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UFC October - If GSP loses he gets booked to fight Khabib
Last month's thread is here. Thanks to kensei for getting the thread up so that we could leave behind the drudgery that was the UFC in August. Seriously, a single loving Fight Night? What the gently caress man.
September kicked off with UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Struve from Rotterdam in the Netherlands, on the 2nd of the month. This was a take-it-or-leave-it card, with the main event seeing Stefan Struve continue to fail to capitalise on his insane physical advantages of reach and height to actually win fights. Alexander Volkov got the better of him and took the fight as a TKO in the third round. The card featured a large number of local fighters with some decent highlights including Mairbek Taisumov knocking out Felipe Silva in a minute and and half.
UFC 215 was next, coming from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on the 9th. With the main event originally planned to be Demetrious Johnson defending his Flyweight championship against Ray Borg, the latter was forced to withdraw from the event due to illness two days beforehand. Borg tok serious pains to make sure everyone knew his withdrawing from the fight had NOTHING AT ALL (wink) TO DO WITH HIS WEIGHT CUT (wink) AND HE WOULD BE FINE (wink) AND THAT FIRING HIS NUTRITIONIST WAS COMPLETELY UNRELATED (wink). Another fight that was cancelled for actual legitimate reasons was Junior dos Santos taking on Francis Ngannou. dos Santos tested positive to a banned diuretic and the fight was cancelled, with Ngannou set to take on Alistair Overeem later this year. One fight that was rescheduled for this event and actually took place was Amanda Nunes vs. Valentina Shevchenko for the Woman's Bantamweight title. Nunes saw off the challenger in an incredibly close, enjoyable match by split decision. Other matches included a revitalised Henry Cejudo seeing off Wilson Reis in a little over a round by TKO, and Rafael dos Anjos continuing his winning ways at Welterweight with an arm-triangle choke victory over perennial contender Neil Magny.
The 16th of September brought us back to Pennsylvania, with UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Branch. The main event saw Luke Rockhold getting back into the winning ledger with a 2nd-round win over David Branch. Rockhold was briefly swarmed earlier in the first round, and many observers considered that if was against someone with a real striking discipline he would have been less lucky. Earlier on the main card, Gregor Gillespie submitted Jason Gonzalez by arm-triangle choke in the second, with the entire fight up to that point being a must-see. On the undercard, another excellent performance saw Uriah Hall take a serious 10-8 beating from Krzysztof Jotko in the first, surviving vicious ground and pound and a solid rear-naked choke attempt, and come back in the second to knock Jotko out with a savage right cross.
Rounding out the month, we headed to the Saitama Super Arena in Japan for UFC Fight Night: Saint Preux vs. Okami on the 23rd. The main event was originally slated for Ovince Saint Preux to take on Maurício Rua, but when the former injured his knee in training, Yushin Okami stepped up on a week's notice. The result of that fight was essentially set in stone at that point, with a large Light Heavyweight taking on a man who had his best success at Welterweight. OSP took the Von Flue choke victory at 1:50 of the first round, with this match having the dubious distinction of being the only main event in UFC history to feature zero combined significant strike attempts. The co-main was an absolute mauling with Jéssica Andrade beating the tar out of Cláudia Gadelha in a surprisingly one-sided affair - one judge went so far to score the match 30-25 (10-9, 10-8, 10-8). This event also saw the UFC debut of much-lauded kickboxer Gokhan Saki, with the Turk taking out Henrique de Silva in under a round with a vicious left hook.
UFC events in October
This month brings us three events, with the only Pay-Per-View kicking us off on the 7th.
UFC 216 finally features some action in the Lightweight title picture. Tony Ferguson is riding a nine-fight win streak and an excellent level of trash-talking to his rightful place in any 155-pound title match. Kevin Lee is on a five-win streak, and is looking to capitalise on his own trash-talking and high-level choke game to garner UFC gold. The main prize in this match, of course, is the Conor McGregor Lottery Ticket the winner might get to cash sometime in 2018 with a main event against the biggest MMA draw of all time. I say might because Mystic Mac might decide he's going to take on Rafael Nadal on a clay court on Showtime for $90 a pop next instead of coming back to the UFC. Only time will tell on that one. UFC 216 also brings us the rescheduled Flyweight championship match between Demetrious Johnson and Ray Borg. Time will tell again whether or not this match will go ahead. Fabricio Werdum is a pretty poo poo human being but decent at fighting, so it remains to be seen if Derrick Lewis is actually good or just mostly-less-bad than his recent opponents when the two Heavyweights meet. We can also expect Tom "Fire Kid" Duquesnoy to continue his winning, elbowing ways against Cody Stamman at Featherweight.
The 21st sees the UFC heading to Poland for UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Till. Apart from the main event with Donald Cerrone taking on Darren Till, and Karolina Kowalkiewicz vs. Jodie "robbed on TUF" Esquibel, this is another card that is light on star power. Artem Lobov is on it, I guess?
A Brazilian card on the 28th rounds out the month, with UFC Fight Night: Machida vs. Brunson coming to us from São Paulo. Lyoto Machida hasn't fought in over two years, and should probably retire, but for a tune-up fight Derek Brunson probably isn't too bad. Demian Maia comes off his tepid decision loss to Tyron Woodley to take on tepid human being Colby Covington at Welterweight in the co-main.
UFC News
September saw us continue to deal with the fallout of Mr. Jones' Wild Ride. The 13th of the month saw the B-sample test positive for Turinabol as well, surprising no-one. The California State Athletic Commission overturned the result of the July 29th fight to a No Contest, and as the result the UFC stripped Jones of the Light Heavyweight title and return it to Daniel Cormier. Jones' hearing date has yet to be set, and anything you've read about his penalty is pure speculation at this point.
As a personal aside, I was quoted in many places as saying I thought that Jones would never fight in the UFC again after he was pulled from UFC 200. I will happily admit I was wrong about that, because fighting again and then testing positive to Soviet-Era East German Swim Team steroids is the infinitely more entertaining scenario.
Jesse "JT Money" Taylor was also hit with a USADA violation because in addition to being the best MMA timeline this one is also the worst.
Matt Brown announced that his fight againt Diego Sanchez on the 1st of November would be his retirement fight. After being brutalised by Jake Ellenberger and Donald Cerrone in his last two fights, that seems to make a ton of sense.
The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion continues apace, with 16 veterans competing for the new UFC Womens' Flyweight championship. In the early running, Roxanne Modaferri has emerged as a decent favourite to take the tournament. Five of the eight first-round matches have been decided at this stage, with the final scheduled for December 1st.
Fabricio Werdum continues to be a poo poo-tier human being, with homophobic slurs coming out of his mouth at the drop of a hat and then non-apologies after being called for it. I personally don't think The Black Beast (confirmed excellent person after his work in the recent Houston flooding disaster) will win that fight but I sure hope he does.
Your Current Champions
Men's Heavyweight Champion - Stipe Miocic (19-2)
Stipe Miocic won the Heavyweight title in May of 2016, stopping Fabricio Verdum in front of his countrymen in a single round. He backed this feat up with another first-round stoppage of the most decorated Heavyweight of all time, Alistair Overeem, in Miocic's home town of Cleveland in September. It was considered that the winner of the fight between Werdum and Cain Velasquez at UFC 207, a rematch of the fight where Werdum took Velasquez' belt from him in 2015, would be Miocic's next opponent, but Velasquez was forced out of this bout with yet another leg injury. Miocic defended his title in May 2017, with yet another first round KO of his opponent, making Junior dos Santos his second scalp as champion and equalling the all-time title defenses record. No current opponent is announced, with Miocic hung up in contract negotiations with the UFC, but a superfight with Jon Jones was being discussed before the latter tested positive for retardistry.
Men's Light Heavyweight Champion - Daniel Cormier (19-1-1)
Daniel Cormier won the belt initially in May of 2015 against the heavy-hitting Anthony Johnson by rear-naked choke in the third round. Cormier defended his belt against Alexander Gustaffson in October of 2015 in a split decision. A planned rematch against Jon Jones was scheduled for UFC 200, which was called off after Jones tested positive for banned substances. Cormier went on to fight Anderson Silva in a non-title bout on three days' notice. Cormier was slated to fight Anthony Johnson in a rematch for the belt in December, a match which did not took place due to Cormier suffering a groin adductor injury. The bout took place at UFC 210 in April, with Cormier defending the belt in under two rounds and Johnson riding off into the sunset with a surprise retirement. The rematch against Jon Jones finally took place at UFC 215 and Jones managed to keep his poo poo together for a grand total of 24 days. Then he tested positive for steroids and had the fight result overturned and the title stripped, and it is now back around the waist of Cool MMA Dad Daniel Cormier.
Men's Middleweight Champion - Michael Bisping (37-7)
Bisping had a fairytale year in 2016, first of all beating the greatest MMA striker of all time Anderson Silva in front of his hometown crowd of Manchester in February. Then, on 17 days notice, he stepped up to fight Luke Rockhold for the Middleweight Championship in June at UFC 199. Bisping joked about not having the regular time to get his cardio ready, meaning he would have to knock Rockhold out in the first round. Against the expectations of everyone everwhere, including his own son, he did exactly that. He capped off his year with a successful defense against Dan Henderson, putting the ghosts of UFC 100 to rest. A defense against Yoel Romero was initially slated, which was then changed to a match against a returning George St. Pierre, with both bouts put on hold due to Bisping suffering a knee injury in May. The GSP fight is currently booked for UFC 217 in New York in November.
Men's Interim Middleweight Champion - Robert Whittaker (19-4)
Whittaker rode a seven-fight winning streak, including shutting down the deadly takedowns of Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza to slot himself into an Interim Middleweight championship match against Yoel "Soldier of God" Romero. The canny Australian showed incredible heart in taking it to the Cuban Olympic silver medalist over five rounds, and even with a severe knee injury coming in the first he managed to outpoint his opponent to take the unanimous decision. Logic dictates that Whittaker face Michael Bisping for the undisputed championship next, but with George St. Pierre coming back for that match, and Whittaker needing several months off with his injured knee, his future is cloudy at this stage.
Men's Welterweight Champion - Tyron Woodley (17-3-1)
Woodley was promised a title shot against the Welterweight champion 17 months before the fight took place. After Robbie Lawler put in Fight Of The Year performances against Rory MacDonald in July 2015 and Carlos Condit in January 2016, Woodley went into their fight in July of 2016 as a significant underdog. This meant nothing, with Lawler going down to strikes in the first round. Woodley defended his belt against Stephen "Wonderboy" Thompson, putting on an incredible fight that ended in a majority draw at UFC 205 in New York in November 2016. A rematch for this fight was held in March month at UFC 209, with Woodley again the winner in a stilted affair. He defended the title again at UFC 214 in late July 2017 against Demian Maia, following a conservative but sharp gameplan that saw him stop all 22 of the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu ace's takedown attempts. No future contender is announced at this stage.
Men's Lightweight Champion - Conor McGregor (0-1)
McGregor (right) is seen here doing what he does best - making a fuckton of money. Who knows if or when he'll actually defend a belt in the UFC. Any belt. His loving trouser belt.
Men's Featherweight Champion - Max Holloway (18-3)
Holloway put together a 9-fight win streak, with several Performance of the Night bonuses, before answering the call to contend for the Interim Featherweight Championship at UFC 206 in December 2016. Taking out Anthony Pettis with a body kick and punches late in the third round, he has set himself up for a unification bout against Jose Aldo at UFC 212. At that event in early June 2017, he defeated Aldo in the third round with focused ground and pound, and unified the belts. No opponent is currently announced but there have been rumours that Frankie Edgar will have his chance next.
Men's Bantamweight Champion - Cody Garbrandt (11-0)
After amassing a professional record of 5-0 in the minor leagues, Garbrandt was able to parley this into a UFC contract in January 2015. He then went on to win 5 fights in a row in the UFC, including going from unranked at Bantamweight at the start of 2016 into championship contention at the end. He took on Dominick Cruz for the title at UFC 207 in late December, and in contrast to analysis from a variety of sources, took out Cruz in a unanimous decision. Garbrandt was scheduled to take on TJ Dillashaw at UFC 213 in July, to cap off the current season of The Ultimate Fighter, which has now been cancelled due to a back injury sustained by the champion. That fight is currently slated for UFC 217 in November.
Men's Flyweight Champion - Demetrious Johnson (26-2-1)
After winning the Flyweight Championship in September 2012 in a split decision against Joseph Benevidez, Johnson has amassed a 10-fight streak against the best that the division has had to offer. He has been so dominant that the UFC held an entire Ultimate Figher tournament to find his next challenger. The culmination of this was that Tim Elliott came back out of the MMA wilderness to lose a competitive match against Johnson in early December 2016. Johnson easily defended his title against Wilson Reis in April, tying the all-time title defense record held by Anderson Silva. His next was scheduled to take place at UFC 215, with Ray Borg the chosen recipient of a life-altering mauling, but Borg pulled out with an unspecified illness. This match has been re-scheduled for UFC 216 on the 7th of October.
Women's Featherweight Champion - Cristiana Justino (18–1 (1))
With the vacating of this championship by Germaine de Randamie in May 2017, a match was set up for UFC 214 between Justino and Megan Anderson. Anderson pulled out of the fight in late June, and was replaced by current Invicta FC Bantamweight Champion Tonya Evinger. The significantly larger figher on the day, Justino dominated a one-sided affair and won the fight in the third round with brutal knee strikes.
Women's Bantamweight Champion - Amanda Nunes (14-4)
Nunes headlined UFC 200 in July of 2016, putting a vicious beating on Miesha Tate and securing a rear-nake choke victory in a little over three minutes. She backed this up with a brutal 48-second TKO victory against former Women's Bantamweight Champion and WMMA pioneer Rounda Rousey in late December 2016. Nunes was slated to take on Valentina Shevchenko in a rematch of their March 2016 fight, with that match being moved to UFC 215 last month. Nunes retained by a razor-thin split decision, and no future contender is announced at this stage.
Women's Strawweight Champion - Joanna Jędrzejczyk (13-0)
After winning the Women's Strawweight Championship against the one-dimensional Carla Esparza in March 2015, Jędrzejczyk has defended her title five times. Most recent of these was against Jessica Andrade at UFC 211 in May 2016. She is scheduled to defend the belt at UFC 217 in November against Rose Namajunas.
Other poo poo
Thanks very much to LobsterMobster for putting together the awards thread for last year:
2016 Rowdy Ringsports MMA Awards - RESULTS THREAD!.
Thanks also go to LobsterMobster for putting together both iterations of the UFC Fightpass Thread
UFC Fight Pass Playlists and Collections
The NEW UFC Fight Pass Collection Thread
Go to the MMA's Best and Worst of the Year, 2017 thread administered by Fentry to keep up with what has been considered by your fellow PSP-MMA posters as the best (and worst) of the UFC.
Shout out to DumbWhiteGuy for providing details for the MMA IRC channel.
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Join your fellow MMA fans in discussing all things MMA in a place probably secure against nuclear armageddon - IRC has been around for so long I'm not convinced anything could kill it.
More thanks go out to Unfunny Poster for putting together a new UFC Fight Pass Thread - Earning Your 3rd Degree Blackbelt In MMA Posting. This thread is being updated approximately every week with information on new and upcoming additions to the streaming service, and is good for general banter about old fights. October's UFC Fight Pass Match of the Month is my personal favourite Flyweight championship match between Demetrious Johnson and John Moraga. As described by our own Bluedeanie
it looked like that one Call of Duty glitch where you fly across the whole entire map to knife kill somebody but for a 24-minute fight
As usual, let me know where I hosed something up, and you too could win the No-Prize!
Memento fucked around with this message at Oct 2, 2017 around 04:44
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|# ? Sep 23, 2019 13:26
I enjoy Conor's record.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 00:32
Conor owns
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 00:39
I am so glad Daniel Cormier defeated Jon Jones in their rematch to retain his title, I always believed in him and knew he could do it and he proved me right
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 01:13
you are way too nice to Tyron in this op
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 03:02
gently caress Tyron Woodley
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 03:02
Imagine being such a powerful fuckup that just by being near you other people get hosed up to. Fat Sad Dad Dan Cormier will forever be a fat sad joke.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 03:07
Bundt Cake needs to defend his assertion that LHW was once good and that 205 nostalgia is not just the product of once having an entertaining champion plus a handful of "name" guys who got famous knocking out tiny Japanese pro wrestlers
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 03:09
Byolante posted:
Imagine being such a powerful fuckup that just by being near you other people get hosed up to. Fat Sad Dad Dan Cormier will forever be a fat sad joke.
�Gay Horney�" post="�476933026� posted:
gently caress Tyron Woodley
nice terrible posts so far great job fellas keep it up!
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 03:12
�Byolante�" post="�476933153� posted:
Imagine being such a powerful fuckup that just by being near you other people get hosed up to. Fat Sad Dad Dan Cormier will forever be a fat sad joke.
He's pretty good
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 03:13
Cormier is really good
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 03:19
Speaking of second best is Joseph Benavidez still dead?
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 03:29
Cormier rules, he just has the unfortunate luck of having a career rival who is arguably one of the best ever. Also the fortunate luck of that career rival being an unparalleled gently caress-up who is incapable of going a month without ruining his own life.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 03:55
Fat Twitter Man posted:
Cormier is really good
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 04:05
october is gomi remembrance month in honor of his great career and win streak
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 04:14
Jerusalem posted:
Cormier rules, he just has the unfortunate luck of having a career rival who is arguably one of the best ever. Also the fortunate luck of that career rival being an unparalleled gently caress-up who is incapable of going a month without ruining his own life.
I have a giant cock Joe.
Oww, I can't believe I stepped on it again.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 04:27
Cormier is pretty good for a 50 year old man on steroids. Worse than Jon Jones though.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 05:20
UFC is worse than esports and I'm not ashamed to say it.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 05:21
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 05:48
Fat Twitter Man posted:
Bundt Cake needs to defend his assertion that LHW was once good and that 205 nostalgia is not just the product of once having an entertaining champion plus a handful of "name" guys who got famous knocking out tiny Japanese pro wrestlers
205 was once 'the marquee division'
Just because it kind of sucks now that Jones is dead and Cormier is 50 years old doesn't mean it was always poo poo. Machida vs Shogun dude!
I'm sure there were other good fights
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 06:05
Work Friend Keven posted:
Cormier is pretty good for a 50 year old man on steroids. Worse than Jon Jones though.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 06:06
Work Friend Keven posted:
UFC is worse than esports and I'm not ashamed to say it.
I spent more time in the last month watching the MDI than I have the last 5 years of MMA combined, this checks out.
edit: how long is there going to be an actual slur in the thread title, is that yet another jokey-joke
Ad by Khad fucked around with this message at Oct 1, 2017 around 07:01
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 06:55
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 07:19
Ad by Khad posted:
edit: how long is there going to be an actual slur in the thread title, is that yet another jokey-joke
handsome only face posted:
werdum getting more crazy the closer he gets to fighting lewis
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 07:23
I've seen the Werdum thing, yeah. I wouldn't have even known what the word meant otherwise.
I've also seen the OP call Werdum a poo poo-tier human being, which is nice.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 07:33
Jerusalem posted:
Lol you're a mod
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 07:46
just as the ufc is embarrassed of werdum's usage of the word, but not embarrassed enough to stop employing him, we all know that word is illegal and yet here we are supporting a sport with such backwards representatives! crazy! but hey let's just make a song and dance about the bad word, especially because of the, uh, zero people here that approved of its usage in it's actual context.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 07:56
God Bless This, Our Gay Sport.
Memento fucked around with this message at Oct 1, 2017 around 09:17
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 07:56
Cyborg looks a lot like de Randamie in this photo.
Memento posted:
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 07:57
just leave it who cares if they have to read a mean word
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 07:58
I think it's fine, personally - there's obviously no negative connotation intended and it connects to the upcoming PPV since two of the guys on that card got into a verbal altercation. I doubt anybody has an actual problem with it and if they do they can report it or PM me about it and we can talk about it there rather than in this thread, which should be about more important things like what kind of trash Dana White is gonna throw at Demetrious Johnson during his walk-in.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 08:02
Jerusalem posted:
what kind of trash Dana White is gonna throw at Demetrious Johnson during his walk-in.
Bottles, but those tiny ones like they serve liquor in on airplanes.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 08:28
big money big clit posted:
Bottles, but those tiny ones like they serve liquor in on airplanes.
Dana: You know what the difference between this bottle and your fights is, Johnson? If they didn't give this stuff away for free I'd probably still buy it!
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 08:35
Jerusalem posted:
Dana: You know what the difference between this bottle and your fights is, Johnson? If they didn't give this stuff away for free I'd probably still buy it!
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 08:41
Princess posted:
Cyborg looks a lot like de Randamie in this photo.
I gave it exactly the level of attention to detail W145 deserves.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 09:12
As much as we joke about 205 being terrible, W145 is literally two people. One of whom has never fought in the UFC.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 11:11
The Conor and Cyborg division championships have a long and storied history and I can't believe anyone would besmirch the reputation of the UFC's Conor McGregor or Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino divisions.
It's actually insulting that they've decided to change the Bisping division back into the Middleweight division to let GSP have a fight.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 12:18
That McGregor salt is delicious.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 13:08
" The rematch against Jon Jones finally took place at UFC 215 and Jones managed to keep his poo poo together for a grand total of 24 days. "
Objection, because 24 days was the positive test he kept his poo poo together for literally zero days, just it took a few weeks to catch up with his doped up rear end.
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 13:26
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Fat Twitter Man posted:
Bundt Cake needs to defend his assertion that LHW was once good and that 205 nostalgia is not just the product of once having an entertaining champion plus a handful of "name" guys who got famous knocking out tiny Japanese pro wrestlers
my first point would be that the guys from the last couple generations never got beat out of the division they just got old and their bodies broke. no new wave of fighters beat them until they washed out. only cormier, jones, and gustaffson seemed to separate themselves as having that talent level. cormiers just as old tho haha
|# ? Oct 1, 2017 14:44


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Obama hits Ryan, Romney on traffic
President Barack Obama managed to both flex his executive power and bring the sleepy issue of road and bridge repair to the campaign trail Monday, launching a radio ad in Virginia and putting four infrastructure projects on the fast track.
The radio spot, which marks the most high-profile indication that transportation is ready for prime time after months of presidential campaign afterthought, criticizes Mitt Romney for endorsing running mate Rep. Paul Ryan's policies. And the project announcements were the latest of the administration's "We Can't Wait" initiatives.
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The 60-second radio bit imitates a local traffic report and targets congested routes oft-cursed by northern Virginians: Interstates 395 and 66. The area is part of the sprawling D.C. region and consistently rated as having some of the nation's worst traffic.
"Could things get any worse?" the faux anchor asks of another broadcaster, who replies, "Paul Ryan put forward a budget plan that slashes investments in road and infrastructure projects." The two then agree that the Ryan's "budget plan devastates infrastructure and roads projects."
The ad also highlights the House Budget chairman's opposition to "bridge repair and safety bills," referring to votes against a bridge repair bill written in the aftermath of the 2007 I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis, the 2009 stimulus package and a 2011 appropriations bill written by Democrats.
The ad ends by saying that Romney's pick of Ryan sends a message:
"Mitt Romney doesn't understand northern Virginia."
An aide for the Romney campaign shot back that Ryan's budget proposal sticks up for defense spending, a key driver of economic growth in northern Virginia's affluent D.C. suburbs. Sequestration threatens hundreds of billions in defense and discretionary funds that will hit in January if Congress cannot avert them.
"I-66 and 395 will be a lot less crowded if President Obama's crippling defense cuts hit northern Virginia. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have a plan to replace those irresponsible cuts," the aide said.
Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Democrat who represents a large swath of northern Virginia, said Monday that Ryan's proposal to cut transportation funds to within gas tax receipts is something that "runs counter to the priorities of my local business community."
But former Republican Rep. Tom Davis, who used to hold Connolly's seat, said connecting Ryan's budget to northern Virginia's traffic is a "huge, huge stretch." Davis said in an interview that Obama would be better off working on a way to alleviate rising Dulles Toll Road fees used to fund a Virginia Metro extension rather than put out an ad that he said displays "zero credibility."
"The first casualty in this campaign has been the truth. The Ryan budget doesn't do anything" to negatively affect the region's highways, Davis said, asking rhetorically of the administration's infrastructure efforts in his home state, "Where've they been?"
The Romney campaign broke a months-long silence on transportation issues in response to POLITICO's request for a response to the ad, embracing a popular GOP attack on Obama's stimulus spending. As a piece of the $787 billion recovery bill passed in 2009 by a Democratic-controlled Congress and under the direction of Obama, about 8 percent or $64 billion was dedicated to transportation projects.
"President Obama learned the hard way that projects are not 'shovel-ready' when overregulation and special interests stand in the way of new infrastructure development," said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for the Romney campaign. "Unfortunately, the president is responsible for that overregulation and beholden to those special interests, and he wasted hundreds of billions of stimulus dollars on projects that did nothing to improve America's infrastructure."

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Eighteen years ago, Donnie and Kathy Wilson purchased 40 acres in Perry County. The Uniontown natives said they wanted to get away from the town, live a quiet life in the country and farm catfish. But now, Uniontown is constructing a "spray field," a method of disposing of treated wastewater by spraying it on a land surface, on 49 acres next to the Wilsons' catfish farm.
Eighteen years ago, Donnie and Kathy Wilson purchased 40 acres in Perry County. The Uniontown natives said they wanted to get away from the town, live a quiet life in the country and farm catfish.
But now, Uniontown is constructing a "spray field," a method of disposing of treated wastewater by spraying it on a land surface, on 49 acres next to the Wilsons' catfish farm.
The Wilsons' 27-acre catfish pond — filled with about $70,000 in catfish — is fed by a drainage ditch that goes directly through the spray field site. They are worried that if the new spray field is over capacity or leaks, like Uniontown's current spray field, it could be disastrous for them.
"The problem I see is, even if they treat this (sewage), there are still chemicals in it and chemicals and fish don't mix," Kathy Wilson said. "It will kill those fish."
Other nearby Uniontown residents are also upset, clamoring for the attention of the Uniontown City Council and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Ben Eaton, who lives down the road from the proposed spray field site, said he can also smell the current spray field, which has been in use since at least the 1970s. He's worried about the kind of environmental impact the new spray field will have.
"For years, we've been complaining about the odor (of the old spray field) which is 2.5 to 3 miles from here," said Eaton, standing in the driveway of the home he's lived in since 1996. The new spray field is being built a half-mile from his house. He said he's worried the new spray field will leak just like the old one.
"As a resident here, I don't have any faith in the plans," Eaton said.
Despite $4.8 million in sewer upgrades, sewage still leaks into nearby Freetown Creek and onto private property, said Adam Johnston, alliance coordinator for the Alabama Rivers Alliance.
The old sewage spray field, from aerial photos, looks more like a lime-green pond that has cut through berms. Johnston said the spray field now spills constantly into Freetown Creek, which leads into the Chilatchee Creek and eventually into the Alabama River.
"It runs like this 24 hours a day," Johnston said as he stood on the edge of Freetown Creek, watching wastewater spill into the creek from the spray field.
Across the creek, a sign read "Danger, sewage spray field. Keep out." A herd of cows trudged through the creek nearby.
Johnston tested the site in September and found that there were more than 23,000 fecal coliform colonies per 100 milliliters, meaning the treated wastewater being sprayed onto the spray field is dangerous, carrying the risk of E. coli and other bacteria to people and livestock.
"It's a dangerous level," Johnston said. "There is a complete lack of accountability and responsibility."
ADEM visited Uniontown on Oct. 18 to document what residents say are 10 to 12 faults in the existing spray field, but no report has been published yet, according to ADEM.
Residents are concerned that the new spray field will have the same type of problems.
"We just want to make sure that whatever happens, it's done right and it's not dumped on us," said Sally McGee, a nearby resident who said she had wastewater leak onto her pasture this month.
A history of problems
The Uniontown sewage treatment plan has been riddled with problems since 2005, according to records from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
During a 2005 inspection of the sewage plant, ADEM officials discovered a sewage overflow seeping into nearby Cottonwood Creek, which feeds into Big Prairie Creek and then flows into the Black Warrior River near Demopolis. That spill of untreated sewage caused the waterway to be "septic for a stretch of at least five to six miles," according to the ADEM report.
Four years later, a 2009 ADEM compliance report found additional breaches at the plant that allowed raw sewage to discharge into Cottonwood Creek. According to that report, officials determined that the Uniontown plant "cannot successfully treat or even hydraulically handle the flow of wastewater that it presently receives."
The addition of more wastewater from new homes or businesses would worsen the problem and likely result in more leaks, the report said. That prompted ADEM to issue the administrative order for Uniontown to make the necessary infrastructure upgrades to fix the problem within three years.
However, the leaks continued. In 2011, another report found that a broken pump at the sewage treatment plant allowed 300,000 gallons of sewage into Cottonwood Creek.
According to that report, the problem was "ongoing." And in spring 2011, two different sewage leaks were discovered.
One involved the malfunction of a lift station that allowed raw sewage to leak once again into Cottonwood Creek. At the same time, it was discovered that too much treated wastewater was being poured into the city's 50-acre spray field, where treated sewage is supposed to slowly seep in to the ground. But a berm around the spray field collapsed, leaking discolored, foul-smelling wastewater into Freetown Creek and Chilatchee Creek.
In May 2012, the Alabama Department of Public Health issued a warning that it was dangerous to swim or fish in Prairie Creek and parts of the Black Warrior near Demopolis due to sewage in the water from Uniontown.
In late 2012, the town received a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as $2.5 million in municipal bonds to pay for the work to upgrade the existing system and expand a second spray field to handle the increase in wastewater.
Repairs underway
Construction to repair the system started in January. Old clay sewer pipes that were broken and leaking have been replaced all over Uniontown, reducing the amounts of rainwater that seeped into the system, said John Stevens, senior vice president of the Tuscaloosa-based Sentell Engineering, which is the lead designer on the project.
"The clay pipes have been replaced, re-lined and sealed up properly," Stevens said.
As part of the project, new electronic water meters have been installed. The sewage plant was also modified with a new screen to clear out waste and new ultraviolet-ray technology that will kill bacteria and ensure that any wastewater that goes out to the spray field is a much cleaner product, Stevens said.
"This particular (new) spray field, the water coming out will be so much cleaner than the old one," Stevens said. "It will be extremely better."
Berms around the new spray field are now being built with dirt and sludge pulled from the bottom of the city's sewage lagoon. ADEM has placed six groundwater monitoring wells around the new spray field to ensure that the activity isn't negatively affecting the groundwater, and will remain there doing tests as long as the spray field is in operation, said Scott Hughes, ADEM spokesman.
Hughes said the groundwater monitoring wells and the surface water are sampled on a regular basis.
According to a May 2013 report to the city of Uniontown, ADEM is also aware of the drainage ditch going through the spray field site and into the Wilsons' pond. ADEM sent a letter to Uniontown Mayor Jamaal Hunter, reminding of state requirements that there be a 100-foot buffer between the spray field and any creek, tributary or ditch.
There will be a buffer and berm between the spray field and the drainage ditch that leads to the catfish ponds, Stevens said.
Still, the Wilsons said they are wary. They said that city planners were working from an antiquated map, which didn't include their catfish ponds or the ditch, when the project started. They also question why ADEM didn't require the hydrology testing done before the project started, instead of now, three months before completion.
The couple has met with ADEM officials in Montgomery, but they say their questions weren't answered to their satisfaction.
The old spray field — roughly the same capacity as the new spray field — will need to be updated and repaired once the new spray field is up and running, Stevens said. But that will take more money, because that part of the project is not covered by the $4.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Stevens said.
Finding the money could be difficult for the tiny Black Belt town, which has a population of 1,775 and an average household income of $12,500 a year.
"That is not part of this job. There's just no money for this stuff," said Roger Worthington, a Sentell supervisor while working on the new spray field site.
Community action
A local community group, Black Belt Citizens Fighting for Health and Justice, has been asking questions of Uniontown leadership and met with ADEM officials on Oct. 18 to express their concerns. Before the ADEM meeting, Uniontown residents formed a protest outside. One sign read "Uniontown deserves Justice! Save Our Water." Another sign stated "Stop the spray field. We deserve better."
ADEM told residents to go back to Uniontown and address the issue with local officials, Eaton said. But he said he doesn't feel like the local leaders care.
"They told us they were going to fix the sewer system, but why didn't they let everybody know what they were doing?" Eaton said.
It was not ADEM that chose the site for the spray field. That was a local decision, Hughes said.
When the site was chosen, there were public notices posted in the Selma and Montgomery newspapers, but nothing locally — there is no newspaper in Uniontown. Members of the Black Belt citizens' group feel that the city didn't want residents to know what was going on. Although Stevens pointed out there were multiple town meetings and fliers posted in town.
Eaton said that local residents aren't against sewer system improvements — it's very much needed. But he said there must be a better solution than a spray field, a different method that would be better for residents and the environment.
"We want to get something done, but the city is closed ears," Eaton said.
"This community is poor and voiceless, and (the government) is going to do what they are going to do," Johnston said.
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In the days and weeks since early May when his elderly parents were killed, Keith Dermond has been as puzzled as anyone else.
Russell and Shirley Dermond had been married 62 years. Both in their late 80s, they fell prey to unspeakable violence -- savagery as the Putnam County sheriff has called it -- and whoever inflicted it seems to have left nary a trace.
"It just eats at you that somebody could do this and possibly get away with it. ... We don't even know the motive at this point," Keith Dermond said by phone Wednesday. "It's very hard to catch somebody when you don't even know their motive, and you don't know whether they would do it again."
Dermond, 55, who lives in north Florida, said his family is still sorting through his parents' belongings.
"It's really tough," he said.
As the investigation into the couple's death reached its three-month mark, Sheriff Howard Sills said the case still weighs on him. Sills said he rose at 4 a.m. the other day to make note of an investigative angle that came to him in the night.
"Myself and one detective continue to work on this every day," the sheriff said.
Investigators this week polygraphed someone who came forward with information that could prove fruitful, "to see if they were truthful," Sills said.
On the sheriff's desk Wednesday were 4,000-plus pages of documents related to the Dermond couple's finances.
Russell Dermond, 88, had retired from corporate life -- much of it with clockmaking companies -- in the late 1980s to run a chain of Atlanta-area Hardee's restaurants. About 15 years ago, he and his wife, Shirley, 87, moved to Lake Oconee to live out their years in a golf-course community in a waterfront home.
Sometime during the first weekend in May, they were killed. Russell Dermond was decapitated. Neighbors concerned they hadn't seen him found his body May 6 in the garage of the Dermond's Carolyn Drive residence.
The 3,200-square-foot, $1 million home sits in a tree-shrouded cul-de-sac in the Great Waters subdivision, a dozen or so miles northeast of Eatonton.
Shirley Dermond's body didn't turn up until May 16. Fishermen found it in the lake, about five miles away by water.
Autopsies showed that she and her husband died of head wounds, but exactly how they were killed is anyone's guess.
The FBI and some Georgia sheriff's investigators have helped in the probe, poring over the case file.
Sills recently called on the expertise of two detectives from the Jacksonville, Florida, sheriff's office's cold-case squad. Sills roomed with Jacksonville Sheriff John H. Rutherford when the two attended the FBI Academy.
The Florida detectives spent a day and a half in Eatonton examining crime-scene photographs and other materials, Sills said.
From the beginning of the investigation, authorities acknowledged that cracking the case might prove difficult.
No one reported hearing any commotion. The Dermonds likely were dead three days before Russell Dermond's body was found. Video cameras at the guard house at the entrance to the subdivision weren't working. And it is possible the killer came by boat. The 19,000-acre lake offered countless entry and escape routes.
While investigators for days scoured the Dermond house and areas around it for evidence, whatever they collected has yet to render a linchpin clue. And in the months since the killings, despite $55,000 in reward money, the flow of tips has all but dried up.
Even the kooks have quit calling.
"Reluctantly, or regretfully I guess is the better word," Sills said, "I have to admit that things have slowed considerably. We are not getting any new calls. The reward is not seeming to initiate any information. ... We're not even getting the psychics."
Keith Dermond said he and his family -- the elder Dermonds had two other children, a younger son and daughter -- appreciate the locals who contributed to the reward fund.
"It shows how much they were loved around the community," he said. "We're just hoping that maybe that'll trigger something ... that somebody will come forward and spill the beans."
On Wednesday, he was unaware of any imminent developments in the case.
"Not that we're losing hope, but it gets tougher and tougher to believe that something's gonna happen here," he said.
"I wouldn't say it's a cold case, but it's not looking too optimistic at this point. I'm sure the police and whatnot ... it's just driving them crazy."
Keith Dermond said he is confident Sills and other investigators are up to the task.
"We've heard from people around in the area that he certainly is somebody that is tenacious and won't give up. We're hoping that's true," he said.
"It's a very infamous case at this point so, yeah, I'm sure as far as his own reputation and everything else, they're doing everything they can to get it done."
He added that crime shows on television, the "CSI" types, make the unsolved killing of his mother and father all the more frustrating.
"The techniques they have of uncovering evidence and stuff like that," Keith Dermond said, "it's almost hard to believe that somebody could be that good a criminal that they didn't leave behind anything."
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The regular WMV link is almost 600MB. The high version is almost 1GB. Can we have a "low" option? Not all of us are connecting with ultrafast connections.
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Thanks, Charles. Can't play MP4s here at work since I don't have the codec, but it's nice to know that there is a smaller sized option.
Watching the video now...I think it's great that anyone can make their own diagnostic scripts. Once more Win 7 machines are out there, this will make my sidejob of cleaning up computers very efficient.
The live update is really cool too, as the causes of problems can change as time goes by.
Indeed, very interesting that we can create our own troubleshooting wizards. Now we just need a video with demonstration on how to do it.
EDIT: Looks like a development example is already in the video. Nice job, Charles.
More info on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd323778(VS.85).aspx"> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd323778(VS.85).aspx
That will come.
EDIT: Glad you actually watched the video
Do they have a blog?
Not sure, Zippy, They probably just post(ed) to E7. Also, check out the Windows Team Blog. I'm pretty sure the Windows org does not really support individual team blogs these days....


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Monday, October 31, 2011
I should be making Rapunzel hair
Happy Halloween everybody! And thank you very much for your enthusiasm and sweet comments about the new Little Red pattern! I've been away with the kids visiting family and now I'm home just in time for Trick or Treating tonight, but first I need to do a bunch of laundry and cleaning and other unexciting stuff. Also I need to make a Rapunzel wig. I have a large amount of yellow yarn and at best a very vague idea of what I need to do. Flowers and interwoven ribbon have been requested. Wish me luck.
Does anyone else collect acorns for no apparent reason? I keep telling myself I'll do some cool something with them. I love the little caps.
I enjoyed some thrift store shopping with my sister Leigh this last week in Huntsville. She was scouting for Halloween costume elements (Luke and Leia) and also clothes for her new grandbaby(!) on the way, Darcy Anne. I was shopping for whatever tripped my fancy. I found lots of cute clothes for the girls (especially love that green cord skort!), set of cool sheets, weird plastic mushroom picks and this book, among others. The book is to inspire me for my next installment of ornaments. The sheets I just bought because I thought, hey, cool sheets. Maybe a summer dress or nightgown?
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good luck with the hair! great job thrifting!ReplyDelete
Seems like my granddaughter isn't the only one enthralled with Rapunzel hair. Last time we were skyping, she turns her back to me, flounces her hair and said, "Gwamma, I'm gwoing my hair out wike Wupenzel's."ReplyDelete
With your creativity, I'm confident your wig will turn out great!
Love the finds - especially the book! I've never seen it! Can't wait to see the ornaments it inspires. :)ReplyDelete
Acorn collecting--yup. I can't help but pick them up. I have them in all different sizes. Have I ever done anything with them? Nope. I keep waiting for inspiration to hit :ReplyDelete
Hope you got the hair done in time. My daughter was Rapunzel and it took me about 4 hours to do her hair. The directions on the pattern said to cut the head piece at 18" but it was too small. I wish I would have measured her head first. Good luck.ReplyDelete
That book is my absolute favorite Christmas book! I'm excited to see your next installment of ornaments, what a fun tradition!ReplyDelete
I had the exact same idea of making ornaments according to the song. My eldest son and I drive the rest of our family crazy, but we love to sing this song behind our very false piano! I hope you don't mind I go ahead with my idea too. Let's compare them in the end, shall we?ReplyDelete
Seriously, my Mom found that exact green mushroom buried in the compost pile of her new house and gave it to me.ReplyDelete
Petra, love to see yours too!ReplyDelete
Lil H, seriously that is Weird! ha.
hey - I'm a little behind on keeping up with your blog. :S We have that same 12 days of Christmas book and love the illustrations in it, especially all the fancy dresses. That has inspired a LOT of paper dolls. Hope your ornaments turn out great!ReplyDelete
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California member of the Hells Angels has pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder for his role in a September brawl at Nevada casino that erupted into a shootout that claimed the life of his San Jose chapter president. Cesar Villagrana of Gilroy, Calif., is accused of shooting two members of the rival Vagos motorcycle gang the night that his longtime friend Jeffrey "Jethro" Pettigrew was shot to death on the floor of John Ascuaga's Nugget in Sparks. Washoe District Judge Connie Steinheimer on Thursday tentatively assigned him the same Jan. 17 trial date she earlier set for the Vagos accused of killing Pettigrew - Ernesto Gonzalez of San Francisco. But Villagrana's lawyer, Richard Schonfeld of Las Vegas, doesn't expect a trial before the end of 2012.


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Saturday, February 5, 2011
State Store Stings?
Anyway, one of them was posting a number of news reports (from other states) about sting operations that had resulted in arrests of liquor store staff or owners making sales to minors. This would always be accompanied by crowing about how privatization would bring more sales to minors, and that the PLCB clerks never ever sell to minors. Well, that's probably not actually true, because I've noticed that PLCB supporters have just started saying that there were only two sales to minors in the past 7 years, but that's still pretty impressive.
Only...wait a minute. Just how cozy is the relationship between PLCB store clerks and Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement agents? So I started responding to all his posts: "Hey, does the BLCE ever conduct stings on State Stores? Just asking!" Never got a response.
To tell the truth...I don't know. Do they? Because if they don't...it's a meaningless statistic. I'd say I'd like to see it happen, but honestly? I wouldn't, because the way the regs are set up, any PLCB clerk who sells to an underage purchaser loses their job and their pension. I wouldn't want to see that just to prove a point. But...in the absence of such stings, this is comparing apples and oranges. Stick a pin in this balloon.
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BLCE-PSP does in fact conduct checks on stores at regular intervals. They conduct these check's as often as one would expect any law enforcement to do so. Please do some more research on this topic before you provoke. I respect some of the posts you put on here, but I feel this one may be shooting wild without a firm basis. You're getting sloppy is what I am trying to convey to you. I ask that you not censor this post, if for nothing more than to show your honesty.
- February 6, 2011 at 7:15 PM
Further I would like to point out that the BLCE-PSP stands for Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement - Pennsylvania State Police. Since the store workers, Administrative staff, and the PSP are all separate entities with separate Union Representation, there is no more incentive for the PSP officer to cute johnny liquor store clerk a break then they would a Sheetz clerk for selling cigarettes to a minor.
- February 6, 2011 at 7:18 PM
- Lew Bryson said...
"Please do some more research"? In the first place, I'm just asking, because I haven't been able to come up with any evidence that it does happen. I did a number of Google searches -- and in my previous career, I did online searching all day long; I'm good at it -- and turned up nothing on operations in State Stores other than 'shoulder tap' operations, which are not the kind of "sting" operations that police run in other states, or in Pennsylvania licensed establishments. In fact, the BLCE's own website makes no mention of enforcement in the State Stores; only in privately owned licensee establishments (clubs, distributors, hotels, restaurants, etc.). By what they're putting out, they apparently don't do any enforcement on the State Stores; at least, they don't talk about it.
But I'll tell you what. I'll write to both the PLCB and the BLCE, and ask them exactly what kind of enforcement activities do take place. Fair enough?
And please; don't even think about lecturing me on censorship or honesty. The only posts I don't publish are ones that are profane, or ones that verge on libelous -- except when it's about me; I'm a big boy.
- February 7, 2011 at 8:54 AM
- Lew Bryson said...
And yeah, I know the BLCE is a branch of the PSP, not the PLCB -- we learned all about that during the disastrous and dopey beer registration raids last year! But if you don't think the BLCE is likely to cut the PLCB a break just because they're all state employees and the PLCB funds the BLCE...well, in the real world, we call that a conflict of interest, and just the appearance of one is enough to bring about the asking of questions. Kind of like what happened when the State Auditor General investigated the PLCB's hiring the firm run by the husband of one of their regional managers to do their (already controversial) courtesy training program. Conflict of interest.
- February 7, 2011 at 8:59 AM
- Lew Bryson said...
Okay, Anonymous: just mailed a letter to the BLCE (copied my state Rep and the PLCB press office), the heart of which asks "I'd like to know what kind of enforcement actions take place in the State Stores, and if you can confirm how many of these violations have taken place over the past ten years."
I'll be sure to post the answer here. Is that less sloppy?
- February 8, 2011 at 9:23 AM
This is the previous participant, Anonymous.
My intent of the previous post was not to upset, but to question whether you were writing this blog as an individual with a "blog" or as someone with journalistic intent. A true journalist will search for facts and write about those findings where as a blogger will pose a question in such a way that will cause their readers to form an opinion without a factual basis, such as; do they do checks? I don't know but it seems like a conflict of interest. I hope you do find the facts and report them as such. I suspect that you may not hear back due to the manner in which you sought the knowledge, but I would suggest either filing a "right to know" petition on the information, or seeking help in person with your representative (when you show up in person with a question they are more prone to helping you.)
I will also disclose. I was once a Liquor Store Employee. No longer. I will agree 100% with you about customer service. The problem though isn't that this is state run. The problem is that Liquor Store clerks AND Store managers are members of the Union. Anytime you have both worker and manager as Union employees, the chance of good service is slim to none. I know from experience that my manager didn't care very much, and felt that her position was impregnable. It was only after 6 (SIX!) AWOLS that the Union finally agreed to release her. This is the cause of customer dissatisfaction, not State Control.
I also would like to state that I agree with you that the Federal Government and State Government have no place holding retail operations. However, I would also like to point out that we are not a state, we are a Commonwealth, in that our sovereign status is granted by the people of Pennsylvania, and not by the Federal Government. With that being said, it is this power that we have granted the Commonwealth which has given it the power to regulate and control the sale of alcohol via the Liquor store system. Please reread that. There is nothing unconstitutional about the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania owning and running a Monopoly. There would be an issue, however, if we were not a Commonwealth.
Truthfully, I really could care less if we get out of the liquor business, as long as it does not hinder the state budget. I just want to make sure that the information you are presenting is done in a factual way, as well as a lawful interpretation of the powers of government.
If your stance is that a STATE should not control a retail industry, you are correct. If your stance is that a Commonwealth should not control a retail industry, then I am sorry but you must do more research as to the Constitutional rights of a Commonwealth.
- February 8, 2011 at 6:12 PM
- Lew Bryson said...
It's a blog, not a newspaper. All I did was ask a question. And I believe I'll get an answer from the BLCE, as I just got an answer to another question put to the PLCB in the same manner today. I'm also on good terms with my state Rep already, so there's another angle. A RTK petition won't work unless you know the specific document you're looking for; which I don't. Been down that road before.
As to your state v. commonwealth issue, it's neither here nor there: the constitutional point that makes this particular monopoly legal is the 21st Amendment, which has been interpreted to give the states broad powers over the sale and regulation of alcohol beverages. It pretty much makes your point moot.
- February 8, 2011 at 10:10 PM
- Lew Bryson said...
Anonymous...got a response on my question from the PLCB (in only 3 days; not bad). "Because our stores are not licensed establishments, BLCE does not perform compliance checks in them."
And do you have any evidence to contradict that?
- February 11, 2011 at 2:10 PM
I read in the paper that they did nearly 1 million minor challenges in the past year! Thats pretty good for 620 some stores! Ya just throwing stuff out there to make your case huh? Big conspiracy Right!
- February 12, 2011 at 1:03 PM
- Lew Bryson said...
According to whom, "Anonymous"? The PLCB SAYS they did a million "minor challenges."
Why should I believe that?
Where's the records?
Do they keep records?
What constitutes a challenge?
This is exactly the kind of empty "fact" that the whole argument against privatization is based on.
- February 12, 2011 at 4:09 PM
ask that lady from the lcb i have seen them run them thru the register i pretty sure they are recorded somewhere
- February 12, 2011 at 7:28 PM
- Lew Bryson said...
Not to mention...Wegman's, the PRIVATE store that sells beer, did over 700,000 ID checks last year. Because they check everyone. So...exactly how is the State Store System doing a better job by apparently only checking ID when the clerk thinks the customer might be underage?
What worth is a system that is not 100%? Even the private stores know that, seems to me.
- February 12, 2011 at 8:07 PM
what's the point of carding a 40 50 or 60 year old person or even older? that 700,000 just proves they had that many customers how many were 30 and under like the sign sez in the liquor store? If the stores carded nearly 1 million that was hardly 40 50 and 60 year old, I got carded for beer in the giant eagle and im 60. I think they do a wonderful job preventing sales to minors which would be lost on private stores.
- February 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM
- Lew Bryson said...
"I think they do a wonderful job preventing sales to minors which would be lost on private stores."
Really. How? If the private stores ID everyone, and you can easily make that part of the New Liquor Code, how can the State Stores do better than that? Tell me what you think about that?
Not to mention, the whole thing is a bit of a red herring. Research consistently shows that the great majority of underage drinkers get their drinks from an of-age friend or relative, not by buying them at a store or bar.
- February 14, 2011 at 9:09 AM
So how would that make the liquor code better by making it tougher on older people? Do you wanta be carded everytime you buy a bottle? And really its probably not the big stores its those little dumpy stores run by all those foreign people that can't speak english have you been in a gas station lately that im worried about after all they are doing a great job not selling the ciggs to kids
- February 14, 2011 at 10:24 AM
- Lew Bryson said...
It would make the Liquor Code "better" by giving folks like you fewer things to whine about, for one. And as far as the terrible pain for older folks...I'M an older folk, too. Just turned 52 today, got plenty of gray in my beard, and I don't mind showing my ID when I buy beer at Wegmans. I just want something written into the code that the data from those checks is only used for age proof, and no other info is kept.
As for your purely racist comments, I'll let them speak for themselves...once. Don't bother bringing it up again, I won't allow it to post.
- February 14, 2011 at 10:29 AM