from pennlive on 1/30/08 at 2:41 pm
“Louis A. DeNaples, who owns a slot-machine casino in the Pocono Mountains was charged today with perjury and accused of lying about his connections to organized crime figures to win a casino license.
DeNaples, who opened Mount Airy Casino Resort in October with the blessing of state gambling regulators, was [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 30, 2008
Indictment of DeNaples shows incompetency of state gaming regulators in Pennsylvania
January 28, 2008
Mumia Abu-Jamal still trying for get-out-of-jail-free card.
The story goes that on the night of December 9, 1981, Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner pulled a car over for a traffic violation.
26 years later, what happened thereafter is still hotly disputed, but after a Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas trial in 1982, a jury concluded that radio personality Mumia Abu-Jamal shot Officer Faulkner after [...]
January 23, 2008
Bernie Kieklak outted as misogynist thanks to blogger Bernie O’Hare
The power of the blog: Politicians are finding that relatively small Internet voices can have a big influence.
By Josh Drobnyk
The Morning Call (Allentown, PA) -Washington Bureau
Last June, barely two months into his stint as a blogger, Bernie O’Hare wrote a scathing column about a closed-door Northampton County Council committee meeting. Within hours, a county councilman [...]
January 16, 2008
Nathan Jones visits my blog
I shoulda known that as soon as that bushy-tailed rat, aka, the squirrel, got into my house that it wasn’t going to be a terribly good day.
As I scrolled through my wordpress comments section, one comment in particular stood out. It was from a rat of a different species, in particular from that rat some [...]
January 1, 2008
Obscene anti-abortionist doesn’t like his comeuppance
I usually don’t pay a whole lot of attention to the pro-life or pro-choice goings on, but the guy at the center of this article is one of the most extreme people on this issue. He not only has these disgusting fetus pictures on his lawn just down the street from a public high school [...]
