To Mark Critz

Mark:  I now reside in Mike Kelly's district, but was represented by Altmire.  Following the corrupting of the Democratic Party, I could no longer stomach the NBC / Obama-worshipping media and became a PUMA ... my first exposure to Fox News was Neil Cavuto when he interviewed Diane Mantouvalos of HireHeels.com about the Just Say No Deal Coalition.  

Altmire goes on Fox because THAT'S WHERE THE VIEWERS ARE!!!  His remarks were heard as the sort of congressional self-respect we want from members of an equal branch of government.  It should not be characterized as "bashing" Democrats.  When I circulated his nominating petitions, I got a lot of crap from 'so called' democrats who peevishly refused to sign  and who advocated loudly for measures intended to force our Congressman in line with the Progressive Agenda.  Point is, Altmire got re-elected while Obama Care supporters did not.  Bashing Republicans doesn't win votes either.  

Seek the Third Alternative.  Give the People Respect: find out what they want and introduce legislation to give it to them.  Force them to swallow what the "Party wants them to have" and lose.  

The party has demonstrated contempt for hard-working legitimacy and has failed to understand the numbers who are hovering out of reach by virtue of the view that the Democrats are somehow building a sympathy vote against contrived claims of abuse.  People want STRENGTH in their leadership.  They are getting, instead, a spin by perceived cheaters crying that their opponents cheat!  We must listen to Fox in self-defense.  It is a Citizen's duty to get BOTH sides, just as it is the duty of those who keep score to keep BOTH SIDES.  The hard-hardheadedness of the Democrats put the Republicans in position to gerrymander the districts.  The last two elections, wherein the Democrats were shown the door by the Voters, was the result of the DNC cheating to commandeer their convention.  Nothing Obama does is for the Country, nor even for fellow elected Democrats.  It's for himself and his own re-election prospects.  As he has done in the two previous seasons, he puts his democratic colleagues in an impossible position requiring them to oppose his ill-considered legislation or lose.  Democrats are in the minority because of their leadership and a mal-practicing 4th Estate.  Read the editorials around the state about the view of Amanda Holt's redistricting plan and get the sense that the editors would cheer on any effort to remove the partisanship from the process.  When I talk to Independents, Altmire gets high marks.  Unfortunately, the young people who still think politics is a game will feed your campaign this same manipulative propaganda, but to those of us who have withheld our support until we see what we're seeking, we are now "playing" Obama like he plays us.  Wait til they can't do anything about it and stiff them.  Do the very thing you just promised them you'd never do and laugh all the way to the bank.  He had to read every word of the speech in which he justified his actions "as a Christian," because he has zero familiarity with the life.  Those of us who do what we say we're going to do and can FACE our supporters aren't playing a game.  We are riding out the insanity that has gripped our party.  

They knew he was a psychopath and yet .....

The boys had begun talking about the night their father destroyed their family.  "Mommy was in the trunk...  And then Mommy got lost."  they recalled.  Nobody believed his story.  Yet they allowed those children to be in his presence.  

An innocent, gently well-intended social worker, just doing her job, was induced to deliver the victims to his trap, and she could only call 911 as the children eluded her, rushing out of the car and into the death-lock maneuver of their father.
How do we stand by, paralyzed by shock, and permit the courts - whom we understand to be out of control - to fuck this up?

Susan Cox Powell will emerge in her own good time.  Like Holly Notestine, her remains lie in the elements, and another innocent, unsuspecting person just going about their business, will be the eyes to whom she will reveal her fate.  As a society, we add the details and continue to work through the incidents to come, in time, to understand men who abuse.  The common "thread" awaits our discernment.

Super Bowl Center - Dawson Enters The Hall

Steeler Center, Dermonte Dawson, perennial Pro Bowler under Bill Cowher, was among those elected yesterday to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  The NFL does this for their performers and the writers make every effort to indulge.  Although not eligible until five years following their retirement, the players all express humility when announced.  It's that "hovering" between making it and not expecting to that is a place prospective enshrinees must avoid.  For the Fans, it's a distraction permitting them to question how one or another great (Jerome Bettis) doesn't make it on the first year of eligibility, and the ballot-casters who are infused with the protective principles that make waiting for it a badge of integrity.

Playing for the drama, the Game and for the merit of the honor, these writers who have witnessed the greats, are not as inclined to bestow the nod on a player just because he was a Steeler.  Fans in Fall River get that, as do those around the world who grudgingly concede a Steeler score but resent that there are so many of them.  Spread the Wealth Liberalism has its roots in sentiments experienced when the Hall of Fame Committee makes its picks official.

Winners can't help keeping score.  Wanna-be Winners ditto.  

Martin with Teacher

Obama supporters, take the Steeler Nation, the Audacity to Fashion a Black & Gold Flag with 3 hyper-cycloids where 50 5-Points should go, 13 Black/Gold Stripes and a Terrible Towel to the tote-board.  Two former Steelers, two Pitt Players will be inducted in Canton on August 4.  One of them, Jack Butler, is 84 years old!  Following his playing days, Butler spent 44 years scouting for the Rooneys and heard his name called - finally - fifty years after having retired.  FIFTY!!! What an inspiration this is to those of us who are pluggers.  Curtis Martin, elected more promptly, credited his personal ethic in his acknowledgement; "Shows what can happen if you do the right thing."

Read more: Steelers' Dermontti Dawson, Jack Butler make Hall of Fame - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/s_780105.html#ixzz1lWKwYwiu

He doesn't say "What WILL happen, but what CAN happen."  Here-in lies the inspiration.  For the generation coming up, the generation that loaded uninformed votes into the bank that elected the 2nd incompetent in a row to the presidency, this is crazy.  To those of us who step into the shower shaking our heads at them, this is akin to those who questioned the Recording Academy for feting Steely Dan over Briteny Spears.  To us, it's the body of work for which we are recognized; like convicting OJ for armed robbery, like the Oscar to Kidman for "The Hours,"  Susan Lucci for the "Alright, Already!"

Steady, reliably good work is delivered by those who are in it primarily for the purpose of making their folks proud.  Folks who recognize and respect, affirm faith in goodness as its own reward.  It matters less that you carry off a trophy than that you carry off the quality performance, gave it your best, went "ALL IN" for the effort with no regard to the gravy train that has historically followed the winners.

I guess it will be a rematch between the Pats and the Giants today.  I'm again rooting for the Giants, because, deep down, I don't get the New England Blue State / Kennedy-Concessions.  I don't get how a soil that absorbed the blood of the Minute Men can diddle near the fulcrum instead of coming down definitively on one side or the other of the see-saw.  The New England Voter, from Maine to Rhode Island, talks self-determination but votes for slackers.  What's with that?

I wish the New England Voter would get the Butler attitude and just hang in, hang on, hold 'em responsible and discern the truth in their representatives' character.  Bernie Sanders?  Ted Kennedy?  Barney Frank?  Snow and Dukakis?  How is it Kentucky isn't in New England?  You folks don't stand for ANYTHING!  It's ok to look the other way when Belichick and Brady use every edge they can concoct.  It's ok to register Independent yet Vote Democrat 70% of the time.  It's OK, but it's chickenshit!

Martin, while a Pitt graduate and a Pittsburgh native who grew up under the hyper-cycloid stars, made his Mother proud.  Made his hometown friends proud and made his Schools proud.  One of his Schools is that one that stays on purpose.  To avoid trouble and to stay close to his Mom who stuck with him when his dad turned to drugs, Curtis did the right thing each time he was faced with a decision that offered him the choice between taking and giving.  From the School of Fidelity to Purpose, Martin takes his diploma to Canton where he'll remind us to take our satisfaction side by side with the Butler story.  Though it seems no recognition comes your way, turn your resentment at being snubbed into deeply abiding self respect for doing the right thing, for giving part of your best for others to enjoy and for going All In on those things that make your days right.  Jack Butler waited 50 years, but balances the satisfaction that comes with a job done well.  

Bully Pulp - Pretentious Preach

The pressure's on from the Obama camp; a guy who "cancelled" the 2011 National Day of Prayer but observed Ramedan is touting his "Christian" stripe with a slug at those of us who hear Gospel and take a moment to self-examine... the same day a brou-ha-ha erupts over his administration's influence on the distribution of funds for the care of breast cancer patients...

Ask what YOU can do for your Country and the Pretendident will smugly assert that ANYTHING you do for him is the right, moral and religiously relevent thing to do.  I've often compared Obats' insipid reasoning and inability to converse intelligently with the "unconvinced," to 70's Hare Crishnas who marauded airports in gangs, hitting up passers-by for cash elicited via a combination of suckiing you in with a floral offering and pinning you to the most narrow interpretation of your basic decency.

"For me as a Christian, ..." (and aside kudos to Orin Hatch for referring to the Occupant of the Oval Office while calling him out for his "walk on water" over-reach using our Christian and deeply held beliefs as a connection to our will to serve.) this wicked step-sister played the Jesus card to intimidate any who question his caste-in-stone-demand for your money.

It's no wonder the bitter clingers are going deeper inward and tightening down with the guns and churches.  Where the Catholic Church once applauded the feel good dismissive to those who questioned his birth and credentials they now recoil in dismay at the depths to which the Preacher in the bully pulpit would use-em-and-lose-em on the birth control issues.  Manchild recipient of unlimited props and hand-overs  continues to hold court in the shallow, shallow surf of the corporal works of mercy while asserting that the coveting of prosperous members' goods is driven by Christian principles.

Back when the Catholics were first losing their members we heard countless of those "losing their religion" blaming it on the end of their patience with priests who hammered them endlessly for money prompting them to look elsewhere for spiritual guidance.

Like being "rapped" for money, even when you bow heads to pray?  Let's just say, the "Christian" for a prayer day who is also a Muslim on Ramedan and a secularist when in San Francisco (named after a Saint who had his own personal relationship with God) is playing you.  The religious bullying is a gesture too often use by Users who just don't know when to say when.