Posts from ‘October, 2008’

Family’s Path to the Right:  Silvio the Plumber

Long before Joe the Plumber was on the political scene, there was Silvio the Plumber, and were he alive he would be voting for Obama. (And if half of the ACORN voter registration fraud stories are true, he very well may be!)

Silvio the Plumber is [...]

I did NOT see this in the NY Times.  The men and women in harms way overwhelmingly want John McCain as their commander-in-chief.  According to a Military Times poll, McCain enjoys a significant lead among military voters:
—————————J. S.  McCain    B. H. Obama
Overall                        [...]

Saturday Night Live has become a fixture in the 2008 Presidential race — profiting so much from the popularity of their political skits, that they have “politics only” prime time specials.  One of SNL’s most memorable satires was a parody of a CNN debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  In that skit a character [...]

Think the most you can give to help the McCain or Obama campaigns is $2,300 for the primary and $2,300 for the general election? Think again. It is a myth.
The New York Times reports that the fine print in the campaign laws permits donors to contribute FAR MORE than those statutory limits. (See:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/us/politics/21donate.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=surpass%20campaign%20limits&st=cse&oref=slogin)

The article also [...]

About 70,000 fans at Giants stadium got a glimpse this past Sunday of what Greenwich residents can see every Sunday during the autumn. The half-time show at the New York Giants victory over the San Francisco 49ers was a series of scrimmage-plays between the Cos Cob Crushers and the Putnam Generals, two of the six [...]

Those speeding in Greenwich beware! “OurGreenwich.com” has learned that the Greenwich Police Department is equipping nearly all of its patrol cars with new, state-of-the-art radar, courtesy of a grant. And speeders need to be on the lookout not just for those marked and unmarked Crown Vics. GPD is now the proud owner of a couple [...]

Driving to work, contemplating what I should write for my first blog, I noticed dueling signs on Valley Road. Travelling west, on the left (appropriately) was a house with an Obama sign and directly across the street a house with a McCain-Palin sign. I thought I could write about neighbors disagreeing without being disagreeable – [...]

Below is a letter I submitted to the editor of the New York Times, but which they decided not to publish.
Stacey Stowe’s article “A Name Change to Protect the Innocent” (New York Times, October 21, 2005) begins by referring to residents of a certain street in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut [...]

I’ve seen the passion scores of times — not the movie (I’ve only seen that twice), but the passion that my faith believes is relived whenever one person makes a completely selfless, significant sacrifice for another — especially for a person he does not “owe” or perhaps even know. For example, the World War II [...]

I was “killed” twice this fall – once by a “FATS” machine and once by a classmate. I am fortunate enough to live to discuss it because the “killings” occurred during my training as a member of the first graduating class of the Greenwich Citizens Police Academy.
The brainchild of Chief James Walters, the 39 hours [...]