https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:gotmoab/ en-us Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:46:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2393092/posts Gerry Moniz didn't hesitate when asked what she thinks of the nationally publicized dispute between Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin and Patrick Kennedy over whether the congressman should refrain from taking Communion given his support for abortion rights. "I think Patrick Kennedy is wrong," Moniz, 56, said when asked to comment on Monday at an East Providence shopping plaza. A Catholic from West Greenwich, she added, "If he doesn't want to be Catholic, he should go to another church. The rules of the Catholic Church are, "We don't approve of abortion.' And he doesn't like that." At St. Francis Chapel... Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2393092/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:46:25 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349574/posts Drawing on his family’s violent past, the Democratic congressman told roughly 75 people gathered at a private health-care forum Saturday morning that opponents of Democrat-backed health-care legislation had gone too far. He cited, as an example, 10,000 signs distributed at a recent Washington protest that read, “Bury ObamaCare with Kennedy.” Patrick Kennedy is the last member of his storied family to hold federal office. His father, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, died one month ago after battling a brain tumor. His uncles, former President John F. Kennedy and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, were assassinated. “My family’s seen it... Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349574/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:41:15 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2115887/posts Just got off the phone with my sister who lives in NH, the discussion turns to politics and she indicates that she's leaning towards "The One". She listed health care as her primary concern, she's been bombarded with literature essentially telling her that people with pre-existing conditions will be screwed under McCains plan. I told her she should do some more research before settling on a candidate and told her that I'd send her some links. She is skeptical of what I'll send her because she knows I'm a Conservative, any suggestions as to where she should be researching? https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2115887/posts#comment Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:22:57 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1993615/posts I'm looking for a couple of baseball savvy owners to fill out a 10 team Yahoo fantasy baseball league. Freepmail me if you are interested.. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1993615/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:37:13 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954300/posts Albert Jordan, 21, isn’t one to hold back, especially when he describes what it’s like being a soldier in Iraq. “It sucks…It’s definitely an experience, but it sucks being in Iraq,” said Jordan, a U.S. Army Specialist, during an interview with the Beacon, a day after returning home from his first tour of duty. “At first it’s kind of exciting because you’re doing different things. You’re doing what you see in video games, but then a couple of IED’s [improvised explosive devices] go off or a couple of bullets go by your head and you go, ‘Whoa, what is this... Warwick (RI) Beacon https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954300/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:54:16 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910264/posts Two more people have been arrested, and 19 others are still wanted, for allegedly getting Rhode Island driver’s licenses that were falsified by two clerks at the state Division of Motor Vehicles. The clerks had sent the licenses to dozens of illegal immigrants and suspected drug dealers who’d paid middlemen between $2,500 to $3,000 apiece to conceal their identity with a valid license, according to the state police. Some of the “customers” have since been rearrested on drug charges in various states — where their true identity was revealed by fingerprints — but others are on the run. As the... Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910264/posts#comment Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:02:24 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907451/posts PROVIDENCE — Providence has become the first municipality in the nation to endorse a boycott of money transfer giant Western Union. Activist groups nationwide have been organizing small protests against the company for the past month, charging that Western Union’s fees are too high, and that the company does not give back enough to the people and countries it serves. City Council members estimate that Western Union handles 55 percent of money transfers to and from Providence, and last night, the 15-member City Council unanimously approved a resolution supporting the campaign. “Cities around the country are looking towards the example... Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907451/posts#comment Sat, 6 Oct 2007 14:59:13 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847518/posts UNDESIRABLE Officer Kim Carroll reported she was on patrol around 4:15 a.m. on May 28 when she saw a car cross the double yellow line on Cranston Street. She said she couldn’t see the front plate because there was heavy damage to the entire front end and it was dragging along the road making a screeching noise. She said she believed the car may have been in a hit-and-run accident and pulled the car over near 1130 Cranston. She said she approached the car and told the driver a number of times to get off his cell phone and speak... Cranston Herald https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1847518/posts#comment Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:36:52 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750899/posts Federal terrorism officials and Rhode Island authorities converged this week to arrest an Indian citizen enrolled in a Smithfield tractor-trailer training school who was trying to obtain a commercial driver’s license and permit to haul hazardous materials. The man, Mohammed Yusef Mullawala, of Jamaica, N.Y., is being held in federal custody for overstaying his student visa. State police Maj. Steven O’Donnell said that after two days of truck-driving classes, Mullawala’s behavior was suspicious enough to prompt school officials to contact the Department of Homeland Security late last month. “His behavior was consistent with terrorist-type activity,” O’Donnell said. “He showed no... Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750899/posts#comment Sat, 9 Dec 2006 14:20:07 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743833/posts Prof. Alain-Philippe Durand knew he had hit a nerve when his French class at the University of Rhode Island discussed a controversial novel about 9/11, Windows on the World, two years ago. The book, written by Frederick Beigbeder, was then only available in French. Durand hoped its provocative subject — an imagining of the terror and violence that transpired in the North Tower just as the first plane hit the World Trade Center — would spark lively debate in the French conversation class. But the professor said he was not prepared for the intensity of the discussion or the complexity... The Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743833/posts#comment Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:48:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1732692/posts me https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1732692/posts#comment Sun, 5 Nov 2006 14:59:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690408/posts CRANSTON -- As a student at Bowdoin College a generation ago, Cranston Mayor Stephen P. Laffey wrote humor columns for a campus newspaper that even he now acknowledges could be construed as homophobic. For example, in one column in the Bowdoin Patriot, the paper published by campus Republicans, Laffey wrote, "I have never once seen a happy homosexual. This is not to say there aren't any; I simply haven't seen one in my lifetime. Maybe they are all in the closet. All the homosexuals I've seen are sickly and decrepit, their eyes devoid of life." Laffey, who is challenging incumbent... Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690408/posts#comment Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:41:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688860/posts WARWICK, R.I. Senator Lincoln Chafee and Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey will meet tonight in their first televised debate. The two Republicans have sparred over taxes, immigration, national security and personal character during radio debates held during the past two weeks. They are scheduled to appear tonight before a live audience at Toll Gate High School in Warwick, where Chafee once served as mayor. The candidates face each other in the September 12th Republican primary. The race has gained national attention as Republican leaders consider Chafee's seat crucial in keeping their slim majority in the Senate. The winner of the Republican... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688860/posts#comment Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:39:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674222/posts PROVIDENCE -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Stephen P. Laffey opposes expanding federal support of embryonic stem-cell research, though Laffey last year invested his own money in a California bio-tech company working on embryonic stem-cell therapies. That smells like hypocrisy, says Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee, Laffey's opponent in the September GOP primary. Chafee supports increasing federal money for embryonic stem-cell research, and opposed President Bush's recent veto of the legislation. Laffey, the mayor of Cranston, disputes the charge of hypocrisy, and says he'd rather steer more federal money toward what he considers a better value: research using adult stem cells, which... Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1674222/posts#comment Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:06:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670854/posts The fallout from Natalie Maines' now infamous remarks in 2003 bashing George Bush is well documented: radio boycott, CDs publicly destroyed, a sharp decline in sales, death threats, and ridicule from the country-music industry. But what bothers Maines the most, she says, is that the American Red Cross refused a $1 million donation from the Dixie Chicks in 2003. "It has nothing to do with being taken off of the radio," says Maines, 31, by phone from New York. "It has to do with the absurdity of death threats and the absurdity of being so awful that people won't even... The Dallas Morning News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670854/posts#comment Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:59:25 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668799/posts Kathleen Williams spent last Wednesday night on the roof of a downtown building in Beirut enjoying the opening of a new nightclub and the moonlight shimmering over the Mediterranean. Then all at once the cell phones of her Lebanese friends and fellow wedding guests began going off. The Israelis, they told her, were bombing the cities of Saida and Tyr to the south. Yesterday, as Israeli and Hezbollah fighting claimed more lives, and hundreds of the 25,000 Americans now in Lebanon waited nervously to leave the country, Williams expressed relief she had ignored U.S. State Department advice and got out... Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1668799/posts#comment Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:33:07 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1655343/posts Steven Kelly was setting tile at a house in Narragansett Friday morning. That's what he does. It's a craft that helped him pay his way through college. It's also a craft that puts him in a lot of houses in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. He talks to people. He hears the shared disappointment over the lack of meaningful public discussion. Tomorrow, Kelly, a 51-year-old Saunderstown resident, will go to the Rhode Island Board of Elections and file to run for U.S. Senate. He'll file as an independent, because the Democratic Party he grew up with and loved and believed in... Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1655343/posts#comment Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:13:41 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654922/posts PROVIDENCE -- With pats on the back from Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic minority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, and other dignitaries, Women Ending Hunger had a kind of coming-out party at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank yesterday. Women Ending Hunger -- about 120 women business and community leaders dedicated to the food bank -- is launching a more-public phase of a year-long campaign to boost the food bank. Karen Davis, vice president of community relations at Hasbro and one of the leaders of the group, noted during a late-afternoon reception at the food bank, on Niantic Avenue,... Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654922/posts#comment Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:11:00 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1651027/posts Will it be the salmon teriyaki with organic greens, or asparagus tempura and tuna sashimi? As the waiter hovers with pencil poised, the Dixie Chicks debate the menu with the practised air of professional restaurant critics. The Chicks have traditionally been branded a country band, but clearly it's some time since their diet consisted of ribs, tacos and pancakes. Sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire project a polished Fifth Avenue elegance, and vocalist Natalie Maines is a vision of sculpted cheekbones and smoky eye-shadow. With their origins as bouffant-haired ingénues playing bluegrass music long forgotten, the Chicks are in Miami... telegraph.co.uk https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1651027/posts#comment Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:00:09 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1649454/posts Anybody else happen to catch Brian Williams and Tim Russert discussing the latest poll numbers on the war in Iraq? Russert claims that there is not much change in the numbers, noting that the poll numbers indicate only a 4 pt. increase (from 33% to 37%) when asked if the US will be be "successful" in Iraq. Russert then suggests that this increase is most likely a result of Zarqawi's death. The problem is that the poll in question was taken on June 6th. Tim must have forgot that Zarqawi wasn't killed until early on June 8th. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1649454/posts#comment Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:51:36 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637756/posts Dennis W. Michaud says he'll work to build consensus with lawmakers, business leaders and organized labor. PROVIDENCE -- Dennis W. Michaud, a consultant and part-time Brown University professor, formally announced yesterday that he would challenge Governor Carcieri in a Republican primary. "There's a difference between me and the governor: he's a fighter, I'm a lover," Michaud said. "I believe in cooperation. That's my approach to constructive problem-solving." He said the state's major problem today is "a lack of true leadership." "I understand that it is easier to score political points fighting. Unfortunately, building consensus is far more difficult," the Republican... The Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637756/posts#comment Wed, 24 May 2006 22:55:24 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635452/posts Laura Bush lavishes praise on Sen. Lincoln Chafee during a fundraiser at the Providence Biltmore that raises $150,000 for his reelection effort. PROVIDENCE -- First Lady Laura Bush swooped into arguably the most Democratic state in the nation yesterday to boost the Senate candidacy of incumbent Republican Lincoln D. Chafee and urge a crowd of GOP stalwarts to work hard for his reelection. "I'm so happy to be in Rhode Island and have this chance to support your U.S. senator, Lincoln Chafee," said Mrs. Bush. "He is an important member of the U.S. Senate." "For him, public service is a... The Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635452/posts#comment Sat, 20 May 2006 14:52:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635438/posts BRISTOL -- The president of Roger Williams University stands at the center of the school's leafy campus and gestures toward the three young Afghan women chatting under a tree a few steps away. "One of them will lead their country some day," Roy Nirschel promises. Which one? the women are asked. Nadima Sahar's hand shoots up. "Who will be president? That's me," she says. "No, no," Mahbooba Babrakzai corrects her. "That's only if I lose." What about Arezo Kohistani? What does she think? "I think I will permit you to run," she tells her friends, feigning seriousness. After waiting a... The Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635438/posts#comment Sat, 20 May 2006 14:25:16 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634047/posts AL ANBAR PROVINCE, Iraq I AM WRITING to you in regard to Bob Kerr's April 26 column, "The problem is strictly from hunger." The article was about me and my Marine unit, deployed to Iraq. Several of the statements need to be cleared up, because they were taken out of context and are inaccurate. Mr. Kerr refers to "chow call at the Greenwood Credit Union, in Warwick," which was set up "in response to the unthinkable image of U.S. Marines' approaching Iraqi citizens and asking for food because they do not have enough." We have more than enough food. We... The Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634047/posts#comment Wed, 17 May 2006 23:48:23 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616009/posts WASHINGTON -- Already at odds over the war in Iraq, U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee and Cranston Mayor Stephen P. Laffey are emerging as bitter opponents on another key foreign policy issue, the struggle between Israel and the Palestinians. Chafee, chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees the Middle East, is among a handful of senators who often dissent from measures calling for support of Israel and sanctions against its enemies. Supporters call Chafee a courageous voice of independence from the pro-Israel lobby who is willing to prod Israel to take difficult actions needed for peace. They praise Chafee for... Providence Journal https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616009/posts#comment Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:25:40 GMT