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From: http://thespeckledband.blogspot.com/2008/10/pittsburgh-community.html
A Pittsburgh Community
… [I]n the midst of all the people, all the reading, I managed to walk away with a new chapbook from a Pittsburgh poet that caught my attention: Deborah Bogen. Her narratives absolutely make me hold my breath, which in poetry, is a good thing for me. Living by the Children’s Cemetery was $2. Yes, on a table of $10 poetry books I managed to walk away with a hand-held narrative beauty for $2.
From: http://blog.orbitz.com/orbitz_blog/2008/10/business-trav-1.html
AirTran adds Pittsburgh flights as US Airways cuts back
US Airways continues to chop away in Pittsburgh, which was once its most important hub. Effective Jan. 5, it will drop all nonstop flights to Florida. That’s a total of 24 flights a week to Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Tampa. The Florida move will make it easier for AirTran Airways, which will launch flights from Pittsburgh to Florida next month. By Thanksgiving, AirTran will fly daily to Fort Lauderdale, Tampa and Fort Myers. US Airways is “literally handing the competition business,” says Bradley Penrod, executive director of Pittsburgh’s airport authority.
From: http://2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com/
Pittsburgh Palin Fundraiser Becomes Big Obama Rally
As I first blogged about here, Republican VP nominee Gov. Sarah Palin was in downtown Pittsburgh Friday night for a private fundraiser. It cost $1,000 just to get in the door, $10,000 for a photo with Palin, and $25,000 to sit at a table with her.
… While local pols including State Rep. Mike Turzai, former U.S. Rep and current congresscritter wannabe Melissa Hart, Congressman Tim Murphy, and Allegheny County Republican Party Chair Jim Roddey attended, even the archconservative Richard Mellon Scaife-owned Tribune Review admitted that there were more folks outside protesting Palin than inside the fundraiser.
This article appears in Oct 16-22, 2008.
Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is the best future leader for this nation, not Senator Barak Obama. Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is also would be better at leading our nation in the future after a McCain Presidency than Senator Barak Obama would be in leading our nation in the future starting in January 2009. There are great reasons our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin would be a better future leader than Senator Barak Obama. The greatest reason for our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin’s is ideology. Our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is conservative in that she is pro life, marriage, guns, low taxes, low government spending, small government, unintrosive government, traditional and judeo Christian values, Bible reading and prayer in our public schools, and military spending.She is also pro free and private enterprize. Senator Barak Obama is a liberal who is anti every thing that I have described that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is pro about or for. A second reason that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is superior is because of experience. As a governor she has two years of executive administrative governing experience that Senator Barak Obama does not have. A final reason that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is superior is because of political accomplishments. When our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin came to office she accomplished 3 major things which are as follows: she showed great leadership in the 3 following areas: government reform, the state budget and the economy, and wise use of natural resources. She reformed government by standing up to the big oil companies by breaking up the monopoly on power and resources. She insisted on competition and basic fairness which ended the control that the oil companies had on the state, and thereby returning control of the state back to the people. She also stood up to the special interest and lobbyist, and produced major ethics reform. She lead well in the state budget by generating a surplus which came about by vetoing a half billion dollars of wasteful spending, ending the abuses of earmark spending by congress, and by getting rid of the private jet, the chef, and the chuffer. Economically under her leadership she brought about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. She also suspended the state fuel tax, and when oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, she sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged – directly to the people of Alaska . On natural resources she has shown great leadership by beginning a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence. When the last section of the pipeline is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart. Senator Barak Obama has done nothing, so please vote John McCain for President and give to our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin the opportunity that she deserves leading the nation into the future after a John McCain presidency. When our soon to be Vice President does lead the nation as President after a John McCain presidency,she will be the greatest President that we have ever had. Finally she is smarter than Senator Barak Obama
Thank You
John Warren