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I’m on the radio tomorrow morning

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Around 10:20 I’ll be on Sirius satellite radio, channel 159. That’s the Catholic channel – Sue and Dave Konig’s show – and I’ll be interviewed along with a woman comedienne who has breast cancer. The topic is coping with cancer, the role of faith, stuff like that. If you go tothe Sirius website you can … Read more

Old joke; still funny

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Two casino dealers are waiting at the crap table. A very attractive blonde woman from South Alabama arrived and bet twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) on a single roll of the dice. She said, "I hope you don’t mind, but I feel much luckier when I play topless." With that, she stripped to the waist; rolled … Read more

Sue Konig continues her media rise

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My neighbor, radio host and author Sue Konig, continues her meteoric rise in the media firmament, with an appearance on Neil Cavuto’s television program on FOX yesterday. Here’s the clip – Family Security Matters She did an excellent job and I’m sure will be invited back. Sue recently ran for office in Croton and is … Read more

Heroism in the face of Horror

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This is from the Jerusalem Post – Israeli professor killed in US attack | Jerusalem Post As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, a 76-year-old survivor sacrificed his life to save his students in Monday’s shooting at Virginia Tech College that left 33 dead and over … Read more

My letter to the Gazette

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The Gazette is the local weekly for Croton on hudson. I confess that up until very recently I never read it. then I got a call from one of their advertising firms, took out an ad, and started receiving it gratis.

Anyway, the letter is about the recent election and campaign in Croton. I wrote about it on a number of occasions on this weblog, for example here Tom Faranda’s Folly: Voting today for my Village Board and here Tom Faranda’s Folly: Waste transfer, local politics, and organized crime

While in the past I’d never paid much attention to local issues I always voted – for mayor or trustees – essentially based on whether I knew the persons. However the recent controversy about how to deal with a waste transfer station wanting to locate in Croton changed all that. And I was motivated by the particular obnoxiousness of one partisan with a blog.

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Benedict XVI – “Jesus of Nazareth” soon available

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This is the description on Amazon.com of Benedict XVI’s book, which will be out officially on April 15th. However the English language version will probably not be available until May 15th. Book Description “This book is… my personal search ‘for the face of the Lord.’” —Benedict XVI In this bold, momentous work, the pope—in his … Read more