INQUIRER: In a statement, Grimes’ attorneys said she was “extremely remorseful,” but defended her lobbying work. “Any suggestion that Ms. Grimes engaged in any inappropriate, illegal or improper conduct with regard to her role as a lobbyist is incorrect and unfounded,” the statement said. Her lawyer, Richard L. Scheff of Philadelphia, declined further comment. Two FBI agents interviewed Grimes at her home in October 2006 and asked her about how she got into lobbying and her contacts with Weldon, according to the criminal information filed in Washington yesterday. At the end of the interview, they gave her subpoenas seeking records […]
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HEAR THE FAT LADY SING #2: Curt WelDONE To Admiral Sestak, ‘You And The Liberal Media Sunk My Battleship!’
Sestak unleashes turnout machine The Democrats’ strategy could rival the GOP’s success at organizing on behalf of U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon. By Todd Mason Inquirer Staff Writer A confident Joe Sestak is working on the final surprise in his startling bid for the Seventh Congressional District seat: a turnout machine to rival the Republicans’. “The polls show that we are at least seven [percentage] points ahead,” Sestak told volunteer poll workers Wednesday night attending one of three required training sessions. “But we’re working like we are eight points behind.” His opponent, U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.), isn’t conceding, even […]
Public Service Announcement: Admiral Sestak Sinks Weldon’s Swift Boat Before It Leaves Dock
Daily Kos: Scalping The Chicken Hawks Previously: Weldon Says Fed Probe Sticking Out Of His Rectum Was Put There By Sneaky Dems
Meltdown: Weldon Says Fed Probe Sticking Out Of His Rectum Was Shoved Up There By The Dems, Just Ask ‘Grumpy’ The Gym Guy
Ever since the FBI raided his daughter-the-lobbyist’s house in Queen Village last Monday as part of Justice Department influence-peddling investigation, U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) has been blaming everyone — Joe Sestak, Bill Clinton, Hilary Clinton, The Unstoppable Liberal Media — everyone that is except, well, Curt Weldon. If Mr. Weldon got his tit caught in a wringer, to borrow an old chestnut from the last season of cataclysmic Republican scandal, he has only himself to blame. And if he hopes to generate sympathy and throw himself on the mercy of the voters — which is about the only viable […]
BREAKING: FBI Raids Curt Weldon’s Daughter’s House In Queen Village
FBI agents investigating U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.) conducted six raids this morning – including at the homes of his daughter and a longtime friend. In all, agents executed four search warrants in Philadelphia and two in Jacksonville, Fla., officials said. In Center City, agents searched the law office of John Gallagher, a Weldon friend who has done extensive business in Russia and former Soviet Republics. In Media, Pa., agents searched the offices of public relations firm formed by Weldon’s longtime friend Charles P. Sexton Jr., and the congressman’s daughter, Karen. Sexton and Karen Weldon formed Solutions North America, […]
RIP: JJ Cale, Songwriter’s Songwriter, Dead @ 74
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: J.J. Cale, the songwriter behind the Eric Clapton classics “Cocaine” and “After Midnight,” died Friday at the age of 74. Born John Weldon Cale in 1938 in Oklahoma City, Okla., the Grammy winner was an originator of the “Tulsa Sound,” a loose genre drawing on blues, rockabilly, country and jazz influences. His career saw him release 14 albums and his songs have been covered by acts including Johnny Cash, Santana, Tom Petty, Waylon Jennings and Captain Beefheart. His biggest U.S. hit single, “Crazy Mama,” peaked at No. 22 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1972. MORE
CINEMA: I Was A Teenage Gorehound
BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Slaughter Tales — a feature-length horror movie written/directed by/starring a then-fourteen-year-old South Philly filmmaker Johnny Dickie — changed the way I look at movies. Let me explain: In the mid-1980s, during the rise of the video store, a film lover would be giddy about the freshly-bloomed reality of being able to watch films you would never see on TV or at your local theaters. I was in college studying film at the time, so it was an opportunity to see for the first time classics from Fritz Lang, Buster Keaton and Stanley Kubrick. Being […]
WORTH REPEATING: The Devil And Old Saint Nick
Illustration by JAY BEVENOUR EDITOR’S NOTE: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds play the sold out Keswick Theater tonight. Let There Be Light By Jonathan Valania [via MAGNET, circa September 2001] He was born like this, he had no choice. Nick Cave was born with the gift of a golden voice. He asked Leonard Cohen, “How lonely does it get?” Leonard Cohen hasn’t answered yet. But Nick Cave hears him coughing all night long, a couple floors above him in the Tower Of Song. In the beginning, there was the Birthday Party. And it was good. Rock ‘n’ roll as […]
JUDAS PRIEST: Parents Tape Daughter & Priest Having Sex, Sue Church For Getting Her Pregnant
ASSOCIATED PRESS: A Pennsylvania couple secretly videotaped a Roman Catholic priest having sex with their then-17-year-old daughter in the basement of their home and are now suing, saying he got her pregnant. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Berks County Court, alleges that the Rev. Luis A. Bonilla Margarito carried on a sexual relationship with the teen while he was the chaplain of Reading Central Catholic High School and she was a senior there. The girl’s parents became suspicious and installed a camera in their basement, where Bonilla and the teen were spending large amounts of time. The camera recorded the […]
200 YEARS AFTER THE BIRTH OF DARWIN: You Still Gotta Fight To Live On The Planet Of The Apes
DAILY MAIL: On the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, professors at Southern Oregon University will devote the week to emphasizing that evolution is more than a theory — it’s hard science.”It’s theory and it’s fact. You can say it’s ‘just a theory’ like the theory that the earth goes around the sun,” says biology professor Charles Weldon, lead speaker of Darwin Week. “In science, a theory is not speculation. It’s supported by mountains of evidence. It’s one of the best supported theories in science.” A century and a half after publication of Darwin’s “On the Origin of […]
WAR PIG: Disgraced GOP Congressman Named Military-Industrial Complex Executive
BY BONNIE L. COOK Inquirer Staff Writer — Former U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon has been named chief strategic officer for Defense Solutions, an Exton-based company specializing in military services and sales, a company official said yesterday. Chief executive officer Tim Ringgold said Weldon, a 10-term Republican congressman from Delaware County, would help lead the firm’s “growing defense and homeland security practice areas.” “Curt Weldon knows how our Armed Forces and emergency response communities work and what they need,” Ringgold, a retired Army colonel, said in a statement. Weldon lost his seat in November to Democrat Joe Sestak after the FBI […]
George Allen Reaches Out To Black People
Latest Rasmussen Poll: Senator Macaca In Deep Doo-Doo Washington Post: Allen Goon Squad Pummels Heckler, Candidate Still Has Not Answered Heckler’s Question, ‘Sir, Is It True You Spit On Your First Wife?’ News 8: Heckler Pressing Assault Charges, Authorities Investigating National Review Online: The Backstory Related: GOP To Weldon, That Fork Sticking Out Of Your Ass Says Yer DONE [AP]