DAILY GRINDER: Council So Does Work Over the Summer!
Know how those running for Council this year as ‘reformers’ were pissed at all that vacation time they hope to have if they made their way into City Hall for work? Well, current Councilmembers assure us that even though the media gives this impression of them not working all summer while taking in their 6-figure salaries, they are. And they don’t care if...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Dozens of Cats Rescued From South Philadelphia Home
If you were walking by the 2100 block of South Chadwick Street last night, yes, those were dozens of cats being taken out of that house. Yes, the place was full of “feces and urine” according to PSPCA Director of Law Enforcement George Bengal. And yes, the owner of the house “had to be doused with flea spray and put into protective gear that workers were...
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Is Santorum Only Crazy Enough on Paper?
He’s trying so hard, folks. So, so hard. And yet, former Pennsylvania Senator/current Presidential Nominee Rick Santorum can’t catch a break. Take yesterday, for example. He went on the Rush Limbaugh Program to blow yet another right wing dog whistle. This time, the global warming one. Yeah, yeah, he thinks it’s fake, a liberal conspiracy, more government…whatever. Specifically:...
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First GOP Presidential Debate: How Did Santorum Do?
The Republican candidates who will respectively come in 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th in the (R) primary, debated last night. Did you watch? It was a who’s who of boring, irrelevant, non-electable and full-on crazy, put on the single television station that validates it all: Fox News. We were pretty focused on the *local angle* — aka, the guy who looked...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Michael Vick Condemns Dogfighting Android App
There’s an app for that! (And “that” is dogfighting.) A new, bizarre digital entertainment for your cell phone — known as “Dog Wars” — is under fire by critics, and one man is getting out of the way before any of this comes back to haunt him: Eagles quarterback Michael Vick. He’s already released a statement condemning the obscure...
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The ‘Church and State’ Debate is Back
Don’t call it a movement, but Pennsylvania resident Rick Santorum and a Daily News columnist (and before that, Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell) are arguing that church and state aren’t separated. The presidential candidate says more than half-a-century later, hearing President John Kennedy stating the ‘separation of church and state’ belief still gets...
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Rick Santorum, Pot Head
Damn former Pennsylvania Senator saying stuff all the time that gets our attention. Blerg! Rick Santorum play-pretend “defended” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich against attacks on his past, which include “doing someone else” whilst married and trying to impeach former President Bill Clinton for, well, “doing someone else” whilst married. Santorum...
Continue ReadingSantorum’s Legacy: No Gay Advocates At Next Year’s CPAC
Rick Santorum is on the loose, ladies and gentlemen, and his social conservatism seems to be having a huge impact on the GOP, in spite of whatever advances you think may have been made in that tent by people like Ann Coulter, Andrew Breitbart and, yikes, Sarah Palin. At CPAC a couple weeks back, Santorum gave a strange speech about stools which, as has been pointed...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Sesame Street Contingent
Msgr. Lynn – the Downingtown Pastor who allegedly helped cover up the rape and torture of children for years – has been placed on leave. [Inky] Joseph DiGregorio, one of the priests accused in the case, went on the Dom Giordano show Friday to make his own. He said of his accuser: “Any statement she made concerning me is an absolute lie…completely and...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Sheriff’s Department, State, Philadelphia Families Who Eat, All Need Some Money; Rick Santorum Needs a Hug
The Philadelphia Sheriff’s Department has until April to print up fake money, put it in a fake bank account and write a fake check for $45 million to the state Treasury Department. Well, it’s either that or tell the truth about where all that money went, right? Nah, we’re joking. Start the presses! [Daily News] Set your whatever the new version of taping...
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