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10. This hobbling and hurting LT no longer has Lorenzo Neal to plow a path for him.

Indeed. Lost in the Great TBD crash was my stories about my next-door neighbor and his Rottweiler. Me and other neighbors contracted a lawyer, because he left it out day and night, growling, flashing teeth and threatening us and any passer-by. Handing him documents from the AKC and Rottie clubs fell on his 26-year-old macho ears - such organizations stating that that breed (and I am sure same for Pit Bulls, Akitas, Chows, and the like, mixed or not - that you never leave them unattended in a yard, you must construct a covered kennel so there is no possibility of escape, you muzzle them and walk them on a stout, 4 foot leash and so on...) He would wax poetic about his love of the breed - how he knew that his little doggie - "It's a good doggie" was his phrase - would never harm a soul - and what a knowledgable owner he was. Before our lawyer sent letters to the owner and his insurance company, his other next-door neighbor related his observation - dear doggie pinned his 2 year-old son on the ground in his 4-foot fenced back yard. It resented the attention paid to that infant. Never saw the dog again. But macho-boy sure was willing to put others at risk. And when something happens, you hear the familiar refrain "I had no idea it could do so much damage!" Right. He was yet another "tough guy with a manly dog". People occasionally pop off and do horrible physical harm. These dogs have been genetically modified through centuries to do just that. The best upbringing in the world can't insure that an animal's instincts will never take over. I recall hearing years ago, "Every dog is allowed one bite". The bites of a lab, a collie, a beagle, a mutt. They hurt. The bite of these and other like breeds, their mixes, crush bone, tear flesh and muscle, permanently disfigure, and kill. I guess the only bright side - if you could possibly call it that - is that something like 90% or more of these horrible attacks occur to the owners and their family members.

First, foremost, forever...Jerry's, on Chandler across form the old iron foundry. Long gone. Central Park Grill and Kelly's Korner - although the clientele has changed. I was friends with the now-deceased owners of both...Bob Sr. at the CPG, Marge and Bob at Kelly's...and now their children. The Whistle Pig in the old Kohler-Redden drug store building - long gone. The Kenmore Tavern - long gone. Nucherino's - gone. Volker's bowling alley. The M&E. Bailo's. Gone. Ace's Steak Pit - downtown nearby the Aud. Gone. The Pastime on Grant by Forest - good ole' Eddie Z. - last time I was there, son Bob (IIRC) was running it. The Pastime in Black Rock - Austin Street? Warren's in the City of Tonawanda...not the steak house. Military (?) by Fletcher. Gone? Wally Bobek's strip joint. Can't recall names - the "Mack The Knife" holes around IP in NT. A couple of the West Side after-hours mob joints.

Hamilton County, OH, tried to sue the B'gals over the very bad stadium deal the previous regime of County Commissioners worked out (1/2 % sales tax increase, bond issuance - refinanced twice so far btw). The suit - by a government entity directed at a team plying their business in a publicly-owned stadium - was to find out if owner Mike Brown falsely claimed financial hardship, his threats to move the team...the old story. And seek a renegotiation of the contract terms. It's a real sweetheart deal for Brown - he pays for the field, everything else is gratis, he has a guaranteed minimum gate, if a certain number of other stadiums get improvements (such as the RWS new jumbotron, more luxo-boxes), taxpayers have to foot the bill for Mikie to get the improvements, and so on. It would have been interesting - the NFL's lawyers fought very hard against the possibility of a team's disclosure. ""When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always twenty years behind the times." - This quote has been attributed to Mark Twain, but until the attribution can be verified, the quote should not be regarded as authentic." http://www.twainquotes.com/Cincinnati.html There's truth to that...a judge finally pointed out that the County's suit couldn't go forward because of Statute of Limitation. BTW - the big pusher for the deal, former County Commissioner Bob Bedinghaus, landed a rather nice-paying job as the B'gal's Director of Business Development...

Eh - the OL was surprisingly intact and but for a couple of weeks of Edwards, a rookie MLB, and a game and a half of Peters, they fared pretty well. The rest of the league, this week: http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/injuries

Simple Marxism 101. Denigrate the larger picture, denigrate what a citizen may say, by finding a captious detail to mount the attack upon.

I admire a man who steps up!

I have a retirement card from the IBEW - Niagara Mohawk. Worst move of my life - leaving NMP and going to grad school. Had I stayed, I would have been on their pension years ago, sitting on my porch along with the government employee pensioners, and the odd Section 8/Medicaid/free heat/free phone/free cable/free day care/free home food/free job training/free school lunch/free infant food/Earned Income Credit valuable citizen, guzzling beer, smoking ciggies, and yucking it up seeing who was tops at flinging boogers at the Obama/Biden sign planted in the lawn. Who we would support so that we can continue to fling boogers at everybody else ever and anon. I wouldn't even have to expend one hour out of one day out of one year to get off my butt and vote anymore - ACORN would show up and hand me an absentee ballot. How could I have been so dumb????

Hasn't King been on the Official TBD Partisan Hate List for a long time?

Not bad. That's a pretty light list going into week #7.

The phone companies take a cut for adding the 3rd party scammers to the billing. And the IBEW represents many phone company workers. That combination equals clout.

Going on several years now, one can contact their local phone company and instruct them to disallow any 3rd party from trying to attach charges to your billing. Sad to say, it's one of those odious "opt-out" (or is it an "opt-in"? - not sure) things, but once you make that call, it is ironclad. BTW, there is also is (a free) protection for those that don't care to pay for call block - the phone co. will not allow your home number to be transmitted on out-going calls - again, you have to inform them of that desire.

http://newsandsentinel.com/page/content.de.../id/508288.html

Baccala.

You're welcome. I ate poorly for many years - until it came back to bite me. The nutrition labels on foods are a godsend...take the time to understand them, what the recommendations are for fats, salt, protein, fiber, carbs, and the like, and one can easily have a nutritious, good-tasting diet. Here's one of my favorite resources - the Nutrition Data site. There's a lot of info and features, well worth taking time to go through it. http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/cereal-...nd-pasta/5710/2

Love the new avatar...

Amtrak schedules... http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServe.../Schedules_Page Greyhound schedules... http://www.greyhound.com/home/ AAA membership and Trip-tiks... http://www.aaaohio.com/

...launched one 6 months ago about the economic crisis? Could it be that they can't find a Republican to blame for the mess they created with their social engineering and pandering for votes?

I'm a big fan of Australian humor prose. Everybody should read Henry Lawson's 1901 short story, The Loaded Dog.

It would be child's play to cobble up a bracket to mount a side-by-side 12 gauge shotgun, with twine to yank the triggers. Strap 'em up well in a chair, and point the gun at his heart. Pull the strings, and to borrow a phrase from the Old Wild West when a rustler was strung up..."He was jerked to Jesus". Simple. Effective. Instantaneous.

Very nice avatar, WVU. Click on WVUFootball29's name..."View Member's Profile"... for the expanded view, folks.

peeve porridge hot?

Your eloquence, and your elocution skills are noted.

The big morning Cincy AM radio talk show host's ex-wife was from Buffalo. He attended 2 games at RWS, and the abuse heaped on him simply because he wasn't wearing the "colors" (he wasn't wearing the opponent colors) has made him rabid whenever the Bills come up in conversation. Not good.

In the short term, Buy some TSP (tri sodium phosphate) powder, mix per directions, and some 3M scrub sponges, and clean the surfaces. TSP is mildly irritating, so wear gloves and eye protection. It's not terribly harsh - it's a detergent. You can get it at grocery stores, Home Depot, Lowes, etc. 3 or 4 bucks max. In any event, that has to be done before re-painting. Have a pail of water to rinse the sponge, a step ladder to reach the ceiling, and paper towels to sop up. Figure on an hour to do the job. There are any assortment of powders or solutions to apply to the carpeting and then vacuum it up to clean them.