The Public Defenders in the Chester County Court of Common Pleas in my Opinion, Play , Let’ s Make A Deal, they will not fight for your rights, they only want an easy plea…..Pathetic, no excuse !!!!! They refuse from what I have seen, and can prove to represent you, unless God Forbid there is a murder case, then they have no choice, but there job is to make a plea, and they refuse to represent some……
Let’s clean up the Chester County Court House, they are paid to do a job, not play the game show, Let’ s Make A Deal…..
This is what Law School Does for the Court System, why not just go to Gaming School ?????
In my honest opinion, which I am allowed to have, and Free Speech which is allowed by all, I have to wonder if a few Public Defenders and a Certain Judge are against Men. They seem to be discriminating against Mens Rights and Assuming the Women, even though they may be drug addicts, bad mothers, and worse, are always right. Is this a pattern in the Court of Common Pleas ??? We would love to hear from others who have any opinion on this matter, because from what I have just seen, and in my opinion, Men are not liked by these Women…Will find out the Public Defenders names, but man, in my Opinion, if your a Man, your Screwed Big Time. Off to research, oh and Let’s Make a Deal….
Judge Streitel in my opinion seems to be very biased too, she doesn’t listen , but forms an opinion very quick, and for the women….OH, and before a Judge makes a decision, shouldn’t she or he hear both sides, LOL, what a circus this Chester County Court is……..No Fair Shake Here, Forget it…..Plead Guilty Now Guys !!!! Men Bashing 101, what ????????
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, will definately be updating this, and researching….Remember, no one is above the law, even though some think they are…..More to come….Definately alot more to come…check back….
We were off for awhile, and also shut comments down for everyone, and had to go through moderation, for one sikko !!! We didn’t care what they posted, but many others may have…Welcome Back
Highly regarded Psychologist and Child Custody Evaluator or just anotherASS.
You decide!
We have all been reading about the difficulties that parents have experienced with Bruce E. Mapes, Ph.D. For each of you that has posted information about your experience with Dr. Mapes thank you and please know that your posts are helping parents and even lawyers combat the trash this man puts forth as “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. He has perpetrated a major fraud on the Chester County Court of Common Pleas, has misrepresented the truth by taking what parents and children and twisting it to fit his purposes, has ongoing discussions with lawyers associated with your custody matter, and practices from his own version of ethics.
Unfortunately, he continues to hurt people, destroys family relationships and empowers the Courts to make decision based on fabricated information as included in his reports. It is very clear to me; a person who has suffered through one of his so called child custody evaluations, that Dr. Mapes does not have a clue just how awful he is at the practice of psychology. This is due in part to his lack of ethical commitment, his not taking seriously the responsibility he has to the Court as an appointed expert and his need to maintain a lifestyle. Every time he is appointed as an expert to the Court he has a great money making opportunity – he could care less about you or your children. He is a dangerous person and needs to be forced out as an expert witness for the Chester County Court of Common Pleas.
Many of you have talked about how shocked you were when you reviewed Dr. Mapes evaluation report. You spoke about your words being taken out of context, turned and twisted, information being ignored, omitted or otherwise discounted. Most have had the shared experience of taking the MMPI test in a common area (kitchen/copy room) and told to leave personal information in an unattended area while Mapes “stepped out”. For some of you, we have had the opportunity to compare notes about the brevity of the interview process lasting not too much longer than 1 hour; with other we spoke of asinine questions Mapes asked during your interviews; with others we compared notes on the questions he asked and found that the questions that he asked of each of us were the same and in the same order; most of you commented on what a lousy interviewer Dr. Mapes is; most of you commented that you felt that Dr. Mapes did not listen to key information that you presented either in writing or during the cours of the interview. Some of you have pointed out that Dr. Mapes is not consistent in his recitation of his qualifications and others have presented that Dr. Bruce E. Mapes violated your civil rights by releasing information outside of the court order and without your consent. As one or the persons stated and many of you have agreed “Dr. Mapes is a HACK”.
In an effort to help parents who have yet to have the pleasure of meeting face to face with Dr. Mapes, I think it is important to post the questions that he asked of me during my interview with him. It is difficult for me to understand how Dr. Mapes fulfills his obligation to the Court as an “expert” and how he is able to advise the court on a “matter of law” from the very simple questions he asked. As I review these questions I am struck by the absence of interview content on the parental bond between parent and child, the quality of relationship between parent and child and the total lack of content as to the emotional supports that the child receives from the parent. It appears to me that the interview process employed by Dr. Mapes is nothing more than a cookie cutter approach to very complex issues and that he is a very poor and unskilled interviewer.
Based on the questions that Dr. Mapes asked during my interview (as listed below) it is very clear that Mapes is biased in his approach, probably highly influenced by an attorney who has filled him in on the issues prior to or during the evaluation process. In short, Dr. Mapes is nothing more than a hired gun that will craft a report that assures that he gets additional referrals or that he is called as a paid expert to review his report. He is not objective, unbiased and does not follow the facts as presented in written document or information presented in during the interview. It is very clear that Dr. Mapes had his mind made up from the initial appointment from the Court. While many see him as a widely respected “professional” the more accurate view should be as a professional that cashed out ethically many years ago. The “truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth” concerning Bruce E. Mapes, PhD will come out and many will be shocked.
The information that follows are the exact questions that Dr. Mapes asked of me during the course of my child custody evaluation and in the exact order in which they were asked. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. In some areas I have added a direct quote from his Report an insert to emphasis the point of how Dr. Mapes twists and turns information to the point where it becomes dishonest and false reporting on his part.
Interview questions posed by Bruce E. Mapes, PhD during a child custody evaluation.
You live at —- (My Response: No)
Lets see, you had indicated that…you are thinking of moving. Did you move? (he wrote me at the new address to schedule this interview)
Ok, now Mr. JONES since you originally turned your things in.Since you turned everything in, ah, last year have there been any changes in the custody arrangements or where are they as of today? (My response: Nothing has changed)
OK…let me ask you about the current arrangement as it exists right now…ah…and not knowing what changes may have occurred over the summer, fall or winter, what…ah…um…what about the current arrangement is working or not working?
How much time now does JUDY actually spend with her mother?
And, ah…JANE. She is still with the mom, correct?
Ah, how often does she see you?
Ah, does, is the visitation such that the girls are together?
Why do you feel that you and the girl’s mother have not been able to work this out?
Yup, that’s what I’m asking for?
Don’t go too fast (laugh) (Thought to self: I want to know why you can’t keep up, it’s all written in the materials I submitted in advance of this interview. Did you bother to review the papers?)
Mr. Jones you had indicated, that, you have given several issues in the relationship, that, such as You had given several issues about the relationship and marriage, Mary wanting to, ah, have a higher lifestyle than you thought you could afford, her wanting to be a stay home mom, ah and I guess some disagreements about finances.
Would that be fair to say? (Mapes Report states that I didn’t share anything about the marriage – so how was it that Mapes was able to form this question?)
Now, if you were to prioritize those, how would you prioritize those in terms of what went wrong in the relationship?
Dr. Mapes, I thought this evaluation was about my parental capacity and my ability to bond with my children. Is this an evaluation about my past failed relationship?
Well, No.
What I need, need to thoroughly understand is what it in your relationship with the mother that may need to be addressed or something so that you can try to work together concerning the kids.
Do financial disagreements continue today around the care of the kids?
Now in general how would you describe your home? (My Response: I have a three bedroom TOWNHOME consisting of a living room, dining room, kitchen, powder room and laundry downstairs and three bedrooms and a bath upstairs.)
What, is it two floors? (Was he at all listening)
Now, nowJudy is at SCHOOL NAME, correct?
How is she doing academically, right now?
Now Jane is at SCHOOL NAME? (My Response: NO)
And she is in what grade, again? (It is interesting that Mapes says in his materials that he review the case materials several times prior to the interview.)
How is she doing in school?
Now, how do you provide religious training to the children?
Where do you take the children for medical care?
And what are you medical concerns about either child?
Who do they go to for dental care?
Do you have dental concerns for either?
Ah, Ok now you are currently employed by the Name of employer. (My Response: NO)
I have to ask you what is that.
What is it that you do for them, I don’t need to know everything single thing, I’m just trying…
Do you have to travel?
So you work from home?
So you have an office?
And where is it located?
And what hours do you work?
And do ah, you, well, are, like when the kids have vacation from school, how do you arrange for child care for them?
Ah let’s see here, is Judy still getting up at the same time?
Have there been any changes in her routine?
What do you do at this point, if anything different concerning discipline when necessary? (Please repeat the question)At this point in time what do you do for discipline if necessary?
As of today what would you say Judy’sstrengths are?
What would you say are her primary weaknesses
What are the primary positives of Jane?
What are her primary weaknesses?
Besides sport what are Judy’s primary interests?
And how about Jane?
Whatare the things that you yourself enjoy most with Judy?
Ah, what are the things you enjoy doing the most with Jane?
Ah, I need to, are you still seeing Dr. Snead?
Ok. Ah you had indicated that, is that for medication management.
Ah in the historical materials where you discuss medication management
Ok. What are your current medications?
Do you currently drink alcohol?
Any drugs other than medication?
As I recall from the history that you don’t have any concerns about mom in that area.
Ah you have no concerns about either girl concerning domestic violence anything of that type, correct?
Now, what are the things that arouse anger in you?
Ok. Ah, what are your concerns ah, about the mother’s anger management?
Have you ever been arrested for anything?
Has the mother?
OK. Are you currently involved in a relationship?
Would you see yourself getting into a relationship?
OK. What are the things that you do to support the children’s relationship with their mother?
What would be the pros and cons about the girls living with you half time and their mother half time.
Ok, What do you do that their mother cannot.
Ok, what is it that you can give them that mom can’t?
What is it that mom can provide that you can’t.
Are you on any medication currently?(My response: it in the materials I submitted prior to this interview)
I have to go back. (Shuffle papers), Well you know you can’t find anything when you need it. (What, he could not find it!)
Is Judy still in counseling?
Oh, Ok (Flip pages), Mr. Jones (long pause more page flipping) there’s mention. What were, there’s reference made, and I’m not sure if it’s relevant or not so I need to understand your perspective. There’s some conflict between you and Mary’s mother, I need to understand your perspective.
Were there any problems between you? (Dr. Mapes I thought this evaluation was about my parental capacity and my ability to bond with my children. Is this an evaluation about my past failed relationship?)
Ok
Ok, what I am going to be doing is to take you down stairs to complete the MMPI.
My question: DR. Mapes, was the MMPI specifically designed for use in custody evaluations.
Mapes: Yes it’s a routine clinical instrument that (I cut off)
My question: And there are specific norms that address parental capacity and one’s ability to form and maintain a parental bond with one’s children?
Mapes: There are some parts, Yes, yes. If there are certain kinds of parental issues, then yes.
My question: And you have norms that address age and gender and parental capacity seeking custody of kids my age?
Mapes: Yes we do.
My question: So Dr. Mapes – your saying that norms exist for male persons 42 years old seeking custody of two female children aged 9 and 13.
Mapes: Yes, it’s a routine clinical instrument.
Dr. Mapes – come on do you expect me to believe that.
Yes, one of the things I have to address (in child custody evaluations) is current mental health functioning. I have to answer that on every parent I see.
Dr. Mapes – that’s not what was asked.
Mapes: Look if you don’t want to take it you can leave. I’ll report to the Court that you refused to take it.
Specific Instructions given by Dr. Mapes for taking the MMPI. Ok, what you want to be doing is just reading each of these questions and marking it true or false for yourself. For example: I like mechanics magazine, OK. When you finish one page, go to the next and keep going till you do all the questions. Now as you can see the instructions are right here. As you are finished, I’ll ask you to put your information right here. Sometimes, peoples ask what the author means, it how you interpret the question. Be as candid as you can, I do not look at each individual item, it just produces the overall profile. OK?
My question: And whenI’m done?
You can leave it right here on the table. (unattended)
I don’t need to check back with you? No.
These are the very insightful questions that a highly skilled psychologist and seasoned child custody evaluator put together to assess my parental capacity and to determine if I am capable of forming and maintaining a bond with my two children. From these interview questions he would advise the Court if I was able to enjoy custody and visitations with my children. I hope you can see just how bogus Dr. Mapes interview process is and that anything he writes is concerning custody is highly suspect. His final report was replete with errors of fact (even though the facts were submitted in writing), significant falsifications of what I said, and significant omissions of facts in favor of the other parent. His recommendations were inconsistent with current clinical literature and dare I say inconsistent with the education that he provided (handouts bear his name) to the members of the Chester County Family Court division.
What is with the Judges in Chester County Court embarrassing people who are on hard times….what gives them the right to abuse someone who is over there appealing traffic tickets, who may have other issues or be disabled ???? Who are they to tell that person how to live, or what they can live on, or why they are disabled, is a Judge a Doctor now ?????????????
I thought the appeal process was to appeal ?????????????????????????????????????? I didn’t know the appeal process meant taking nasty verbal abuse from one of the Chester County Court Of Common Pleas Judges who is also a Medical Doctor in front of everyone was part of the appeal process…..
I am sickened by these Judges who use the bench for ignorance !!!!! They should retire if they are there just showing up to collect their salary when peoples lives are on their sleeve, to be miserable, and crucify everyone, or maybe they had a rough night, no excuse, they are on the bench to think clearly and abide by the laws,and clearly look for what is right or wrong….I am going further, I am going to put a stop to this abuse at the Chester County Courthouse…..Trust Me, it may take a few years, but it begins today…..I am thinking MANY PEOPLES CIVIL RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED BY THESE JUDGES WHO HAVE GOT AWAY WITH IT FOR SO LONG, UNTOUCHABLES…..NO MORE !!!!
Judges are there to be a Judge, but how dare they now try to be Doctors , this is clearly an abuse of to much power….Time to Stop !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone has to obey by the rules, and NO ONE, NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW, NOT EVEN JUDGES, though so many get away with it until one person brings it out,,,,that may be me……
I saw this posted on here and other places before, but just wanted to add, this crew that works at the Thorndale Goodwill is No Good. Ginger the long haired old looking woman with white hair is no good, she is a thief, she steals the donations, she told my friend she would watch out for certain items that come in, and this Joanne Pacana, she works for another charity and yet steals jewelry. Her friends are Barb, heavy blond haired woman, and Fran a long haired old witchy woman lady, they are all friends and all steal. Please if you must drop off your items somewhere, take them anywhere but Goodwill in Thorndale, they steal, rob and are crooks. Lowlifes who steal donations meant for others.
THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE NEW WEST CHESTER SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, CONGRATULATIONS WEST CHESTER, YOU SHOULD BE PROUD
Good Luck West Chester Parents and Students
We purposely did not put any info up regarding the West Chester School Board results. We thought we would just leave the faces and info up for the people of West Chester to glorify in. Good Luck, you will need it, West Chester is so funny, they will vote Republican no matter who it is, I mean look at Joe Pitts, a C Street member, Christian Mafia member. West Chester would rather vote Republican even if satan is running before they would vote for a Democrat, and do not even care the candidate or outcome. That’s why it is great to get out of that area and see how other counties in Pa and the Philly burbs vote, you voters, what can I say? You get what you deserve!!! Congratulations again, to your new school board members. We will leave the post on the side, we will update as to the great job they are doing.
Someone submitted this video to us. It is of adult content. Warning Adults only. We felt this needed to be posted as did the concerned parent who sent this to us. This is on you tube for anyone to watch, or copy.
Sean Carpenter is running in the race for the West Chester School Board, Adults and parents watch this video before you vote.
submitted by concerned parent West Chester Chester County
Say you come home after a long day and find something called “School Board News” on your doorstep. Cool, you think, I’ll see what’s going on in Johnny’s school.
Then you notice a couple of little elephants. Then the names Sean Carpenter, Heidi Adsett, John Wingerter and Maria Pimley, all conservative Republicans who really, really want you to elect them to the West Chester School Board, even though they have difficulty with English… and the truth.
They attack the current board for being “short-sited” (apparently not knowing the difference between “site” as in “Web site” and “sight” as in “short-sighted,” but why should school-board members know that much English, right?).
They talk about our tough economic times and the many private-school kids now in the public schools, “resulting in overcrowded classrooms and buses, with shortages of textbooks.” There are three pretty significant lies in that statement. How do I know? Because a reader asked Rob Partridge, communications director of the West Chester Area School District, about them.
(1) “I can assure you that there has been no change in the standards our Administration and School Board have set for classroom size,” said Mr. Partridge. (2) “There is absolutely no shortage of textbooks in our district.” (3) “Overcrowding on buses is not an issue,” he said. “We bus more than 15,000 public and private/parochial-school students every day.” So “roughly 200 non-public school students coming into our schools has no measurable impact on bus travel.”
Carpenter, Wingerter, Pimley and Adsett want to lead an entire school system. In what, lying?
Why would these people lie to their neighbors instead of just trying to persuade them to their point of view? I don’t know the answer, except to highlight a self-described group of “patriots” that (ironically) applies what used to be a Communist technique for winning: the ends justify the means. Starting in the ’90s, the Christian Right (Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition then) taught members how to get elected to school boards without voters knowing what they stood for. There was a manual that even told candidates to lie should voters ask if they were Christian Coalition members. As the whole country now knows, the Christian Coalition spawned numerous offspring. One is a registered PAC called Chester County Action or CCA.
I wrote in the past how the CCA hide their Christian Right agendas from voters. CCA has since removed all officer names from its Web site, making it harder to connect the dots.
But it can be done. State records show CCA candidates repeatedly donated money from 2003 until the publication of my column in 2008.
And, in a Feb. 5, 2009 letter crowing about the Republican primary, Sean Carpenter said of himself and Wingerter, Adsett and Pimley, “all four candidates were recruited and coached by Gwenne (Alexander) and her group, and it is only with her group’s guidance that we succeeded.“
The next Americans to lead the United State are in school now. The school boards we choose in November will control who teaches them (Christian Right or just well-qualified people), what they’re taught (creationism or evolution) and which books they’ll read (or be prevented from reading).
They will mold these kids. Big time.
With that much at stake, shouldn’t the candidates’ personal integrity be an issue? Shouldn’t their real agendas matter – and be known?
Henry Briggs is a columnist for Main Line Media News. He can be reached at
Woman Stabbed Outside Parkesburg Walmart Chester County
A 25 year old woman was stabbed at the Parkesburg Walmart parking lot in West Sadsbury Townhip, the incident happened on Oct. 13th at about 10:25 pm.
The 25 year old woman was walking to her car when she was approached by a man believed to be in his 20′s who tried to take her backpack. During the struggle, the 25 year old woman was stabbed in her back. The victim did fight off her attacker who apparently ran toward Rt. 10. The victim was treated at Brandywine hospital and released.
There may have been two men involved and Police are investigating and asking for help.
Please call the State Police at the Embreeville barracks at (484) 340-3241.
Please people be careful. This is crazy. This happens everywhere, not just in the City. Keep your eyes open and be aware of your surroundings when leaving any store or anywhere, anytime!
NEW ORLEANS – A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
“I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,” Bardwell said yesterday. “I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else.”
Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed-race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.
Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.
“There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage,” Bardwell said. “I think those children suffer and I won’t help put them through it.”
If he did an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said.
“I try to treat everyone equally,” he said.
Bardwell estimates that he has refused to marry about four couples during his career, all in the past 2 1/2 years.
Beth Humphrey, 30, and Terence McKay, 32, both of Hammond, say they will consult the U.S. Justice Department about filing a discrimination complaint.
This justice of the peace is just to funny. Most interracial marriages do not last long, where has he been ? Divorce has been at an all time high the past several years and last we looked, many where white couples. Talk about stupidity. Where do they find these people?
If you or your family are facing arbitration and you see the name Paul Rubino mentioned anywhere, run the other way. This Attorney who along with Pitt and Pitt screwed my Mother out of her benefits that were supposed to be paid out by Allstate Insurance. Paul Rubino Paoli, Albert Sardella , and Pitt and Pitt, all of Chester County, run as fast as you can. Paul Rubino was so rude to my Mother, he would not let her talk, he is a nobody in my opinion who was lucky enough to pass the State Bar. Beware of Pitt and Pitt, Rubino, and Sardella all of Chester County. Who would treat a woman like this over a huge greedy corporation. Beware!!
Army veteran (with top-secret clearance) David London was fired from his supervisory job in Chester County after being told a background check showed him to be a criminal.
David London, an Army veteran, was riding high last October after receiving a big promotion at the Chester County courthouse.
The following day, London claims, he became entangled in a bureaucratic nightmare that resulted in him being fired from his job and kicked off the property for a 30-year-old crime that he didn’t commit.
The lawsuit that London recently filed against the Chester County commissioners, District Attorney Joseph Carroll and other county officials reads like a lost chapter to a Franz Kafka novel:
Last year, London, 44, a former sergeant who served in the Persian Gulf and had “Top Secret” clearance, was about a month into his new job at the courthouse, where he was supervising daytime custodial workers under a contract that the county has with his then-employer, Texas-based ISS Facility Services.
He was promoted on Oct. 6, 2008, to a position supervising day and night shifts. The next day, he was unemployed.
According to the civil-rights suit filed last week in federal court in Philadelphia, London was called into a meeting and told that a criminal-background check showed that a person with his name and birth date was convicted of burglary and sentenced to prison in 1978.
London, however, would have been 13 years old that year and wouldn’t have been eligible to do adult jail time for a felony conviction.
He tried to explain to his boss and a county official that they had the wrong guy, but they “did not even give him any opportunity to be heard,” the lawsuit states.
Instead, London was fired, required to hand over his keys and ID badge, and escorted from the courthouse.
“Imagine having to tell your wife and kids that even though the U.S. military knows you’re trustworthy and safe enough to earn top-secret clearance and supervise a missile site, your company and your local government have announced that you’re actually a dangerous felon and a fraud,” said his attorney, Mark Sereni.
Sereni declined to elaborate on the lawsuit, which seeks in excess of $150,000 for invasion of privacy, retaliation and defamation, among other alleged wrongs. But he said that it’s a clear case of mistaken identity.
State police and FBI background checks done at London’s request did not turn up the burglary case – or any other felony or misdemeanor convictions.
“Imagine after you’ve been fired on the spot on bogus charges, having to struggle in this lousy economy to find a new job to support your family with that stigma tattooed on your forehead,” Sereni said. “No wonder Mr. London has not gotten another custodial supervisor position.”
London, who lives in Downingtown, has tried to clear his name, but he’s finding red tape at every turn. He returned to the courthouse to get fingerprinted to prove that he was not a criminal, but was told the fingerprinting was “inconclusive,” the lawsuit states.
London’s attorneys tried asking the county to retract its statement that he is a felon. No dice.
When they requested records from Chester County, Assistant Solicitor Thomas Abrahamsen cryptically replied that the request “leads us to the opinion that some adverse employment action befell Mr. London.” Abrahamsen wrote that the county’s president judge “has ordered that no one with a felony conviction can work in the Justice Center.”
But when London’s lawyers tried to obtain the judge’s order, which they claim is “patently illegal,” they received a letter from the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts saying: “We have been informed that the order you have requested does not exist.”
Legal experts say that a blanket policy banning felons from working in the courthouse, rather than an evaluation of applicants on a case-by-case basis, could be a recipe for more lawsuits.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has long held that automatically excluding all potential employees with a criminal record discriminates against blacks and Hispanics because they are convicted at a rate disproportionately greater than their representation in the population.
“I think it’s certainly problematic, certainly susceptible to a challenge,” Mary Ellen Maatman, a Widener Law professor, said of the county’s purported policy.
Neither Abrahamsen nor President Judge Paula Francisco Ott returned calls from the Daily Newsseeking comment.
Chester County has not yet filed a response to the lawsuit.
It also accuses officials of engaging in a “devious coverup” and “insidious retaliation” when London protested his termination.
courtesy of www.philly.com
This is so pathetic and leave it up to the Chester County Court House to screw this up big time and not even have the decency to look into it. Typical in my opinion and many others as noted on this site. Chester County Court needs an entire overhaul, you complain to the State Bar or Judicial Ethics and they do nothing, they all work together, I have had it, we need to band together and clean this corrupt courthouse up, write to the Whitehouse Civil Rights Division, let’s all do it together. Obama will listen, I believe that. No one, I repeat, No one is above the law.
He tried to explain to his boss and a county official that they had the wrong guy, but they “did not even give him any opportunity to be heard,” but they escorted him out of the courthouse. What a joke. Wow, I bet the sheriffs felt so important.
He returned to the courthouse to get fingerprinted to prove that he was not a criminal, but was told the fingerprinting was “inconclusive,” what does this mean ? It does sound fishy. Fingerprints are fingerprints, that is why they obtain them, strange!
This is why Chester County Courthouse is the joke of all other courts, and people believe they can not get a fair trial at this court. It’s who you know, or how much money you have.
One more thing, why is the Chester County Courthouse using a Texas based firm instead of a local company?????
My Son recently went before Lombardi in family court. Who is this person, why are they in any position of power over custody ? I will be doing my research about this one. He was not allowed to talk, or say anything.
What kind of system is the Chester County Family Court putting on here???? I will be back after my research, these Masters, Judges, whatever they are have no clue, and they do not care about the kids, if they did they would let parents talk, our poor children count on these people deciding their future ????? In my opinion they have no clue and they need to get with it and not count this as a everyday humdrum job, ask questions, it may be your line of work and boring, but kids and families are suffering because of your ignorant decisions… Will be back, stay tuned.
CALL THEM OUT ! TELL HARRY REID STOP PROTECTING SILENT SENATORS
SIGN OUR PETITION
At least one senator in the Democratic caucus is blocking a public option – but we don’t know who. That’s because Majority Leader Harry Reid is protecting any senator who wants to join a Republican filibuster of health care reform.
This isn’t just wrong, it’s deeply immoral. If a Democrat wants to filibuster a public option, make them do it in public.
Harry Reid can no longer allow members of the Democratic caucus to block a public option behind the closed doors of the Senate.
Sign our petition to Harry Reid: force the silent filibuster senators out into the open. It’s time for a public count for the public option.
It’s nice to see that so many Tea Party attendees seem to be thoughtful, reflective types who have clearly grasped the important concepts that differentiate the two parties.
The Far Right Has No Place in Any School System Around Children Period !!!
This is not sent in from any parent or concerned resident of Chester County, this is straight from the rants, and we are not worried about grammar here daily local dan, we are getting a point across.
We have seen these rants submitted from parents regarding the West Chester School Board Candidates over and over, and we have something to say here, and hopefully we speak for all children, as they are innocent and to young to vote.
No one that has the feelings of hate towards any one group should ever, ever, be in any place where children are involved. Now, Sean Carpenter who has been seen protesting in public with a person who hates gay people and he himself who hates gay people, should never, ever , be allowed to be on any school board. What about the poor innocent child who may be gay?
I am sorry, but you can have your opinions, but you can not be on any board or office where children are involved. How would a poor child who may be confused, and yes, there will be, and are, young children confused or scared about being gay or not, however being so afraid to be able to be open about it, knowing the school they attend feels so strongly against it, will likely cause so many more problems. Even others if they are gay, will hide it, and be afraid because the school they attend, is that what you may want your poor confused child to do instead of talk to you? Think about it!
Come on parents, you can say or think what you want, but many parents are the last to know. If your child was gay and you did, or did not know, would you want the school board teaching hate against gay people ? Would you want your child hated and depressed and worse contemplating suicide because you know the school he or she attends hates gays ?? There should never be so much hate against anyone period in school, isn’t that what we teach.
My children are grown as are many of the posters of Chester county rants, this does not affect us, but you as parents really need to think about this. Your child whatever choice he or she may make in the future, there is no room for hate, period. You can not have this on any school board or office, let alone any office or job.
Yes, and these protest signs they claim to be so innocent, Obama Bin Laden, they are not innocent, they are calling our President of the United States a terrorist or someone he is not, how many innocent people pay for this hatred? How many children who know no hate for any race, will form a hatred because of this?
Right now President Obama is our President and you can not have a hate group on any school board against any race, or teaching hate against the President of The United States.
I would not want my grandchildren going to a school that called our President a terrorist, or was taught this hatred or racism as a tool in any school, he is our President, he is not Osama Bin Laden as the right school board candidates are calling him , and I want my grandchildren to know Obama, not Osama.
This is pathetic, I do not even know why the likes of Sean Carpenter and the other candidates would want to be school board members, but this is not the job for them, there are other things they could be doing, what I don’t know, maybe helping out in a soup kitchen over the holidays!!
I am sorry, but this can not be good, never, ever!
YOU CAN LOITER, SELL DRUGS, NO YARDSALES WITHOUT PERMIT What A Joke!!!! Coatesville Get It Together!!!
I just want to submit this rant as I can not believe this happened. I went to Fairview cemetary to visit my fathers grave, for those that do not know where it is located, it’s on Oak Street in Coatesville. Upon leaving I saw a yardsale sign. I pulled over and went into the yard which was right on Oak, the yard was right there, I was not even in the yard for a whole 5 minutes and a white truck with municipal tags pulled up and parked behind me. This guy comes walking in and asks the two men running the yardsale if they had a permit or sign from city hall all within my hearing range.
They did, but what shocks me the most is right down the street there must have been 20 people hanging out in the street, and one block over about another 25, and one standing in the street talking on a cell phone and would not move, or the two porches that were filled with trash, and not a word is said.
This is why Coatesville will never change. They are paying a guy, I heard him say his name was Troop, to ride around, pay his gas to harass people having a yardsale, two older men trying to make a couple honest bucks, but do nothing to stop loitering, houses piled with trash, drug deals in the open, what do they pay this guy, no I mean what do we taxpayers pay this guy, to ride around all day to locate this yardsale, I mean you wouldn’t have just found this yardsale riding down business 30, what a joke. I mean come on Coatesville, what are you doing here? You should be thrilled someone is having a yardsale, you should encourage it, you have bigger and meaner fish to fry. Get with it.
As a Coatesville resident I do not want to pay for this man to do nothing but worry about yardsales, what a waste of taxpayer money, and time, your lucky anyone even wants to have a yardsale in the city, most people will not enter the city for a yardsale or anything else, so why are you worried about stupid s#@# permits with all you need to be worried about??? We need change in the council and need it now.
CUSTOMER WANTS ANSWER AND BILL FIXED COMCAST CABLE
Several months ago I posted a rant concerning the runaround my 70 year old mother was receiving from comcast. Chester county rants received an email asking me to contact corporate, which I did he never responded.
For months I called continuously trying to straighten out her bill, I along with my mother returned her digital box she had and expressed to the customer service rep at cornerstone blvd. that my mother only wanted 3, 6, and 10. She doesn’t watch the other channels.
After several months she received a digital starter box delivered by ups.
She called to tell them she did not want this she only wanted the basic channels 3,6, and 10. after several calls with no satisfaction. everyone she spoke to told her there was no charge for the boxes that everything was digital and this was part of her service. she was told she was allowed 3 free boxes and they were sending two additional by ups.
She received her boxes and I hooked them up, I called had them activated and she showed me her bill and asked me if there would be additional charges.
I looked at her bill and noticed she was still being billed 58.00 for three basic channels.
This time I called and pretended to be a new customer. I asked how much it would cost me to just have the basic channels and was told anywhere from 11 to 16 dollars a month.
This was all my mother wanted for six months prior and they scammed her and told her it was the same thing. after making my call I was told she was getting basic and expanded cable when what she wanted was limited basic service. He said he could see where we had called several times and understood our frustration. He transferred me to retention who informed me he would now have to send a tech out to retrieve boxes and remove channels.
I explained to him I wasn’t concerned about the boxes I just hooked up in the last day or so, my concern was the prior six months that my mother was lied to and overbilled for something she told them she never wanted to begin with.
I would also like to say that the majority of the people I spoke with had a very hard time speaking english.
So either they couldn’t comprehend what she meant when she said she only wanted 3,6, and 10, or they were scamming her. She believed them either way and she was overbilled close to 300.00 for something she did not want and she is on a fixed income.
This is a terrible way to run a major company, and to get business.
I plan to contact attorney general, as well as look into verizon cable, phone, and internet for my mother, and others in my family.
Chances are she is not the only one comcast fooled into believing that they are only paying for standard channels such as 3, 6. and 10, and that the other channels are free along with the digital starter boxes.
I hope this post helps to inform other unsuspecting comcast customers
I just want to rave about Bonefish Grill in Exton. Had such a relaxing dinner there last night. A couple of strawberry tinis and the bang bang shrimp which are so good. My friend had the tilapia with mango salsa. I love the food, and the atmosphere. If ever there try the bang bang shrimp, spicy and to die for. The martinis are great too!
Post from Daily Local Dan’s Blog About Chester County Rants and Our Response
Chester County Rants: Misattributions and irresponsible blogging
A few people have recently called my attention to Chester County Rants, a blog that, they say, is beating the Daily Local when it comes to covering the West Chester Area School Board race.
A clarification: Chester County Rants is not actually covering the school board race. Rather, it is engaging in highly partisan attacks against the Republican candidates. Many of these attacks use my articles and blog posts as sources.
My work was intended to expose an interesting rift in the Chester County Republican Party. The Rants blogger or bloggers apparently wish I had taken a different approach. One post even attributes to me two paragraphs that I did not write.
My February 24, 2009 entry , which treats the American Sheepdogs’ opposition to the West Chester East High School Gay-Straight Alliance Day of Silence, ends:
“Other criticisms aside, I don’t think it’s only the radical left that believes “being gay is acceptable behavior.”"
“Other criticisms aside, I don’t think it’s only the radical left that believes “being gay is acceptable behavior.”
“Ask yourself this question, do you want your child to be attacked for being who they are?
“Adsett, Carpenter, Pimley, and Wingerter are so Right Wing, So Wrong for our schools!”
This addition is highly irresponsible and suggests that those who run Chester County Rants are short on integrity.
In fact, Rants engages in borderline plagiarism. The post that this misquotation is from makes my writing appear, at first, as if it is the work of one of the Rants bloggers.
The Rants post does not begin with, “Here’s an interesting blog post written by Dan Kristie.” Rather, it launches, without quotation marks, directly into my post.
The only indication that the text of the post was not written by the Rants contributor is this “citation,” which appears at its end:
(DailyLocal.com, Daily Local News blog: Tuesday, February 24, 2009)
This is barely a citation. It does not contain my name or the name of my blog. And, though it is not required to do so, it does not contain a link to my blog.
Yet, it quotes my post in full, and sneakily adds two paragraphs.
I invite Chester County Rants to respond.
Chester County Rants Response to Daily Local Dan
Daily Local Dan
If you read the About Chester County Rants page, you will see we submit rants and rent pages for anyone or any group or business, who wish to get their point or information out. We should have made that more clear, obviously. We have added, which we did not feel we had to, that the people submitting these rants for the West Chester School Board candidates are concerned parents and residents in the West Chester, Chester County area. They feel strongly about this and are submitting what they believe to be true. We have also searched and the pictures and articles are out there for anyone to see just by googling. If a parent or resident chooses to use your links in their Rants, we put that in there, if the person clicks on the link they can read the full post, that is not our problem if they choose not to or how they read. We leave out personal info which many times we recieve such as email addresses etc, hate, profanity, we do our best to moderate and get the truth. If we find something completely false we will not print. So far that has not been the case! How a parent reads your paper is not up to Chester County Rants, I can tell you , we have put nothing in any of our post on our own regarding your blog or paper.
This was posted as a comment originally 2 days ago, Dan wants an answer but does not even check his blog or comment moderation. Dan you need to get with it, maybe that is the problem.
John Wingerter, believes that our children should be taught creationism in the classroom.
Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago. The fossil puts to rest the notion, popular since Darwin’s time, that a chimpanzee-like missing link—resembling something between humans and today’s apes—would eventually be found at the root of the human family tree. Indeed, the new evidence suggests that the study of chimpanzee anatomy and behavior—long used to infer the nature of the earliest human ancestors—is largely irrelevant to understanding our beginnings.
So why is this important? Because right wing school board candidate, John Wingerter, believes that our children should be taught creationism in the classroom. Here is the definition of creationism – Creationism refers to the religious belief[1] that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe were created in some form by a supernatural being or beings. Guess where John Wingerter got this idea to teach this in the classroom? You have guessed correctly if you said Gwenne Alexander, the head of Chester County Action. In fact, her and John work together at Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School in West Chester run by right wing minister James Hanak. This nonsense of the teaching of creationism has cost the Dover school district, in Dover, Pa over $1,000,000 dollars in legal fees paid by the tax payers. If Wingerter is elected he will push to have his religion to be taught in West Chester Area Schools. Can you afford $1,000,000 in new taxes to pay for this right wing zealot’s view?
Here is what John Wingerter said during the League of Women’s Voter Debate back on May 3rd, 2009 when asked if creationism should be taught in the classroom:
“I think that students need to know that there is another, that there is another thought, there are other theories, and there are researches that are taking place out there as far as creationism is concerned.”
This is in Lancaster County, the Doctors Office, but my friend lives in Chester County. I want to submit this rant for her, because this is terrible. My friend Gina has been seeing Dr. Keith Weiss at the Lanchester Medical Center in Christiana Lancaster Pa. This is not by her choice, but her insurance covers her for the care she needs there. My friend Gina is disabled, has no car, either I or her Mother take her to her appointments, so getting what she needs is not always easy, or should I say getting rides when she needs is not always easy.
I can not believe the run around and incompetent office this Doctor runs. His nurses, assistants, or whatever you want to call them are clueless. They have no idea what they are doing. They will tell her over the phone her prescription is ready for pick up (refills) on this day or time when it’s supposed to be, but then we will drive there, no prescription. We call them, it’s Oh were sorry, we must have forgotten to call that in. Once, I can see, twice I can see, but over and over. They have no idea what they are doing at that office, and they need looked into. I know another woman who pays Dr. Weiss for prescriptions because her insurance only covers so many pain pills that are needed for that prescription, that means it’s illegal, he should not be writing out more than is needed per prescription for pain meds or anything else. Also not sure but there is another person getting soma handed to her which I looked into and should not be given for more than 8 days. These guys are quacks and up to no good and I will be helping her file an ethics complaint for them to be investigated.
This was too cute. Parkesburg had their fall borough wide yard sale this past Saturday, the last weekend of Sept. My grandaughter who was up visiting us for two weeks from Las Vegas was amazed at the horse and buggy who pulled up in front of us. Yes, she has seen horses and buggies before riding through Lancaster County with us when she visits, but she just turned 4 and I am not sure what she remembers on her visits. However, I know she is not seeing horse and buggies in Las Vegas, she was amazed. I drug her out of bed on a nice fall day as I knew I had to get to this giant yardsale. I was ready to go,she was so tired, I wrapped her in her blanket, put her in her car seat and off we went, I knew she would have fun and my Mother lives in Parkesburg so we were heading there, I knew I could make her breakfast and have another cup of coffee. By the time we were at the first yard sale, she was ready to go, I have her hooked now, we hit 10 yard sales by the time we made Parkesburg. We stopped at many in Coatesville and Valley Township. I took her to my Mothers in Parkesburg where I had coffee and she had oatmeal, that’s when this beautiful horse pulled up! Great Day!! Many great finds. What a perfect day to spend with my grandaughter!
Below is a mention about ChesterCountyRants from WCJIM’s website.
The newest site to make WCJIM’s short list is Chester County Rants. Not to be confused with other crank webpages, this site actually offers people the chance to submit their own rants. They tend to lean towards the left, and the proprietor has some especially strong words for the Republican school board candidates (plus pictures), but the writing is very intelligent and offers more humor than most political websites.
Jim grew up in a blue-collar family and was the first member to complete college. He then entered the Peace Corps as a teacher, and afterwards he travelled on his own in Europe and Africa where he supported himself by working on farms while he learned to speak several languages, visited cultural and historical sites, climbed mountains and crossed the Sahara Desert. After returning to the United States, he obtained a commercial driver’s license and eventually became a cross-country tour operator. Meanwhile, he augmented his knowledge of automotive mechanics, acquired the first of nearly a dozen motorcycles and taught himself how to program personal computers. Eventually, he enrolled in graduate school and received a Ph.D. in African history from the University of Delaware in 1995.
PLEASE AVOID THESE ATTORNEYS AT ALL COST WHAT THEY DID TO MY MOTHER WAS A CRIME THEY WORKED FOR ALLSTATE INSURANCE NOT MY MOTHER BEWARE CHESTER COUNTY AND ALL PA.
It first started with her own Attorney Albert Sardella of Coatesville Chester County, who we blame first off. Our Father was killed in a hit and run accident and our Mother and Sister had a claim against Allstate Insurance who did everything they could to delay and not pay. They could not have done this without our mothers attorney who screwed her big time, He had her agree to go to arbitration, he said it would be quicker than waiting to go to trial, she trusted her attorney Albert Sardella. I do not know what quick is, but I thought at least 1 year, they delayed, and delayed and drug this out for over 3 years, and her attorney let them, she would have had a better chance with a jury trial since she waited over 3 years anyway, what was quick about this?
He worked with them instead of our mother, he allowed the delays and okayed them and went along with everything Allstate wanted and their crooked attorneys, pathetic. Then they finally go to arbitration and my mother who had no clue sat there, her attorney did nothing, Thomas Pitt Jr. , Paul Rubino, and Daniel Doyle arbitrators and attorneys for Allstate would not let her talk, everytime she asked a question, they practically yelled at her and told her you can’t say that now, you can’t talk about that now, that’s WHY MY MOTHER PAID AN ATTORNEY TO HELP HER IF SHE COULD HAVE DONE HERSELF SHE WOULD HAVE. After this circus where these corrupt attorneys talked and wouldn’t let anyone else talk, and my mothers trusted attorney did nothing, they said they would mail their decision, well it didn’t even take them a day, they decided for Allstate and against her, within a day, what crooks, honestly people avoid them, they are out for them only and THEIR POCKETS from what I have seen, you need to avoid all the above ATTORNEYS at all cost, and if they tell you your going to arbitration with Pitt and Pitt, tell them NO.
They in my eyes and from what they did to my mother are crooks and corrupt, they worked for the insurance company, and if you ask me, probably all got nice kickbacks or paychecks for the delay and denial of this claim. Thomas Pitt who walked with a cane said my father who was 58 when killed probably didn’t have much of a life, and basically his life didn’t matter, yet he walked with a cane, should we say his life has no meaning? They were all corrupt, unfair, and avoid them at all cost, and Allstate, if you need them, they will not be there, trust us! If you must go to Arbitration or have an accident or insurance claim, avoid all of the above, and in fact, I would avoid in any situation. Pitt and Pitt went against a 58-year-old woman in the hit and run death of her husband for a measly $25,000-$55,000, which would have helped her and meant alot to her, and voted for the billion dollar crook Allstate Insurance. Please avoid them, and if you have stories to share, please comment, save someone else. Also see Twitter and Facebook and other blogs as we try to save others from the above.
What do Congressman Joe Pitts and the West Chester Republican school board candidates have in common? They are connected to religious right groups that are more concerned with turning this country into a theocracy and promoting hate. In previous posts we have documented Joe Pitt’s right wing connections to C Street and Sean Carpenter’s connections to Chester County Action. Both groups are designed to promote right wing hate by promoting candidates that are solely pro-life, pro-Christian, pro-Intelligent Design, and anti-gay. So it makes perfect sense that Congressman Joe Pitt’s endorsed Heidi Adsett, Sean Carpenter, Maria Pimley, and John Wingerter for school board.
We know that the four Republican candidates were coached by the Gwenne Alexander, the Executive Director of Chester County Action. “All four candidates were recruited and coached by Gwenne and her group, and it is only with her group’s guidance that we succeeded. We have a tremendous partner in Chester County Action”, wrote Sean Carpenter. Gwenne Alexander is also the on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School (PALCS). This cyber charter school is run by a right wing minister Jim Hanak and Chief Academic Advisor John Wingerter. This school receives hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in taxpayer money every year. If Wingerter is elected he will truly present a conflict of interest.
Gwenne Alexander, Jim Hanak, Heidi Adsett, Sean Carpenter, Maria Pimley, and John Wingerter are right wing extremists that want to destroy our public school system. Chester County Action, PALCS, and C Street are known as the Christian Mafia set out to incorporate their values in your childrens classroom. Let’s not forget Congressman Joe Pitts is a member of C Street who believe they are the chosen ones, it’s okay to lie, steal, cheat, have affairs, rape little girls, as their founder teaches, they are chosen and it’s okay!!! Disturbing!!!
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PARENTS BEWARE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS DRUG OF CHOICE FOR MANY TEENS
Many parents believe the drugs they need to worry about are the street drugs, as I call them, the ones found on the streets sold by the drug dealers, heroin, cocaine, crack, are their worst fear. Think again, yes they are dangerous, and teens and adults alike everywhere from all walks of life may use or abuse them, on the other hand, there is a new drug of choice for many teens, and many get right from their parents medicine cabinets or from other teens who are getting from theirs. They are deadly and are killing many teens and young adults. My 24-year-old daughter lost a good friend over this past weekend she has not seen since school from a mix of prescription drugs, going to sleep and not waking up. This has happened much more than you think over the past few years. Through friends and others you hear about all the teens or young adults who have died this way, so tragic, and no need for it. Many times you will see an obituary of a young teen or adult in the newspaper and wonder what happened, many times it’s an overdose. Just so sad, and preventable. I have taught my children to be very honest and open with me, they are in their mid and late twenties, and they tell me alot, we talk, and it should be that way. You have to have an open mind, and even if you do not want to hear it, it’s better to know of a situation with their friends or them, then to turn a blind eye to it and expect them to be perfect. It’s a tough world out there, and it’s getting tougher. Don’t think because your child appears to be doing well, or they are in college, they are doing great, many are going to parties at college and taking these pills, many are taking right in school and after like it’s nothing. Beware, this is fact.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking this only happens in the city of Coatesville and other cities, you may feel secure because you live in Downingtown, Parkesburg, West Chester, the Main Line, let me tell you, it’s happening everywhere, sometimes it’s worse in the smaller towns, I know of 4 overdoses in the last few years in Parkesburg, a small town. these young adults went to bed, and didn’t wake up, this doesn’t count the many who were rushed to the hospital and survived.
Oxycontin, Xanax, Percoset, and other prescription drugs, they are taking to many, they are crushing them of and snorting them, and they are getting them from parents, friends, family members, medicine cabinets, many actually buy the pills from people who get prescriptions at double the price per pill. I heard of a teen in Downingtown who was selling percoset patches, I mean this is very troubling, and parents should be aware, and yes, it happens everywhere.
PHILLY 76RS WILLIE GREEN QUESTIONED IN TONI LEE SHARPLESS DISSAPEARANCE AND SONAR SEARCH
Tim Miller from Texas EquuSearch (TES) arrived at the Philadelphia airport last night and worked late into the evening, piecing together what happened to missing young mother Toni Sharpless. And now an area less than a mile from the home of Philadelphia 76er Willie Green is the focus of this morning’s search by Miller of Texas EquuSearch.
BLOGGING FROM THE SEARCH BOAT
By Steph
I will be blogging from the boat searching for missing nurse and mother Toni Sharpless, last seen leaving the home of Philly 76er Willie Green around 5:00 a.m. on 8/23/09. The river being searched is only minutes from Green’s home. Police are here as well now. They have a sudden interest in this case ever since EquuSearch pinpointed a possible location where Toni’s car may have entered the river. We are awaiting Dennis Watters, a sonar expert out of the Chicago area. Toni’s mother (bless her heart) Donna Knebel is on her way as well. Its never good for family to be involved in the actual search, but because this operation is so grassroots and outside of law enforement, Donna offored to pick Dennis up at the airport, and Tim accepted. They are pulling in now. Stand by. I will also post photos
Click link below to read full story and updates on water search.
Congressman Joe Pitts Member Christian Mafia C Street
Joe Pitts Republican Congressman Pa
Below is right from Joe Pitts website, he chooses to side with the extreme right wing lies and fear that are hurting the hope for real healthcare reform. These are out and out lies Mr. Pitts
There is no doubt about it, we need healthcare reform in the United States. But we need the right kind of reform. Plans being put forward by Democrats in Congress would put government bureaucrats in between you and your doctor. These plans would be massively expensive, requiring tax increases, adding to the deficit, or both. What we cannot have is a bureaucrat-run system imposed by politicians in Washington that takes away your power to decide healthcare treatment and denies you the treatments you need, when you need them.
In countries where the government runs a single, one-size-fits all system, people often wait weeks or even months for tests when they are sick. Then they wait weeks or months more for treatment. In these countries, politicians and bureaucrats decide if you’ll get the procedure you need, or if you are disqualified because the treatment is too expensive or because you are too old. This is rationed healthcare. The very sad case of actress Natasha Richardson is a tragic example of someone who did not receive the treatment she could have because of the government-run health system in Canada. This is unacceptable.
No Congressman Pitts, you are unacceptable and so are the lies you are spreading. Your right wing extreme views are unacceptable. First off, you know there will be no rationed care, this is not in the plan the Democrats are proposing, you and your right wing crazies keep spreading these lies and spreading fear, the plan would not deny people treatment regardless of age or condition, another lie Mr. Pitts. Maybe your confused, I think you’re talking about the private health care insurance companies we have now. Let me tell you how many people I know who have waited months to see a specialist after a referral from their Doctor, than many more months waiting for surgery, you have got to be kidding Mr. Pitts. How many parents with very ill children who need care throughout their life are capped off by the time the child reaches 8 yrs old, if that is not rationed care, or denial of treatment I do not know what is ? Cherry picking the healthiest, looking for reasons to drop you, deny coverage, raise premiums, while they turn a huge profit. Mr. Pitts, you have it backwards, your talking about the private insurance companies in the United States, the crooks that get paid for a service many do not perform, not only should they be shut down the ones that practice this daily, they should be in jail with every other criminal.
Then to be so pathetic as to use the death of Natasha Richardson after a tragic fall and head injury to justify your claim about Canada’s health care system is just typical of the Republican tactics and what lies they will spread to win at any and all cost. Natasha Richardson refused treatment, she was very wealthy, her family could have flown her anywhere if it was a case of waiting, Mr. Pitts not to mention this is right from a Republican Extreme Hate Site you obviously follow. You Mr. Pitts should be ashamed, you and the rest of the Republican party.
It amazes me how the Republicans put these guys out like they are saints and we should all worry about them, they are not small business, they are crooks. It is beyond me why the Republicans want to protect crooks such as Stephen Hemsley CEO of United Health Care who is paid $107,000 per hour to deny claims, and let people die, these are facts Mr. Pitts, not made up fear propaganda you and the likes of the other extreme Republican party members and Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Fox news and the other hate groups. You are supposed to be working for the people who elected you, not spreading fear and lies which will benefit the pockets of the corrupt GOP presently in office, who are now in fear of losing huge contributions and kickbacks. I also see the Republican party doesn’t want to give up their health care which is a public option, that we the taxpayers pay for, enough is enough Mr. Pitts, clean up your act and your website. Quit spreading lies, while your at it, talk the rest of the Gop Crooks to give up their health care public option we pay for, if it is not good enough for the Republican party and the people in the United States, you should give up at once, find your own, pay for it, no help from the taxpayers.
Let’s not forget Congressman Joe Pitts is a member of C Street who believe they are the chosen ones, it’s okay to lie, steal, cheat, have affairs, rape little girls, as their founder teaches, they are chosen and it’s okay!!! Disturbing!!!
REPUBLICAN JOE WILSON OF SOUTH CAROLINA TRUE GOP TOWN HALL CLASS
In an angry and very audible outburst, Representative Joe Wilson, Republican of South Carolina, interrupted President Obama’s speech Wednesday night with a shout of “You lie!”
There is no excuse for what Joe Wilson of South Carolina did during President Obamas Speech to Congress on healthcare reform. When the President was advising Congress there would be no bill allowing healthcare for illegal immigrants, Republican Joe Wilson belted out ” You Lie ” to the President of the United States. Joe Wilsons did apologize after urging by other Republicans, however to me it seems a little late, to late to take back. Joe Wilson along with other members of Congress knew what was in that speech, so this was rehearsed, he waited for the chance and he pounced, such total disrespect to the people and the President.
I am sorry but in my eyes he should resign, he is not fit to run any public office where he has say over any person or any law or bill that may affect any person. He acted like a spoiled toddler and used this moment for his tantrum and this is not pre K , he and many other Republicans acted this way and showed their true colors, again, we will address in another post.
Tell Patrick Murphy to stand up for the public health insurance plan Submitted by Marc Stier on Thu, 06/04/2009 – 7:46am. It was two steps forward and one step back on health care reform yesterday. That’s why we need you to make a critical phone call to Congressman Patrick Murphy this morning to ask him to reaffirm his support for a public health insurance option in the health care reform legislation being drafted in Congress? You can call toll free at 1-888-436-8427. Yesterday, in a letter to Senators Kennedy and Baucus President Obama reaffirmed his support for giving all Americans “the choice of a public health insurance option operating alongside private plans.” “This will give them,” he wrote, “a better range of choices, make the health care market more competitive, and keep insurance companies honest.” But the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 51 House Democrats that includes Representative Murphy, said yesterday that the public health insurance plan should only come into effect if it is “triggered” by a failure of private insurers to “rein in costs and offer affordable coverage to everyone.” Private insurance has already failed to meet this test. Two weeks ago, HCAN criticized Independence Blue Cross for seeking to raise premiums for non-group insurance up to 52%. And yesterday we released a report that shows why premiums are going up so fast, because the health insurance market in most regions in Pennsylvania and in most other states is overwhelmingly dominated by one company. Many people here worked hard for Rep. Murphy. So, please call him today at 1-888-436-8427. Ask him to exclude the trigger from the Blue Dog health care reform principles. Tell him that we need a public health insurance plan now • to make sure that everyone has health insurance they can count on even if they change jobs • to compete with private insurance to hold down costs. Tell him that as a fiscal conservative, he should support the competition a public health insurance plan will provide. Tell him that this is the only way we can provide quality health care for all at a cost affordable both to families and taxpayers. Call today at 888-436-8427. With your support, in 2009 we will finally realize our dream of providing a guarantee of quality affordable health care to all. Thanks Marc Stier PA State Director Health Care For America NOw
We voted for Patrick Murphy and he won the election because the Democratic Party spoke out, they wanted change. If Patrick Murphy can not help on the health care issue that is so much needed for all, we need to vote him out next election. He was along for the ride and win, he ran under the wrong party name, he wanted the win, then backs the GOP. We need another true Democratic voice in office, not a wolf in sheeps clothing. Vote him out !!! Vote all blue dogs out when you can everywhere, this is chester county rants, but we have readers nationwide because of the search engines and we are there. Please call the blue dogs out for what they are, they are not Democrats, they were along for the win, now they must go back to the party they really represent…
This is just unbelievable, I mean, I am stunned here. Is this what religion has come to, is this what the pastors and ministers are teaching now, hate, death, fear, control? I am sorry, but this is really demented and sick. There is just no other word for it. If this is what they are teaching today in churches around the nation, people need to keep their children away. Children are innocent, they do not know hate or color, they are not born with hate, but they can be taught it very easily, and any church that preaches these types of sermons are really in my eyes Satan !!
GOP FINDS YET ANOTHER THING TO CRITICIZE PRESIDENT OBAMA ON.
Now they are accusing him of spreading socialism and getting the school kids to follow him. When will it end? The Gop and right wing extremist really need to give it a break. There was no problem when both George Bush Sr. and Jr. or Ronald Reagan spoke to school children. The GOP is stirring this up amongst parents who already do not like Obama, this is just pathetic. He is our President and he gets not an ounce of respect, what is wrong today? We are so divided, and is the Republican party just a party of white, because that what it seems like to me. Why is it they are stirring this huge controversy over our President talking to the children. I know why, you can think what you want, but this has never happened before. The right wing hate groups that hate President Obama because of the color of his skin are using any agenda to get to him and preach their hate, first health care, now school speeches, what will it be next?
Maybe the schools and teachers and others in States that are so against it should not be allowed any funding for programs, I mean they want to keep their kids home so they do not hear our President of the United States, C’mon people. My god, the West Chester Area School Board has extreme right wing radicals running for the school board and that’s okay, yet parents do not want the President to speak to children to stay in school and work hard. I don’t get it, well actually I do, and I rest my case.
Officials in Coatesville say they’ve signed an agreement with a developer to build a 125-room Courtyard by Marriott Hotel.
The project has been delayed and scaled back since it first was discussed in 2004. Officials said Monday that the agreement will allow the developer to start infrastructure work for the $31 million project.
This would be great for the city of Coatesville if all goes as planned. However I can not see with the way the city is now anyone staying at that hotel. People are not dumb, business class usually know and research an area before staying there. I mean if a person goes to Atlantic city to gamble, they usually want the casino hotels, not the ones on the side streets for safety reasons. People know. Sadsbury and Valley townships are building and cleaning up, Thorndale is filled with stores now we need to clean up the eyesore in the middle, the center streets on 30 in the middle of Coatesville city.
Lay down the law, stop the loitering, and start fining the people that litter the streets, I am sorry, but I ride through Coatesville on a daily basis and see people just walking and dropping trash, they finish a can of soda and just drop it, littering is a against the law, fine them $300.00 each time they do it. Get on the landlords, to get on their tenants, many houses on 8th ave. and business 30 have the rooftops littered with trash, sneakers, they need to see who is on the lease and how many people live there. The code office needs to do a better job or find someone who can. Instead of harassing the people about putting a new roof on to make their places look better, do inspections of these homes and tenant leases. You can not have 25 people sharing one house. Get on them, the police have plenty to do, hire a street patrol to go after and fine the people that litter and loiter, get the codes office to start checking out these leases and fine them for code violations, it can be done. There is no excuse for any of the above, the people in the city of Coatesville pay enough taxes.
Get it together Coatesville, the hotel might help, but not with the streets the way they are. Get tough, fine heavily and clean up Coatesville.
Toni Lee Sharpless, 29, went to a Gladwyne party Saturday night, but never returned home to West Brandywine. She was driving a black 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix GT, with plate number DND-7772.
PEOPLE SPEAK UP NOW AGAINST THE LOBBYIST AND REPUBLICANS WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR AFFORDABLE AND PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FOR ALL. WRITE TODAY!!!
As we speak, key committees in Congress are weighing options and making final decisions about how to tackle health care reform. This could be one of the last opportunities to shape the legislation before it’s written.
The behind-the-scenes committee negotiations aren’t front-page news, but the lobbyists trying to block reform are following every detail, and they won’t miss a day. If the final plan is to uphold President Obama’s principles of reduced costs, guaranteed choice — including a robust public insurance option — and quality care for all, your voice must be heard.
Please call your representatives right now and ask them to support President Obama’s three principles for real health care reform. Our records show that you live in Pennsylvania’s 6th congressional district. Please call:
Rep. Jim Gerlach at 202-225-4315Senior Senator Arlen Specter at 202-224-4254
These calls are an easy but powerful way to make a difference. Just tell whoever answers the phone that you’re a constituent (mention what city you’re calling from), and that you’re counting on your representative to support real health care reform, which must:
Reduce costs
Guarantee a choice of plans and doctors — including the choice of a robust public insurance option
Ensure quality, affordable care for every American
The opponents of real reform have deep pockets and insider access, and they’re holding nothing back in their drive to derail progress before the plans go public.
Your call, right now, can help remind your representatives that the American people are counting on them to stand up to the special interests and deliver the comprehensive reform we so desperately need.
Thanks for all that you do,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
P.S. — These calls are a vital first step. Stay tuned for other critical ways to organize locally and make a difference in this campaign. We can only win this thing if we all work together every step of the way.
American People should also demand the Congress and Senate pay for their own heath care, or at least the ones who are so against health care for the working poor, self employed, and middle class. It’s time the greed of the Republican Senate and Congress stops. They should pay their own health care. Think what savings that would be, they should be stripped of all benefits like many American people have been who lost jobs, benefits, heath care more, maybe they will quit thinking of their rich lobbyist buddies who keep their pockets filled.
On June 29, 65 Black and Hispanic children from the city camp Creative Steps Inc. made their first visit to the Montgomery County club and heard some members make racial remarks and escort their own children away from the pool, Creative Steps executive director Aletha Wright said.
Last Friday, the Valley Club refunded a $1,950 check to the camp in Oxford Circle to terminate the agreement allowing children from kindergarten through seventh grade to swim at the club.
Apparently as the black children entered the pool the caucasian children were quickly escorted out.
I want to know who this horrible Mother is that made the remark about these innocent children. It is people like her and the other members of this club who harbor hatred and racism. I do not know why people like this do not buy a little island somewhere and take all their racist friends and others with them. This Mother has no clue and is teaching her child to grow up racist like her. Children do not know the color of skin, they love and play with all children, they are taught it by bigot Mothers like her. I hope the Human Relations sues the pants off of them, they they can sit in their lilly white pool, with their lilly white members and think they are better than everyone. Obviously money doesn’t buy class, just memberships into bigot racist pools.
My daughter got up this morning to go to class, and went to her car, as she went to open the door she saw things strewn all about, papers from her glove box etc. Then she sees her entire dash ripped apart and her stereo gone. She was in tears.
She was in tears because she is a single Mother of one, working and going to school, she saved for a year to buy the stereo from her tips, the damage that was done, the messed up wiring. This thief has just cost her over $1000 in damage.
I despise lazy people who can not work and buy their own stuff, so they mooch off of working people and take what they want. They make me sick. They roam the streets at night when people are asleep, they prey on innocent people because they are to lazy and ignorant to make their own way, they are a drain on society, people like this will always be a drain on society one way or another, and they need to be stopped.
My daughter called the police and she was apparently the 6th person in the area that called in that morning with break ins. I do not understand why police do not do fingerprinting anymore, her entire glove box was ripped out. It seems like you could lift fingerprints, is it easier to let a criminal go than to do a fingerprint check? What if the next time its someones home with their children their, they in my book should always do fingerprints, oh well, what do I know?
Keep in mind we are watching for you now, we are going to set the bait, stay up all night, and just when you think your homefree, smile your on film !!! When you least expect it, expect it!!!!
My mother called comcast last week about her phone not working, well while on the phone with customer service they kept trying to get my Mother to buy something else, add a box, package etc. I heard my Mom the entire time telling the lady she was not interested and was on a fixed income and that’s why she got rid of the package and box to begin with. So after saying No thanks over and over and hanging up, what do you think happens next?
She gets a huge box delivered by UPS two days later. What, she never asked for this. In fact she said no, what part of no didn’t this pushy saleswoman understand?
My sister than calls the office to tell them to send someone back right away to pick this box up as my Mother did not order, did not want, and was not going to be responsible for driving to Downingtown. They then proceed to tell her, oh it looks like you have a bill and an old box, so we wouldn’t have hooked it up anyway. Here they were billing my Mother $48.00 extra per month for digital cable, box, taxes, surcharge, etc. They proceeded to say this bill was owed when my sister said, I know you can see that we have not had a box activated for several months, the comcast service person says “oh yeah I can see that now.” I am not trying to be mean here, but what kind of people are running that office. They are working on now, I am waiting to see how they fix this one.
Do we need to babysit everybody. Is it our job to hold receipts for 1 year because people can not do their jobs, is it our job to drop off a box at cable assume you are done with cable then call them 7 months later and say “Did you take that off my bill?” Let alone how time consuming the calls are, going through the automated system, being put on hold, you actually have to plan a good half hour for your call, that’s if your lucky!
I don’t think so, and with many people needing jobs today, they need to replace the unprofessional, unknowing workers that can’t do their job.
STATE WORKERS COUNTY ASSISTANCE OFFICE DOSE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE AND I DO NOT THINK THEY LIKE IT.
The pleas were also personal, telling of individual hardships to come if paychecks stop.
Employees International Union Local 668 who work at the nearby Cumberland County Assistance Office stood at the corner of York Road and Westminster Drive to call for on-time paychecks. DAN GLEITER, The Patriot-News Dept. of Revenue employee Yvette Wright of Harrisburg wears a State Volunteer headband at the rally. “We came out today to show our distaste against our legislators who can’t pass the budget,” said Scott Shirk, of Boiling Springs, chief shopster of the Cumberland County CAO. “Later on today I’m supposed to take my daughter for an orthodontist appointment,” he said. “I’m supposed to write a check for $800. How do you tell a 13 year-old you can’t do that?”
I have a 5 year-old and a 5-month old and they have to eat,” said Serena Owens, 25, of Carlisle. “I have to get food and formula for them from the food bank because I’m not getting any money. And I would like somebody to tell me how I’m supposed to feed them or how I’m supposed to put gas in my car, because I have to come to work and it doesn’t run off water.”
I guess you know how it feels now, like the others in the same position that come to you for help.
How do we all tell our kids we can’t do that??
Maybe the County Assistance workers are getting a dose of their own medicine, I don’t think they like the taste!
I do not want to see anyone lose their jobs, but I can tell you I have seen first hand how many who have lost health care or jobs are treated when to go to these same offices for help. There are always an exception, I am talking about the majority and what I have seen first hand.
I tried to help a friend who was diabetic, lost his job and had no insulin. Maybe they couldn’t have helped him right away, but it was the way they didn’t help and treated him. They were sarcastic, they made him wait forever, they gave him no info (I ended up buying him $103 dollars so he didn’t go into shock.) When he went in, he stood at the front desk with a line of about 10 poeple and it took forever for him to get waited on as they work as slow as possible. When they finally took us back, they treated him like some kind of low life because he lost his job, they told him that they had a right to wait 30 days for a decision and he would be hearing from them. They gave him no other info, I called Harrisburg for him and there was nothing they could do before the 30 day period. They were just horrible.
My daughter lost her job and applied for medical for her daughter as she lost her benefits. The run around they gave her was uncalled for. Sending her notices that her daughters benefits would be cut off because she didn’t submit something, when she had submitted it weeks before, lost paper work, mailing her a notice in Jan. for something that should have been mailed in June. They are just awful! They never answer the phone, ever, or return a call. The receptionist there just takes up a chair for her pay, she has one speed and its slow, I mean slow!!!
There is no excuse for the above, none at all. There are many people hurting now and were before, when you go to these places for help you should not have to deal with a nasty or lazy attitude. They are getting paid to do their job, half of them should be fired anyway, all the ones with these attitudes do not deserve a paycheck. Gov. Rendell should do a complete overhaul of these State Workers, they do not deserve a pay. In all honesty, I think the ones that go into to work and do their job right, and are thankful that they have it should work and recieve their pay, on the other hand, the ones that are just taking a chair and are miserable and lazy, they need fired asap, that would help the budget !
I guess they are seeing now how others feel when they come to them for help and they don’t like it. Oh Well, it tough times now for many, don’t like the medicine do you???
THE CHESTER COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS IS CORRUPT IN OUR OPINION AND WE CAN PROVE IT FACTS
Isn’t it sad in this time of day that we still come across such corrupt District Attorneys, Lawyers, Lower Court Judges as with the Chester County Court of Common Pleas Judge Riley and the pathetic Attorneys that steal clients money only to make a deal and have their case figured out without doing a dimes worth of work? It just amazes me how this is allowed to go on, and I hope to stop, and hopefully with a new President, the corrupt Judges and District Attorneys will not be allowed to get away with it.
The Attorneys who rob the innocent who are under stress, promising them something when they know they already have it figured out between the Judge and DA because they are all friends. Yeah, if I can help it, I am going to put a stop to it, and you know what I love, everytime someone does a search for a West Chester Attorney or Chester County Attorney or by their names Donatoni and Duffy they will see this also, so in the long run, I will hurt these corrupt Attorney’s pockets, even if its by 1% that will make me very happy and save another from having their money taken for nothing, and getting railroaded.
I am going to blog, and blog again, and link to other blogs, because this is not going unoticed!!!!! They robbed my Mother while putting my nephew away for life, and it was a plan, if you wanted to put my nephew away for life, then how dare you take my Mothers life savings, the money from the insurance from the death or her husband who was killed in a hit and run to benefit, just sentence him but don’t rob the innocent who are under stress, and not even prepare a defense while doing it, let them get public defenders, my nephew qualified for a Public Defender, but my Mother put her life savings on the line because the corrupt Attorneys John Duffy and Robert Donatoni promised her the world, they told her that her nephew needed them, and that no public defender would do, well a public defender would have done more. Don’t promise the world, take their money then railroad them, your all corrupt which can be proven, not slander, and railroading Brandon was one thing, but robbing my Mother was another.
We will blog everyday until this is fixed. No more corruption in the Chester County Court System. Oh I love the internet and the power behind it. If I hit your pockets by any amount, I love it, and I will until my nephew gets a fair trial and my Mothers money returned. Talk about white collar crime, Oh, and don’t go to the State Bar, they are worthless, they are all friends, I do not even know why they exist? They always have an excuse, get rid of the State Bar in Pa. We will blog about them next, we are going to blog and blog and blog until something is done!!! We have only just begun, no more hiding behind little selective papers like the Daily Local who only print the good stuff and make the Chester County Courthouse look good, we are bringing it out!!!
I loved Coldplay from the beginning with Yellow, but this is their best, not just the song, I love the way he dances in this video, amazing…… Chester County Rave
Happy Birthday to our little man. We Love You. Love Mommy, Daddy, Grandmoms and GrandPops Sylvesters, and Farleys, and don’t forget Giana and Chanel and All your Aunts and Uncles….. Love you, your so precious!!!!
Whats with the Parkesburg Police, they now and have always only stopped and faithfully watched the speeders on East First Avenue in front of the current Mayors John Hagans house and former council member Jim Norton, they both live on the same street. Its funny, this little small town tree lined, paved street always looks so nice, has so much attention given to it, and the Police always watching and catching speeders there. Ahhh, E. First Avenue in Parkesburg must be the place to live. Is it because the Mayor demands special treatment, or are the Parkesburg Police sucking up because the Mayor lives their?? One thing for sure, go right down E. First Ave. not even a Second and your at Rt. 10 or N. Church Street, there you will see littered streets, unpaved streets, people going 60 mph in a 35 mph, but no one seems to care. Your lucky if you can cross that street, but Parkesburg Police do not seem to mind, as long as the Mayors street is covered. I mean other people in Parkesburg do pay taxes, and really high taxes for that borough, the Police should be treating them all equally. Maybe the kids on Rt. 10 or N. Church do not matter, after all, they are not the Mayors kids….I mean the people on Church and other streets love their kids too, in fact the Mayor is Old, his kids are grown, you owe it to all the people in Parkesburg to protect their streets, they pay you for that in their outrageous taxes….
Local Car Show Brings National Attention to greater-West Chester
AmericanMuscle.com Car Show draws more than 1,000 spectators, and $9,000+ for charity
MALVERN, PA (07/23/09)—Emerging from virtual obscurity, AmericanMuscle.com, and parent company, Xoxide, Inc., is rapidly transitioning from a small West Philly business to a nationwide force in targeted e-commerce. Marking this turn was the Small business Administration’s Young Entrepreneurs of the Year, an award that was recently bestowed upon its three founders by President Obama.
After eight years of record growth, the company’s largest brand, AmericanMuscle.com, opened its doors and rolled out the red carpet on Sunday July 19 at its 65,000 square foot facility in Malvern, PA. The first-ever AmericanMuscle all-Mustang car show was a day of highlights fueled by 150 shining Mustangs and more than 1,000 smiling visitors. The day’s agenda included free food, a live DJ, lots of free product, trophies for Best in Show, and one large push for the charity Homes for Our Troops.
Homes for Our Troops is a national organization that builds, buys or renovates homes for disabled veterans. Promising to donate 100 percent of all proceeds from the show, the company that started in a basement in Newtown Square presented a check for $8,015 to this worthy cause. And with a donation of $850 from the Garden State Region Mustang Club, and $500 from an anonymous AmericanMuscle supplier, the boys that worked every day after school are now at the head of a company directly responsible for donations totaling $9,365—that’s progress.
The company’s rapid growth in this challenging market raises questions about AmericanMuscle.com’s performance in a flourishing economy. With new hires and new plans for expansion developing daily, this neighbor of West Chester will likely soon be a significant employer and benefactor for local communities.
Founded in 2003, AmericanMuscle.com has raced to the top of the market as a leading online Mustang parts retailer with more than 500,000 customers to date. A true innovator in e-commerce, AmericanMuscle.com employs more than 80 staff at its 65,000 square foot facility in Malvern, PA, approximately 20 miles west of Philadelphia. www.americanmuscle.com
FOR ALL YOU RACIST PEOPLE OUT THERE YOU WILL NEVER KNOW LOVE UNTIL YOU STOP HATING
You know I have to write this, because with Obama being President I thought there would be less predjudice, but there is more. But let me tell you one thing, and its about love, only love. I was not given a choice, we can not always have the choice of who are sons or daughters are going to date or go out with or have kids with, as much as we want ,we can not control this. I didn’t have a choice, my daughter who is white and Italian had a baby with a black man, and it wasn’t my choice, not because of his race but because of his past history, I could talk to my daughter until I was blue in the face and after many arguments, she loved this man even though he was bad news,race had nothing to do with it, I didn’t want her to have a baby at all, she was not ready. I didn’t pick my daughters boyfriend, like we all wish we could. White or Black, I really hoped that my daughter would not have picked a loser white or black or any nationality,but aside from her choice, let me tell you, I love my Grandaughter, more than life itself. She is so precious, and smart, and innocent, and just an angel, and I hate when I hear people decide a childs fate before its even born because of race. I have heard my daughters friends and their families, as soon as they hear their daughters baby may be mixed go crazy and try to do everything in their power to stop the birth.
I know this for a fact, and the ones that stick by their daughters fall in love like I have and will never hear of it again, the shame of it is , it shouldn’t take this for this to happen. A baby or child is so precious, no matter what race, or nationality or gender. They are all angels. When I hear these hate racist remarks I want to cringe, or no, I do cringe, because Giana is the most precious angel you would ever meet.
I used to hear from certain friends and people, if that was my daughter I would disown her, or I wouldn’t talk to her, or that child, well look what I would be missing. Giana is so sweet, she teaches me things everyday, what an angel!!! A true angel……..God I love her!!!!
I hear people and some who swear they are Christian whether it be at work, or at the store or from other people who do not know I have a mixed grandaughter make really racist remarks in front of me,well let me tell you, they have no idea what they are missing. My Baby is so sweet, I love her so much I could cry, she is so beautiful and smart, and I am sad for what she has to face in this cold world…. I hope I can protect her as long as I am alive, as a white person, yeah, I am ashamed of many of the white people as they stand….I love you Giana, your so precious, your my Angel…..You could teach alot to the world, just with your smile and big eyes, and that you love everyone and you do not even know color. I love You!!
The Senate just announced they’ll take a month-long vacation before voting on health care reform.1
What?!?
Republicans think that by demanding delays, they can kill reform—and too many conservative Democrats are playing into their hands.
But Americans can’t afford to wait: while the Senate is on vacation, over 400,000 people will lose their health coverage.2
Every member of Congress needs to hear—quickly—that voters want them focused on health care now, not running off on vacation. Click below to sign our “Don’t go!” petition, which we’ll deliver to congressional offices today:
We all know there are two sides to every story, until I see a tape or hear a recording I will not believe either side. The Cambridge Police or Gates.
We also know there are good and bad cops as there are good and bad in any profession or office. We see it everyday. There are many Police Officers who are great, they do the job they were hired to do, the love the fact that they can make a difference and help and protect.
Then we have the other side, the Police officers that wear a badge as an abuse of power to push people around. They are arrogant, cocky, and should not wear the Police Officer badge or any.
Until I see it on tape, or hear it on a recording, I will not believe either. Pictures and Sound do not lie, people do!
ANOTHER CHESTER COUNTY WHITE COLLAR CRIME SURPRISE
CHESTER COUNTY WHITE COLLAR CRIME ON THE RISE
A West Chester man has been charged with running a scheme in which he allegedly bilked a New Jersey staffing firm out of more than half a million dollars, charging it for supplying workers whom he never placed at a major pharmaceutical company.
Authorities said that Peter Edward Aleszczyk, 43, aka “Peter Alex,” who was arrested yesterday by the FBI, ran KP Pharmaceutical Consulting, a company that placed permanent and temporary workers in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
According to an arrest affidavit, Aleszczyk’s company billed the unidentified staffing firm more than $560,000 from last Sept. 30 to Dec. 18, money that the staffing firm thought that Aleszczyk was using to find and pay for temporary workers for MedImmune, a Maryland pharma company.
Read the list of other White Collar Crime in Chester County, List is getting longer.
Nottingham Chester County Man Arrested Internet Sting
A CHESTER COUNTY MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER INTERNET STING
It has been reported that Joshua S. Jeffrey, 24, of Nottingham Chester County was allegedly engaged in a graphic online chat with a 13 year old girl, but was really propositioning an undercover agent, who was pretending to be a teen. Attorney General Tom Corbett said in a news release.
Agents from the Child Predator Unit and West Nottingham Township police arrested Jeffrey on Wednesday. He was released on $10,000 bail pending a preliminary hearing Wednesday on charges that include unlawful contact with a minor and criminal use of a computer.
Well, I didn’t make it there this year again, every year I say Im going but something comes up, now its babysitting Grandchildren and the Humidity. Oh No, you know Im getting old! I was thinking of everyone up there today as it was so hot and humid, at least there was a breeze if you can call it that. I remember many times just standing at the outdoor little shower they have with cold water to cool off, we would party, have fun, than go cool off under the ice cold water. Well maybe next year I will make it, I will try anyway. Just want to say hi to Harry and Sue, wondering if they went this year, and again a prayer for Betty who passed away this past year, who without Betty doesn’t seem like RMC to me. Me and my sister (who turned me on to this great party) would always look for Betty and Mike and Harry and Sue who would go up ahead of time and rope off their spot. Oh Well, hope everyone is having a blast!!! Have a beer for me, drive safe!!
PRESIDENT OBAMA CALL THE BLUE DOGS AND REPUBLICANS OUT ON THIS LET THE PEOPLE KNOW, DONT TAKE THE FALL FOR THEM President Obama, vote on the health care plan now you want and have been working so hard on. Just Vote and show what you and the other Democrats that we voted for want to do. Even if there are issues, show that these issues are not yours. Call these Republican and Blue Dog Democrats and Conservative Democrats that are more worried about having their pockets lined than the people. At least the American People will know where you stand next time around. The Republicans who have done nothing for years and wouldn’t unless you brought this up are hoping for you to fail. No, No, No, show them for who they are. People came out in droves to vote for you, people of all color, age, and I still believe in you. The Republicans and these Blue Dogs want you to fail and continue to line their pockets. They claim to be Christian and for the people, they are hypocrites. I am sick of beating a dead horse here, but you need to forget the bipartisanship, stick together as the Dem’s that you have, and call these blue dog imposter’s out, and the Republicans, so the next voting time, they can not blame you. Stick with your plan, don’t fall like they want you to.
The Chester County Rant has been getting plenty of complaints regarding Kids First Pediatric Doctors in the Coatesville and West Chester Office. First of all, they turn no one down, they just keep piling kids in day in and day out, but can not give the service or care that is needed that they say they can. They are overgrown and understaffed.
We tried calling their office one day in the Coatesville and West Chester Office’s and got a busy signal for over a half hour, now your going to tell me an office of this size still can not figure out how to answer calls, fill their staff, or get call waiting? They also try to push sick childrens visits off, why do they not just say they are to busy and can not take any more patients, why put the childrens health at risk, I mean if your that busy that your going to talk a scared parent out of a visit, then your to busy, and instead of being greedy, you need to take no new patients. That would be the correct thing to do in childrens health, but no, they are greedy and keep taking on new patients they can not handle and I feel the children will suffer.
MIKE RELLAHANS VIEW NOT A REAL VIEW JUDGE RILEY
Judge Howard F. Riley of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County is not given to muttering.No, Riley is a straightforward sort. Open and direct, straightforward and clear in vocal expression. He may not be as verbose as some on the bench or in the Bar, but what he does say comes across as clear and concise. A grumbler he is not.
Maybe it is his upbringing on a farm outside West Chester, but he had not truly mastered the art of the whispered verbal aside. When he wants to tell a defense attorney from Philadelphia to keep the editorial comments to himself during cross-examination, he pretty much says just that.So it came as a surprise to at least one longtime court observer the other day when Riley suddenly entered mutter mode. “I think we ought to bring a PBT to the courtroom at the rate we’re going,” Riley said, to no one in particular, and everyone who was in hearing distance, in a low, but distinct, frustrated comment.Three things should be known by the reader to grasp the significance of Riley’s mutter. First, Riley was not referring to Proton Beam Therapy (PBT), or a Pit Bull Terrier (PBT, also), of Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT, ditto). No, he was muttering to the Gods of the courthouse that his courtroom equipment just might need to include a Portable Breath Tester (PBT, as well.)You know what a Portable Breath Tester is, don’t you? Well, you would know if you had been watching “Cops” lately, or else had the misfortune to come in contact with the “home version” of the “Cops” studio game, so to speak, on a late night ride home from the eight-month anniversary of the Phillies World Championship Celebration and Drunken Riot. It’s that small device that allows a quick read on whether someone has alcohol in their system.The second thing you need to know about Riley’s mutterance is that when he said it, a young man from Staten Island who was pleading guilty to a minor drug possession charge had just informed him that, yes, indeed, as a matter of fact, he had consumed some drugs, alcohol or medication within the last 24 hours. To wit, six or seven beers the night before.It’s a standard question that judges ask of defendants when they are pleading guilty — “Have you consumed any drugs, alcohol or medication within the past 24 hours?” It comes right after how far the defendant went in school and if they understand, read and write the English language. The question is sort of the judicial equivalent of, “So, do you live around here?” that might be asked by a member of one gender to a member of the opposite at any one of a number of local watering establishments. It’s an ice-breaker, something said to open up the dialogue. Usually, the defendant answers by saying “No,” just as how usually the aforesaid one gender member responds to the other by saying, “Stick a cork in it, pal.”On Thursday, however, the young man from Staten Island surprised everyone, including his attorney, Assistant Public Defender James McMullen, by allowing that yep, he’d consumed what Beldar Conehead on “Saturday Night Live” used to refer to as “mass quantities” of beer. And not only that, but he’d smoked marijuana not three nights before, too boot.The third and last thing you need to know to fully understand Riley’s muttering is that it is not the first time someone has shown up in his courtroom under the possible influence of alcohol in the past few months. It’s not the second time, either, or the third. Showing up under the possible influence of alcohol in Judge Riley’s courtroom is getting to be a somewhat regular occurrence.
BY MICHAEL P. RELLAHAN courtesy The Daily Local News
Mike are you a friend of these Judges or what, please quit painting them to be these nice guys that are so intelligent…. I mean is this really news ? read more www.chestercountyrant.com
MAKE UP YOUR MINDS Conservatives, CAN’T HAVE IT ALL
You know one thing I can not get right from this Republican so called Conservative Christian party is what do they want?
They do not want to pay for the poor or children either way, so what is it they want, do they want to pay now or later? They are so against abortions, which I am to, unless they are necessary, and I am not God, and that is not my choice to make , but I am not standing out in front of places like Planned Parenthood with signs, with nothing to back it up.
Yet when these same children are born to parents that can’t afford them, its like , who cares, as long as they didn’t get an abortion, we don’t care, we proved our point, no actually you didn’t prove anything. You don’t care about these kids or newborns , they feel the kids were born, then they forget you, were going to continue our abortion protest, where are these people later when these babies are doing without? We don’t want to pay for these children, thats not our problem.
What is it people? You can’t have it both ways. You want to criticize a Mother who may abort a child, which I believe is wrong, no way should abortion be a birth control method, but then you want no birth control, and then if all else fails, you do not want to pay for the child when the poor Mother can’t do so, So What is it, give us your answer maybe we will listen. You have none. You have no clue, Planned Parenthood and other Orgs. are trying to help. You criticize organizations like Planned Parenthood, but do you know how many teens and unwed mothers go their for help because their Parents are to blind, or to stupid, or to busy to listen. You need to get with it, take your cause all the way, because these babies you hope to save, need your help later. Get with it.
If you think they are not ,your wrong, so when your bit^%$# about paying healthcare to the needy, maybe you should get your Christian Abortion posters out. Think about the kids after their born, get your lazy butts off the protest walk and help the kids that need you now. There are plenty, so take your walk to help all the children.
You want no birth control, no abortions, and no healthcare, and no help for the poor child born into this mess. So get your s&^% together and decide what you really want, because you make no freaking sense.
I love a good party, and let me tell you, lucky I wasn’t there. I would have been partying it up. I would have brought out the music, and the keg, there would be no few beers, we would be partying!!! I know I wouldn’t be driving with the Cambridge Cop there, but at the White House, I could have called a limo, for a beer, there would have been plenty of buds going around. No Im not cheap, I could drink any beer I want, but I love my Budweiser!!!!
Where was Michelle, I would have had her out dancing with me, we would have a blast!!!! We could have put on some good older Art Kelly and danced. Michelle and Obama seem so down to earth, what a good time. I would have had Joe Biden there too, after all who could trust a Cambridge Cop ?
WASHINGTON – In a triumph for President Barack Obama, Democrats narrowly pushed sweeping health care legislation through a key congressional committee Friday night and cleared the way for a September showdown in the House.
But the House Republican Leader, John Boehner of Ohio, countered that “Democrats are in for a long, hot summer once they return to their congressional districts, where Americans are lining up in opposition to a government takeover of health care. “
John Boehner why don’t you just shut up, go get your tan and play golf, quit playing with health care, you have no clue, you have the best health care and we the taxpayers pay for it. Stay in Ohio and get your tan, you tan so much the rays I believe have warped your brain… Shut Up, thats all, just Shut Up
LUZERNE COUNTY KIDS FOR CASH JUDGES PLEA AGREEMENTS REJECTED
In a major reversal, U.S. District Judge Edwin M. Kosik issued an order rejecting plea agreements for two former Luzerne County Court Judges accused of taking kickbacks for sending juveniles to for profit detention centers.
The reasons in the order being the following regarding both Judges. Conahan, 57, “refused to discuss the motivation” for his conduct during a pre-sentence investigation, “attempted to obstruct and impede justice” and failed to demonstrate “acceptance of responsibility” for taking kickbacks to help facilitate the development of a pair of private juvenile detention centers, U.S. District Judge Edwin M. Kosik, said. Ciavarella, 59, “continues to deny what he terms ‘quid pro quo,’ ” Kosik said in a five-page memorandum, despite evidence of “his routine deprivation of children’s constitutional rights,” by failing to inform them of their right to an attorney and sending them to the same private facilities he and Conahan had been bribed to promote. Ciavarella has been “less obstructive” to the pre-sentencing investigation, but has resorted to “self-serving” public statements, Kosik said. Prosecutors say Luzerne County Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan took $2.6 million in payoffs to put juvenile offenders in lockups run by PA Child Care LLC and a sister company, Western PA Child Care LLC. The judges were charged on Jan. 26 and removed from the bench by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shortly afterward.
Chester County Rants is Raving over this Judges Decision to reject the pleas of these two Judges who only saw dollar signs and didn’t care about the long term suffering of these kids. Judge Edwin M. Kosik, we applaud you, we applaud you for doing the right thing and not just helping other Judges and Court Officials who are doing wrong or who are corrupt, and not turning a blind eye to it. Thank you for picking these bad apples out and calling them on it.
THE CHRISTIAN MAFIA PART ONE, THESE REPUBLICANS ARE REALLY WHACK JOBS AND TO USE GODS NAME TO DO IT
Bush had reason to be thankful to the Christian fundamentalists. They helped his son, George W. Bush, avoid a certain court martial and prison time. On or about April 18, 1972, the Houston Police arrested First Lieutenant George W. Bush of the Texas Air National Guard for possession of cocaine. Bush and a friend were booked into the Harris County jail. Bush’s father, who was serving as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, hurriedly flew to Houston from New York and began to make the required phone calls to keep his son from receiving a court martial, dishonorable discharge, and a prison sentence. As one senior Bush business partner recalled, then-Ambassador Bush knew that junior was in “deep shit.” Senior Bush arranged for his son to serve at a religious drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in San Diego between May and November 1972. Conservative San Diego was a major center for Fellowship activities.
The time Bush spent in religious rehab in San Diego represents part of the famous “gap” in Bush’s National Guard service record. According to a fitness report on Bush issued by the White House in 2004, Bush was “Not rated for the period 1 May 72 through 30 Apr 73. Report for this period not available for administrative reasons.” This represents the time Junior Bush was being shown the way from drugs to Jesus in San Diego and afterwards, his court-ordered community service penance in Houston. The senior Bush arranged to have the arrest record on Junior expunged and even his name removed from the police blotter. Later, a ruse that Junior Bush went to Alabama to work on the Republican Senate campaign of Winton Blount was concocted to throw off nosy opposition research investigators and journalists. The deception worked.
After drug rehab, Bush returned to Houston to perform prior court-arranged community service with Project P.U.L.L. (Professional United Leadership League), a Houston inner-city program to help troubled and mostly minority teens. It was run by John White, a former tight end for the Houston Oilers, who died in 1988. White’s assistants told Knight-Ridder in late October 2004, that because the senior Bush was honorary co-chairman of Project P.U.L.L., he asked White to do him a favor by placing Junior Bush into a volunteer slot. One of White’s administrative assistants told the news service that White recalled that Junior Bush had “gotten into some kind of trouble” but was not more specific. Willie Frazier, another former Houston Oiler and a P.U.L.L. volunteer in 1973, recalled to Knight-Ridder that the senior Bush impressed on White that an “arrangement” had to be made for the Junior Bush. P.U.L.L. closed its doors in 1989, a year after White’s death but several P.U.L.L. associates remembered that unlike other volunteers, Junior Bush’s hours as a volunteer had to be accounted for because he was in some kind of “trouble.”
Senior Bush had a few other chores to take care of. One was to thank Harris County District Attorney Carol Vance, a past president of the National District Attorneys’ Association, for helping to drop the drug charges against Junior and expunging the arrest record. According to close Bush associates, in appreciation, Mr. Vance was rewarded with a partnership at the prestigious Houston law firm of Bracewell & Patterson. First International Bank (later InterFirst Bank), on whose board Senior Bush served, was a major client of Bracewell & Patterson. InterFirst and its predecessor served as a primary money conduit for Saudi and other foreign money that was pumped into the business and political campaign coffers of both George Senior and Junior.
Vance also had links to the organization that would become Colson’s Prison Fellowship Ministries, an adjunct of the Fellowship. Vance, an evangelical Methodist, ministered to inmates in solitary confinement in Texas prisons. Later, Vance would team up with Colson in a variety of prison ministry projects in the United States and Brazil. Governor Ann Richards appointed Vance to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, the entity that oversees the state’s Correction’s Department. Vance convinced newly-inaugurated Governor George W. Bush to establish faith-based prisons in Texas, a move that was endorsed by Colson. Bush also permitted ministers to act as detoxification counselors without professional training and certification. In addition, churches were allowed to operate day care centers without state accreditation. Vance became one of the leading advocates of evangelical-run prisons in the United States – something that Colson, Bush, Coe, and the Fellowship all advocated. Vance also saw Satan as being behind Ouija boards and the game Dungeons and Dragons – cultural smears that would be extended by his fellow evangelicals to other innocent children’s icons like Harry Potter, The Wizard of Oz’s Good Witch of the North and Wicked Witch of the West, the Vulcan Mr. Spock in Star Trek, and Jedi Knight Yoda in Star Wars, all accused of spreading Satanism and the Teletubbies character Tinky Winky, SpongeBob SquarePants, Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street, Buster Baxter the Bunny from Public Broadcasting’s Postcards from Buster, and Barney the Dinosaur, all charged with promoting homosexuality.
Junior Bush’s time in San Diego at a Christian drug and alcohol rehabilitation center is where the future President of the United States would first be given large doses of Jesus indoctrination. With Nixon’s resignation in disgrace and the Republicans taking a beating in the 1974 elections, little did the Fellowship realize what a huge catch they had made in George W. Bush. Gerald Ford’s administration vainly tried to salvage the Republican cause – but Ford would be defeated in the 1976 race against a born-again Christian, nuclear submarine commander, and former peanut farmer from Georgia named Jimmy Carter. True, Carter was an evangelical Christian but he was not the type favored by the Fellowship and their big business allies, especially two key members of the Ford administration, Chief of Staff Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. And Ford’s CIA Director, George H. W. Bush, was miffed when Carter did not invite him top stay on as spy chief. Bush would have his revenge against the upstart former Governor of Georgia and peanut farmer soon enough. This is some good powerful true stuff, American People need to wake up!!! And wake up now, this Christian Far Right Weirdo stuff has gone to far. Read this too much detail and too much to take in at once, we will be posting excerpts from each post daily. This is powerful, true, and scary!!
Read more of this amazing story here from Expose the Christian Mafia at
The extramarital sex scandal surrounding Senator John Ensign (R-NV) is increasingly involving the Fellowship Foundation, also known as “The Family,” and, as previously reported by WMR, “the Christian Mafia.” According to recent news reports, Ensign’s affair with former aide Cynthia Hampton eventually involved intercession by the Arlington, Virginia-based secretive Christian cult group, the Fellowship/Family. After Hampton’s husband, Doug Hampton, confronted Ensign’s fellow “Family” members at the Fellowship’s group house at 133 C Street on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, two sons of Fellowship leader Douglas Coe, David and Tim Coe, as well as Ensign’s C Street roommate Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), confronted Ensign about the affair and urged him to send a FedEx letter to Cynthia Hampton informing her that their relationship was over. Tim Coe and another Fellowship member then drove Ensign to FedEx to ensure that he sent the latter. Ensign’s parents also, according to various news reports, paid $96,000 in divided hush money payments to Mr. and Mrs. Hampton, as well as their two children.
REPUBLICAN JOE PITTS CHESTER COUNTY MEMBER OF CHRISTIAN MAFIA C HOUSE FELLOWSHIP WHERE IS GOD HERE
Other significant members of the Fellowship are Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA), Pete Domenici (R-NM), Conrad Burns (R-MT), Richard Lugar (R-IN), James Inhofe (R-OK), Bill Nelson (D-FL) (Nelson’s wife Grace serves on the Fellowship Foundation’s Board of Directors), and Rick Santorum (R-PA), Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), and George Allen (R-VA), Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Representatives Frank Wolf (R-VA), Tom DeLay (R-TX), Tom Feeney (R-FL), Curt Weldon (R-PA), Jerry Weller (R-IL), and Joseph Pitts (R-PA).
“International Foundation” is one of the names used by The Family according to Jeff Sharlet. International Foundation sponsored a $7,940. trip to Belarus taken by Rep. Joseph Pitts in 2004. This information, as well as other congressional trips sponsored by the International Foundation can be found at www.legistorm.com
“Another Alleged Affair Tied to Christian House on Capitol Hill.” With that headline from Congressional Quarterly, we are moving beyond politics and into sitcom territory.
The “C Street house,” as CQ explains, serves as a dormitory and meeting place for lawmakers who are part of a conservative Christian “C Street” fellowship.
The old brick house is where South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (he of the Argentine soul mate) lived when he was a congressman. It’s where Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn and other members confronted Nevada Sen. John Ensign about his extramarital affair and forced him to write a letter breaking it off. (He didn’t break it off, though, even though they drove him to a Fed-Ex office and watched him send the letter.) Now comes word that Leisha Pickering is suing a woman for allegedly stealing her ex-husband, former congressman Chip Pickering Jr. of Mississippi. And yes, she says they had an affair while he was a C Streeter — and that there was even bad behavior at the sacred house itself.
I see definite potential for a reality show, maybe something quasi-sympathetic like “It’s Not Easy Being Male.” Or “Band of (Wayward) Christian Brothers.” Or “Hate the Sin, Not the Member.” Or maybe “C Street Cruise.”
Our own Chester County Congressman Joe Pitts is a member of this C House Christian Mafia
ORLY TAITZ BAR THIS WOMAN FROM ANY COURT NUT CASE
Orly Taitz an attorney from California and a leader in the birther movement, has released what she has called proof President Barack Obama was born in Kenya. The document appears to be a Kenyan birth certificate with Obama’s name on it.
How ever when a closer look is taken, several issues arise that question it’s authenticity. The document lists Obama’s parents as Barack Hussein Obama and Stanley Ann Obama, formerly Stanley Ann Dunham. The date of birth is listed as August 4th, 1961 and the hospital is listed as Coast General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.
Now no doctor is listed but the alleged certificate is signed by the deputy register of Coast Province, Joshua Simon Oduya. It’s supposedly a certified copy of the original, its dated February 17th, 1964.
Problem number one with the document, is the February 17th, 1964 date on it. Kenya gained Independence on December 17th, 1963, yes, but it was not declared a Republic until December 17th of 1964. It shows Kenya as being a republic on the alleged birth certificate from 1964 but Kenya was not a Republic till December of that year. Huh? You may be asking how could a birth certificate be issued from a Kenyan Republic in February1964, when no such Kenyan Republic existed in February 1964?
PRESIDENT OBAMA WATCH YOUR BACK
I’m sorry President Obama, but you have really got to watch your back, and you better have your secret serviceman on top of it. You are the first one in the history of the United States that actually really cares about the people and not money, and the greedy, no good corrupt Christian Hate Groups, Republicans, and Blue Dogs are out to get you, because you are scaring them and their pockets. The Republicans have never cared about the people, it’s always been about the all mighty dollar all the while to claim and dupe the Christian people into believing them. I think you should be prepared for an all out war now, their wacky and getting wackier, sorry but that’s how I see it.
You have these fake Christian groups that use the Christian name just to get money and contributions, then you have these lobbyist out for the huge insurance firms with the Republicans and Blue Dog Imposters behind them , then on top of it your dealing with the hatemongers and racists, then the birthers, you have a battle against you from the right, and they are wacky.
You are the only one that has stood up against them, that’s why things are the same as they have been for the last so many years, why the richer get rich, and the middle class working get poor. No one has ever stood up to them, the tactics they are using now are no different than in the past. In the past this always worked, that is why they are stepping up their game, because the American people are getting a little smarter. I am hoping the normal people that voted you in are prepared for the fight and do not buy into this hatred, racism, and dollar signs, because this is what they do, they will resort to any tactic to get you to fail, so they continue to line their greedy pockets, while promoting Christianity and caring about the people.
They care about one thing, their pockets, and maybe once you do this, we can get rid of all the corrupt Republicans and Phony Blue Dogs. I just do not want to see you get hurt doing it. But that’s okay, because I feel there is an uprising coming here. No we are not Iran, but the people are sick of the rich getting richer and the rest doing without, and if it was up to the Republicans that is where we would be in a few years, think its a stretch, I do not, the rich in these places live in mansions, the rest eat rice, and if we let the Republicans go, there is no doubt in my mind where the middle class and poor would be.
These organized hate groups they hire, and the time they want to take to smear you and hope you fail, shows how much they listen to the people, yeah they listen to their pockets.
Be Careful Obama, but kick their butts, and show them, you are not backing down from these Republican and Blue Dogs with their huge kickbacks, and we are behind you. Kick Butt, Also, as President, can you get rid of the crooked corrupt Republicans and Blue Dogs? As President it’s a shame you just can’t get rid of these corrupt guys. Oh, well, another day I guess. Just watch your back, but us bloggers are all behind you, were putting out what the other news won’t, except Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Dylan Ratigan, who bring out the truth, the other networks won’t. Obama we are behind you and your doing right, forget these others and forge ahead.
Happy Birthday to our Mom who is the greatest, sweetest woman alive Dolores (Luminella) Simmers from Tina, Cheryl, Gregg, Brandon, Kayla, Anthony, Nikki, David Jr., Valerie, Chanelly, Giana, David III and all your family. We will be chilling by the pool tomorrow for your party, supposed to be 90 degrees and humid.
President Obama, Happy Birthday, keep up your good work!
Honestly, I can believe alot of things, but these staged rallies are no better than the Jerry Springer shows staged fighting events they were so well known for. I am talking here to the normal people, the working class people that need health care. I am not talking to the staged performers for the lobbyist and Republicans who like things the way they are, status quo, they had no plans in changing anything. If Obama didn’t bring up health care reform, it wouldn’t have got brought up, simple as that. They had 8 years to work on health care reform, it didn’t happen, they like the lobbyist and big kick backs they get from these billion dollar private firms.
The middle class though, the working poor who became poorer under the Republican Administration the last 8 years, that fought so hard to have Obama win, better stand behind him, and not fall to these lobbyist and hate groups, because I am going to tell you what, if Obama can not help you, nobody can, he is in this to help the middle and working class, and if he loses this because of hate groups who are sent by the Republicans only to be his waterloo so they have a better shot at power in 2010, your screwed, to put it mildly.
These staged groups are sent out to do this, it has been proven the insurance lobbyist are spending millions to sabotage Obamas plan, why, because they stand to lose billions, and not get away with the abuse they are used to under the Republican Administration. You guys need to trust him, as he as been our only hope so far, Our Country was on the ruin when Obama took office, so you need to sit back and let him do his job and not listen to these hate lobbyist Republican groups they are sending out. Use your own mind.
This is why they remind me of Jerry Springer, because you can never always be hateful and that mad, they can not even ask a question without screaming and the rest of them joining in with their crazy rants, this is Jerry Springer at it’s best, because couldn’t you just ask a question and here the answer before getting so upset? In Jerry Springer they always come out fighting, so staged, so rehearsed. Also in looking at these videos, half of them do not even know the question they are asking. They are there for one reason only.
The lobbyist right now, the ones who feed the Republicans are spending millions to scare you and put out these commercials, and the Republicans are scared because the lobbyist are scaring them and their pockets, because the Republicans work for the lobbyist and have for the last 8 years, not the people, because their pockets are scared, and you smart people with a brain need to realize it.
They want this health care plan to fail, they want Obama to fail, do you realize just how scared the Republicans and the Greedy Lobbyist are? President Obama is the only one who is standing up to them and not taking their greed money, what do you need to see, to see that?
This man is out for the people,the people that do not make $250,000 a year, and if you fail him now, or fall to these greedy lobbyist and Republican staged incidents, all I can tell you, is you get what you deserve, it’s just a shame the rest of us have to pay for it.
That’s okay, though, because if you follow the Republicans and lobbyist, you will get what you deserve, because health care from these private greedy companies will continue to burden you, even if your okay now, you do not know what lies ahead, and Obama is trying to take care of you. The Rich, Private, Greedy, Insurance Firms Do Not Care About You. You lose your job, your screwed.
Do not listen to these fake organized hate groups whos only mission is to scare you because they are paid by the insurance firms who risk losing the most, why your at it, watch RainMaker with Matt Damon, and see how much these Greedy Insurance Companies care about you…see how much they care if your child, god forbid is dying or sick, they will find every way possible not to pay you. It is greed at its best and the Republicans are in their pockets. I have children and grandchildren and have worked all my life, I am not buying it. We need the public option if we lose our jobs, we need it, Cobra doesn’t work, Cobra charged me $562.00 per month for one person, when I lost my job, don’t let me tell you what they charge for a family of four…. Maybe the rich can pay this, I can’t.
You guys that voted for Obama need to stand strong and behind him, he is here for us, do not turn so quick. Read what this President has signed and done in his little time in office, leave the hatemongers and rich lobbyist go, ignore them, look at them, if you fail Obama, in the end, unless your rich, guaranteed a job for life, guaranteed your premiums will not rise every year, and your young forever, and you or your children or their children will never need health care, you will be sorry. Because the Republicans that you stand by, they do not stand by you, they stand by the Rich Lobbyist, and you better hope if you get sick, they will take care of you!!!
I don’t think so, they really do not care about you!!!
This is so rehearsed, if they really cared and had questions they would listen, they are paid by the lobbyist and the Republicans who have so much to lose as money and kickbacks.
Howard Dean Hosts MSNBC Countdown. Bill Kristol admits the government can provide first-class health care. Daily Show Jon Stewart Destroys Bill Kristol on Health Care.
An anti-abortion group’s TV ad shows a white-haired man fretting that under a federal health plan, “They won’t pay for my surgery, but we’re forced to pay for abortions.”
“Will this be our future?” the ad asks, merging the fears of seniors worried about their health care with those of anti-abortion advocates. “Our greatest generation, denied care. Our future generation, denied life.”
In fact, none of the health care overhaul measures that have made it through the committee level in Congress say that abortion will be covered, and one of them explicitly says that no public funds will be used to finance the procedure. Furthermore, none of the bills call explicitly for cuts in Medicare coverage, much less rationing, under a public plan.
The bills leave the specifics of what medical services would be covered up to advisory panels that are supposed to make recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services, and ultimately up to the secretary of that department. Whether she or he would choose to cover abortions under any new federal plan is something we can’t predict. Our crystal ball functions no better on the topic of whether the elderly, or anyone else for that matter, will get the care they need under such a plan or under Medicare.
An interview with a man who went undercover into the heart of a major power mad “christian” religious sect frequented by religious conservatives for 70 years. True and Scary The Christian Conservatives believe they are the chosen, Disturbing, Bizzare
I can not believe these are the people that call themselves Christians.
“International Foundation” is one of the names used by The Family according to Jeff Sharlet. International Foundation sponsored a $7,940. trip to Belarus taken by Rep. Joseph Pitts in 2004. This information, as well as other congressional trips sponsored by the International Foundation can be found at www.legistorm.com
You know I never liked Joe Pitts. I am from Chester County and never liked him, he is always so self righteous and holier than thou, doesn’t want to help the middle class or working poor, now I find out he is from this wacky group the Christian Mafia, C Street, I dislike him more. He tries to say he is not a resident of C Street or The Family or The Christian Mafia, all the same name, no he is not a resident of the house so to speak, he may not live there, but he is a member, and they paid almost $8000 for him to take a trip in 2004. They are crazy, trust me, listen to this man who went undercover, he is not making this up, and this is why they play on the Christian thing. They dupe real Christians into believing them, for there money and support, when they are as Christian as the devil himself.
You want to talk about the bible and being Christian, then let’s do it, because I am more Christian than Joe Pitts, Ensign, Sanford, and the rest of the right wing crazies.
For one, as a Christian they are against abortion, they say it’s a sin but isn’t also having sex without marriage a sin as the bible says sin?
Isn’t Adultery a Sin?
Isn’t Killing a Sin?
These weird Christian groups that label themselves as Christians that are not, are destroying the real Christian word, and people need to wake up. These Politicians that use the Christian name and the Bible in my opinion are horrible, they are the worst. They only take certain things from the bible and preach them, it’s like okay, we are against abortion, but we can have extramarital sex, and unmarried sexual intercourse, that’s okay, and they love the death penalty, doesn’t God say let him be the Judge, they are so twisted, they pick out certain parts that they want to bitch about. They are sick and twisted, you can not pick out parts of the bible like abortion, be against it , then say it’s okay to sleep around unmarried, and have adulteress affairs, give me a break, your either Christian or your not, and they are a ruin to real Christians, and if your really a Christian, and you really believe in God, then if you hang with these guys, you are a big sinner!!! Joe Pitts is a sinner, big time…
By the way, yes there are sinners everywhere in all parties, difference being, the other sinners are not going around preaching the bible while doing the opposite.
I do not doubt that twitter is down because of the Republican party, or the lobbyist. If you use twitter than you know what we mean. The Republicans and Insurance Lobbyist are staging a war against President Obamas health care plan, and spending millions to do it.
They want to put out false adds on TV and are trying on Twitter, however the Tweeters are fighting back, along with the bloggers. The Republican Party is long known for putting their opinions out but in the past had little resistance coming back. They are in a panic now because their pockets and those of the private insurance firms are in jeopardy.
People, bloggers, tweeters are spreading the word and they do not like it, they only want their opinions and false claims seen. They know the majority of the people they scare, like the Seniors with these crazy adds they are putting out usually just watch the nightly news and do not follow blogs or twitter.
The power of the internet, no more relying on small town papers and media which only put out what they are paid too, the world can tweet and blog and it’s a powerful thing!!!
Johnsontown Downingtown Annual Frogleg Feast Chester County
The Amphibious Order of the Frogs is an event the Lodge still has today. This frog party is a celebration to bring together men from all over and from different walks of life to renew old friendships and fellowship. In 1934 to around 1940 these frogs were caught along the banks of the east branch Branywine river in the months of June and July. After WW2, in 1947, the frogs were bought in Louisiana, Australia, Japan, India and many other places.
Do the math: Ten women work four days to prepare a meal that 1,000 men eat in three hours. What does that equal? Tradition. Tonight is the 75th annual Amphibious Order of Frogs dinner at St. Anthony’s Lodge in Downingtown’s old Italian neighborhood. Tickets, which are long sold-out, cost $35 for unlimited Miller Lite and reminiscing, a feast of veal spezzato, roasted chicken, hot peppers, and salad, then the traditional fried legs of ranocchio. “Are frog legs Italian?” I asked Laurie Mascherino Reutter, who is 90 and has been preparing or serving this giant family-style meal once a year for a half-century. “No,” she said, accenting her point with a jab of her paring knife, “frog legs are poor. We were poor.” The dinner’s roots reach back to the Great Depression. In the early 1930s a group of local teenagers with such nicknames as “Barrel House” Sciaretta, “Skid” Di Berardinis, and “Kite” Di Sante used to catch frogs in the nearby Brandywine Creek. They’d shoot their prey with a .22, then cook them over a fire. “We’d even eat blackbirds if we could catch them,” said Reutter, a 4-foot-6 hot shot with snow-white hair.
Johnsontown brings back many memories for me. When my great grandparents came over from Italy, My great grandfather worked for the railroad and purchased 7 acres in Thorndale, my grandmother who was 7 at the time she arrived in the US, settled our family on Viaduct Ave in Johnsontown when she married later on, and that’s where I was born, and most of my family remained in Johnsontown for many years. I remember going to St. Anthonys swim club every summer, so young, so much fun, so many memories.
I am sorry, but this is not about health care, this is about having a black President, this is staged and racist. If all Americans were like these people, I would move out of the Country tomorrow, look at them, what makes them think that they speak for us, or all Americans, they are crazy and disturbing, and this is rehearsed at best, they do not even know what they are talking about, it they would shut up and listen, instead of listening to lies about killing granny and these other sick adds the Republicans are putting out, they might learn something. A scary, scary, bunch!!! Bizarre to put it mildly and I am glad they are not my neighbors, uhhhhh!
If you got your information from the CBS News last night, you would believe that “angry protesters” are cropping up “everywhere Democrats are trying to defend health care reform.” “Conservative websites” like Freedomworks are recruiting them, based on “real fear over the increased taxes” and “government control” of the health care system.
Max Pappas from Freedomworks shows up to speak on their behalf.
Freedomworks isn’t some “organic ghttp://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/04/how-come-cbs-journalists-cant-recognize-paid-lobbyists-when-they-see-them/rassroots” outfit. It’s run by former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey — corporate lobbyist, global warming denier and ladie’s man. The President and CEO of Freedomworks is Matt Kibbee, who was trained by Lee Atwater. Kibbe was behind the attempt to get Ralph Nader put on the ballot in Oregon in 2004, prompting a complaint to the FEC of illegal collusion with the GOP.
Steve Forbes is on the FreedomWorks board. As Paul Krugman noted, their money comes from the Koch, Scaife, Bradley, Olin nexus, as well as other reliable funders of right wing infrastructure including Exxon Mobil.
Freedomworks has a long history of skunk works. In 2004, a woman who identified herself as a “single mother” in Iowa, Sandra Jacques, appeared at a George Bush town hall and gushed about his plan to privatize Social Security. She left out the part about being an employee of Freedomworks, who were lobbying this issue.
These aren’t just some organizations that these guys gave money to. They run them.
This extreme violent behavior is being organized and funded by those at the highest levels of the conservative infrastructure. It’s not some sideline, some quirky hobby. It is the function and purpose of these organizations to threaten and intimidate elected officials in order to subvert the will of the electorate to a corporate agenda.
And that is in large part because organizations like CBS and the New York Times do not report the news when it is right in front of them. They pass off these transparent lobbyist funded thuggery as a grassroots effort. They do not say who is organizing these violent uprisings, or how they are being funded. These media outlets are playing a critical role by telling the country that its people believe something that they don’t. It is blatant propaganda being passed off as news, and it is to “journalism” what David H. Koch is to GrassRoots
read full article http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/08/04/how-come-cbs-journalists-cant-recognize-paid-lobbyists-when-they-see-them/
chestercountyrants recieved this comment today on one of our posts. We felt the need to Post this comment as the message should be seen and it deserves it’s own post.
Reading Jeff Sharlet’s “The Family” 15 pages in and my gut is churning. White privledged MEN!! and rhetoric of the likes that I have never heard. Although I would suspect in the back part of my rational mind that these goings on could not happen in America, but they are. What would this information do if the Phila Papers published it front page. I looked up Joe Pitts as low and behold 15 pages into Sharlets book a member in my BLUE back yard. Funny 15 pages in and no women to speak of, sorry BOYZZ sounds so homoerotic as to be the biggest cliche I ever heard. Prayer meetings in the Pentagon and in Congress. Republicans are crying in their free market pants yet here is the biggest contradiction to OUR constitution Remember separation of Church and State?? Oh yeah right The Family aren’t Chritians their “followers of Jesus”. Believe me that I will make it known in my little circle of people to read Sharlet’s book and check in their state where government representatives likely democrats who possess so little strength and critical thinking capability that they think constiuents will not remember this topic or balance it against the BIGGER issues of health care and Money money money! Where is there a single voice to rise up and speak out against and these insidious elitists really they are no better than the 911 hijackers, PLEASE read Sharlets book ato really understand how my previous statement holds so much credence. I know if I were reading this blog that I would be wary of that statement. But this is how truly scary this information is about The Family and it’s inroads into our government and use of religious rhetoric. If half of the people who voted on So THink You Can Dance would show an interest in exposing this information and calling to account it’s elected officials we could call this country America and lay claim to it’s democratic heritage. The Family is not a democracy after all by it’s own admission. Please show me the school on the priveledged MainLine Baldwin Academy etc that will bring this discussion to it’s young civics , history and political curriculums.
Many parts of this film were filmed in Chester County Pa. The school parts were filmed at the North Brandywine school. The Diner scenes were shot at the Double D Diner in Coatesville Pa. where I was lucky enough to be allowed in for the shoot. Very exciting time for Coatesville, movie trailers packed into Cash High School Vo Tech parking lot. Very exciting.
The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being brutally raped and murdered, watches from heaven as her family and friends go on with their lives, while she herself comes to terms with her own death. The novel received a great deal of critical praise and became an instant bestseller.
Alice Sebold lived in Norristown Pa for a period of time and also attended Great Valley High School in Malvern Chester County
I am sorry, but these crazies have gone to far. I hope they have good health care because they all need it, mental health care. I just watched a town hall meeting where Obamas plan was described as Hitler, are they wack jobs or what? I am going to tell you people also, if you can not see how crazy these people are I feel for you. What’s scary, is just how low these Republicans and lobbyist will go, I am sorry, but if that doesn’t show you what Obama is up against nothing will. It shows me the Republicans who are really scared of this plan and hurting their pockets, and what they will resort too, Obama is scaring their pockets, these greedy Republicans like John Boehner and Eric Cantor and the rest of them and the few blue dogs who are not really Democrats anyway, are actually scared. Do not back down, that’s what they are counting on, that’s what they want, they are invoking fear like they did with 911 which happened on their books and they were warned about, and provoking fear of war, like they did and we are still over there and could have had health care for all. They I hope never need health care, that is besides the mental health care they obviously need and are not getting. They are a sick bunch, I am sorry, I can not call it any other way, they are comparing a health plan to Hitler, they are sick, disturbing people, and they better call their great insurance plan that is covering them and tell them they need mental help asap.
This has always worked in the past, this fear, this hate, the Republicans counting on it, I am telling you now, you may be secure in your job, you may have money to pay your own, you may be in perfect health, but unless your guaranteed this for life, you better stick with Obama, because if not, your screwed. Trust me, the Republicans have one set of people on their minds, and it’s not the working class, its the huge billion dollar insurance firms who stand to lose the most if this plan passes, and that’s who these people stand for and are paid by. Ignore them!! Vote for the Health Care, we need it, my grandchildren need it, I am self employed and need it, My Mother is 70 and works at Walmart and needs it, alot of people need it and have needed it for years. The Republicans have a great health care plan we pay for, we deserve the same. Do not listen to their fear and hate tactics, we need health care and we need it now. If your lucky enough to have now, good for you, not everyone may be as lucky, and it doesn’t mean they are lazy, many lost jobs, got sick, are self employed, and many are struggling to pay their premiums. If your lucky, be lucky, do not speak for the rest of us or people without, you have no clue!!!
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Seems like the Politicians have a Great Plan run by the Government, yet they are so against it. Why is this???? Can someone explain to me, confused, Government is Government, it seems to do okay for the Republicans, they all have health care, we pay for it, and their wife’s and childrens, so why are they so against Government Health Care that they have for everyone else ???? Don’t Get It??
CEO Stephen Hemsley of United Health Care Makes $107,742 per hour just to deny coverage. Mansions and Millions while people are dying. This is facts not scare tactics like the Republicans are doing. This to me is very disturbing, I thought I saw the worst people would do for money, this beats anything I have seen or read in the past. If there is a hell, I hope his mansion and millions are there waiting for him. He should be arrested, he and United Health Care should be arrested, taking money and denying claims. This is who the Republicans are trying to help and further line their pockets. Facts!!!
click on link to view video see who the real death panel in healthcare is.
I am from West Chester and care deeply about our schools and do not want to see right wing ideology replace athletics, the arts, and music. The WCASD has some very good schools and has one of the lowest tax rates in the county. We are the only school district in the county that supports three high schools. With that being said, our school district is under assault by a group of right wing extremists that care more about advancing a political agenda than they do about education. They even want to teach Intellegent Design int he classroom. None of the four right wing candidates (Adsett, Carpenter, Pimley, or Wingerter) have ties to the community. One of the candidates, Sean Carpenter, does not even have children that live in the district. His son attends public school in York County. Carpenter is also a member of the American Sheepdogs, a right wing group that has made statements comparing President Obama to Osama bin Laden and has questioned his citizenship. Its no doubt they use a racist undertone to get their message accross and their right-wing ideology is undeniable to the public. These same members often spend Saturday mornings on the courthouse lawn, marching under the banner of the Chester County Victory Movement. But you do not have to believe me that these candidates are right wingers. Just read what current school board members Jim Davison and Jim Smith had to say.
”A small group of radicals has taken control of a party I dearly love,” said Smith. “West Chester’s schools provide excellent education, and we have the lowest tax rate in the county. These qualities need to be maintained. Obviously that’s not recognized by the core of committeepeople who seem to be controlling the selection process.”
In a newsletter article Carpenter wrote he said that the GOP’s decision to endorse him and the other three for school board represented a victory for the conservative wing of the Republican Party and a defeat for its liberal wing.
“This is exactly how we want to take back the Republican Party — using superior preparation and ideas to win these battles,” Carpenter wrote. “This is how we get office holders we can support with pride, rather than ones that are an embarrassment to us all.”
Why was Smith so mad? No where in Carpenter’s newsletter article did he say what he believed the values of the party’s conservative wing to be. But he did say that all four School Board candidates (the others are Heidi Adsett, Maria Armadi-Pimley, and John Wingerter) had been “recruited and coached by Gwenne and her group, and it is only with her group’s guidance that we succeeded.”
Gwenne Alexander, of Chester County Action, a local PAC. Anyone who’s familiar with county politics knows that if you’re associated with Chester County Action, there’s a 99.9 percent chance you’re a right-wing Christian conservative. She said that while Chester County Action is particularly interested in the West Chester Area School Board race, it has not actually given its recommendation to the four endorsed Republican candidates. She also said that Carpenter wasn’t entirely accurate in saying she was responsible for fielding him and the other three who got the endorsement.
None of the endorsed candidates, except Carpenter, said that Alexander had given them any special coaching. Carpenter later said he probably shouldn’t have written that Alexander had coached the candidates. Board President Smith, however, said he was sure that Chester County Action was responsible for the endorsements. “I am disappointed with the party as a whole, and with Gwenne Alexander,” he said. “It’s a disgrace that the party doesn’t really care about the candidates it puts forward.”
Chester County Action’s website provides a nice synopsis of the battle going on within the county GOP. From the About Us” section: “We know that the endorsement of the local Republican Party is extremely powerful in Chester County. Consequently, it is important to have an organization that will recruit and train conservative, pro-life people to get involved in the political process … Our goal is to educate voters and to encourage conservatives to get involved in the political process. We are confident that when voters understand the whole story, we can prevail. Our challenge is formidable however. For over four years, a different organization has been working against the values we hold so dear. As a result, this group has targeted conservative, pro-life committee people for their seats on the local Republican Committee. Unfortunately, several conservative committee people lost their positions.”
(Taken from Daily Local Dan’s blog on www.dailylocal.com, February 2009)
Attached is the picture of Sean Carpenter supporting waterboarding (torture) and other Sheepdog members with their racist signs.
WHAT AMERICA ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ????????????? Grassroots Health Care Protest, yeah right, there just another kkk meeting undercover!!!
I am sorry, but this is crazy, just crazy and I do not care what anyone says. Some of these protest are not even about health care, they are about, screaming nazi, I want my America back, Country First. Give me a break,
President Obama is trying to help all Americans, not just the wealthy who have. Dont speak for me when you say you want your America back, if America is what we had the last 8 years with no imput allowed, the war, everything done behind closed doors and pushed through, I want a new America because the last 8 years were pathetic, and where were these fighters than??
I guess they didn’t even search for answers and protest a phony war, I guess they didn’t care about the billions spent, the innocent killed for profit, like the insurance lobbyist are doing now. You can have that America. This is frigging nuts you might think the man was trying to sell our ports to known terrorist like Bush and Cheney were, this is HEALTHCARE, get a grip, you are slowing your Country and hurting it.
You should have been doing your work the last 8 years, not because their is a Black President. You dont fool me, your ranting over health care, as I said Where were you the last 8 years???
Also so worried about granny, get your granny off medicaid if you do not support the plan, what do you think medicaid and medicare are?? Opt out, sign it over tomorrow since your so against.!!
As you may know, right-wing talk show hosts have been bringing
race-based fear mongering into the mainstream, but FOX’s Glenn Beck
just took it to another level. On Tuesday, Beck said:
“This president has exposed himself as a guy over and
over and over again who has a deep-seated hatred for
white people… this guy is, I believe, a racist.”
It’s part of a larger argument Beck has been making: that President
Obama wants to serve the needs of Black communities at White people’s
expense. This kind of talk stirs up fear, hate, and it can lead to
violence.
I’ve joined ColorOfChange.org’s effort to stop Glenn Beck.
ColorOfChange is already putting calls into Beck’s advertisers, asking
them if they want to be associated with this kind of racist hate and
fear-mongering. When the advertisers see that tens of thousands of us
are behind that question, I believe they’ll move their advertising
dollars elsewhere, and his show and platform will be history.
Will you take a stand and be counted, and invite your friends and
family to do the same? It takes just a moment:
Glenn Beck is appealing to the worst in America. Of course, some
Americans refuse to accept the fact that our president is Black or the
idea that he could truly serve all Americans. But the only way these
views fade away is if they’re not reinforced by mainstream society.
Instead, folks like Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, and Rush Limbaugh are
exploiting racism and race-based fear to bump their ratings, stirring
up racial discord in the process.
The dangers of these tactics are real. We saw the same dynamic during
the presidential race: By the end, the McCain/Palin campaign was
unable to control the violent energy whipped up by their race-baiting.
It resulted in an unprecedented number of threats on Obama’s life, a
rise in the number of hate groups, and an increase in the number of
threats and crimes against immigrants and Black people.
FOX has a horrible track record on pushing racist propaganda, but
Glenn Beck appears to be taking the network to an even lower standard.
He’s trying to divide and distract America when we should be coming
together and talking about issues that really matter–like health care
and the economy.
The good news is that we have the power to stop this. All major media
is funded by advertising. And advertisers care more than anything
what consumers think. If we want to change what’s happening and put an
end to folks like Glenn Beck having a platform, we can do it.
It’s up to us, and it can start now. Please join me:
Dear Friend, This is probably one of the longest emails I’ve ever sent, but it could be the most important. Across the country we are seeing vigorous debate about health insurance reform. Unfortunately, some of the old tactics we know so well are back — even the viral emails that fly unchecked and under the radar, spreading all sorts of lies a
Dear Friend,This is probably one of the longest emails I’ve ever sent, but it could be the most important.
Across the country we are seeing vigorous debate about health insurance reform. Unfortunately, some of the old tactics we know so well are back — even the viral emails that fly unchecked and under the radar, spreading all sorts of lies and distortions.
As President Obama said at the town hall in New Hampshire, “where we do disagree, let’s disagree over things that are real, not these wild misrepresentations that bear no resemblance to anything that’s actually been proposed.”
So let’s start a chain email of our own. At the end of my email, you’ll find a lot of information about health insurance reform, distilled into 8 ways reform provides security and stability to those with or without coverage, 8 common myths about reform and 8 reasons we need health insurance reform now.
Right now, someone you know probably has a question about reform that could be answered by what’s below. So what are you waiting for? Forward this email.
Thanks,
David
David Axelrod
Senior Adviser to the President
P.S. We launched www.WhiteHouse.gov/realitycheck this week to knock down the rumors and lies that are floating around the internet. You can find the information below, and much more, there. For example, we’ve just added a video of Nancy-Ann DeParle from our Health Reform Office tackling a viral email head on. Check it out:
8 ways reform provides security and stability to those with or without coverage
Ends Discrimination for Pre-Existing Conditions: Insurance companies will be prohibited from refusing you coverage because of your medical history.
Ends Exorbitant Out-of-Pocket Expenses, Deductibles or Co-Pays: Insurance companies will have to abide by yearly caps on how much they can charge for out-of-pocket expenses.
Ends Cost-Sharing for Preventive Care: Insurance companies must fully cover, without charge, regular checkups and tests that help you prevent illness, such as mammograms or eye and foot exams for diabetics.
Ends Dropping of Coverage for Seriously Ill: Insurance companies will be prohibited from dropping or watering down insurance coverage for those who become seriously ill.
Ends Gender Discrimination: Insurance companies will be prohibited from charging you more because of your gender.
Ends Annual or Lifetime Caps on Coverage: Insurance companies will be prevented from placing annual or lifetime caps on the coverage you receive.
Extends Coverage for Young Adults: Children would continue to be eligible for family coverage through the age of 26.
Guarantees Insurance Renewal: Insurance companies will be required to renew any policy as long as the policyholder pays their premium in full. Insurance companies won’t be allowed to refuse renewal because someone became sick.
Reform will stop “rationing” – not increase it: It’s a myth that reform will mean a “government takeover” of health care or lead to “rationing.” To the contrary, reform will forbid many forms of rationing that are currently being used by insurance companies.
We can’t afford reform: It’s the status quo we can’t afford. It’s a myth that reform will bust the budget. To the contrary, the President has identified ways to pay for the vast majority of the up-front costs by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse within existing government health programs; ending big subsidies to insurance companies; and increasing efficiency with such steps as coordinating care and streamlining paperwork. In the long term, reform can help bring down costs that will otherwise lead to a fiscal crisis.
Reform would encourage “euthanasia”: It does not. It’s a malicious myth that reform would encourage or even require euthanasia for seniors. For seniors who want to consult with their family and physicians about end-of life decisions, reform will help to cover these voluntary, private consultations for those who want help with these personal and difficult family decisions.
Vets’ health care is safe and sound: It’s a myth that health insurance reform will affect veterans’ access to the care they get now. To the contrary, the President’s budget significantly expands coverage under the VA, extending care to 500,000 more veterans who were previously excluded. The VA Healthcare system will continue to be available for all eligible veterans.
Reform will benefit small business – not burden it: It’s a myth that health insurance reform will hurt small businesses. To the contrary, reform will ease the burdens on small businesses, provide tax credits to help them pay for employee coverage and help level the playing field with big firms who pay much less to cover their employees on average.
Your Medicare is safe, and stronger with reform: It’s myth that Health Insurance Reform would be financed by cutting Medicare benefits. To the contrary, reform will improve the long-term financial health of Medicare, ensure better coordination, eliminate waste and unnecessary subsidies to insurance companies, and help to close the Medicare “doughnut” hole to make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors.
You can keep your own insurance: It’s myth that reform will force you out of your current insurance plan or force you to change doctors. To the contrary, reform will expand your choices, not eliminate them.
No, government will not do anything with your bank account: It is an absurd myth that government will be in charge of your bank accounts. Health insurance reform will simplify administration, making it easier and more convenient for you to pay bills in a method that you choose. Just like paying a phone bill or a utility bill, you can pay by traditional check, or by a direct electronic payment. And forms will be standardized so they will be easier to understand. The choice is up to you – and the same rules of privacy will apply as they do for all other electronic payments that people make.
Coverage Denied to Millions: A recent national survey estimated that 12.6 million non-elderly adults – 36 percent of those who tried to purchase health insurance directly from an insurance company in the individual insurance market – were in fact discriminated against because of a pre-existing condition in the previous three years or dropped from coverage when they became seriously ill. Learn more: http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/denied_coverage/index.html
Less Care for More Costs: With each passing year, Americans are paying more for health care coverage. Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums have nearly doubled since 2000, a rate three times faster than wages. In 2008, the average premium for a family plan purchased through an employer was $12,680, nearly the annual earnings of a full-time minimum wage job. Americans pay more than ever for health insurance, but get less coverage. Learn more: http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/hiddencosts/index.html
Roadblocks to Care for Women: Women’s reproductive health requires more regular contact with health care providers, including yearly pap smears, mammograms, and obstetric care. Women are also more likely to report fair or poor health than men (9.5% versus 9.0%). While rates of chronic conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure are similar to men, women are twice as likely to suffer from headaches and are more likely to experience joint, back or neck pain. These chronic conditions often require regular and frequent treatment and follow-up care. Learn more: http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/women/index.html
Hard Times in the Heartland: Throughout rural America, there are nearly 50 million people who face challenges in accessing health care. The past several decades have consistently shown higher rates of poverty, mortality, uninsurance, and limited access to a primary health care provider in rural areas. With the recent economic downturn, there is potential for an increase in many of the health disparities and access concerns that are already elevated in rural communities. Learn more: http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/hardtimes
Small Businesses Struggle to Provide Health Coverage: Nearly one-third of the uninsured – 13 million people – are employees of firms with less than 100 workers. From 2000 to 2007, the proportion of non-elderly Americans covered by employer-based health insurance fell from 66% to 61%. Much of this decline stems from small business. The percentage of small businesses offering coverage dropped from 68% to 59%, while large firms held stable at 99%. About a third of such workers in firms with fewer than 50 employees obtain insurance through a spouse. Learn more: http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/helpbottomline
The Tragedies are Personal: Half of all personal bankruptcies are at least partly the result of medical expenses. The typical elderly couple may have to save nearly $300,000 to pay for health costs not covered by Medicare alone. Learn more: http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/inaction
Diminishing Access to Care: From 2000 to 2007, the proportion of non-elderly Americans covered by employer-based health insurance fell from 66% to 61%. An estimated 87 million people – one in every three Americans under the age of 65 – were uninsured at some point in 2007 and 2008. More than 80% of the uninsured are in working families. Learn more: http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/inaction/diminishing/index.html
The Trends are Troubling: Without reform, health care costs will continue to skyrocket unabated, putting unbearable strain on families, businesses, and state and federal government budgets. Perhaps the most visible sign of the need for health care reform is the 46 million Americans currently without health insurance – projections suggest that this number will rise to about 72 million in 2040 in the absence of reform. Learn more: http://www.WhiteHouse.gov/assets/documents/CEA_Health_Care_Report.pdf
I am sorry, but this is a disgrace, and the West Chester Area School Board better think twice about this one. The right wing hate mongers should not allowed to be on any school board period, they should have nothing to do with any decisions regarding children anywhere. If you have your beliefs that’s fine, you want to promote hate and extreme views we can not stop you, but West Chester School District better step up to the plate and stop this.
With all the hate we have going on now, someone like this does not belong on any board, and definately not where children are involved. I do not find this waterboarding and Obama bin Laden stuff funny. There are many militant groups acting on hate now, and it has no place in any school district. You can not have someone with these views in any type of position such as this, I am sorry, this needs to be stopped, and now!!
Glenn Beck was just dropped by sponsors Geico, Sargento and other major million dollar advertisers because of his hate and racist views.
The people and voters in West Chester better think twice about allowing this man and the rest of his team on their school board. We do not need any more hate, and by the way, the waterboarding thing is tacky to say the least.!!! We lost a resident in Chester County in such a horrid way in this area, to even joke about beheading is sick and disturbing.
The people of West Chester better get their acts together and think of the children when they vote, this is as I said disturbing to say the least, even thinking this guy could be on a school board anywhere!!!
About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday — the latest incident in which protesters have openly displayed firearms near the president.
Gun-rights advocates say they’re exercising their constitutional right to bear arms and protest, while those who argue for more gun control say it could be a disaster waiting to happen.
About a dozen people carrying guns, including one with a military-style rifle, milled among protesters outside the convention center where President Barack Obama was giving a speech Monday — the latest incident in which protesters have openly displayed firearms near the president.
Gun-rights advocates say they’re exercising their constitutional right to bear arms and protest, while those who argue for more gun control say it could be a disaster waiting to happen. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32457652/ns/politics-white_house/
I am sorry, but this is just sick and crazy. So what you have the constitutional right, if that is the case then why can’t we all carry loaded guns as long as their in the open and legal into Court Houses ? It’s so pathetic what these disturbed right wing gun toting people have come to. I mean they couldn’t stand up for the war, or the tax cut for the wealthy, but yet these idiots have so much to say now, and off all things, about health care, this is a scary disturbed bunch and they need to be called on it.
A town hall meeting regarding health care where children may be is no place for guns, how many of you wack jobs would like a man entering your childs school because he has that right, its just sick and twisted, and in my book you are losing the cause here, your showing just how much mental help you people on the right need!!!!
One more thing, how would Newt Gingrich, or John Boehner feel if a dozen black men showed up with guns because they are legal and it’s their constitutional right, yeah, they would do everything in their power to have them arrested, and they probaly would be!!!!!
Thousands of Independence Blue Cross customers could be paying more for their health care if a request by the insurer to raise rates for three individual PPO plans is approved. IBC said in a statement to IFAwebnews.com, that it is paying “significantly more” for the medical care provided in the PPO plans than what they collect, so there is the need “to cover our loss for these plans.” The insurer anticipates the proposed increases would impact 30,000 of its customers. The Philadelphia-based insurer filed for rate increases to its nongroup Basic Blue Cross Hospital, Special Care Hospital and Personal Choice rates in its southeastern Pennsylvania service area May 15. IBC is asking for the new rates in the service area comprised of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties to take effect July 1
For example, under the prime option, a family with two parents between the age of 30 and 39 with children covered under the plan would see its premium rise from $598.04 a month to $941,00, or 57.3%. The lowest increase, of 10.1% would come for an individual age 60 or older on the standard option, from $606.51 per month to $668, according to the filing.
That’s scary, so for a family 2 parents 30-39 with children that increase is double, thats huge, we need reform and need it now.
BEWARE OF HATE MONGER RIGHT WING GROUP ADVERTISING IN THE DAILY LOCAL NEWS CHESTER COUNTY LIES HYPOCRISY
I saw an add running in the Daily Local News, well actually I didn’t , my Mother called me, I do not buy the Daily Local anymore, I catch up with it sometimes on line, I had to research when she called me and found this Hate Group who is running adds in the Daily Local News Chester County.
They are calling themselves the U.S. Citizens Association and running adds in the Daily Local that are nothing but hate and lies.
If the Daily Local is so desperate for adds, they are pretty pathetic, the Daily Local should realize both parties read their paper, and if they want to run one sided, they should just do it, don’t try to cover both sides of the fence.
We at chestercountyrants.com see nothing wrong with getting your opinion out, we are all for that, we promote that, however, we do not promote lies and hate as this group is doing.
First of all to use the name U. S. Citizens Association, well that’s just a big lie, I and we are US Citizens, and we do not follow your beliefs, so please, change the name, you do not speak for everyone in the United States or every citizen anywhere.
Second, speak the truth if your going to speak. How dare you lie about health care, how dare you say quote ” You will be denied Medical Care” You are pathetic liars and you know it as you speak, don’t spew your lies on the American people. Your sick!!
Third- How dare you say President Obama caused this mess, are you for real??? Honestly, this President has been in office for 7 months and he caused this nightmare? I don’t think so, not feasible, couldn’t happen. You people are mindless.
Fourth and Last, they are saying Obama is responsible for the rising cost of utility and other bills, knowing George Bush and the last administration gave these oil companies huge tax breaks. They are full of lies and hate and do not believe them. Their little one page lying site is pathetic….
Then they are such hypocrites, they talk about spending and being conservative, where were these guys the last 8 years? Hate to keep saying it, but I have never seen so many groups coming out until Obama was elected, that tells me one thing. Beware of this hate monger group. They hate blacks, they disguise it in the form of health care and other issues, but can’t, because they were nowhere to be found before. Take your racist hate elsewhere…
I have one question for you people ? Why are you coming out of the woodwork now? Where were you the last 8 years ? Guess you felt the economy was good as McCain stated up until the end. Guess you never see health care needing reformed, because we haven’t heard from you people until now??? What is it, is it health care bringing you out, or hate and racism?
Give us a friggin break you wacky right wing nut jobs who are so afraid of a black, no, mixed President? What do you know about socialism, Brad Pitt the actor even said, he has been all over the world and we are good with this, most of you ignorant people never left your racist nest.
Get Real, you do not have us fooled for one minute. You did nothing the last 8 yrs, and you have no say now, you don’t matter. You sat back while thousand of our innocent were killed for no reason in a phony for profit war, you sat back while Bush gave a hefty tax cut to the wealthy, you sat back until there was a Black President, shame on you you racist haters hiding under health care. Hope Gods not Black!!! Or Hopefully the Devil is white and will welcome you with open arms.
Dear Friend,
The country is in real trouble right now, with unemployment spiraling
out of control. President Obama’s stimulus plan provides money to
expand unemployment assistance. But a group of Republican governors,
led by Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal, is trying to score political points
by blocking that assistance from reaching the people who need it. It’s
cynical and disgusting.
These governors are playing with people’s lives. They’re trying to
further their political ambitions while showing they could care less
about the fate of everyday folks–even in their own state.
Please join me in calling them out and forcing the media spotlight on
them. I just signed ColorOfChange.org’s open letter demanding they do
the right thing. Together, we can help make sure that in times of
hardship folks get the assistance they need. It only takes a moment:
It’s incredible. President Obama’s stimulus package provides money for
states to extend unemployment benefits for people in dire need of
help, but a handful of Republican governors–Bob Riley of Alabama,
Mark Sanford of South Carolina, Rick Perry of Texas, Haley Barbour of Mississippi, and Bobby Jindal of
Louisiana–are putting politics over people.
All six governors have threatened to turn down these funds. Four are
2012 presidential contenders, and they all have a vested interest in
seeing Obama fail. They’re attacking the President’s policies to
increase their own profile and cozy up to the most die-hard
conservatives. They also claim that taking the stimulus money would
leave their states in debt when it runs out in three years. But that
argument rings hollow–state legislatures could reduce benefits to
pre-stimulus levels at that point.
While these governors posture, Black folks suffer the most. In all of
these states, Black unemployment is at least twice that of Whites–and
in Louisiana and Mississippi, the two Blackest states in the Union,
the unemployment rate among Black people approaches three times that of
their White neighbors.
Please join me in telling these Republican governors to stop putting
their personal and political interests above the good of all their
states’ citizens. Demand that they accept all of the stimulus money
designated for unemployment benefits. And please ask your friends and
family to do the same by passing this message on.
Sean Carpenter and Rich Davis Right Wing Extremist
School Board Candidate Sean Carpenter supports attack on gay students
The American Sheepdogs, a local right-wing group, issued a call last week for people to come to the Feb. 23 West Chester School Board meeting to speak out against the “Day of Silence” the West Chester East Gay-Straight Alliance plans to observe on April 17.
While the school board meeting attracted a larger than usual audience, no one spoke about the Day of Silence.
A number of audience members did applaud after a woman from West Chester requested that her home-schooled son be allowed to participate in the Henderson High School band. I’m not sure that there’s a connection. Some local Republicans and Democrats, however, believe that conservative activists from the school district are beginning a push to promote home schooling and charter schools, the eventual goal being to greatly shrink the role of traditional public education.
In any case, the American Sheepdogs’ call to protest contained some rather strong wording. Before I take a look at it, I should explain what the “Day of Silence” is.
It’s a day, observed nationally, during which participants keep silent in order to protest discrimination and violence against gays, lesbians, and the transgendered. The West Chester East Gay-Straight Alliance plans to end its observation of the day with a coffeehouse-style open-mic event.. This event will symbolically “break the silence,” according to a press release the from Alliance.
The Sheepdogs argued that while bullying is bad, the it’s also bad for students to take day-long vows of silence. This seems reasonable. If I were a teacher (and I have taught in the past) I would be irritated if several of my students refused to answer questions or verbally participate in class. But the Sheepdogs’ criticism was rooted in something other than a desire for effective teaching.
According to the call to protest, which first appeared at http://americansheepdogs.com/?p=1588,
“[T]he real mission of this movement [the Day of Silence] is to indoctrinate public school students with the radical agenda of the left by teaching that being gay is an acceptable behavior. What’s worse is that all of this is done on school time in taxpayer funded school buildings. Make no mistake that bullying is wrong and kids who bully other kids should be punished accordingly, but clearly the leftists are hiding behind the bullying idea to push their radical agenda through the public schools across America. It’s time to take a stand for core conservative Christian values by demanding that schools teach our children, not indoctrinate them.”
Other criticisms aside, I don’t think it’s only the radical left that believes “being gay is acceptable behavior.”
Ask yourself this question, do you want your child to be attacked for being who they are?
Adsett, Carpenter, Pimley, and Wingerter are so Right Wing, So Wrong for our schools!
(DailyLocal.com, Daily Local News blog: Tuesday, February 24, 2009)
submitted by very concerned Resident and Parent West Chester, Chester County
I am sorry, will try to post some pictures of this house which has been falling apart for the last 10 years, and the zoning and codes, and borough seem to take a blind eye to it…We don’t . Pictures coming soon….
For every homeowner in Parkesburg, and for everyone who has been fined, one for having siding not meeting siding by so many inches…This is for you…This Mans ( who was on the zoning board for awhile, maybe still is, is allowed to leave half his house blowing in the wind why others are fined, and some were struggling and in foreclosure……The borough was quick to issue fines to them….What about Wayne Thomas on First Ave. in Parkesburg….We want answers…..More info and pics coming soon. Want to investigate, we know this house was like this for at least 10 yrs, will get exact date if possible..Also checking on status of zoning officer, when and how long and ?
Parkesburg Police have scraped the bottom of the barrel now. My Daughters house was robbed while her and my Grandaughter slept, and they did nothing, they were busy, they filed an incident report, without even talking to the victim, how do they manage that ? Apparently Officer Manning of Parkesburg had a more important call at the time, would love to know what that call was, and will find out.
Since when, can you walk into someones house, rob them, take their cash, purse, money while they are sound asleep, and that’s okay, it’s just an incident. Worse, there was a child there who could have woke up and God knows what could have happened.
Apparently Officer Manning had something very important to do beside checking a robbery where people were sleeping and a child was involved.
Guess they didn’t want fingerprints, they might be gone by now, guess they didnt want to check the car out that was ransacked. Guess they didn’t even want to talk to the victim, they went to the office a day and a half later, So tell me Parkesburg Police, what are you doing for that contract money your earn from Atlgen ?????????
I will get to the bottom of this, a child was involved, I do not care what you think of the owner, person, etc., you have a job to do where a child was involved and didn’t do it. Manning, your other call better have been important, to ignore a robbery where a child was sleeping. People love their kids as much as you love yours. Yeah, right !!!!! We don’t love your kids like you do, but you are paid to do a job, like it or not, if you don’t, you should resign, and I hope the fingerprints you let go didn’t cause a criminal to end up on your back porch, you never know…..
You are a in my eyes not fit to be what are know as Police Officers, you do not get to pick and choose who you help, your paid by the taxpayers to do a job…and if you can not, you need to resign asap!!!
I guess that’s why the bank that was robbed right across the street, that robber got away also.
Does Chester County Family Court Send A Guaranteed Paycheck to Bruce Mapes at the sake of Children? What is Going On in Chester County Family Court???
We have been overwhelmed by the comments and posts regarding our Own Chester County Family Court. Maybe a overhaul is needed, maybe certain people are being promised jobs and the people most suffering are the children? These Family Court Judges are not God and far from perfect. Maybe something needs to be done ASAP, for what is in the BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN, AS THE FAMILY COURT IS SUPPOSED TO DO, NOT IN WHO IS GETTING PAID BY THE JUDGES!!!!!! What is going on in our Family Court at the Sake of the Children? And who is guaranteed a paycheck??? Something needs to be done NOW!!!!!
These are just a few comments, to see more, search Bruce Mapes and Family Court.
Remember People, No One is Above the Law, Not even these Masters or Family Court Judges, if you have a complaint, that involves children, you need to keep speaking out, keep bringing it out, Never Stop. Remember the Family Court Judges in Luzerne County who were so corrupt and taking money to jail kids, no it happens everywhere, and it only takes one person to bring it out, keep bringing it out. Do not let innocent children suffer at the hands of corrupt or unqualified Family Court Masters, Judges, and who they guarantee a paycheck to.
The following are comment recently submitted :
Dr. Mapes was horrible in evaluating our family… he lacks sound judgement.
Thats because he’s a hack without morals or ethics.
Anonymous,
He included the MMPI even though you never gave it to him? He did leave me in the downstairs copy room and stepped out, someone else posted their check was deposited at the same time he stepped out. I’m not sure but I think the MMPI is the only thing that is impartial during this evaluation process. His testimony included a satement that was not included in his report. If the guy has been feeding off family court for years, maybe it’s time for new blood. I read another post that said a custody evaluation should take 26 hours, I doubt he spent a totoal of 10 including preparing this report. Taking emotion out of the situation which is impossiable I have several questions for him. If I write him a letter does he have to respond. I read 1 post that said he has done 700 to 800 custody evaluations, in court he said 200. The lawyers, judges and Dr. Mapes get their money reguardless of outcome. The children suffer.
Sounds like a turn bull shi* story to me. On the record he informed the court that he has completed about 700 to 800 of these evaluations. Its very clearly noted in the trial transcript that he has done 700 to 800 of these child custody evaluations. Guess telling the truth between cases does not really matter.
Clearly looks like a problem to me but then again I don’t make the determination whats truth verses just plain BS…thats up to our judges and DA to determine…
Is the MMPI impartial? Does it really have anything to do with you capacity to parent, to form a bond with your child. Not at all. Was a valid profile obtained? This is a very vital part of the test – if a valid profile was not obtained – one has to question why the results would be reported.
Are there specific norms in the MMPI-2 that address the specific parental capacity of say white males between the ages of 30 -45. The answer is a resounding NO. The MMPI was not designed or normed to assess parental capacity or ones ability to form a bond with their child. Thats what these evaluations are to look at and thats what Mapes says in his introductory letter.
Seems to me that it would be much more important to have a look see at the home the child will live in, what the conditions are in that home, mqke some specific observations of parent and child doing homework together or engaging in some form of activity. To this point one needs to ask Can someone with a “personality” be a fine parent. You bet they can – so the point here is what does the MMPI really report as related to parental capacity? NOT MUCH.
I still can’t get over the fact that his reasons for me not getting 50/50 custody or more visitation cantained in the report did not match his testimony. Then sying My ex had more of a plan after he questioned her honesty? Is this a contradiction or what. He did not at all question the bonds I have with my children. My ex wife paid his fees, unbiased?
More than likely this happens all the time. So Bruce Smith what are you going to do? Do you have the trial transcript – if he lied on the stand and it is reflected in the trial transcript that he lied under oath discuss your concerns with the DA or your attorney.
You can file a complaint with the Office of Professional Compliance around his compliance with his professional standards. Its a freeby to file. IF you are going to file a complaint it takes lots of time to work through the process. The PA Department of State web site is a good place to start. If the sort of claims you are making are violations of the professional standards it can cost him lots of $ to defend and perhaps his ability to practice.
This fellow need to retire or the County needs to remove him from the list of approved providers.
Yes, please feel free to add this information on your other site.
As residents of Chester County we should all be very concerned about the practices of Bruce E. Mapes, PhD. Dr. Mapes, according to his OWN COUNT, HAS DONE 700 to 800 of these evaluations.
If your like me, YOU SHOULD BE ASKING how MANY OF THESE 700 to 800 CHILD CUSTODY EVALUATIONS were based a TRUE reflection of the FACTS.
LETS JUST SAY THAT HE FUDGED 20 % of the 700-800 cases. This represents 140 to 160 children who were placed at risk or potentially experienced a negative custody change based on his inacurate reporting.
NOW lets consider that each of the children had 2 parents and 1 sibling. Add to that grandparents, stepparents, step siblings. THE NUMBERS GROW RATHER QUICKLY.
If anyone has had a similar experiences with BRUCE E. MAPES, PhD, they should be encouraged to post a comment and join the CAUSE to ELIMINATE BRUCE E. MAPES, PhD from the panel of expert WITNESSES in child custody cases.
Here is what Dr. Mapes wrote as the REASON for REFERRAL.
“[MY NAME] did not provide information concerning how he and [HER NAME] met, nor about the marriage, as he did not believe this to be relevant to the current evaluation”.
REALLY, Dr. Mapes? Here is what you asked during our interview : “Mr. Name you had indicated, that, you have given several issues in the relationship, that, such as… ”
In your report you directly quoted me re: the relationship. So here a question:
IF I DID NOT provide information about the marriage HOW IS IT THAT DR. MAPES QUOTE ME on the MARRIAGE in his REPORT? Did he just MAKE UP these quotes?
IF I provided information about the relationship to DR. MAPES (such that he could quote me) why did DR. MAPES say that I didn’t provide this information? DID he just ths MAKE UP too?
Accuracy counts when it comes to child custody. DiD Dr. Mapes make a MISTAKE or should his creditability as an EXPERT be question?
Dr. Mapes made an unlawful disclosure of my HIPAA protected health care information to opposing counsel. During the course of his testimony Dr. Mapes exhibited selective amnesia:
DR. MAPES: “I did not recall doing that” (related to an unlawful release of
protected health information).
Discussion: Dr. Mapes made this unlawful release of personal health information and attempted to conceal this disclosure through selective recall. In May, Dr. Mapes unlawfully released the name of a confidential health care provider to opposing counsel in correspondence without my written authorization, and made outside of the scope of the Honorable Judge Hall’s court order. The facts related to this unauthorized release are well document by the United States Department of Health and Human Service, Office of Civil Rights.
Clearly, Dr. Mapes wrote the letter with the knowledge that he was releasing the names of a confidential treatment provider. He demonstrated a command of the content of that specific document in which the disclosure was made when opposing counsel questioned him and often referring to a copy of the document when he “did not recall doing that”.
Hyper technical violation or BLATANT violation of the oath he took to tell the TRUTH, the WHOLE TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH? What do you think?
It is interesting, Bruce MAPES wrote a book in 1995 entitled Child eyewitness testimony in sexual abuse investigations. Despite his recognition of the necessity for neutrality, Mapes seems to identify more with victims than with the falsely accused. MANY OF THE REFERENCES AT THE END OF THE BOOK ARE NOT USED IN THE TEXT AND THE BOOK OFTEN APPEARS UNBALANCED.
In short, at least one reviewer back in 1995 questioned Mapes neutrality.
NOT CONCERNED YET? Hold on there is more…
Chester County Children and Youth Services has Bruce E. Mapes, PhD in their 2009 operational budget for $80,000 for consultation services. Are you at all CONFORTABLE with this expenditure of TAX PAYER money? Are we getting what WE as tax payers PAY FOR?
There is still more to consider:
Dr. Mapes has provided in-service training to the Chester County Court of Common Pleas (Judges) in the past. Specifically referencing CHILD CUSTODY AND VISITATION. I have a copy of his handouts. Are you CONFORTABLE with the Chester County Bench receiving in-service training FROM Dr. MAPES, who by the way makes what appears to be a very comfortable living on the referrals he receives from the Chester County Court of Common Pleas.
I for one think that a complete investigation of Dr. MAPES MUST be conducted by authorities outside of Chester County. It is clear that the County has a very biased view of MAPES as they continue to feed him cases through the Family Court, and Children and Youth-systems. We should call for a Special Investigator to be appointed, or an independent panel of professionals and parents to review his work. It would not be hard to evaluate if he followed the rules by a simple record review of his work.
If your concerned, I urge you to call the County and voice your concern. Call or write your County Commissioners, the Director of Children and Youth, Administrator of Family Court, and/or the President Judge.
With your help we can put an end to Chester County using Dr. Bruce Mapes in child custory matters on in providing consultation services involving Chester County’s social service agencies.
I AM SURE THAT Chestercountyrants will be mort than happy to post a link (or contact information) to all of the people/Agency’s mentioned above.
Master Lombardi aligned himself with a perpetrator’s viewpoint (in this case a father) to deny my child a Psychiatric evaluation despite the fact there were three Medical Doctors who requested in writing that she been seen. Sighting that Dr Mapes, a Psychologist, did not mention that it was needed in his custody evaluation.
This is when I had to step up and say “But the Psychiatric referral does not fall into the scope of Dr Mapes’ Evaluation.” He still denied my plea.
So Master Richard Lombardi, took the word of the perpetrator’s atty who stated that the reunification therapist, Randy Hess felt it necessary to force the victim/my child to see the perpetrator/father two times a week outside of the therapy session with supervision. So there it was ordered, without proof.
Lombardi also refused to meet with my daughter, even though Rose Anderson said that she would definitely meet with her to hear my daughter’s opinion. When asked why Lombardi did not want to speak with my child, he replied, “It’s not like she’s 16.”
The reunification therapist, Mr Randy Hess, decided that it would be in my child’s best interest to reunify them despite her intense fear of her father and his abusive history and the inability to control his anger and aggression.
Last week he assaulted her again during a supervised visit.
He had already been under house arrest and probation for violating the PFA.
And even though my daughter wanted desperately to speak with the Master, why was he allowed to dismiss her so easily?
I know that there are 100’s of people in Chester County that have be court ordered to see Dr. BRUCE E. MAPES. Were you shocked when you read his report only to find that he twisted beyond recognition what was discussed in the interview, left inportant facts our or taken statements out of context.
Share you experience. Leave a message or send a text to the Mapes On Exhibit (MOE) hotline. The number is (610) 295-5405.
Please no names, no obsenties, just your comments about your experience with Dr. Mapes.
I think there should be a class action suit against the Court System in Chester County. Can we bring it to the PA Superior Court? I feel sick that Mapes is playing with the lives of children to earn a living.
GM
I think that any parent that has NOT received a fair and objective evaluation by Dr. Mapes and can document this should file a complaint with the State Board of Psychology, the DA or let the Court know.
If you or I filed an inaccurate report with the Court or gave inacurate information while under OATH we would most likely be charged with perjury. Should ther be any different treatment of Dr. Bruce E. Mapes.
Experts like Bruce MApes have an obligation (morally and legally) to accurately report the facts and defend how they arrived at their recommendation. If his facts are inaccurate he also has an obligation to issue a corrected report.
Parents have the right to have this information corrected and MUST DEMAND that it be corrected.
Lets say your custody arrangement is acceptable for the moment. 12 months down the road circumstances change and you wish to make a change. On review of Dr. Mapes report you recall that he twisted and manipulated the truth to make the other parent look better than she actually was, that he had reported on things that were not true, and totally misrepresented your position re: custody.
Do you think that you will have any chance to get a custody modification with DR. MAPES report sitting on top of the file.
Chances are that the report, will be looked on as “pearls of wisdom”.
His “hit and run” report with all its errors of fact, misquotes and inaccuracies of what was said during the interview will never be corrected. YOU WON’T EVEN HAVE A CHANCE TO CONFRONT DR. MAPES UNDER OATH, yet his report will have a lasting impact.
Parents should and must demand that Dr. Mapes be held accountable. If his reports are ture and accurate he has nothing to fear.
Share you experience. Leave a message or send a text to the Mapes On Exhibit (MOE) hotline. The number is (610) 295-5405.
So here is the question folks, we have parents that have posted comments here and several that left messages on the MOE hot-line. What are we going to do about Dr. Bruce E. Mapes?
He has not responded to any of these facts, he continues to do his verison of a “child custody evaluation” albeit incompleted and of questionable valuet to the courts. Families continuing to get hurt by his lack of objective practices.
I wrote the President Judge of Chester County Court of Common Pleas (Judge Ott) outlining my concerns about the continued use of the evaluator and my request for a judicial review of Dr. Bruce E. Mapes. In October 2008, I received a telephone call Judge Ott’s legal clerk. She indicated that my letter was being taken seriously.
Any parent that has experienced first hand a Mapes evaluation and been subject to the truth being twisted should DEMAND his removal and should DEMAND that their money be returned. We did not get way we paid for!
A MORNING protest of Dr. Mapes office (60 Boot Road, West Chester, PA) may help bring some free advertising to Dr. Mapes and this cause. If you want this guy to stop his unfair evaluation practice we need to organize.
We could assemble at WAWA and walk up to his office. Someone suggest a DATE AND TIME.
Dr Mapes also twisted many facts in my case, and then punted me and my ex off to individual counselling since he made no decision (maybe that was a good thing). All the time and money wasted going to sessions with him were wasted. He did nothing more than complicate our case and then sent us off to someone else. He probably was laughing all the way to the bank with the fees we had to pay to him
I’m sure he went he laughing all the way to the bank. He is nothing more than a hired hand who will sell his BS story to the highest bidder.
Ethics be damned, truth be damned.
Did you have the same experience where he put you in a downstares location to complete the MMPI? Did he also tell you to leave the MMPI test form (with your name on it) unattended in that location?
Can you verify that he lied in your report? If so we should talk. See the MOE hot line in an earlier post.
THANK GOD FOR DR. BRUCE MAPES. THIS MAN WAS ABLE TO PUT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF THOUGHT AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TOWARDS MY VERY DIFFICULT CASE. I INCLUDE DR. MAPES IN MY PRAYERS AT NIGHT FOR ALL HE HAS DONE FOR ME AND MY CHILDREN. I CONSIDER THIS MAN TRULY CARING TOWARDS THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN HE SEE’S AND WORKS WITH IN HIS OFFICE.
ABSOLUTELY PROFESSIONAL PERSON WITH TREMENDOUS RESOLVE IN THE DIFFICULT MATTERS HE DEALS WITH.
THANK YOU DR. MAPES.
Dr. Mapes did not take enough time to truly evaluate everything. He saw us, for what felt like, a nano second, and placed my child in a position to be physically abused by her father again.
Albeit the physical altercation happened 3 months after the evaluation took place, but he is a psychologist, he is suppose to understand human nature and to evaluate the parents to see if there is a propensity to harm the child. And in my case he did not see it. In fact, his written evaluation was incomprehensible in some places and was filled with half truths and flat out lies against me.
Too much of what he says is held in high regard within the courts system in Chester County. He needs to start taking more time to evaluate each case, and he should charge a lot less.
I feel robbed for not getting a fair evaluation and it seems to me that the courts do not care about how much things cost to hard working people.
I understand you lost custody so you are mad. I understand that and I am sorry for your loss. I dont think any human being is perfect and I dont think any human being can know everything. I only know that in this position it is difficult to be correct 100% of the time. If you want to bash the guy then thats your business. I think you should be less critical of this mans job and findings until you walk a mile in his shoes. He has a tough position and he is never going to please both parties and thats just a fact he has to deal with. I understand your feelings but I dont understand you method of dealing with it.
I have sole physical custody, and I am not mad. My daughter and myself have a restraining order against her father because he is an abuser. He had abused her in the past and is unable to control himself.
Mapes and Hess placed my daughter in a supervised setting with a psychopath who happens to be her father. Her father has rights, but luckily Hess has realized her father’s true colors, but Mapes had not spent enough time to see the real person behind the facade.
This is frightening because he is making life decisions about people he hardly takes time to understand.
In June the father backed off after a physical altercation that he pleaded guilty to. The therapist told my 12 year old that her father wants to have no contact with her for “years”… and she is very happy about that.. although we will need to go back to conciliation next month. I think it is sad, that she wants nothing to do with him, but she had seen him perpetrate violence against me and her little 12 lb dog… and had experienced injuries herself.. that I completely understand her reasoning for not wanting to be anywhere near him.
Getting back on topic…. when a mile in Mapes , shoes places a child in the hands of a perpetrator, or he makes a life decision based on the notes of a third party, I think he needs a new pair of shoes, maybe take a break and recharge himself.
The fundamental problem with the custody evaluation process is that it is inherently flawed. The law requires that custody decisions be based on the best interests of the child. There is no psychological diagnostic tool that can predict who is the better parent. Yet when it comes to child custody cases the courts defer almost exclusively to the report and testimony of the evaluating psychologist. The so-called expert opinion is based on tests that prove nothing and interviews that are so short as to be worthless. The custody decision is ultimately based on the rather unscientific game of he said-she said. And the children are caught in the middle.
I am with you on that. Custody evaluations are worthless. The best interest of any child is to have both loving parents in their life. But when one of the parents isn’t loving and the child is scared to the point of becoming suicidal, then there is a huge problem. And chester county courts will not talk to children.
Custody evaluations are a crock! Bruce E. Mapes may be viewed by some as a “professional” BUT, those of us that have seen and experienced his form of professionalism know that he is simply a BS artist who simply sells his story to the highest bidder or the attorney that has the greatest referral potential.
Experts are unbiased – Mapes is not unbiased. Mapes as a “professional” has long ago forgot about professional ethics! It is clear that releasing confidential information to attorneys without consent and outside of the court order is an unethical practice.
Custody evaluations completed by Bruce E. Mapes have no value other than helping Mapes make a good living.
The Chester County Court system needs to ditch Mapes and the attorneys in Chester County need to step up and stop tolerating the twisting of the truth, and other abuses that occur in the context of a child custody evaluation as completed by Bruce Mapes.
Just to clarify, I am not at all unhappy wth my custody arrangements. I am, however, appalled with the way Mapes conducts his interview and his lack of committment to the truth as put forth in his report.
An interesting note here is that Timothy J. Trott (if it is the same Timothy J. Trott) is a well respected attorney in West Chester, PA.
Mr. Trott, I think you know first hand the abuses that happen in custody evaluations especially those conducted by Bruce Mapes.
Why dont you take on the cause to end these abuses in Chester County? Help those who have suffered by the hand of this “professional”.
Please help those parents that can prove that Mapes twisted and turned the turth into an unrecognizable mess. You would be doing the right thing for the Chester County community (parents and children).
Its about the law not justice! We are entitled to a fair and unbiased evaluation of the facts and to have this ACCURATELY reflected back to the court so that the needs and best interest of our children can be met.
When Mapes can condone that an abusive sex addicted violent perpetrator should have a week long unsupervised visit with his 11 year old daughter, who is suicidal because of him.. there is something VERY wrong.. this violent sex addict ended up physically harming my 80 lb daughter in front of 2 supervisors leaving bruises on her for a week.
Not to mention the mental abuse and FORCED reunification with her perpetrator.
What does that tell you about Dr. Mapes?
I told Mapes that I had to pick up my daughter from her father’s house while he hosted a sex party.. come to find out that she was there many times during these parties and she was only 11 at the time…..
Tell me there isn’t something wrong with Chester County Family Court!
Mapes is gullible… he cannot identify a sociopath when he sees one.
This is very scary for the children in Chester County.
You need to take action if you have had one of Dr. Mapes so called child custody evaluations and witnessed first hand his inability it be unbiased, experienced the way in which he twists and turns the truth or the inaccuracy reflected in his reporting and his lack of professionalism (including his standard “I need to run to the bank, post office etc.,” just leave that highly sensitive MMPI form in a commonly used copy room).
Protest at his office, protest at the court house on custody hearing days – he must be forced out of his “expert role” and it can not happen on a case-by-case basis.
Mr. Trott will you be willing to help? GM can we talk? Anyone else out there willing to help please leave a comment on this site.
I will certainly state my case. I would like to talk to the media, or an attorney who can make a difference in the way custody cases are handled in Chester County.
Children need a voice, and they should not be reserved for people who can afford high priced lawyers.
Children need advocates.
The courts should be held liable if a parent commits violence against any child. If they are forcing children to be with dangerous parents they need to rethink their process and change the way cases are handled.
If a judges daughter was hurt during one of these “court ordered abuse” visits~ they would do something about it.
But since it is not and it’s just any girl from any town they do not care and it shows.
The courts are so afraid of being sued over parental “rights” being violated that it totally obscures the rights of the child.
Children have rights, the right to live in a home without the fear of being abused.
Lombardi refused to speak with my child AFTER Rose Anderson said that she would. NOW why isn’t there any consistency?
I have no choice but to fight for full custody, my 12 year old daughter said she’d kill herself if she has to be with her father.
So tell me what is a mother to do?
GM, many would argue that Bruce E. Mapes is the voice for the children caught up in custody matters. His role as a Court appointed “expert” is to represent to the Court “the best interest” of our children.
I think that those of us who have experienced Bruce E. Mapes know that the only thing he represents is his own twisted form of reality and his only motive is tomake a living.
If you think for one minute that Bruce E. Mapes cares about your child or the best outcome…think again.
His primary object is to make a good living. He is professionally lazy and really does not care about anything but his own self serving interests. His expert opinions are not based on the facts, but rather how many cases he can receive from the Chester County legal community.
Wake up people. If you want the truth represented in your child custody evaluation either seek another professional or have your attorney present during the evaluation.
Read carefully the APA Guidelines. APA gives you 10 years to file an ethics complaint. If you think there has been a violation of the APA ethical guidelines – consider filing a complaint.
It costs nothing for you to file a complaint however it can cost Bruce E. Mapes real $ to defend. Here is the address:
You can also file a complaint with the State of PA against Mapes if you think that he acted in ways that go against the PA professional psychology practice act.
You have the right in this state to be protected from unethical professionals.
Again, there are no costs to you but for Mapes it can be a very costly to defend. No license, no practice = problem solved!
All matter presented in you complaint should be related to the practice act. Send in copies of all documents, letters, etc. to support your claim. Here is the address:
Any other parent that took the MMPI as part of your child custody evaluation AND where shuffled off to the copy room AND were given the story by Dr. Bruce E. Mapes that he “needed to step out” – lets all join forces.
In an eariler post I indicated that the Mapes’ non standard administration of the MMPI represents unsound testing procedures.
Here is what the American Psychological Association Monitor and the APA’s Ethics Committee say about this practice
1. Nonmonitored administration of the MMPI does not represent sound testing practice and may result in an invalid assessment.
2. Test security cannot be guaranteed when the MMPI is allowed outside of the clinical setting [such as an unmonitored first floor copy room or left unattended for God knows how long].
3. There is debate as to whether there is even any circumstance in which it might be reasonable or appropriate to allow the MMPI to be completed outside of the clinical setting (Is a crappy little room used by the many non psychologist office occupants considered a “clinical setting”).
Here is what I am suggesting:
1) We all file a complaint withthe APA on some very specific grounds, i.e., improper test administration, failure to safeguard testing security, failure to safeguard personal and confidential information (ie unattended completed testing materials with your name on it).
2) We should work together on a coordinated filing date in order that our case against Mapes has more impact.
3) The date to submit the complaints to the APA should be posted on this page so that other who want to get behind this cause can do so.
4) We should also consider filing multiple complaints with the State of PA. It would be important that these be filed after the APA complaints AND for different issues (ie., NOT the MMPI issue).
5) Again, we should coordinate the submission date of the complaints.
6) Other wishing to get on board should read very carefully this post and reflect back on their dealings with Bruce E. Mapes and join this cause.
I trust that Chester County Rants will continue to support this very important cause by getting the word around to the loyal readers.
The copy room was a dump. I had assumed that the room was monitored remotely. But by the looks of his office it was evident that he did not put much money back into the business.
After all his “Packet” included that the money was supposed to be paid prior to any appointments being scheduled.
In Chester County Parental rights trump child safety, and they should not.
No one wants to understand the reason why my daughter feels unsafe, suicidal and afraid to be with her dad.I feel that she was a paycheck for Mapes.. and that her blatant abuse by the courts and Mapes disgusts me.
After all she went through at the hands of her father to be subjected to mental torture at the hands of the courts and Mapes is horrific.
GM and any other interested parties, lets work together to bring his professional conduct under review by the APA and the his liciencing group. You can leave a message on the MOE hotline.
If Mapes monitored anything via any electronic method including the interview without your expressed and written consent it is both a violation of PA law and against the APA code of ethics. I would not be surprised if he didn’t have his office wired to tape record these child custody evaluations.
If you review his written report iyou will find very long passages, often running 4-5 lines, that have quotes around them. This would indicate that it is a complete and verbatim statement you made during the interview.
Mapes is a 63 year old man, who likes to “drink matinies and smoke cigerettes”. It would not be too much of a stretch to assume that his memory is failing either by age or other circumstances. No way he could remember all that he puts in quotes and his chicken scratch notes are a complete mess.
He’s lazy professionally, and sure I think Mapes taped my interview as well without my consent or that of my children. It would not surprise me if he didn’t tape all of his interviews.
Is Dr Bruce Mapes practicing child custody evaluation from a scientific basis or is he just engaged in some form of junk science? Many suggest it is nothing but junk science.
excerpts from Family Court Review, April, 2009
Unfortunately, there is little scientific research on custody evaluations.
A substantial and important literature on custody evaluations does exist, but it is primarily directed at the performance or practice of evaluations. Much of this published work centers on the issue of best-practices standards for mental health professionals and tends to focus on micro, case-level issues related to how a responsible evaluator should conduct an assessment (Ackerman & Ackerman, 1996; American Psychological Association [APA], 1994; Bow & Quinnell, 2001; Gould, 2006; Martindale & Gould, 2004; Stahl, 1994).
There also is a research literature on the appropriateness and scientific validity of various psychological tests used in custody evaluations (Erard, 2007; Erickson, Lilienfield, & Vitacco, 2007a, b; Martindale & Gould, 2004; Quinnell & Bow, 2001). Addressing issues of measurement validity by identifying best practices and appropriate instruments is essential to all good science, but measurement validity is only the beginning. The scientific method also requires that testable hypotheses be formulated about the anticipated effects of practices such as custody evaluations and that these hypotheses be rigorously and empirically tested. Unfortunately, there is virtually no reported empirical research on custody evaluations that tests for hypothesized systemic effects. (Pruett, 2008).
Discouragingly, this assessment of the research on custody evaluations is not a new insight. Grisso (2005) indicates that “[t]he complaint that clinicians often exceed their scientific basis for child custody testimony was first heard about thirty years ago. . . .” Turket (2005) noted that, while custody evaluations are generally considered to be very important in processes related to resolving custody disputes, there is no research showing actual impact. Further, he notes that this assessment is unchanged from one based on his 1993 review of the same literature. Bala (2004) states the same overall conclusion: “This is not an area of professional practice that is guided by science, nor do many assessors engage in meaningful research to determine the validity of their individual analysis, predictions, or recommendations” and others have reached similar conclusions (Krauss & Sales, 2000; O’Donohue & Bradley, 1999). Because of the absence of rigorous scientific studies assessing the accuracy and impact of custody evaluations, it is not possible to determine whether custody evaluations have no overall effect, significant overall negative effects, significant overall positive effects, or some combination of positive and negative effects. This is distressing in light of the fact that courts consider the evaluations, often recognize evaluators as experts, and it is recommended that forensic child custody evaluations be scientifically informed (Gould & Martindale, 2007).
I am curious if there were follow up studies done in reference to the children who were subjected to custody evaluations in their past.
One these children turn into adults they should be able to go back and sue the courts and officers of the courts who placed them in harms way.
If a terrorist threatens the United states we put them away , if a parent threatens to hurt a child, the most vulnerable of our society, the courts hand them over to their terrorist. This does NOT make sense.
Like that 17 year old that fled to Florida, in her case both parents want to kill her…. and she has to “FIGHT’ to be kept safe? Does anyone see a problem with how things are for children?
We need a severe change in the way children are being treated in courts.
You’re not likening Bruce E. Mapes to a terrorist are you?
I will do some research on child custody evaluation outcomes. I’m sort of thinking that there is not much information out there about the long term impact. As noted above there is a general LACK of scientific data on these sort of evaluations. Its sort of a big black hole that these so call professionals want to keep secret. Remember were talking their meal ticket.
Perhaps Dr. Mapes could address this question. How about it Dr. Mapes?
Its sort of interesting that Mapes has not made a single comment to defend himself. I’m thinking he knows hes been caught with his hands in the cookie jar.
Lots of people have read this post and I’m sure that many lawyers are moving away from using this guy based on this post.
I made no correlation between Mapes and a terrorist.
But I believe that he can sleep at night completely free from guilt, even if he feels that he may be placing a child in a dangerous situation.
I believe that any person who instills fear in a child, by threats or harming them physically emotionally or mentally, are terrorists. The absolute worst type.
And when the victims are their own children, I see no difference between a parent who threatens a child, and a terrorist who threatens or attacks a country.
Mapes is just the enabler, I liken him to the Airport security guard who looks the other way.
Someone that we rely on to keep us safe, yet refuses to accept responsibility when his actions allow a perpetrator to get away with a crime.
Mape’s Custody Evaluation was based on lies, and while my ex does not have access to our daughter at the present time, his evaluation leaves open the door for week long visits in the future. And it was never amended after the physical altercation in front of two supervisors where she was left bruised for a week.
There is something VERY wrong in Chester County Family Court.
Everyone who has ever had a child custody evaluation completed by Bruce E. Mapes has complained that they only received 45 mins to 1 hour as part of the evaluation process. Hardly enough time understand the facts, let alone the biopsychosocial issues.
Whats interesting is that it discusses the “average time a competent psychologist spends on conducting a child custody evaluation.
The title of the article is Child Custody Evaluation Practices: A Survey of Experienced Professionals (Revisited). By Marc J. Ackerman, and Melissa C. Ackerman. They are prolific writers on child custody evaluations.
“The average child custody evaluation, with report writing, takes 26.4 hours, which is 7.6 hours greater than it was in Keilin and Bloom’s (1986) study. However, almost all of this difference comes from the increased
amount of time spent reviewing materials and report writing.”
OK lets review Mapes evaluation time. Im being overly generous:
2 adult visits @ 45 min each = 1.5
2 child visits @ 45 min each = 1.5
2 adult/child visits @ 45 min each = 1.5
Grand total of time Bruce E. Mapes spends in direct face to face contact with parents and children in a “Mapes style” child custody evaluation is less than 6 hours.
So lets be generous lets give him 2 hours to reviw records, 1 hour to score the MMPI and 3 hours to dictate the report. Thats 12 hours.
Seems like a far cry from the average of 26.4 hours. Is it any wonder that he makes mistakes, fill in the missing information with his own version, or frankly just makes things up?
There was not enough time to do a complete investigation , in my case.
I am certain that many people ,even Mapes may believe that as long as he is “keeping the family together” he is doing his job.
Keeping the family intact at all cost despite the fear and suicidal ideation of a child, is not only wrong, it is a placing the most vulnerable of our citizens in the hands of their perpetrators.
When will the children have the basic human right to live in peace? Or have a home without domestic violence?
There is a long history of Domestic violence with this guy, so why are they treating this as if we are dealing with a normal dad who misses his daughter?
For 6 LONG months they tried to reunify them. It did not work.
I drove her and forced her to go every week, and somehow he blames me for it not working.
Reunification therapy was a joke. All he did was scream and yell at her telling her how rotten I am and how my family is evil…. in front of the therapist. And when she would stand up for her family, he would blow up and yell at her, ultimately leaving a session to violate the PFA by coming outside to scream obscenities at me, within earshot of my daughter and the therapist.
Even still, supervised visits were in order, and by the 4th one he hurt her, leaving her bruised for a week.
CY&F said that he needs to break a bone for it to rise to the level of abuse.
I must say if it rises to that level, she would be dead, because he is unable to control himself. He wouldn’t stop.
CYF .. that is another story
There is no protocol to prevent violence, just to treat it once it has occurred.Placing victims in the hands of their pertpetrators, to “see what happens”. Sorry neither I nor my daughter are not going to be a part of some social experiment.
Do what you have to do, I will try to do what I can right now without compromising my case.
I had a chance to review my notes made immediately after my interview with Dr. Bruce E. Mapes. To my surprise (not really) I can only account for 20 (twenty) original questions he asked. The rest of the questions were in follow up to the original question or corrections to his original guestion. That number was in the neighborhood of 25 give of take. So in 50 or so questions spanning 52 mins Mapes is able to determine the best interest of my children.
Much of his questioning was just stupid rephrasing of the same closed ended questions.
Here is an example:
Have there been any changes in her routine? Answered NO
His very next question:
Is (child) getting up at about the same time?
Answered YES
Seems impossible that you can determining the best interest of two children with approximately 50 questions. My interview was eactly 52 mins long. On average that about 1 question (and response) per min.
With the rapid fire questioning is it any wonder her gets things all goofed up? During my interview he made many errors in his questions that lead me to beleive that he did not spend much time reviewing his records and causes me to question if he even could find the records.
When I told him the answer to one of his question was in the documents I submitted prior to the interview, He started paging through is records for a min ot two and then concluded: …well you know you can’t find anything when you need it…
He referred to my employer as that of my former spouse – Again phrased in a closed question format.
You work for the XYZ Group?
Answered NO. This again prompted him to tear through his records.
Your youngest goes to ABC School?
Answered NO. Again he had to tear through the record to get the correct information.
Way back in my very first undergraduate interviewing course we learned that you need to prepare for an interview. We also learned that if you ask closed ended questions you only going to get simple responses. Bruce Mapes clinical interviewing skills leaves a lot to be desired.
What Mapes does is worse than looking the other way (to follow your airport security guard anology). What he does is punch in to work and then professionally falls asleep.
GM, Here is a great article about domestic violence. It is the current state of the art in understanding family violence from a psychology point of view. There are many, many references. Bruce Mapes should have een aware of some of these articles and studies since family violence is a major issue in child custody related matters. ut they again if he’s on coast he’d not other to keep up with current research.
I think the entire system is shattered.
The courts make money off of people’s inability to make rational choices.
When you factor in the criminal conduct of some people ( which is unbelievably kept separate from family court) it can get WAY out of hand.
You have the “Court Whores”
making life and death decisions about children.
Normally, the best interest of the child would be two loving parents. BUT when one of these parents has in fact,INJURED a child during these court ordered supervised visits there is a BIG HUGE problem with this system as a whole.
Does anyone want to talk about Immersion Therapy? It is when a person has an irrational fear of something that CAN”T harm them. Like butterflies.. they are immersed in a room full of butterflies, until their fear subsides.
Do you know what they are proposing to do to my daughter? Place her in the hands of her perpetrator (her father) for one entire month. He has HURT her THREATENED her and yet this is what they are proposing to do to MY child..
She is NOT an EXPERIMENT!!!!
If ANYTHING happens to MY DAUGHTER I will personally hold the courts of CHESTER COUNTY responsible, including MAPES, HESS, LOMBARDI and whichever judge presides over the hearing.
She is all I have…I cannot have anymore children.. On the other hand her father can have as many more children as he wants. He has an adult daughter that he neglected as a child and tried to connect with for 3 months but now she wants NOTHING to do with him and she is afraid of him. Does anyone see a pattern here?
GM are you kidding me. No self respecting behavioral health professional would recommend immersion therapy in a situation where it is known that a person could in fact be harmed – i.e., physical harm or there is some basis in reality that this person is at risk of harm.
Ask yourself and any professional who recommends Immersion Theray if there is any research that demonstrates that this therapy works in stuations where there is a clear and present danger of REAL harm.
Ask if there is any peer reviewed research that shows that immersion therapy works in abuse situations with children/adults in abuse situations.
As parents we would be hauled in to court if we knowingly put our kids in harms way or exposing them to un-necessary risk.
Gm if you think I can lend support to case by impuning the integrity of mapes let me know. He has zero creditability and needs to be caught lying on the stand. MOE
dr mapes screwed over as well. gave me the same test in that downstairs room and said he would be back and he went to wawa. He to told me to leave the test booklet down there.Needless to say he gave me a bad report .He also asked me a seris of jepordey qustions to determine my memory. Ex like what temp does water boil, who wrote hamlet. This guy is a ….ing wacko
Hello AA, Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with Bruce E. Mapes, but most people do. He is a very crafty and sneaky manipulator of the truth whose only interest is getting more cases.
I am less concerned about the qustions he asked than the testing in the little room and leaving the completed test booklet in an unsecure room.
The questions he asked are not really about memory, but rather, your general fund of knowledge. These sort of questions comprise a SUBTEST on the Verbal IQ measure called Information. It is similar to “Trivial Pursuit,” this subtest measures fund of factual information. It is strongly influenced by culture. An American education and intact long-term memory will contribute to a higher score. Questions like: “Who discovered the NorthPole; What is the population of the United States. While this is a sub-test on a larger test it gives a general feel for the persons fund of knowledge. Should it be reported as a single item and used to make a case that some one is either smart or no so smart? If it was the only test used and reported as a test that determined general knowledge then this is what the professionals call a MISUSE or ABUSE of the testing and should be report to the state board of psychology. Their address is listed in elsewhere in this post.
The administration of the MMPI-2 in a copy room and instructions to leave your test score sheet in an unsecure location is considered to be poor practice but is also a potential ethical violation of test security, qnd will contibute to a violation of test protocal. This is a very serios matter when the test resuts are used in a court matter. Again if you think that Mapes violated his ethical obligations by way of licience or professional ethics, consider reporting him to the Commonwealth of PA Office of Professional Compliance or the American Psychological Association, Ethics Office. Issues related to how to file these complaints are listed in eariler posts.
By the way, check the date that your check was cashed. You’ll find it was cashed on the day of the evaluation and if your bank time stamps the check you’ll find it to be during the time he had to “run out” Is he interested in test security or getting his money?
The guy needs to be stopped. If you know of other that have been harmed by this so called “professional” please encourage them to make a post and also encourage them to file complaints. The more people that file complaints with the State Office of Professional Compliance the better chance someone will listen.
Ethical conduct is a very serious matter in these sort of evaluations since your under a court order. If Mapes can not carry out these evaluation in an ethical and unbiased way he should and must be held accountable by the Court that ordered his involvement. It is that simple – it is the LAW in this Commonwealth.
You may also consider filing a complaint against Mapes with the President Judge in Chester County. That person is ultimately responsible for the conduct of the court appointed experts in Chester County Court of Common Pleas. The more legimate concerns that are presented to the President Judge the better our chances of getting Mapes removed from the “expert” list.
Here is another area that any parent undergoing a child custory evaluation MUST be aware of.
A few years ago there were some changes made to the domestic relations rules that make it impossible for you to bring a complaint against a licienced psychologist (or other mental health professional) to the attention of of the Office of Professional Compliance during a child custody evaluation or 90 days following the pending matter.
If you feel that the evaluator is playing games, failing to keep up his ethical and professional responsibilities then the matter must be taken to the Court for intervention. You are unable to make a licience complaint against the professional until 90 days after the matter has been resolved.
You are in effect being denied access to the system that the State set up to protect you from unethical and unprofessional licienced professionals. This is an OUTRAGE. Is it any wonder the psychologists in this state supported this measure?
Do Judges know that they MUST step up and be the first line of defense when parents are suject to unethical or unprofessional conduct during a child custody matter. Do they want to get involved, do they even care?
These are important matters. If you have been harmed by a child custody evaluator, if what you said during the evaluation was twisted and turned beyond recognition, if you feel thay the evaluator has not complied with the exsting ethical and professional standards you MUST let the Judge know.
Its your right and it is their responsibilty to take action. Don’t wait until its too late – take action NOW.
Yes you are completely right in that regards. I had filed a complaint against an attorney who was spreading lies about me, saying that I was a drug addict to my daughter’s school secretary. Also that I did not supply them the correct PFA order that allows my daughter’s biological father access to her during school hours( which is a blatant lie) and could have given a violent man access to my daughter. Meanwhile he had violated the order 4 times in a three month period and they extended it another year. There was NOTHING unethical according to the Supreme Court of PA Disciplinary Board. these people oversee the conduct of lawyers in the entire state of Pennsylvania.
I am outraged, It’s time we get the media involved.
There is no other legal way to get the justice that all of these children deserve.
We need as many people as possible to join in. ALL PARENTS should be outraged. It could easily happen to you, your sister, brother, son or daughter. This is a community issue that must be addressed.
Wow..I have heard many rumors about Dr.Mapes also. I have just decided to go with him because I trust the Judges and Rose Anderson, they have been fair . Rose Anderson has been a Master for years, she should never leave that position, the kids in chester county need her, she truly cares about the child. You as the parent should be your childs advocate, Rose listens, to Mom and to Dad. She is very thorough, sharp and wise. She knows how to pull the truth out, she is very good at it. This is a gift as anyone can be a lawyer, not everyone is gifted at it. She hears both parents and tries to problem solve. I feel she should do all custody matters. Judge Reiley, Griffin and MacElree are very caring Judges about the children. I dont know who you are having problems with but get with one of these Judges and see how much they care for our childen, I trust them completly Remember,itis hard to accept that it is better for a child to see both parents no matter what. The courts know what they are doing.Im hopeful Dr.Mapes will make a good recomendation for my son,Ican only really trust God for the outcome.
Here is my advise, if you have a father or mother who is difficult, get with a counseling agency like Southeastern Pa, Counseling Services or Family Services. Co-Parenting I think the courts should make mandatory in every case where there is high levels of conflict and make the inflicter attend until every problem is corrected. Then if they will not correct the problems the court should enter a very detailed order. The person being difficult wilol learn or go broke doing so.
“Im hopeful Dr.Mapes will make a good recomendation for my son.”
After reading all of this your still hopeful that this “professional” will come up with a good recommendation? Good luck – this might be wishful thinking.
Ask that your attorney be present during the interview or seek a court reporter to transcribe the interview so that you can assure that what you say is accurately reported (and in the correct context).
Be on your toes, be alert, this professional can not be trusted. He sees things as he calls ‘em. Confabulation on his part will fill in the blanks and he’ll never correct any mis-infomation and will swear on the stand that thats how he sees things. That is if you get that far.
Being a trustworth communicator of information is not a strong suite.
Dr. Mapes is a hack, he charges $1800 to do an evaluation then meets with people for an hour and a half, also he on Chester County payroll and turns out a report full of errors and even misspelled several words including having my child’s name wrong at least 3 times. Say my ex spouse “Tends to present herself in a more positive light” also says that she seemed to have more of a plan, sounds like a contradiction. When most people do a report and it has errors you tend not to put much weight into it. My advice: from the parent that was “open and candid”, devise a story to paint the other parent as unfit, make false allegations, get people to lie for you and lie (don’t worry even if you are caught under oath doesn’t matter it’s family court in Chester County PA). These masters are a joke one master recommended a co-parenting counselor who after I brought up many issues about my ex-spouses parenting short comings made ridiculous comments including the following; My ex-spouse told my then 5 year old to lie to me “That’s okay because we had not discuss travel plans” so have a 5 year old lie for the parent? Also my ex-spouse was “Allowed” to take my 5 year old around her 45 year old pot head brother in law, “why would you have a problem with that pot heads are non violent; it’s illegal but they are non-violent”
I am confused and scared…It is in my court order that I use Dr. Mapes…my family therapist said it may be rumors unfortunatly for the doctor, I simply cannot take the chance…this person could make a decision that would be detrimental to my sons whole life. Does anyone know of any other evaluators that have a good reputation?
You should have a discussion with your attorney about your concerns. Tell your therapist to do more homework on Mapes.
Its not just rumor…facts are facts. If your therapist is a psychologist ask about admistration on the MMPI in unsupervised settings, ask if it is an ok thing to leave testimg materials (with your name on it) in an open and un secure area within 3 steps from an open door? Ask your therapist if its an okay thing to release medical information to the other side without your ok. Ask your therapist if its ok to make recommendations to terminate a parents rights based entirely on a review of records. Ask you therapist if its ok to suggest that a telephone conversation is sufficient to determine if a person has a mental illness, and then suggest that to the court that neither part has a mental health problem. Ask your therapist if its ok to engage in converations with the other sides attorney and deny it when confronted. Ask your therapist if its ok to use other professionals records as the entire basis of your clinical decision making.
Did he give you the MMPI? Did he leave you in the copy room to finish the test? Did he give you the instructions to leave the completeted test materials in the copy room? Did he tell you he had to step out? Did he state in his report that a “valid MMPI profile was obtained” by the MMPI?
I refused to leave my confidential MMPI answer sheet unattended while he “stepped out”. I took the MMPI answer sheet home with me. Funny thing – he made a report of the MMPI with pure BS.
You can’t report something you never had, now can you? Hack, I think its worse than that.
He included the MMPI even though you never gave it to him? He did leave me in the downstairs copy room and stepped out, someone else posted their check was deposited at the same time he stepped out. I’m not sure but I think the MMPI is the only thing that is impartial during this evaluation process. His testimony included a satement that was not included in his report. If the guy has been feeding off family court for years, maybe it’s time for new blood. I read another post that said a custody evaluation should take 26 hours, I doubt he spent a totoal of 10 including preparing this report. Taking emotion out of the situation which is impossiable I have several questions for him. If I write him a letter does he have to respond. I read 1 post that said he has done 700 to 800 custody evaluations, in court he said 200. The lawyers, judges and Dr. Mapes get their money reguardless of outcome. The children suffer.
Sounds like a turn bull shi* story to me. On the record he informed the court that he has completed about 700 to 800 of these evaluations. Its very clearly noted in the trial transcript that he has done 700 to 800 of these child custody evaluations. Guess telling the truth between cases does not really matter.
Clearly looks like a problem to me but then again I don’t make the determination whats truth verses just plain BS…thats up to our judges and DA to determine…
Is the MMPI impartial? Does it really have anything to do with you capacity to parent, to form a bond with your child. Not at all. Was a valid profile obtained? This is a very vital part of the test – if a valid profile was not obtained – one has to question why the results would be reported.
Are there specific norms in the MMPI-2 that address the specific parental capacity of say white males between the ages of 30 -45. The answer is a resounding NO. The MMPI was not designed or normed to assess parental capacity or ones ability to form a bond with their child. Thats what these evaluations are to look at and thats what Mapes says in his introductory letter.
Seems to me that it would be much more important to have a look see at the home the child will live in, what the conditions are in that home, mqke some specific observations of parent and child doing homework together or engaging in some form of activity. To this point one needs to ask Can someone with a “personality” be a fine parent. You bet they can – so the point here is what does the MMPI really report as related to parental capacity? NOT MUCH.
I still can’t get over the fact that his reasons for me not getting 50/50 custody or more visitation cantained in the report did not match his testimony. Then sying My ex had more of a plan after he questioned her honesty? Is this a contradiction or what. He did not at all question the bonds I have with my children. My ex wife paid his fees, unbiased?
More than likely this happens all the time. So Bruce Smith what are you going to do? Do you have the trial transcript – if he lied on the stand and it is reflected in the trial transcript that he lied under oath discuss your concerns with the DA or your attorney.
You can file a complaint with the Office of Professional Compliance around his compliance with his professional standards. Its a freeby to file. IF you are going to file a complaint it takes lots of time to work through the process. The PA Department of State web site is a good place to start. If the sort of claims you are making are violations of the professional standards it can cost him lots of $ to defend and perhaps his ability to practice.
This fellow need to retire or the County needs to remove him from the list of approved providers.
THIS IS TOO FUNNY. ARE THESE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS OR SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN. CHESTER COUNTY RANTS opened THIS MATURE email today, LET ME SAY AGAIN, MATURE RANT FROM THE NEW MATURE, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. MAN, I FEEL FOR WEST CHESTER KIDS……
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Exact post as emailed. My, wonder if West Chester Children know what a bong is???????? Parents you better wake up
Here is the email the new members sent…..below. Your tax dollars are really paying off.
Hitting the bong again? Care to produce proof of your allegations of rape – or are you projecting your own sick fantasy.
The voters in West Chester were wise to chose substance over your delusions.
ALL WE CAN SAY TO THE RANT AND EMAIL ABOVE IS WOWWWWWWW!
Am I missing something or doesn’t this school board have bigger fish to fry than commenting on Blog sites???? Again, WowWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
Parkesburgs Street During SnowStorm of 2009 December
Parkesburg, what are you thinking, glad I moved to civilization, and where my tax dollars are at least paying for what they are supposed to. Sorry, but there is no excuse, I felt like I was on back roads. I went through Parkesburg Knoll to get to my Mothers house, the roads were coated over with snow and ice. Why wasn’t this plowed, than cindered?????? We are talking about a little town here, not back roads in the middle of the country. I am sorry, but there is no excuse for this. This was the next day, no excuse, they were layers of ice, get your plows out when it storms, plow the roads, then salt them. There should never be layers of ice without salt in a small little area that is greatly traveled.
Tina formerly from Parkesburg, Mother Still There Paying Outrageous Taxes for What??????
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Chester County Rants is Back, Comment Moderation Off.
February 1, 2011 by chestercountyrants
We were off for awhile, and also shut comments down for everyone, and had to go through moderation, for one sikko !!! We didn’t care what they posted, but many others may have…Welcome Back
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