scion:
n.
1)A descendant or heir.
2)also cion (sn) A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting.
Jackie Corely, the Bayshore Journalista has a new blog about Jersey blogs, Jersey Blog Beat on NJ.com
In her first post Jackie refers to Honest Abe and me as scions of blogdom! Thank you Jackie. I'd rather be considered a twig than a terrorist any day. However, graft will not be tolerated on this blog.
Jackie has today broken the story that Sharon Carpenter-Migliaccio has followed through on her threats to sue Abe and "Colleen" for remarks "Colleen" made during the Howellanche preceding our February convention. Sharon's attorney is former Freeholder candidate Tommy DeSeno.
Best of luck with the new blog Jackie, and thanks for the plug. We apparently need it as Richard Aaronson of Manalapan(didn't someone by that last name recently run for Freeholder as a Democrat?) wants to know where the Republican outrage about Fred is. It's right here Richard and has been for months!
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Richard M. Aaronson is the husband of one Rebecca Aaronson.
Although the "Richard M." is tempting, I'd rather call him "Rip" Aaronson, because he would appear to have been asleep for a long time.
You would think the dumbocrats would find a lesser known individual to write their letters!
And did you see the one fron Henry Botwinick, Democratic Whip of Manalapan's Covered Bridge development? I thought legislative bodies had whips, not localities. These Manalapan Democrats sound like a bunch of live wires! Guess you could say they put the "dumb" in "dumbocrats!"
Careful with those perjaratives Abe! :-)
Yeah, Purcell should be weighing in on "dumbocrat" right about.......NOW!
Well.....NOW!
Oh, alright, maybe not.
(I still think Jim's more of a DINO!)
what "honest abe" does is important, and efforts to forcibly disclose who he is are not in anyone's best interest.
abe is not some scandal monger. he is a clear voice of partisan sanity insofar as the gop. for even his reasonable dialogues to be construed as radical or even remotely wrong is ridiculous.
abe shouldn't be visited with this nonsense for doing what amounts to a public service. for the moment, this is still america.
i hope abe beats this because he's clearly representing that american notion of freedom of speech.
personally, i think repressing freedoms is a bad pastime for anyone to pick up.
keep going, abe.
Sharon,
I like you and I like Abe, so I hope this is resolved to your mutual satisfaction.
If someone asked me for a posters IP address on this blog, I would not able to produce it.
I don't even remember what "Colleen" posted. Honestly, you are correct in stating that we have forgotten. Isn't that a good thing?
Sharon Migliaccio said...
But Google can.
They probably can.
Yet, you passed over my more important point...isn't it a good thing that this unfortunate incident was for the most part forgotten, at least until your suit brought it to our attention?
I don't see how anyone wins here, except the lawyers.
Sharon Migliaccio said...
"Conversation over."
Rather than risk annoying you, I'll leave it at that. :-)
anytime anyone is impacted by someone adversely it's hurtful, especially when informaiton is false.
i am certainly not a lawyer. but i've been in publishing a while now, and there's a couple components that, according to the ap style book (which is something like a bible to journalists), need to be there for defamation and libel to exist. there's loss of income, malicious intent and, of course, something was wrong.
according to my understanding of the ap style book (and certainly it's not as acute as an attorney), which is not reflective specifically to nj but to the offenses as a whole, the offended party had to lose money over the offensive and erroneous remarks. for example, someone loses a job directly as a result of the information. meaning someone read the erroneous information, considered it and gave it value and then made a decision (based on that erroneous information) to deprive the victim of some economic reality (as opposed to a latent potential). this gives the suit a money damage figure.
maliciousness would mean abe or whoever would have to premeditatively publish something they knew was wrong or be so reckless as to create a condition that was patently irresponsible.
once again, i certainly do not practice law. but the freedom of speech, endangered any more than it currently is, in my opinion, places society in a place i don't think we want to be. blogs don't represent themselves as newspapers. i think this is a very gray area and where this involves defamation and libel i think we are on new ground and best look before we leap, as a society.
judicially, whatever happens will be significant for people. something in me hopes anonymous bloggers get to maintain such anonymity unless there is a very representative watershed incident that otherwise takes place. perhaps it is a matter of time or perhaps this is it. it will be notable, one way or the other.
JIM_PURCELL said...
"it will be notable, one way or the other. "
Unless Google does not respond and the plaintif doesn't have the resources to pursue it
elephants...the ass is a noble creature, wrongly portrayed as the butt of so many jokes. in fact, if not for this mild-mannered equine friend of man, so many achievements could not have been accomplished.
to refer to someone as an ass is a good and fine thing I think. Certainly, in that vain, I think it right (since so much commerce moves around politics) to refer to the vast majority of political people I know as asses.
certainly, they are carrying the load for so many. and, if i am refered to in this light, how can i help but be thankful i am also considered as same.
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