RANTS to the moms and dads who go to the park with their kids and smoke weed there. Rants because there is a good deal of police monitoring going on, but so far never at the right buzz time. Rants that my child and his heightened sense of smell from 60-feet away always seems to notice them and is the one who points at them and loudly yells, "Mom, they're smoking marijuana over there!" from 10- feet away from me. (24 Apr 08)
RANTS to a good government Cheese possibly starting to Mold after procrastinating with a key project and then misleading superiors that some of the peons are to blame since the work wasn't completed in a timely fashion. Is this Cheese just a liar? Or is this Cheese trying to discredit some staff? Or is this Cheese still a good Cheese and a higher ranking Cheese lied? So much drama. Too much drama! Too much back stabbing for Karma to ignore... Meanwhile, on the lighter side... (24 Apr 08)
RAVES to two brave little girls who first lied and said my son cussed like a sailor at them, but had the decency and attacks of good conscience to return after he was grounded for a week to apologize and admit that they lied. Rants to me for not believing him when he swore he did not say those words, since he really has always admitted the truth and owned up to any wrongdoing. I've allowed him to punish me for believing them instead of him. I will bite the bullet and go to the Maxx and play video games soon. (24 Apr 08)
RAVES to Bruce Springsteen for being able to write and deliver an incredible eulogy for Danny Federici. Grab a diet Coke and read along. It'll leave a little lump in your throat but a smile on your face as well. (25 Apr 08)
RAVES to 17-year-old Samantha Moschetta of Penn Hills, the bravest kind of kid, who had a double lung transplant and left Children's Hospital Friday following a month-long recuperation period. Cystic Fibrosis incapacitated the young woman who used a wheelchair prior to tranplant. Raves to the Post-Gazette for covering her post transplant recovery and discharge to inspire other children with CF and transplant waiting list patients and motivate people again to become organ donors. (27 Apr 08)
RAVES to the Government Accountability Office's FraudNET for caring about fraud, waste and mismanagement of funds enough to give you easy email access to report abuses in a federal government program or service. If you have a state or county service funded in part by federal dollars in mind, tell them about it as well. This could mean federally funded senior citizen programs or some government Cheeses whose salaries are funded through federal dollars and almost always arrive late for work, take two-hour lunches and shop or drink till they drop on the clock. Though the site notes state that anonymous complaints are welcome, please remember to the truthful since bogus complaints in all likelihood can be and should be traced back to you if you tell a whopper. (28 Apr 08)
RANTS to today's infamous quote from an HR staff faced by an employee who alleges that the Cheeses are fighting dirty after that employee reported them for offenses for which they were punished: "Oh, that's just them nitpickicking!" Say whaaaat? Sir, nitpicking constantly at one staff, demanding a good staff's termination EQUALS retaliation and harassment... shamefully not to be minimized in such a trivial matter as though we're merely excusing two-year-olds who knock over a cup of milk. This isn't a cup of milk, but rather someone's career on the line. If they did this to you or lied so crudely with malice about you and your wife as they have done about that employee, I do believe, sir, that you that would be reaching through double chins to wring necks. (28 Apr 08)
RANTS when tragedy could have been prevented. Last week we gasped when we heard about the postal worker who caught a one-year-old child falling from a second-story open window in ALbany, NY, when the child's mother was in the same room and turned her back for a minute. Yesterday we learned of a Uniontown child who fell from an upstairs window and suffered a concussion as a result. That local mom was charged and the other children in the home were removed by county child protection workers. An Internet search shows only the state of Minnesota to be tracking such injuries, where it seems an epidemic. The Minnesota Department of Health maintains 4000 kids are injured, and 12 killed across the U.S. each year in window falls. Between 1993 and 2007 in Minnesota, 193 children were seriously injured, and 19 lost their lives falling from windows. Perhaps the most famous case involved Conor Clapton, Eric's son, who in 1991 fell from an open window from his mother's 53rd floor NY apartment. The Uniontown woman's arrest is the only arrest on record of all these stories online. Am not saying that she should not have been charged and that others undocumented might not have been charged. But what's a solution? Window screens are not designed to keep kids inside. Some of even the most costly child protective "guards" to cover the glass inside for new windows don't work, either. Michael by 3 knew how to disengage the child protective locks on his brand new windows. Since the local family's home has central air conditioning, Rants that a dresser or some furniture was not placed in front of the window where the child fell, or that a stick wasn't placed vertically on the inside of the top part of the push up window to keep the bottom half of the window from moving upward to open. (29 Apr 08)
RANTS -- and, really, hate saying so -- again to the county assistance office worker previously discussed here in respect to the botched emergency food stamp application. Rants this time because the application that he had in front of him that the family completed online also included an application for a parent for medicaid. That piece of the application fell through the cracks and was not processed. Rants that a medicaid denial is needed for a waiting alternative medical source to provide needed medications. Who else but government employs such staff? (29 Apr 08)
RAVES to so many of you -- and some from so far away -- who wrote to suggest that shuttle busses run hourly or so to and from places such as Laurel Mall or WalMart and drop fair goers off right at the gates. Excellent idea! (1 May 08)
RAVES to the die hards who can't wait for the Bill Deasy article. You guys are something else! Raves, too, to Rich Jacques who took time today from his busy LA "Hollywood" schedule to chat for a bit about the new CD he and Bill Deasy made on the west coast and about his life since Brownie Mary making soundtracks for tv and movies. Raves to the best editor in the world, too, who's as excited about the whole deal as the rest of us! (1 May 08)
RANTS that there's another case of illegal Medicaid billing for the dead going on AGAIN in a local government human service office... just what part of dead don't they understand? Film at 11. (2 May 08)
RAVES to being woken up to hear only of a dream burgh music lover's show planned for June 21 in Harmerville's Syria Shrine with Norman Nardini, Bill Toms and Hard Rain, Glenn Pavone and the Cyclones and 8th Street Rox... These are 4 of the area's best show bands. Collective years of musical experience on that stage that day: probably 1,000 years. Raves that pulling them all together on the same bill also puts favorite sax player Phil Brontz of Hard Rain and 8th Street in the same place in the same groove to perform again with Norman his outstanding sax solo on "Burning Up," as well as 8th Street's keyboard player, Steve "Sudden" Binsberger, available to play with Bill Toms on songs he recorded on Bill's "Spririts, Chaos and a Troubadour Soul." If you have never seen these bands, or if you see these guys more often than you see your own family members, by all means get there! (3 May 08)
RANTS that the Moldiest of Cheeses in civil service ambushed and pushed another staff out the door this week and were heard cackling on our taxpayer dime, extending their 30-minute lunch for 1 hour, 20 minutes yesterday. Do they have any idea how badly the Mold stinks? Why does the Head Cheese allow it? Why are they allowed to waste taxpayers' money cackling for 50 extra lunch minutes when their work sits, sometimes for weeks and months untouched and they're too busy to notice what seems like a consistent problem of staff illegally billing Medicaid for dead clients for dates of services after deaths? What if all departments and all those in civil service wasted so much of taxpayers' money? What if just even all who heard the cackling decided to stop working for 50 extra minutes? Why are they allowed to fester? How professional is it to sigh loudly when new staff interrupt to ask a question? Do they have any idea what they did with the latest ambush? Or how much they can cost taxpayers in law suits? Too many staff who've left have called or written in to report how much more emotionally stable, mature and professional their new bosses are and how they noticed bias and retaliation under these Cheeses' roof. But that's OK, just pass over another taco. (7 May 08)
RAAAAVES to Bill Deasy and Rich Jacques who are having the first CD release party tonight in Los Angeles for "The Invisible Ocean." Heard from both gentlemen today and wish them the very best. Raves to WDVE for playing "All I Want" from that record. Raves to their very nice fans for all the complimentary words sent my way for the article online here that will appear in the paper. (7 May 08)
Neither a RANT nor a RAVE, but a mention for many asking.... Today the botched emergency medicaid/food stamp application, as previously reported here a few times since 4-19-08, has all been processed and corrected. As per Mrs. Valente at the Fayette County Assistance Office, "everything that could go wrong with this application did." The Medicaid piece of the application that fell through the cracks 3 weeks ago and was not processed was today processed and in effect. Amen! (8 May 08)
RANTS to the angry Cheese who proclaimed early this AM that she's having tacos again for lunch today and the other who said she would just cackle for lunch. One would think that they would be more concerned about not wasting taxpayers' money by exceeding their allowed times for lunch every day, about all the vacancies in their hostile department, about federal discrimination and retaliation cases and civil service grievances they face and about the obviously undersupervised and inadequently trained staff illegally billing Medicaid for dead clients... than they would be in proclaiming their choices for lunch at 8:30 AM. (8 May 08)
RANTS that another heartless person again abandoned cats on our doorsteps here in the countryside. This time, it's a mother cat and her four baby kittens who need a home. If you're interested in providing a home for them, please get in touch. Rants of the most demented kind to the sheer ass who tortured a Border Collie mix breed dog with a collar made of fishing hooks out the road a little further on Englishman Hill Road. The dog was taken to an area vet for surgery and is ready for adoption now in Uniontown. (9 May 08) ________________________________________________________________________
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