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I had my CT scan today. Everyone at the hospital knew who I was. I must say I was treated as a celebrity, a grade c celebrity but I’ll take it. Again I can’t thank everyone enough. Chris Churchill of the TU, Congressman Gibson and special thanks to Jim Combs, from Adirondack Radiology who offered to do the CT for free {the test costs 5k so that was no small offer}. I will update my readers when I have the results.

David Soares Update
And another update

TU Exclusive: Soares censured for criticism of judge

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Exclusive-Soares-censured-for-criticism-of-judge-3582767.php
Sores got slapped around pretty good in that one. Remind me Albanian why did you vote for this guy?

As Pete Seeger would say, “When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?”

And as Nixon taught us a long time ago, “When it comes to government, the cover-up is almost always worse than the crime.”

As originally reported in the Times Union yesterday, Albany County DA David Soares’ ex-stripper girlfriend, Stacey Quackenbush (God, I love that name!) was “transferred out of the district attorney’s office and taken a new post as a legal secretary in the county’s Department of Human Resources.” Well, the papers were barely delivered when the TU had to start making “updates” on its web version of the story.

The first “update” came out early yesterday morning after TU readers started raising questions about the job transfer: “Quackenbush received a permanent civil service appointment (as opposed to temporary) from a list generated by an April 2010 exam. The pay, according to Rozak, is the same as her job in the DA’s office.”

The second “update” came out after more readers asked more questions about what was obviously a bullshit solution to a bullshit problem that never should have happened in the first place “Quackenbush didn’t so much transfer jobs so much as her job was transferred to another department. In other words, according to Rozak, Quackenbush has been re-assigned to HR, where she’ll report to the acting HR commissioner but still be paid under the district attorney’s office’s budget. That’s why, Rozak said, there is no legal secretary position in the 2012 HR budget.

The long-range goal, as County Exec Dan McCoy’s plan to consolidate the various legal jobs around the county into the County Attorney’s office continues, is that Quackenbush’s job will eventually be incorporated into the Law Department and its budget, Rozak said. McCoy’s administration discussed that very topic — in broad terms — with the legislature’s Law Committee last night.
“The HR department is really pretty lean, so when we’ve needed that additional back-up,” she said. “It is all part of a bigger picture.”

Asked whether the county executive had the authority to make such a transfer without the authorization of the County Legislature, Rozak said “it’s our understanding he can.”She said no one in the HR department was displaced by Quackenbush’s move and that’s likely that the DA’s office will eventually receive another employee in return, like a baseball trade. This is what we Yankees fans might call the A.J. Burnett deal. Or for you members of Red Sox Nation out there, like the Rhode Island-bred DA himself, the Julio Lugo Transaction.

TU readers have continued to express doubts about the legitimacy of Quackenbush’s job transfer. Their comments can be accessed at:
http://blog.timesunion.com/localpolitics/11893/da-david-soares-girlfriend-lands-another-county-job/#comments

My own comments on this latest flap about the NXIVM-loving DA:
(1) Stacey better damn well have one of the top three scores on the Civil Service exam she supposedly took back in 2004. (Unless it was an oral exam, in which case she may swallowed the results).
(2) I’m sure the fact Albany County Executive Dan O’Connell’s sister works in Soares’ office has nothing to do with Stacey’s transfer.

And finally some more of my own opinions. Feel free as readers always are to disagree.

By now most readers are aware of this shocking crime in Saratoga Springs.

Man arrested for attempting to kidnap, rape woman on Saratoga Springs street Tuesday morning HERE

Antonio Lopez-Bautista, 18, of South Federal Street, is an illegal immigrant, who was charged with second-degree attempted kidnapping, first-degree attempted rape and second-degree assault, all felonies, as well as criminal obstruction of breathing or blood-circulation, a misdemeanor all against a 67-year-old woman.

This man is the worst kind of scum and will be given 30 years then deported. Reading the comments on the Saratogian website is disturbing. Once again people are spreading messages of terror and hate. This time instead of the Caroline bar hoppers, it was the vast horde of illegal workers who have come to rape our pets, eat our children and force grandma to cook rice and beans or some shit like this.

This was a horrible crime. There are thousands of invisible undocumented workers in our city. They wash dishes, clean horse shit and have a very low crime rate. My grandparents came to Saratoga by way of Ireland to work on the backstretch, later the Irish were replaced by blacks and now the blacks have been replaced by Hispanics. Whoever is low man on the totem pole washes the horse’s ass.

Don’t let fear and misunderstanding drive Public Safety Commissioner “toothy” Christian Mathiesen to launch a new crusade against Saratoga’s Hispanic community.
I applaud this 67-year-old woman who saved her own life and made no mistake she did.

Now I’m going to give you the truth about personal safety.
Something the Cops never will
Saratoga Springs is a safe town.

In the end crime happens, along with fires, accidents and sudden illness. You are your first line of defense. Building on fire? Get the fuck out. People who waited to be saved by the fire dept had a nickname when I worked in the morgue at Saratoga Hospital “crispy critters”.

Attacked? Scream, yell, fight back. Don’t allow yourself to be dragged into any vehicle, you will die. Your attacker is hoping you will acquiesce like a sheep. We call those people "missing persons”
Learn CPR and first aid. Take a course on how to use a defibrillator. The hospital and the Red Cross give them for free. You will find a defibrillator in almost every public building. Yea call 911 but don’t let your loved one die while the fireman are in the checkout line in Price Chopper.

At home get to know your neighbors. They are your eyes and ears. Buy a dog and a gun, learn to use it, join a Rod and Gun club it’s fun. I go every week. Just in case you think the Government can protect you
Here is a FACT “toothy” Christian Mathiesen doesn’t want you to know
Every year in America, 6,000 killers get away with murder.
The percentage of homicides that go unsolved in the United States has risen alarmingly even as the homicide rate has fallen to levels last seen in the 1960.

Despite all the dramatic improvements in DNA analysis and forensic science, police fail to make an arrest in more than one-third of all homicides.

I can name 5 unsolved murders in the last 30 years locally off the top of my head.
Sheila Shepherd 1980
Pam DeVizzio 1983
Tammie McCormick 1986
Robert Ford 1995 in the East Side field was unarmed when shot to death by police {in my book a murder}
Marie Hammond Milton 2003
Christina White Geyser Road Milton 2005

You want to know why sex attack victim Melissa Diggins isn't on the list?

She fought back and lived.
Hernandez-Perez attacked and pistol-whipped a 24-year-old Melissa Diggins on Walnut Street before forcing her into his van where he ordered her to undress. But more than 10 miles into the drive, the woman darted from the rear of the van and jumped out of the passenger side door.
She saved herself, if she waited for the police to help her, well one more name on a cemetery tombstone


Now don’t you all feel safe?