08/31/10 Marchesi di Barolo at Morello Italian Bistro in Greenwich -- A Wine Producer Dinner on Sept. 21

Good morning,

Morello Italian Bistro recently announced its next wine producer dinner scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 21. Marchesi di Barolo’s fifth generation owner, Anna Abbona, will be on hand to discuss some of the winery’s most popular varietals coupled with Morello’s Executive Chef Mark Medina-Rios’ special menu.

More details follow. Please feel free to call me with any questions.

All the best,

Jason

MARCHESI DI BAROLO AT MORELLO ITALIAN BISTRO

-- A Wine Producer Dinner --

As one of the most celebrated vineyards in Piedmont, Marchesi di Barolo produces some of the worlds’ most sought after wines. Please join us at Morello for a special evening with fifth generation owner of Marchesi di Barolo, Anna Abbona. Experience some of the greatest wines of Piedmont paired with modern Italian cuisine of Morello’s Executive Chef Mark Medina-Rios. The evening is being hosted by Morello Sommelier Zachary Kameron and MARC Wine Director Olivier Flosse.

Date: Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010

Time: Reception at 7 p.m. Dinner at 7:30 p.m.

Place: Morello, 253 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, Conn.

Price: $135 per person all inclusive

RSVP: Morello at 203.661.3443 or www.MorelloBistro.com

Menu: HORS D’OEUVRES

Gavi White Label 2009

PRIMI

Dolcetto d’Alba “Madonna di como” 2008

Squash Ravioli with sage butter

SECONDI

Barbera d’Alba “Ruvei” 2007

Roast Halibut with rustic polenta, king oyster mushrooms

CARNE

Barbaresco 2006

Barolo 2005

Bistecca with celeriac root puree, black grapes

DOLCI

Moscato d’Asti “Zagara” NV

Poached figs with almond gelato

About Marchesi di Barolo

Since 2006, the winery has been under the direction of the family of Ernesto Abbona which, with more than 60 percent of the shares, has a majority control. This has permitted an increase in productivity and refocusing of commercial strategy which is the reason behind the growth of the business in recent years. The operating principle behind the business is a firm conviction of and commitment to the indisputable quality of the wines produced in this region, as characterized by a number of indigenous vines of great prestige. In fact, the composition of the soil in the lower regions of Piedmont is quite unique.

Marchesi di Barolo can be considered a medium-sized winery: It controls approximately 110 hectares of vineyards from which it produces approximately 1.5 million bottles of wine. The winery produces Barolo, Barbaresco, Nebbiolo d’Alba, Barbera d’Alba, Dolcetto d’Alba, Roero Arneis, Gavi, Moscato d’Asti e Brachetto d’Acqui.

Concerning the future, the enthusiastic proprietors of Marchesi di Barolo plan to further intensify and deepen the already close ties with the estate’s vineyard holdings, while at the same time continuing to increase the presence of its products in the best sales venues and consumer markets throughout the world, with a special emphasis on the high-quality restaurant sector. The future of Marchesi di Barolo is in good hands: The continuity of its mission guaranteed by a new, younger generation already engaged in the pursuit of specially targeted courses of study.

About Morello Italian Bistro

Opened in December 2008 and located at 253 Greenwich Ave. in Greenwich, Conn., Morello offers diners Italian-influenced cuisine, more than 650 varieties of wine, superior service in a stylish and energizing setting. Serving rustic Italian food with a modern twist, Morello stays true to the style of traditional bistros.

Morello is part of the Marlon Abela Restaurant Corporation (MARC) portfolio of restaurants that also includes A Voce in New York City, Bistro du Midi in Boston, and The Greenhouse and UMU in London.

Along with its relaxed atmosphere and welcoming service, Morello showcases many local ingredients and affordable prices. The Executive Chef Mark Medina-Rios has infused the menu with his own style and modern approach to old-world cooking. For additional information, please visit www.MorelloBistro.com or Morello on Facebook.

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08/31/10 Birds Of A Feather Flock Together - Taking A Look At Congressman Jim Himes And His Wanna-Be Dan Debicella

The Greenwich Time's Niel Vigdor Tries To Give Us Some Thoughtful Political Analysis, But Comes Up Short.

Third Rate Political Analyst Wanna-Be Niel Vigdor Certainly Is Not A Ken Dixon Or A Brian Lockhart ......

Tell me who you walk with, and I’ll tell you who you are

August 30, 2010 at 1:27 pm by Neil Vigdor

We put U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., on the spot Friday about President Obama’s September fundraising trip to Connecticut.

“The president is always welcome in Fairfield County,” Himes said to Hearst Connecticut Newspapers via e-mail.

Himes’ comment is 180-degrees from a warning to Obama not to come here by former Connecticut Democratic Party Chairman John Droney, who suggested that the visit could be a liability for the candidates during a taping of the WFSB-Channel 3 Sunday talk show “Face the State.”

But Himes did not say whether he will be at Obama’s side for the upcoming fundraiser, which a Himes aide might conflict with the congressional vote schedule.

State Sen. Dan Debicella, R-Conn., who is challenging the freshman Himes, is hoping to feast on the issue.....

Now Here Is What Third Rate Greenwich Time Political Analyst Niel Vigdor Would Tell You If He Had A Pair Of Journalistic Balls ....

Shelton Resident Dan "No I Really Am A Moderate" Debicella Seeks Support From Connecticut Tea Party Radicals

In 2009, Connecticut Tea Party supporters like Al Alper, Cathy Grippi and failed Republican primary candidate Rob "I Got High And Forgot To Vote" Merkle united around a belief the federal government has exceeded its constitutionally delineated powers and threatens American freedoms.

A CBS News poll released in April 2010, Tea Party supporters tended to be white, male, married and older than age forty-five.

Nearly 9 in 10 disapprove of President Obama’s performance, and 92% believe the President is moving the country toward socialism.

Other polls have shown that a significant number of these tea party radicals also believe that President Obama is a secret Muslim, That President Obama is not really american and that 9/11 was an inside job.

It is no surprise that these radical Connecticut Tea Partiers members harbor a fierce animosity towards incumbents. Supporters classify themselves in opinion polls as not simply “dissatisfied”, but instead, “angry” with incumbents.

Polls reveal the same holds true for these radical Connecticut Tea Party members have the same views about elected officials at the state and local level.

Many of these wrong headed Connecticut Tea Party radicals believe the President Obama's priorities are disproportionately weighted to aiding the poor at the expense of the middle class and wealthier Americans.

At least 25% think that President Obama is a racist who favors blacks over whites, compared with 11% of the general public.

Some of these radical tea party activists like Al Alper have been registering tea party names, setting up local web sites and organizing a small band of radicals that hold little street protests in hopes of starting a third Connecticut political party.

Yet, Alpers dreams of being the Connecticut Tea Party chairman, when all of his supported canidates went down in flames.

Radical Tea Party members, like Al Alpert, have an

ultimate goal is to create a national Tea Party, much like Billionaire Ross Perot's short lived national Reform Party in 1992.

This movement has become a daily talking point on twenty-four hour talk radio and cable network shows,

and laid claim to some recent, high-profile events where a megalomaniac named Glen Beck took over the Lincoln Memorial as others came to honor Martin Luther King.

This movement has been in the headlines for about a year, and candidates like Dan Debicella, is hedging his congressional election bet by capitalizing on the Tea Party name in Connecticut.

Debicella tapped into the Tea Party’s appearance of political voltage by portraying slaming the typical country-club Republican's of Greenwich.

Moderate mainstream Republican avoid going to a Dan Debicella event, because they are afraid that

Merle Haggard’s 1969 hit “I’m An Okie from Muskogee” will twang through the public address system as Debicella attendees shout “Chuck Schumer is a terrorist!!!!!"

Debicella has warned us that hundreds of “violent-criminal-illegal immigrants” were pouring over the U.S. border with Mexico.

Any day now, one expects desperate Dan Debicella to try and claim this

claim to represent “the awakening of the silent tea party majority" by saying something stupid like .....

“Just give me a school bus and a big ole gun, and let’s go down to the Greenwich Hospital Emergency Rooms and the places in Stamford where those Mexican's stand out for work and just round them up.”

Don't forget that Dan Debicella is the incumbent politician and insurance company executive has

repeatedly sided with insurance companies voting against nearly all senators to deny coverage for prosthetics, hearing aids for children, and treatments to help cancer patients find bone marrow donors.

Debicella was one of four senators to side with insurance companies against deaf children.

Twice Debicella was one of two votes against requiring coverage of bone marrow treatments designed to expand the National Bone Marrow Registry that helps match cancer patients with donors.

Dan Debicella has the worst environmental record of any Connecticut state senator in the past decade, according to Connecticut’s League of Conservation Voters.

Dan Debicella voted to deny emergency contraception to victims of rape.

In 2007, Dan Debicella was one of three senators to vote against a bill requiring all Connecticut hospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape victims.

Moderate Greenwich Republican candidates like Linda McMahon and Tom Foley wont com with in 10 miles of a radical Connecticut Tea Party or Dan Debicella.

The facts are the facts ...... 35% Of Connecticut's Republicans live in lower Fairfield County and there base is Greenwich, Connecticut Which is socially moderate. Greenwich Republican Representatives and Senators would never vote to deny hearing aids to children.

Greenwich Republicans refer to themselves as "Compassionate Conservatives" and often reject wrong head right wing radicals.

Debicella's desire to jump on the band wagon of the New Right” is turning of Greenwich Republican's who view the out of town Tea Party members as the modern version of the John Birch Society and part of a larger, reactionary drift in American politics.

One Must Judge Dan Debicella By The Company That He Seeks Out ....

VIDEO: The John Birch Society in 1958, Forerunner of the Tea Party Movement?

You Remember The John Birch Society, They Were The Folks Who Said President Dwight Eisenhower Was A Conscious Agent Of The Communist Party

They John Birch Society Are Also The Folks That Still Say That Putting Fluoride In Drinking Water Was Yet Another Communist Plot To Mass Medicate Gog Fearing Americans

'Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.' -- George Santayana

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Just One More Thing....

Barack Obama IS NOT A Socialist,

But Jeasus Christ WAS A Socialist......

Jesus was the very first Socialist.

Got your attention with that statement, didn’t I?

Jesus was the first Socialist, this isn’t really a question, but a statement of fact based upon the New Testament Bible.

In fact it is an interesting phenomenon that those who are most vocal in their rejection of social programs to assist the poor and displaced of our society are the very same who in most cases espouse Christian values as the basis of their political stance.

Mark Chapter 10:21-25:

²¹Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” ²²At this the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth. ²³Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!” ²⁴The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! ²⁵It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

Here we have a very good example of Utopian Socialism in action with Jesus telling the wealthy young man the only way to follow him and gain heaven was to give away his great wealth to the poor,

in other words redistribution of personal wealth to those with great need from those with great riches. Naturally, this must be very difficult for some to swallow, notice that the young mans face ‘fell’ when told he must give away his wealth to follow Jesus.

Matthew 25:31-46:

The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats

⁴¹"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴²For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, ⁴³I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' ⁴⁴"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ ⁴⁵"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’⁴⁶"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life”.

Jesus' brother James also seemed to be a Utopian Socialist being

James 2:1-7:

¹My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don't show favoritism.²Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in. ³If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, "Here's a good seat for you," but say to the poor man, "You stand there" or "Sit on the floor by my feet," ⁴have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? ⁵Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? ⁶But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? ⁷Are they not the ones who are slandering the noble name of him to whom you belong?

Providing for the weakest members of society should be a given rather than a fight. Just as a purely Socialist economy is not sustainable neither is a purely Capitalist driven economy as we have ample proof of today in the United States.

So I say again, Jesus was the first Socialist. Perhaps all those who shout from their pulpits and their soapboxes about their moral right to gain riches on the backs and at the cost of others should check their premise. While they are pointing fingers and calling names, perhaps they should read the book they claim that they are standing upon.

The Question Is Not "What Would Jesus Do?"

The Question Is "What Should You Do?"

Dan Debicella Voted To Deny Children Access To Hearing Aids

Would You Or Jesus Do That?

Receiving a child into your arms in the name of Jesus is a way to receive Jesus. And receiving Jesus is a way to receive God. Therefore how we deal with children is a signal of our fellowship with God.

When Jesus saw that his disciples were arguing over which of them was the greatest, “He sat down and called the twelve. . . .And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them,

‘Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.’” (Mark 9:34-37).

According to the scripture Jesus healed thousands of people, from the officials dying son, to the leper, the paralyzed man, the blind man at Bethsaida etc etc...

Jesus never turned anyone away because of a pre-existing condition. He never sent anyone insurmountable bills that ultimately led to financial futility. He never rationed healthcare to those who could afford it, while excluding those who could not,

Jesus taught us that healthcare was not a luxury, it was simply the Christian thing to do.

In fact, healing is a constitutive element of Jesus’ ministry. His first miracles in the Gospel of Mark are casting a demon from a man and healing a woman with a fever. In the whole of the gospels, there are 41 distinct stories of physical or mental healing. Jesus heals the blind, cures the withered hand and stops the bleeding.

He called his followers to do the same. Jesus instructed his disciples to go into towns and “cure the sick who are there” (Luke 10:9).

Jesus would not say don't help that sick illegal alien living and working in Byram section of Greenwich.

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08/31/10 GREENWICH BRIEFING: Campaign Update: Malloy and Foley Talk About A Real Issue: Rick Green | CT Confidential

This Just In To The Greenwich Roundup Newsroom ....

Campaign Update: Malloy and Foley Talk About A Real Issue: Rick Green | CT Confidential (The Hartford Courant)

Dan Malloy today is correctly slapping Tom Foley for the Greenwich businessman's support of removing federal oversight of the state Department of Children and Families....

Maybe Connecticut Should Hire Some More Failed School Administrators That Make Over $100, 000 Per Year ....

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Connecticut spends more per pupil on education than 46 other states, yet has the worst achievement gap in the nation, with low-income 4th and 8th graders on average three grade levels behind their peers in reading and math, the governor's commission on the achievement gap announced Monday....

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The Queen of Mean's castle is about to be sold at a bargain-basement price, the New York Post reported Monday.....

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