http://ourgreenwich.com/franktrotta Cos Cob "Redneck" Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:39:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en HERE ARE MY FAVORITE POSTS.  CLICK ON TITLE TO SEE FULL POST... 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 ... http://ourgreenwich.com/franktrotta/2009/10/16/authors-favorite-posts/ *AUTHOR'S FAVORITE POSTS IN BOLD. 2009 OCTOBER 2009 Oct 18th, 2009  Political Pandora. Choose your news, choose your music. What's not to like? But is customized content just making Americans insular and polarized, parochial and provincial? Oct 12th, 2009  New Superintendent Proves Himself a Pragmatic Realist. For the second time in as ... http://ourgreenwich.com/franktrotta/2009/09/06/list-of-trotta-blog-posts/ Weren’t the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) talking? An  FBI press release this morning proclaimed  “NEW MOST WANTED TERRORIST: First Domestic Fugitive Added to List” and stated that the domestic terrorist being sought is “an animal rights extremist wanted for allegedly bombing two San Francisco-area office buildings in 2003.” But ... http://ourgreenwich.com/franktrotta/2009/04/21/a-tale-of-two-worlds-rightwing-extremists-leftwing-extremists-the-fbi-and-dhs/ A favorite tactic of terrorists is to perform a decoy attack before a major attack. Not only is the attention of authorities and the public diverted, but the first attack is monitored closely by the terrorists. They watch to see how the authorities react. The first attack has the additional ... http://ourgreenwich.com/franktrotta/2009/03/15/between-the-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/ On Wednesday, Catholics from parishes from around the state will descend upon the state Capitol and Legislative Office Building to protest a bill before the Judiciary Committee.  In my view, the bill, number 1098, is a modern version of persecution of the Catholic Church. The bill is specific only to ... http://ourgreenwich.com/franktrotta/2009/03/10/government-should-stay-out-of-church-business/ On Tuesday, before a joint session of Congress, President Obama made a “George H. W. Bush: Read My Lips, No New Taxes”-type statement when he said “if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime.  I repeat: not one single ... http://ourgreenwich.com/franktrotta/2009/02/26/presidential-math/ Not much could shock me – or so I thought.  I certainly was shocked as a student at the FBI Citizens Academy when in one of the optional exercises some of us watched over the shoulder of FBI agents in a computer center working on an Internet sting.  I saw ... http://ourgreenwich.com/franktrotta/2009/01/29/whos-watching-out-for-our-kids/ I’ve been invited to five Presidential Inaugurations, but have never been to one – too much glitz for my tastes. Generally, I have tried to ignore this quadrennial ritual, but this year that was impossible. One would have to be comatose to have avoided the inauguration of Barack Obama as ... http://ourgreenwich.com/franktrotta/2009/01/21/a-an-historic-event/ The new year saw the retirement of Michael Pacewicz, Greenwich Police Department’s only remaining Captain. GPD Chief David Ridberg commented that Captain Pacewicz served in almost every division in the department, and did so well. As a member of the GPD Community and Police Partnership (CAPP) I got to know ... http://ourgreenwich.com/franktrotta/2009/01/18/not-a-pretty-picture-the-local-print-media-chose-not-to-focus/ Tomorrow begins “ordinary time.” For those of us who “bleed blue” football season painfully ended today as the Giants were eliminated from the playoffs. We don’t care about the NFC and AFC championships next week, or even the Super Bowl. Tomorrow marks the beginning of the countdown until Giants summer ... http://ourgreenwich.com/franktrotta/2009/01/11/ordinary-time/