Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain!

Hey Chris, we all thought you were going to move if you lost the election. Ok, so move already!!

Chris - GO!

Sorry spelling

Lets have a competing rally in front of Margarets house on Dubois Street. Wonder if she would enjoy it?

After Rague's little moronathon, who will pay to clean up the slime?

Thes Occupy Wall Street movement is really harmiful to the American society. However, I do understand why Occupy folks are upset; they have the similar concerns as the Tea Party folks. Both are concerned about the future of the Unitied States and the lack of opportunities for personal growth. The key difference is ideology. Occupy Wall Street thinks that the root cause of the current economic stagnation is due to the capitalists (ie the top 1% ). While the Tea Party folks believe is the overreaching federal government.

I disagree more with the Occupy folks because they think that "haves" do not pay their fair share of taxes (a propaganda theme from the Obama Administration). I disagee w/ this premise because 1) top 1% and 5% pay a large share of the tax burden, while the bottom 50% don't pay any taxes; and 2) the top 1% brings tremenous economic benefits to the remaining 99% (if top 1% left the country or shifted their capital out of the United States, the remaining 99% will be much poorer, (eg study Argentina's economic history).

To correct our problem, we need 100% of America to come together and make fundamental reform in our tax code, regulations, education, health system, entitlements, etc. We need to reduce the federal cost burden to a level that is aligned to the historical federal tax revenues which is 18% of GDP. Increasing taxes will not fix it. We gave a spending bubble at fed & state levels, which will get worse with the aging population.

Sorry I couldn;t make it. I'm busy occupying my desk. At my job. Where I do work. To pay taxes. To support. Folks protesting me. That want more of my money. While doing nothing. If anyone of them are serios about wanting work, I need some brush cleared in my yard. I'd be happy to pay minimum wage. If they don;t accept the offer. They don't really want to work. They just want free handouts.

To the organizers: don't you think the town has better uses for the $10,000 spent on this folly?

Im no expert, but by the pictures I see , it appears that there are less than 5,000 people there ( it looks like around 11 people, 4 geese, 3 squirrels, and 15 cops).
To the people wondering who would clean up the mess, I have a glad sandwich bag that might take care of 99% of the trash. (I saw 20% of the crowd put a coffee cup down (2 styrofoam cups).

I am in favor of this occupy protest. I have lived the Wall Street life. Yes, I really rose to the rank of CEO. Oh the things I have seen. There is far too much arrogance associated with money and Wall Street. I eventually left that world. Sure I could have stayed and made more money, but at what cost? Spending 12 hours a day hanging around people who turned my stomach. Do you know what it's like to go to dinner at a restaurant and have the person dining with me loudly and crudely gargle their wine?? Everyone else in the restaurant is turning to look at us as this moron is making a hideously loud spewing sound so as to enhance the flavor, or so he says. I'm convinced it had more to do with getting everyone to look at him. That world has far to much arrogance for my taste. Glad to be done with it. Rally on OWS!

formerceo

I used to be in the occupy wall street crowd. But then i saw people who didnt bathe, complained about everything and accomplished nothing. Sure, I could have stayed sponging off society, while exclaiming they paid too little, but I decided to work.
While I was part of the OWS movement, I also lied a lot and said I was a former CEO and thought that portraying anyone with money as being a jerk was believable.
But now that I obtained a brain, and common sense, I realize how idiotic I must have been when I told people about obviously false things to make rich people look like idiots.

FormerCEO - Aricept or Reminyl can be helpful. Exelon......

FomerCeo: A former wall street CEO lamenting about the uncouth behavior while he was a master of the universe. Now cashed out and has found religion. Too much arrogance. Now cashed out, and can sit back and criticize. How sweet it is!

Anyone want to take bets on whether "former CEO and dry are the same person, hiding behind different sock puppet ID's?
Former CEO: "Do you know what it's like to go to dinner at a restaurant and have the person dining with me loudly and crudely gargle their wine?? Everyone else in the restaurant is turning to look at us as this moron is making a hideously loud spewing sound so as to enhance the flavor, or so he says. I'm convinced it had more to do with getting everyone to look at him. That world has far to much arrogance for my taste"

Dry
4:43 pm on Thursday, March 17, 2011
... I kind of put that label on the people who order a bottle of wine... you know the ones... after the self-aggrandizing soliloquy which of course has to mention “complexity”, “mid-palate” and “leafiness”. The best part being when the wine snob (isn’t that redundant?) takes the first sip and proceeds to gargle with the vino. ROFL! I’d discipline my 4 year old if she ever tried that trick with her orange juice, yet adults perform this baffling act much to the admiration of the other sommeliers-in-training present at the restaurant “tableaux” .... ooo la la, I feel so superior speaking fake french! Now I understand the allure of being a morally superior wine aficionado and will henceforth feel humiliated and excluded sipping that diet coke!

Daddy needs to take away little Cole's credit card and tell him to get a job

People of Darien, you do realize that Luca and Joyce Ishimata are the same person? Plus a "few" more ids. You remember Joyce:

"I understand, and agree with Mr Albelino"

"Mr Albelino I think your points are valid."

Luca, please deny it so I'll have a valid reason to post the details... which will only serve to embarrass the heck out of you.

Occupy Darien may be a 'WASHOUT' for Margaret A. (Anne?) Rague http://www.yelp.com/biz/rague-margaret-a-esq-darien ?'AKA'? Margaret R. Luedecker http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/06820-ct-margaret-luedecker-1458316.html ??? Is this the same person? (address is the same), does anyone know? Thanks in advance.-Rev. Barb

A few comments have been deleted. Please refrain from insulting your fellow Patch users. Thanks!

stop giving these gutter snipes any media. They are not worthy. Occupy the white house and the capitol --that is where your problems begin and end.

Rev Sexton - I believe so. Margaret Rague Luedecker. Divorced from a Warren Luedecker

Rev. Barb...According to another blog I read yesterday, they are, in fact, the same individual.

whats with the terrible pictures? To hard to center the subject and take a picture without a mouth being open or a hand in the face?

Yeah, totally. Can't believe Patch didn't even bring any lighting equipment or makeup for this historic event.

Really Felipe? And read up on the rule of thirds before you open YOUR mouth.

Kudos to Patch for doing this 'Live Blog' on OCCUPY DARIEN. It takes guts, perseverance and vigilance--not an easy job at all. But it serves to allow people to 'vent', when they might otherwise not have a 'platform' from which to speak. Tempers may flare, but I know we can all strive to keep it REASONABLY civil, if we put our minds to it ; ) Rev. Barbara Sexton

Has someone reconfirmed this $1,000 paying protesters story from the News?

I think the negative response towards the protesters is poorly thought out on the part of many. These are young people who want nothing more than what we all wanted at their age. This is good. What would you prefer, that they sit on their rumps playing Nintendo all day?

History speaks to this topic. It never works to dismiss the concerns of the incoming generation.

FormerCEO: doesn't matter if you were humble. OWS is not judging individuals; its judging classes of people. In OWS standards YOU are the 1%. If you were so repulsed by what you saw: you should have acted accordingly then. Its a sweet thing to be critical now after you have cashed out.

I wonder how Cole Stangler's tuition at Georgetown was paid for...could it be Wall Street interest and dividends? What a hypocrite...Get a JOB !

My parents used to tell me to be wary because all crazy people are not locked up in mental hospitals, many do not take their meds and they are living everywhere.
I guess some live in Darien and some visit occassionally-like today.

I guess its not suprising that the OWS crowd didn't pay for the trip up to Darien. By all news accounts, the Manhattan crowd is getting free food, musical entertainment (drums non-stop) and all the free love hook-ups that you can risk. Sitting in the Tilley "boathouse" on stiff chairs and goose poop just isn't a draw.

It's ironic that we are trying to dig our way out of a major economic hole, largely caused by lax regulations in the financial system, where trillions of wealth was "distributed" to the rich---(from 1979-2005 the average middle class Joe saw a salary increase of 21%, during that same time period, the top 100th of 1 percent of earners had a 480% increase in salary). Of course now we're hearing business leaders complain about too much regulation and taxing the "job creators." What a joke.

People are tired if being SCAMMED!!!!!!!!

I'm still looking for someone to help me clear brush from my yard. Any occupier that wants work, please respond. Otherwise, take your campout somewhere else. I am in the 1%. I cut my own lawn, rake my own leaves, clean my own gutters, etc. Get a job, go to work. There is plenty out there...is it just "beneath your standards". it breaks my heart to hear young people complaining that they "followed the formula" by going to college and now demand a job. Did anyone ever tell them you have to study something that people want to hire you for? Majoring in English and Political Science are nice hobbies, but not a marketable education. Its like trying to sell comic books outside the Apple store. I learned to read and have an opinion when I was five. I never expected someone to pay me for it. If you've been in the occupy movement since September...that could have been a semester learning something new. Or you could have learned a new language. Instead, you do nothing. Don't worry, you can always earn a few bucks helping me move brush in my backyard. It's not beneath me. Is it beneath you?

Hey Chris. Not sure if you're being serious or if this is a sarcastic reference because you don't like some folks on Sheffield? I don't know Sheffield - but if there really is a litter/garbage problem, I would be happy to lend a hand. Ive always respected your candid, hands on approach to problem solving. Even if I don't always agree with your opinion. I am 1%, and I'd happily volunteer some time and hard work to make Darien a better place.

Is it possible to conceive of a more absurd, hypocritical, nonsensical concept than OCCUPY DARIEN? (OK, MAYBE Occupy North Greenwich). Where the average home sales lists for just under $2MM (http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Darien-Connecticut/). Where people spend more on a single car purchase than the average income of US citizens (http://bber.unm.edu/econ/us-pci.htm). What's next, a 2 Man March? How about a reality check. You ARE the 1%. Take your snarky selves back to your trust funds and 3 car garages and get a life. And a job if you have so much spare time. (This may help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job)

I'm heading to Occupy Darien. I mean, if we have space set up for a protest, I'm going to go protest. I'm just going to go protest the idea of this stupid protest and all the ideas behind it. I'm bringing my entire firm. Let's turn Occupy darien into a message this town is actually behind. Success, working hard, smaller government and individual liberties.

I will be right there. I just need to pay my ludicrous tax burden, gas up my bmw and pay my extra share of gas tax for the zone based pricing, get my double decaffinated half caf carmel soy latte from Starbucks (like those pictured) and ask my boss for time off so that I can go pump my fist in the air and demonstrate how I refuse to look at the facts and that I can't do math. Sure..... Whatever.

Occupy is a snooze fest of whiney bored people whe want a socialist society. I seriously couldn't care less.
Have fun

@ PATCH, no live blog today?

Seems to be no lack of money in Darien.... just a lack of grace.

Can Patch or someone report on the OD status at Tilly? Head count over 11 from yesterday?
marge
drummer boy
2 lost kids from Brooklyn
Bernie Madoff
extortionist
vineyard vine lady and boyfriend
old lady stuck in the 60's
little college punk fm new canaan
stamford lawyer looking for litigation biz
ok 12 including the squirrel.

You can find an update on day two of "Occupy Darien" here: http://patch.com/A-pBRX

Report as of 1:30: 3 middle aged people talking amongst themselves. One middle aged guy playing the guitar with songs from the 60s. One young man sittling by himself. Coffee and tea for sale for $1. Four police officers and 2 port-o-potties. This is NOT about "out of work young people". It is about the folly of a middle aged person and the waste of $10,000 on town funds on police overtime. Money that could have been better spent elsewhere. shame shame on the organizers!!

Word, as of 3pm (day 2), is there is NO ONE left at the "protest" now. Even the police have left. What an utter fiasco.

A whopping 8 people at the event today... Not counting police of course.

I did finally go to the occupation and Occupied. We ended up in a long idscussion with a teacher, who currently wasn't at school teaching as he had to protest the broken school system which he was a part of. When asked about his thoughts on vouchers? He said that would ruin the current system. We responded that we thought he also thought the current system was broken. He just wants it bigger, we just want it fixed.

Several comments were deleted. A great time to remind everyone to stick to the topic and avoid personal attacks. Thanks!

I think DPD acted reasonably. After all, there really was no way of telling that only a handful of people would show up. A real embarrassment for the organizers any way you cut it. Going forward, someone looking for a permit should be required to hire private security, licensed by the State of Connecticut. And be required to post bond to cover any potential damage to town property.

The personal attacks on the police officers continue from Noe yet Patch and Chandra does nothing about it. Let's not be hypocritical Patch.

One of my posts was removed by Patch. It seems you can't use an abbreviation that might represent the F-word. I stand corrected. I took down the rest of my posts because the protest is over.
Patch provided an online forum to engage in the protest. I applaud Patch. The comments I made regarding the police were 100% truthful yet still refrained from alarming detail not fit for public broadcast.
This was a forum like no other yet participants try to censure it's content. This defeats the purpose intended by Patch.

donkeybuster
Are you trying to engage the services of a non lic contractor.You must be if you think you can get lic contractor to haul your brush away at minium wages. You be best to hire a pro, he'll probably charge $125.00 thru $150.00 for the first hr,but the co. might have a minimun charge.My co would have to travel to far to be profitable to us.or maybe you like me to come by with my son who just sold about 150 million dollars woth of wind mill farms in the last six months or my other son who just got hired at a law firm in New york. Go ninety nine percenter

EXPORT GOODS & SERVICES NOT JOBS, CONCERNED CITIZEN
Concerns about the future of the US are valid. If the multinationals continue to gut our middle class, the income disparity will increase and we will return to Dickensian poverty. Taxes on the 1% will increase.
Thinking people should be in favor of more international trade to stimulate exports. The US exports 25% of its Chinese imports. We need an enlightened industrial policy using all tools at our disposal to wage economic war internationally through more positive balances of trade. To start, remove barriers to exports which make no sense. If we need collusion and international price fixing, so be it, but those who use these tools domestically should be prosecuted. We want free markets within the US and effective industrial policies internationally.
Until we change the game and think and act out of the box, we will NEVER get the complete support of the American people. The right and left-wing ideologues will joust with their opposite numbers forever. The current political parties can’t agree on the time of day.
Many industry leaders who publically call for free markets don’t mean it. The large banks, especially, want to sing the song of free markets but tap Main Street for bailouts when their risky creations fail. The only way to get sincere business leaders, labor and government to get anything done is to find common ground. It’s time to roll up our sleeves again and get working together.

I drove by that event yesterday and was sure there would be rioting. There were people everywhere and things were starting to get violent.

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Tony,

I absolutely agree with every point you made. But next time a handful of people want to "raise awareness", it would be just as effective to invite the couple of people over to one's house for a glass of wine. The absurd waste of taxpayer resources on this awareness raising was the real story here.

Oops, wrong thread. I was talking about the Vineyard Vine sale at the Darien Sport shop, not Occupy Darien.

Margaret Rague is an elitist snob who doesn't have a clue about social issues and why some people do better than others. Ms. Rague, I seriously doubt you have lived in the inner city or worked in the inner city. I have done BOTH, and I will tell you successful people have often sacrificed both time and money to get ahead. They are not "over achievers" but people who MET their potential. I don't begrudge anyone no matter how much money they have what they have earned as long as they earned it legally. It is Liberals like you who over regulate, and then make special deals for deadbeats to which companies must conform, that have gotten us into this mess. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, human pond scum forced banks to lend to people who did not qualify, that had much to do with the financial pyramid collapse. Additionally, do you have any clue that ordinary people with pensions and 401k's have stocks that are wrapped up in these companies you vilify? If you happen to be a member of the "lucky sperm club" and have family money dear, people like me actually need to have these corporations do well so we can plan for our future. And, as for me, I worked two jobs for ten years to afford my first house, I am a minority, and I don't have an axe to grind against corporations or anyone else. One's outcome in life is tied to effort, dear.

Over the last ten years we've had financial companies selling junk mortgage-backed securities to unsuspecting investors (including state pension funds), and then betting on whether those loans would fail -- and without the capital to cover their own bets. We had S&P rating junk mortgage-backed securities as AAA. We then spent billions bailing out banks.
Tony Imbimbo

Tony, you said a lot there.
Financial companies were selling "junk" mortgage backed securities to unsuspecting investors (including pension funds). Are you saying that, for example, pension funds are unsophisticated investors? Are you saying that these financial companies ALL made money, because they KNEW they were going to fail? What regulations prevent markets from going down? If you sold your house, Tony to someone for 1 mio dollars and 2 years later it is worth 700,000 did you do something wrong? Or is it just when 'financial companies" sell to pension funds that they somehow knew and were in possession of all facts? (If they knew it all, then why did they suffer at all?)

Then your last line, and this is simply analyzing facts. "we spent billions bailing out banks." Can you give me an idea of how much we "spent" on BANKS.

We loaned money to banks---took on assets--and sold at a profit. While it suits your argument to villify a certain class of people, it nevertheless is this generations "BIG LIE."
spent and lend are not the same thing, tony.

Im all for people standing up for what they think is right. Im not for spreading lies-
Ill make it easy for anyone to view how much we "spent" on banks.

Jul 6 2011
The federal government has reaped a $10 billion profit on bank loans made under the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

The Treasury Department announced Tuesday that the government had pulled in another $1.7 billion in proceeds stemming from TARP loans.

Bank of Montreal had acquired M&I Bank of Milwaukee and, as part of the deal, paid back the purchased bank’s share of TARP funds.

The reviled bailout program had been expected to prove extremely costly to the federal government, but bank assistance under the program has been in the black since March. All told, the government has received about $255 billion from banks under TARP, having lent out just $245 billion.

The problem with using Buffett as an example, is that he then donates his vast fortune to worthy causes. So, if you are trying to study the rich peoples contribution to society and finding it comes up short, he is a bad example of that point.
You would also be wrong to cite buffett as a typical example of total taxes paid. The carried interest rule, I agree is something that should be addressed...but then to extrapolate that rich people are squeezing the middle class by unfair taxes is simple demagoguery and incorrect.
Tony, I know when you think Im wrong, you correct me--(Ive experimented and you always do) yet when I point out that banks actually have not cost taxpayers anything (and in fact pay tons of taxes ) you decide you cannot admit that your argument is flawed.
Dont you think it makes more sense to look at the collective taxes that all "rich" people pay than to discover one man,(buffet) and then use him as an example? The 1% pay 37% of all taxes. The average federal tax rate for the top 1% is 31.1% while the bottom 95% of earners tax rate is 9.3%
31 vs 9 and you are claiming that the rich are paying less of a percentage ?
Tony, if you dont understand math, as you appear to want to convey, how about you suggest to Congress to flip the rates for the 95 vs the 1? Do you really believe it? Or you are fine with just spreading untruths?

Last thing.
I agree Mr Buffet didnt pay his fair share.
I agree that anyone that makes in excess of 250k and finds loopholes to pay less than 25% federal taxes, is not paying his fair share.
But the solution is not to place a 5% penalty to increase an already highly progressive tax on the vast vast majority of 'rich' people who already pay a huge chunk of the US tax burden.
Close the loopholes (not the ridiculous private jet tax--that Obama spoke about earlier this year--that I think may have raised around 20 mio dollars? but was just a talking point--to exaggerate the issue (republicans think that people need private jets more than healthcare for handicap children. ---You have to hate that manipulative garbage.)

"we" did not spend billions bailing out banks in the end. We did spend billions bailing out general motors. We are still in the red with aig.
And all your articles that unsuccessfully try to point to a conspiracy are easily dismantled.
What happened 3 years ago was as a result of a credit bubble; over leveraging ; complacency ; arrogance ; bad business habits; corrupt politicians ; greedy people in all vocations; a lack of responsibility. No equity mortgages.
It was borne of the media overstated concept that real estate investments could not go down.
That stocks did not over time , go down. Again ..over leveraging...and a credit induced giant bubble.
S and p were not conspirators in this debacle. They were just another inept institution ensconced in the notion that everything was rosy. That chinese investment would continue ad infinitum .
What the conspiracy theory folks never quite are able to explain is , if country wide and s and p and gold man and bank of America were actually duping all these people, why did they lose more than anyone? That pension managers, such as harvard university, who were smarter than anyone, and showed double digit returns for years, were now victims, yet had profited handsomely for years in the same system.
Bottom line.... None of the articles explain or even try to explain why we should send more money to Washington or Hartford. Or how a dr with 200k in college loans making 265 needs to send more to the IRS .

The solution is to limit govt spending....or we become Greece. The solution is to limit leverage. If younlimit leverage you limit CEO pay. The democrats want more money to spend...so they are fine with high CEO pay...they just want to tax it.
If you limit leverage the stock market comes down. CEOs make the majority of their income on stock and stock options. CEO pay increased dramatically because stocks increased dramatically. Limit stocks..and you limit CEO pay. But also all that tax revenue disappears . And then our deficit grows. It's a conundrum. But rhetoric about evil rich people is just noise. There is no solution...and increasing taxes while allowing high leverage is myopic. Focus on spending not on taxes. Stop the wars. Limit public sector handouts that way outpace private sector. Limit entitlement programs . Government gives away too much because they can't say no to voters. It's a huge problem .

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Tony,
Hyperbole, exaggeration and misinformation is not anything that should drive change.
Ive successfully defended the system. Your inability to controvert my points is not insignificant.
We live in a global age. While Obama and Barney Frank make great speeches, predicated on demagogy, they also understand that we desperately need financial service companies to be strong and thriving. After all, Frank, Dodd and Obama were the top money targets of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2007, 2008.
We cannot over regulate a business that can easily migrate to different countries. And then we can again miss the mistake made by inviting General Electric to pay their coporate taxes to other countries. And that is the reality that exists. Countries like Luxembourg, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Siingapore, are welcoming with open arms the villanous corporations that exist in your mind---asking them to pay 15-20% tax rather than punishing them with 35% and losing every dollar.
You need to approach the topic with honesty.
Saying things like "it wont cost taxpayers a dime" in order to achieve an agenda--or saying " the rich dont pay their fair share, while paying 60% of all taxes is simply heading for Greece type solutions. Why are we not looking at Greece, France, Iceland and learning from their mistakes. Socialism doesnt work. Regulation works only when it erodes bureacracy, not create more.
Pasting articles about hedge fund lunches accomplish ntg except that you are jealous

PLAY THE ISLAND MUSIC, BOBBY
Don't Worry, Be Happy
From the movie "Cocktails"
Performed by Bobby McFerrin

Here is a little song I wrote
You might want to sing it note for note
Don't worry be happy

In every life we have some trouble
When you worry you make it double
Don't worry, be happy

Wave goodbye to the jobs and greet higher taxes but be happy.

Stiglitz is well known for his liberal bent, but even more so for his commentary in the rear view window.
An Academic , he has argued why socialism failed (after it failed -and gave advice , including opening up markets). He was a great advocate of free markets under Clinton, right up until the time that the dot.com bubble burst, and then spoke about market excess and greater regulation. His prescription for dot com bubble was a more involved Federal Reserve. After the crash of 2008, he reversed himself, and called for more regulation --tighter controls, ..and now speaks about social consequences of excess and disequlibirium.
Certainly some of his points are valid. Thats what comes from hindsight--of which is great in using when it comes to applications of economic theory.
There is no doubt that things should change. Things always need to change--but becoming more like Greece, which is what our Democrat friends seem to desire is not going to help anyone.
Pointing out where Enron executives were greedy and ruined things--is great. We know that there are bad people in the world, and that accounting fraud can exist.
But Democrats always point to this sort of incident, and then bizarrely conclude that we need to tax the rich in order to correct the injustices.
Copying and pasting or reviewing economic mistakes --is easy. But there is never a line that leads to greater regulation. Singapore Hong kong---viable countries that have lax regs and low taxes.

I have more entertaining cop stories. Anyone interested?

1. Why there is not a cop at People's Bank on Saturdays in the Heights.
2. Why I'll never buy another car from H&L Chevrolet..
3. How many times has a Darien Police officer threatened to shoot me.
4. Why was there was a SWAT cop in the cemetary across the street from the police station with an M-16 assault rifle.
5. Who were the cops who picked up my drunkin x-girlfriend at Red Lobster and delivered her to my house in a police car three hours later carrying her underwear..

I can't make this stuff up only expose who they are and you make your own decisions.

I was at the brewery in Long Island a couple years ago. I stood bellied up to the bar for three hours talking to a guy and a girl. She went to the ladies room and he said, I'm a New York State Trooper, I read your file and I thiought is was all bull... you're just a carpenter. I said, I appreciate that. His partner returned and she was upset that he had told me. Not all cops are bad. I always wondered what was in "that file" I guess he told me... bull.

I stopped at a restaurant in upstate New York a couple years ago. The same two cops followed me in as the time before. Noted by me and the owner. I ordered dinner and I asked her to not serve them until just before I was to leave. They got their meals and I patted them on the back on my way out the door and said that looks really good enjoy your dinner. Too bad they didn't have time to eat it.

I was reflecting on the x- girlfriend. The cop car stopped away from my house down by the bridge. The sound woke me up at 2am. It was 5 minutes before she got out of the front seat passenger side and headed toward the house. I unlocked the door and she came in, her words: " You don't know what I had to do to get out of that car". She walked upstain and showered until the water ran cold. She has a story of abuse by her uncle until she was old enough to say no at 12. He beat her and said she fell down the stairs. Her cries never heard she ran away several times to be brought back. It would take Superman's strength to recover from that. She never did.

Chris
Go to the ACLU and tell them your story. Have them file a complaint.
Questions to ponder
Do you ever wonder why these things happen to you and no one else? Do you feel totally misunderstood?
Why are they after you? why are you so interesting to anybody?
Why do you draw negative attention to yourself and then have a problem when you get it?

ACLU??? How do you spell that. It's ancient history to me. The stories are of entertainment value or no value at all.

Cool stuff I found the file from the Noroton Bay kitchen renovation. It had my sketch of the concession window with the panel doors sagging under their own weight The menu on one side and specials on the other. It was to be a time warp, Twilight Zone, somewhere way back, when life was simpler

Tony,
That is the type of response from a person who has lost the debate.
Im asking you to correct statements that you know to be untrue. Very specific statements. I have asked probably 9 times, but instead of acknowledging the misreprsentation, you focus on if my name is real. How about this, when I get the idea that you are willing to be honest, and admit obvious falsehoods, I will put my real name on this thread, and then we can engage in honest debate. But at this point, you make a lot of demands, yet have yet to embrace the honorable ways you pretend to admire. A real name is not necessary to speak truths. Did you refuse to read Mark Twain?
How many Glenn Beck books have you read? How many Ann Coulter books?
Stiglitz is a respect author (by some). Ann Coulter speaks the truth to other people. The problem with you, it seems, is that the truth is only the truth if it affirms your views. Im not denigrating Stiglitz for his ability to look at what went wrong and then explain it. Im saying he has generally been behind the curve--arguing for free markets, before he for more regulation. He can change his views--but that doesnt make him a 'seer' it makes him a reporter.
Its people like Krugman and Stiglitz that appeal to liberal audiences, when they identify injustice, yet Krugman was an advisor to Enron, took that money freely--as he takes many corporate speaking fees, and then attacks them-to uphold his appeal to the left. You can admire that--I dont.

Also, Tony,
If you wouldnt mind, Id love to hear how you view Obama's handling of the economy. Of how Geitner has handled things. And if you can do so, by not mentioning George Bush when you render your opinion, it would be much appreciated. In other words, I dont need to be told that Obama inherited a mess. But, there has been opportunity to change things, and I wonder if you feel that Obama has handled it well and that you want to continue his policies and approaches to handling the economy, or if you think we need someone else at the helm.

Also Tony,
If you would be so kind--I would like to know what you think caused the Greek sovereign debt crisis.
I would say its bad fiscal policy decisions, particularly to do with irresponsible spending.
Thats why I compare current US policy aims by Democrats.
(you can also include housing crisis, slowing economy etc--but the way to address the problem --and the one that Greek's European counterparts have implored-is fiscal austerity--meaning cuts in spending.--).

@mann about town. You are right maybe the ACLU could find out why I cannot have a NexTel phone. They told me it was a "security breach". So much of this is history like the only unsolved murder of a police officer in Connecticut. Who cares. 100K for the arrest & conviction and my credit card will get me a coffee at Starbucks. In New York they name a bridge after cops who skid off the road into a ditch, Bareman got a street in his honor. In 30 years he has become a folklore hero who went down in a blaze of glory shooting at his killer when fact the psychopath who shot him used Bateman's gun and took it as a souvenir As Bateman lay bleeding to death he was taunted by his killer. It's all history and who cares. The cop in charge of the case is the one who dropped my x-girlfriend off down the street. Happy New Year

Reverend Barb, I am fully aware of cyberspace and how it works. Thank-you for your concern to express it further so that all bloggers understand. The topic of this blog is wide open from what I see. Luca and Tony are like two heavy weight boxers who are completely exhausted who continue sparring in the 12th round. Let me leave with a couple quotes from dead celebrities about change.
"I'm starting with the man in the mirror". Michael Jackson
"I fear less a biker with an attitude then a yuppie with an agenda". Andy Rooney

Chris--I admire someone like you who is not afraid to take a stance and is passionate and consistent about it. But you must also be wise about sharing certain things in an open forum! On this particular blog, sensitivities are 'high' for all of us, considering we are just recovering : ) from 'the holidays'...and are entering into the guts of the election season. Actually, I'm 'learning' from Luca & Tony (no financial expert, I) and they are a 'valuable read' as this OCCUPY DARIEN/STAMFORD/WALL STREET, etc movement unfolds. I just urge all to be careful with emotions high. My version of Michael Jackson's quote is, "I don't know how to fix the world...but let's you and I start with ____ (this)... okay?" Rev. Barb

Reverend Barb, OK

Luca, I have enjoyed the banter between you and Tony..
I am a builder (Home Improvement Contractor according to my CT license) If I need a buildng permit for a job I have no control of my business what-so-ever and it continues to get worse. The people at "Choose to Reuse", who wanted to ban plastic bags, are to be feared more than Hells Angels according to Andy Rooney.

More bad PR for Wall Street...

http://news.yahoo.com/departing-goldman-banker-slams-rip-off-culture-125131556.html

Thank you, everybody, for participating. This thread is now closed.