and that we mere subjects are here to do their bidding and obey their every whim. Odd, try as I might I see no such grant of power in the US Constitution, or the Ohio Revised Code either. Perhaps some wiser person might point it out for us. Unless and until that happens, I will regard these black-robed dolts as being guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and agitate for their incarceration on some Devil's Island
Bologna. Nonsense. By this logic, adding a pint of ice cream to a pile of manure will improve the taste, somehow. I'll hand you a spoon and let you taste the result if you are so sure of the outcome. I'll pass, thank you. Some things just can't be fixed, they can only be ended. This is an example of such. That, by the way, includes not only the odious group of thugs in the UNHRC, but extends to the UN as a whole. A more vile band of kakistocratic creeps is hard to imagine this side of Hades. Close it down! Send these bums home. Turn the over-priced building into a flophouse for retired streetwalkers or something, it would greatly improve the moral tone of the joint and also get these louts out of our country.
Let's not get sidetracked here. Mr. Franko's original comment had to do with the newspaper business in general. There are both general and specific problems. The specific ones, meaning those of the locale, are one thing. We know about some of those. I don't regard tolerance for contract killers and extortionists as ''hijinks''. Your mileage may vary. (By the way, such tolerance has more than a bit to do with the reluctance of industry to locate here. Would YOU invest millions here?) With regards to the newspapers in general, it is beyond dispute that many - Washington Post, NY Times, Boston Globe, LA Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, SF Chronicle, St. Petersburg Times, the McClatchy chain, to name a few -- need I go on? are little more than outlets for the worst, most anti-American elements of the far-left fringe of the Democrat Party. There's no hiding it and they really don't try. Add in the noxious leavening of the Associated Presstitutes, and you have a smelly mixture. It is insane to expect citizens to continue to pay for that. Particularly now that there are other news sources that circumvent the local paper and reveal the propaganda for what it is. People are voting with their wallets. Save the papers? Fine. IMPROVE THE PRODUCT!
Oh, please! I think I put my time in just enduring old Esther Hamilton columns and other Vindicator ''contributions'' to the cultural refinements of the area. If that wasn't punishment, I don't know what was. Even the Salem News and the Warren Tribune didn't have anyone that bad. And the point is not to have a ''Republican bias'', or any other one. It is to be complete, and accurate, and to be objective. And that means both in how things are presented and also what things are presented, what things are omitted, and the attention paid to them. Some of the major papers, and some truly ghastly chains (McClatchy and the Gannett line fit, so do others) have a line that is right out of the worst elements of the Democrat Party, and there's no hiding it. Look, you have to engage in grotesque willful blindness not to know that the Vindy has for decades ignored chronic corruption and racketeering, ignored the obvious ties between the Party, the Mob(s), the Unions, and certain ''connected'' local businessmen. Most of us know of them, but the Vindy has long overlooked what the most casual observer can see. Sorry if that offends someone's tender sensibilities.
Actually, the system does not benefit criminals so much as it benefits lawyers. Based upon much observation, I rank professional legalists as being lower on the social scale than truck stop prostitutes, somewhere more on the level of counterfeiters and flim-flam artists. The criminal justice system has become a joke -- look at some of the clowns and knaves we have locally, and that's just the judges. Can't we at least make them wear funny hats or clown suits or something, and stop treating these louts as if they were respectable persons? Yep, Biros is guilty. But the pettifogging barratry practiced by his lawyers, and by a whole raft of judges, is just as reprehensible. Send the lot of them off to clean toilets in a tropical leper colony, there to expiate their sins, and get the stench of their presence out of the nostrils of honest men and women.
When the Constitution was written, ''cruel and unusual'' meant we don't execute by burning alive, drawing and quartering, drowning, etc. Execution by such means as public hanging was constitutional. And if it was constitutional then, it is constitutional today: the document hasn't changed. The notions of idiotic judges and shyster lawyers to the contrary. This mook should have been taking a dirt nap two weeks or less after the sentence was handed down.
And flog the lawyers who are clearly guilty of barratry. Then disbar them.
Posted on October 11 at 3:08 p.m.
Odd. I must have overlooked the large numbers of bombing, stabbings, decapitations, throat slashings, and arsons that were perpetrated by militant Lutherans, Bahai, Greek Orthodox, or Missionary Baptists. Foolish of me.
This is idiocy.
Terror, rape, pillage, murder, and genocide (ask the Armenians, or some of our Lebanese friends) are and have ALWAYS been part of the Muslim experience. Back to the time of Muhammad the faithless and accursed. They're simply maintaining a family tradition. Those of us who are not part of that devil-worshipping cult are entirely correct to suspect them., You may believe in ''moderate Muslims''. Are you as quick to embrace the concept of ''moderate child molesters', or ''moderate cannibals''? Would you be comfortable with a building in the neighborhood identifying it as the meeting place of the Moderate Child Molesters of Struthers? Me neither.,
Let them go back to Riyadh,or Yemen. And stay there.
Posted on October 10 at 1:22 p.m.
What in the world is wrong with you people??
What?
This man is a crook and a thief and a liar. And has been for some time. He was a crook and a corrupt bum when he was sheriff. Those of us who were at the time working in local law enforcement knew it, it was a not-so-funny joke in more than one squad room.
You had evidence of his corruption as sheriff, and proceeded to make him our ''representative'' to the Congress. Proving thereby that massive corruption is 'OK in the Valley'.
You wonder why a string of cockamamie schemes (remember Commuter Aircraft Corp., Airship Enterprises, and several others) have sucked dollars and hope, and run for the exits? Because we have proven for more than 60 years that we will go to any length to stay on the good side of racketeers, corrupt politicians, avaricious unions, and the Democrat Socialist clans. Would you put a big company here if you had the choice? Not if you had a brain in your head, not so long as crooks like Jim Traficant are the image you want of the area we have called home.
Posted on September 12 at 2:14 p.m.
Nonsense.
Start at the beginning.
The federal government has no, repeat, NO lawful or Constitutional role to play in this matter. None. Zip. Any more than the feds have a legitimate say in a local zoning case.
If the state of Ohio or PA or whatever wish to take up the matter, have at it; Leave the folks in Iowa and Texas out of it.
Near universal experience is that federal meddling makes the situation worse. Need examples??
The one thing that government at various levels COULD do, and won't, is to enact tort reform. Slap down the slimy tort-feasing shyster lawyers trolling for clients on evening TV. But, since most of the legislature, the Statehouse, the Congress, and the White House are infested with their cohorts, don't expect that to happen.
Posted on April 16 at 2:41 p.m.
Better idea: Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US. What you are seeing in this case is a symptom of the problem, not the problem.
There is an old, and somewhat tacky saying about polishing manure, or similar ones about putting lipstick on pigs. The comparisons are apt.
It takes remarkable levels of self-deception to ignore the reality that the UN is nothing more than a collection of thugs and kakistocrats (look it up) aided and abetted by latter-day Neville Chamberlains. And has *always* been such.
Close it down! End it!
And send Ban-Ki Moon back to whatever well deserved mediocrity from whence he sprung.
Posted on April 9 at 9:19 p.m.
Some 233 years ago, we fought a war to be out from under the rule of kings, dukes, earls, and barons.
Now we have some clowns in black robes who seem to believe that they are on Earth to run everything and that we mere subjects are here to do their bidding and obey their every whim. Odd, try as I might I see no such grant of power in the US Constitution, or the Ohio Revised Code either. Perhaps some wiser person might point it out for us.
Unless and until that happens, I will regard these black-robed dolts as being guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and agitate for their incarceration on some Devil's Island
Posted on April 8 at 4:17 p.m.
Bologna. Nonsense.
By this logic, adding a pint of ice cream to a pile of manure will improve the taste, somehow. I'll hand you a spoon and let you taste the result if you are so sure of the outcome. I'll pass, thank you.
Some things just can't be fixed, they can only be ended. This is an example of such. That, by the way, includes not only the odious group of thugs in the UNHRC, but extends to the UN as a whole. A more vile band of kakistocratic creeps is hard to imagine this side of Hades.
Close it down! Send these bums home. Turn the over-priced building into a flophouse for retired streetwalkers or something, it would greatly improve the moral tone of the joint and also get these louts out of our country.
Posted on April 8 at 4:11 p.m.
Let's not get sidetracked here. Mr. Franko's original comment had to do with the newspaper business in general. There are both general and specific problems. The specific ones, meaning those of the locale, are one thing. We know about some of those. I don't regard tolerance for contract killers and extortionists as ''hijinks''. Your mileage may vary.
(By the way, such tolerance has more than a bit to do with the reluctance of industry to locate here. Would YOU invest millions here?)
With regards to the newspapers in general, it is beyond dispute that many - Washington Post, NY Times, Boston Globe, LA Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, SF Chronicle, St. Petersburg Times, the McClatchy chain, to name a few -- need I go on? are little more than outlets for the worst, most anti-American elements of the far-left fringe of the Democrat Party. There's no hiding it and they really don't try. Add in the noxious leavening of the Associated Presstitutes, and you have a smelly mixture. It is insane to expect citizens to continue to pay for that. Particularly now that there are other news sources that circumvent the local paper and reveal the propaganda for what it is. People are voting with their wallets.
Save the papers? Fine. IMPROVE THE PRODUCT!
Posted on April 6 at 11:50 a.m.
Oh, please!
I think I put my time in just enduring old Esther Hamilton columns and other Vindicator ''contributions'' to the cultural refinements of the area. If that wasn't punishment, I don't know what was. Even the Salem News and the Warren Tribune didn't have anyone that bad.
And the point is not to have a ''Republican bias'', or any other one. It is to be complete, and accurate, and to be objective. And that means both in how things are presented and also what things are presented, what things are omitted, and the attention paid to them. Some of the major papers, and some truly ghastly chains (McClatchy and the Gannett line fit, so do others) have a line that is right out of the worst elements of the Democrat Party, and there's no hiding it.
Look, you have to engage in grotesque willful blindness not to know that the Vindy has for decades ignored chronic corruption and racketeering, ignored the obvious ties between the Party, the Mob(s), the Unions, and certain ''connected'' local businessmen. Most of us know of them, but the Vindy has long overlooked what the most casual observer can see.
Sorry if that offends someone's tender sensibilities.
Posted on April 6 at 11:39 a.m.
Actually, the system does not benefit criminals so much as it benefits lawyers.
Based upon much observation, I rank professional legalists as being lower on the social scale than truck stop prostitutes, somewhere more on the level of counterfeiters and flim-flam artists.
The criminal justice system has become a joke -- look at some of the clowns and knaves we have locally, and that's just the judges. Can't we at least make them wear funny hats or clown suits or something, and stop treating these louts as if they were respectable persons?
Yep, Biros is guilty. But the pettifogging barratry practiced by his lawyers, and by a whole raft of judges, is just as reprehensible. Send the lot of them off to clean toilets in a tropical leper colony, there to expiate their sins, and get the stench of their presence out of the nostrils of honest men and women.
Posted on April 4 at 9:26 a.m.
When the Constitution was written, ''cruel and unusual'' meant we don't execute by burning alive, drawing and quartering, drowning, etc. Execution by such means as public hanging was constitutional. And if it was constitutional then, it is constitutional today: the document hasn't changed. The notions of idiotic judges and shyster lawyers to the contrary.
This mook should have been taking a dirt nap two weeks or less after the sentence was handed down.
And flog the lawyers who are clearly guilty of barratry. Then disbar them.