Tuesday, July 20, 2010

07/20/10 Greenwich Post Breaking News - Where IIs The Greenwich Time?

Covering the news of Greenwich, Connecticut

Breaking News

Pemberwick murderer gets 40 years.

Written by Maggie Caldwell
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Breaking News (Thursday, 3:24 p.m.): A Greenwich man found guilty in the brutal murder of his former daughter-in-law has received the maximum sentence of 40 years in prison.
A judge ruled Tuesday afternoon that Gerardo Lombardi, 77, will serve the time for the shooting and stabbing death of Alison McKnight on Sept. 4, 2008.
During the trial, prosecutors argued that Mr. Lombardi killed Ms. McKnight over her plans for property at 36 Nicholas Ave., which is next door to where he lived at 38 Nicholas Ave.
Ms. McKnight won the property in a 2008 divorce settlement from Mr. Lombardi’s son Joseph, to whom she had been married for 30 years.
Full coverage will follow in this week's issue of the Greenwich Post.

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Thirty Minutes Later......

40 years for manslaughter

A 77-year-old Pemberwick man convicted of killing his ex-daughter-in-law in 2008 gets the maximum sentence Gerardo Lombardi could have received.

Lombardi sat emotionless as members of the victim's family expressed their sadness and anger as they recounted the 2008 slaying.

Lombardi was charged with murder in September 2008 for shooting and stabbingAlison McKnight to death as she gardened in a property next door to Lombardi's Nicholas Avenue home.....

Week After Week, The Tiny Greenwich Post Newspaper Has Scooped The Greenwich Time

When Is Hearst Newspaper President Steven Swartz Going To Fire Greenwich Time Editor David McCumber?

07/20/10 Change the Congress Endorses Rick Torres

Change the Congress Endorses Rick Torres for Congress

Byram Friends,

Change the Congress in 2010, a Federal PAC, is endorsing Rick Torres for the United States Congress for the 4th District of Connecticut.

Here's what Change the Congress in 2010 wants for Connecticut 4th District voters: An honest representative. A trustworthy person. A person with real experience in life. A person who lives and works and volunteers in his community – his community in Connecticut. A person who cares about people. A person who has paid taxes. A person who has balanced a budget. A person who has created jobs – real jobs. A person who will put his God and his country above himself. A person who will not sell out to the lobbyists. Rick Torres is that person.

Originally, Torres was not an Endorsed Candidate but Rick wouldn't give up on himself ... and wouldn't let Change the Congress in 2010 give up on him either. Rick Torres has probably been researched more than any other endorsed candidate. But once you learn all about Rick, you understand why he won't give up on himself and wouldn't allow Change the Congress in 2010 to give up on him. Giving up means losing ... you have to go way back in Rick Torres' life to understand why he won't give up. Although born in the United States, Rick returned to Cuba with his family ... Castro was no better than the previous dictator but it took years for him to get back to the states. When he did, he lived in public housing. Had public assistance. Rick was determined to get out of the welfare trap. He did.

Initially a registered Democrat -- having been attracted to the "social justice" rhetoric of the Democratic Party -- Rick in due course became first a closet Republican, and then a full-fledged Conservative. The more Rick looked around, the more inescapable was the conclusion: it was exactly the 'compassion' of the big government—professed by the Democratic Party—that was incentivizing poverty. On the other hand, the only logical solution to end poverty was to help people get off the government dole. Now he wants to represent the 4th District of Connecticut and work to get all of the people out of the welfare trap, off of public assistance, and into homes they work to own.

It's a tall order but Torres doesn't mind hard work. Today a successful self-made businessman, Rick never forgets his humble beginnings. He spent his post-Cuba childhood across the street from P.T. Barnum Public Housing Project while living in section eight public housing. Rick attended Bullard Havens Technical high school where he became a master carpenter and Rick will proudly show off the house he built with his own hands.

Rick Torres is a Change the Congress in 2010 Endorsed Candidate because he didn't give up. Now it's the turn of Connecticut 4th District not to give up ... Rick Torres epitomizes the American Dream ... he got out of the welfare trap and became a productive and successful citizen. Rick has signed the Contract From America ... pledging to fight for this country. Rick won't give up. Because he didn't allow Change the Congress in 2010 to give up on him either, we are proud to endorse Rick Torres for Congress from the 4th District of Connecticut.

Our mission at Change the Congress in 2010 IS to change the Congress … our house has become riddled with liars and thieves and cowards, not serving us but rather themselves and not even their country. Join Change the Congress in 2010 and support Rick Torres.

Catherine Welborn Executive Director Change the Congress in 2010, a Federal PAC PAC# C00465294 www.ChangetheCongressin2010.com

Sincerely,

Monday, July 19, 2010

07/19/10 Reader Submitted Comments: Greenwich Resident Ned Lamont Is Hopelessly Inexperienced And Naive Just Like His Great Grand-Father Thomas Lamont

The Fruit Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree:

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

Photo: Flash Back To 1929 And Black Friday. Thomas W. Lamont Graces The Cover Of Time Magazine Just Before He Used His Position At J P Morgan To Try And Inject Confidence Back Into The Stock Market Through Massive Purchases Of Blue Chip Stocks.

Let's Not Get Fooled Again.....

Ned Lamont Is The Most Naive Gubernatorial Candidate

Ned Lamont recently said, “We haven’t earned the right to raise anybody’s taxes,”

Then Ned Lamont turns around and declares that this should not be considered a “read my lips” pledge against raising taxes.

That is, Ned Lamont will raise taxes

even if he doesn’t earn the right to.

Lamont declares that he wants to “show taxpayers that we’ll fundamentally reform government,” and he identifies three huge areas of state spending that are ripe for review — medical care, payroll, and retirement benefits.

But any fool can try to get more Medicaid money out of the federal government; promising to prune “top-heavy management” is just pandering to the state employee unions and won’t save much money because so few state employees are managers, nearly all being unionized,

Basically Lamont offers no ideas for curbing

state government’s pension obligations.

Often Ned Lamont notes, “fundamental reform” won’t pay off right away, won’t be arranged in the month the new governor has before his first budget is due to the General Assembly.

Ned Lamont can't deliver “fundamental reform”

because he has no clue what it is.

Mr. Lamont’s main idea for confronting the state budget gap of about $4 billion, a revenue shortage of as much as 20%, seems to be only to gather representatives of the most interested parties and have cordial negotiations.

Of course this is not only naive — Lamont’s most important endorsement comes from the state’s largest teachers union, the Connecticut Education Association, notorious for refusing contract concessions — but also a transparent dodge.

For among those interested in the budget are the people themselves, and they are supposed to be represented by the people they elect as governor and state legislators, who owe them a little more than vague assurance that everything will be negotiated later with someone else.

Indeed, Lamont’s whole campaign, in which he first faces the candidate endorsed by the Democratic state convention, former Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy, in the primary Aug. 10, increasingly looks like a dodge.

Clueless Lamont’s commercials emphasize Connecticut’s need for jobs, with which everyone might agree, but fail to identify any means to that end, even as job growth isn’t the most urgent task of state government — putting its own bankrupt house in order is.

Ned Lamont’s commercials also emphasize his opposition to “no-bid contracts,” about which there has been no controversy lately.

Asked in an interview the other day to explain what his commercials aim at here, Lamont could not identify any no-bid contracts.

Maybe the phrase just resonated with a few expensive campaign focus groups.

The emptiness of Lamont’s campaign may be demonstrated most by his refusal to debate Former Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy in the month before the primary, his refusal even to participate in the New London Day’s debate at the Garde Theater, traditionally a major campaign event.

Mr. Lamont explains his refusal as a matter of wanting to use the time to meet more people. But for meeting people and giving them a good look at a candidate, not much could surpass a debate in a big auditorium with an audience of more than a thousand and a television audience many times that along with news coverage generally.

The Desperate Ned Lamont apparently means to sit on his lead in Democratic primary polls and avoid getting shown up by a much more experienced and informed rival, confident that his nonsensical explanation about not debating will hurt him less than a competition broadcast statewide.

The Lamont"s Have Been Naively Screwing Up America For Years

Nativity In Politics Is Very Dangerous

Mr. Lamont, who is the great grandson of Thomas J, Lamont - a partner of the banking and finance firm J P Morgan And Company.

In 1920, Thomas Lamont undertook a semiofficial mission to Japan to protect American financial issues in Asia. He however did not aggressively challenge Japanese efforts to build a sphere of influence in Manchuria.

In 1926, Thomas Lamont, self-described as "something like a missionary" for Italian facism, secured a $100 million loan for Benito Mussolini..

Then There Was The Lamont's Biggest Failure

On Black Thurday in 1929, Thomas Lamont was the acting head of J.P. Morgan & Co. He tried to inject confidence back into the stock market through massive purchases of blue chip stocks.

The Lamont's prospered during the Great Depression while working and middle class Connecticut residents suffered greatly.

But There Are Even More Historical Naive Lamont Screw Ups

Thomas Lamont was an influential member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and one of the most important agents for the Morgan investments abroad. He was an unofficial mentor to the Herbert Hoover administrations, and informed both the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan.

The Dawes Plan (as proposed by the Dawes Committee, chaired by Charles G. Dawes) was an attempt following World War I to collect war reparations debt from Germany. When after five years the plan proved to be unsuccessful, the new and improved Young Plan was adopted in 1929 to replace it.

The Young Plan was a program for settlement of German reparations debts after World War I The Young Plan was presented by the committee headed by Owen D. Young. After the Dawes Plan was put into operation and it became apparent that Germany could not meet the huge annual payments, especially over an indefinite period of time.

The Young Plan was opposed by parts of the political spectrum in Germany. Conservative groups had been most outspoken in opposition to reparations and seized on opposition to the Young Plan as an issue. A coalition was formed of various conservative groups. One of the groups that joined this coalition was Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists German Workers Party (NAZI), a group which had previously been dismissed as an extremist fringe by the more mainstream conservative parties.

Thomas Lamont's naive Young Plan was was a major factor in bringing Hitler and the Nazis into power and bringing about World War II.

Ned Lamont made his political name four years ago by challenging U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman for renomination by Connecticut Democrats.

However, today all that has congealed into mere name recognition even as a new campaign demands a lot more than coasting on it as millions of dollars that are spent on Television ads trashing the Connecticut Democratic Party's Choice - Dan Malloy.

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Thursday, July 15, 2010

The Conditon And Athe Appearance Of The Byram River

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

07/09/10 The Reefer Candidate Of Connecticut's Fourth Congressional District:: Rob Merkle

Fourth Congressional

Candidate

Rob Merkle Says ....

You Wont Read About This In The Greenwich Time.....

Tom Foley Is Not The Only One With An Arrest Record

Q. If Rob Merkle and another potheads are the back of a car, then who is driving?
A. The cop!

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Friday, July 9, 2010

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Thursday, July 8, 2010

07/08/10 Reminder Comcast Debate Tonight

Danbury Comcast Channel 23 Debate Tonight

Hi Byram Friends,

I wanted to remind you that the first debate with my primary opponents is tonight on Comcast. Please see the event details below. And remember, if you are in the area, stop by beforehand at my house for a relaxing evening.

Thursdays with Rick
The Home of Rick and Michele Torres
108 Midland Street Bridgeport, CT
Thursday July 08, 5:30pm-8:30pm

Comcast TV Debate

9pm-10pm

Comcast Studios Channel 23

I hope to see you at some of my events this week. If I do not, please remember that I do need your generous contributions to win this election. A contribution of $25, $50, or $100 can help me win.

P.S. If you haven't seen it yet, please watch my video interview with Judge Napolitano on Freedom Watch.

Sincerely,

Rick Torres

07/08/10 A Historical Map Of East Portchester AKA Byram, Connecticut

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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

07/07/10 Gubernatorial Candidate Dan Malloy Slams Greenwich Resident Ned Lamont For Skipping New London Debate

The Chicken Man Is Afraid Of Getting Plucked:

Greenwich Millionaire Ned Lamont Is Running Scared

Dan Malloy, the endorsed Democratic candidate for Connecticut governor, is criticizing his primary opponent Ned Lamont for skipping a planned televised debate inNew London later this month.

The Day of New London, which traditionally co-sponsors the debate with WTNH-TV, announced Tuesday that Lamont is refusing to participate, forcing them to cancel the live event. The Republican candidates for governor will still face off on July 28.

Malloy and Lamont appeared together last month in their first TV debate. Malloy says he thinks Lamont won't participate in a second debate because a campaign focus group showed he did not perform well.

A spokeswoman confirmed Lamont is not participating, saying that he wants to talk directly to voters between now and the Aug. 10 primary. She says there was no focus group.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

07/06/10 Byram Spends Tuesday's With Torres

Tuesday's with Torres

Hi Byram Friends,

I hope that you and your family had a wonderful July 4th weekend. I was able to get in some time to relax with Michele and the kids and I also had the wonderful opportunity to speak at the large Stratford Tea Party.

Please watch the video of my speech on Youtube

Please see below the events that I will be holding this week and click the link to RSVP.

Michele's Volunteer Meeting

Harborview Market
218 Harborview Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06605
Tuesday, July 06, 7pm-8:30pm

Monroe Town Hall Meeting
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library
7 Fan Hill Road Monroe, CT
Wednesday, July 07, 6:30pm-8:00pm

Thursday's with Rick
The Home of Rick and Michele Torres
108 Midland Street Bridgeport, CT
Thursday July 08, 5:30pm-8:30pm

Comcast TV Debate

9pm-10pm

Comcast Studios Channel 23

P.S. If you haven't seen it yet, please watch my video interview with Judge Napolitano on Freedom Watch.

Sincerely,

Rick Torres