07.03.09
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at 11:13 pm
NY Senate, Paterson fail to end standoff:
ALBANY (AP) — Battling leaders of New York’s Senate who met with Gov. David Paterson say there is no power-sharing agreement to end a standoff over control of the chamber. After Friday’s one-hour, closed door meeting the Senate remains gridlocked…
Irate about his failure to get the boys and girls to play nice together, Gov. David Paterson threatened to, “go out in the garden and eat a worm” if the two sides didn’t end the standoff. He also condemned the fort the dems built out of cardboard boxes. The dems meanwhile, claimed they needed the fort to protect themselves from the spitballs the reps were throwing from their cardboard fort on the other side of the hall. Gov. Paterson meanwhile, asked for permission from the pols mothers for them to stay up late and try to work things out. Paterson then offered milk and cookies if they would talk but the dems wanted chocolate chip and the reps wanted Oreos, and thus the impasse continues…
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One person killed in motorcycle crash near Fabius/Tully line:
One person was killed in a motorcycle crash at about 9 p.m. Friday near 1564 Sky High Road, which runs along the Fabius/Tully line, according to the Onondaga County 911 Center. The crash was reported at 9:18 p.m., dispatchers said….
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Newsmax.com - Scientist: Global Warming Claims a Lot of Hype:
Lawmakers who described the alleged effects of global warming are spreading a lot of “eye wash,” a top climate scientist says. …
Reality and truth no longer matter. The die is cast and Obama and the dems are holding their hands over their ears and eyes and don’t want to hear or see anything that refutes their plan to combat that which does not exist.
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RealClearPolitics - Video - Sarah Palin Won’t Seek Second Term, Will Resign Mid-Term:
Everybody’s guessing why she’s doing it and one reason may be that the constant negativity from the left just got too much to deal with. Why would any sane person want to put up with that shit. And that’s why we end up with the leaders we have, people too dumb to do anything else.
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Palin Opts Against Run for Second Term as Alaska Governor - Political News - FOXNews.com :
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday that she would not seek a second term next year, setting up a potential run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. …
Let the attacks begin… wait… They never stopped!
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London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows:
BBCWatcher writes
“Computerworld’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the London Stock Exchange is abandoning its Microsoft Windows-based trading platform: ‘Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE’s Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day …. Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect …’”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Jefferson jury hears secret FBI tapes - Washington Times:
Secretly recorded conversations played Thursday at the corruption trial of former Rep. William J. Jefferson revealed what prosecutors say is the Louisiana Democrat soliciting bribes. …
This is the guy with 90 grand in cash in his freezer.
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A Miserable Failure:
That’s the Obama administration’s “stimulus” plan, which mainly stimulated Democratic constituencies with great gobs of pork. The web site Innocent Bystanders has done a service by plotting the actual unemployment rate against the Obama administration’s prediction of what would happen with and without the “stimulus.” Here is the latest, updated through June; click to enlarge:
The administration’s forecast provides a benchmark against which we can judge the success or failure of the $700 billion porkapalooza. The result is obvious: it was a failure. The best thing Congress could do is to cancel the rest of the program–the large majority that remains unspent–and let the economy recover without being hampered by government-imposed inefficiencies.
With dems in charge, failure is not a good enough reason to stop doing something. They have to keep doing it until they can find a way to blame it on Bush.
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Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli begins process to stop Senate pay:
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said today that he is starting the process of stopping senators’ paychecks. He also outlined the cost — which taxpayers will bear — of the Senate’s inaction so far. It totals nearly $3 billion. …
That’s okay, NY has money to burn.
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Microsoft Changing Users’ Default Search Engine:
BabyDuckHat writes “Cnet’s Dennis O’Reilly caught ‘Windows Search Helper’ trying to change his default Firefox search from Google to Bing. This isn’t the first time the software company has been caught quietly changing user’s preferences to benefit its own products.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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07.02.09
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at 8:58 am
Congress’s Travel Tab Swells - WSJ.com:
… Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago. ….
This is just one of the ’spending’ parts of tax and spend democrats.
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Opinionated Prejean, Ireland shatter myth - Washington Times:
A new era may be dawning for glamour queens.
To work in Hollywood or in other facets of the entertainment business once meant smiling, having pretty hair and mostly keeping silent on issues. Not anymore: Beauty and beliefs — including political and religious beliefs — can coexist surprisingly well, said Michelle Borquez, founder of Shine Magazine, a publication promoting “inner and outer beauty” in a woman’s life. …
Dawn of a new age perhaps…
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British actress Sugden dead at 86:
GUILDFORD, England, July 2 (UPI) — British actress Mollie Sugden, best known at Mrs. Slocombe in the TV sitcom “Are You Being Served?,” has died after a long illness, her agent said. She was 86.
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A pitch-man’s latest pitch:
This is about Obama’s demand that Israel more or less surrender to the Arab states that surround it. Israel is no fool and will not do this which makes me wonder if Obama is a fool for suggesting it. Sometimes I wonder just how smart he actually is. He sounds good but so would any actor reading from a TelePrompTer. Perhaps he’s not that smart after all.
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GOP claims Democrats doctored New York Senate records after coup - syracuse.com:
The Republican-dominated faction claiming control of the New York Senate says a Democrat-appointed legislative staffer doctored the original, official minutes of the session three weeks ago to delete the GOP-staged coup to seize the majority. …
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Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden dead at 97:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of Karl Malden says the actor who won an Oscar for his role in “A Streetcar Named Desire” has died at age 97. …
Hardly a day goes by when we don’t lose another one.
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The Blogometer: 7/1: Sixty Senators:
While liberal bloggers are extremely critical of ex-Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-MN) actions over the past eight months, they’re pleased that he finally conceded and allowed Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) to be seated. Now the netroots are discussing the political implications of a 60-seat majority in the Senate. On the one hand, lefty bloggers caution that the Dem majority isn’t exactly filibuster-proof, since (a.) centrists like Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) have been only too willing to buck their party, and (b.) ailing Sens. Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA) haven’t cast a vote in weeks. On the other hand, lefty bloggers are declaring that Dems no longer have any excuses for not passing legislation. Markos Moulitsas writes: “Psst, Harry [Reid]? You’ve got 60 Dems. No more excuses.” Similarly, Atrios warns that Franken’s victory means that “a new game begins — which Dems vote against cloture.” Liberal bloggers already had little patience for Dem senators who obstruct Pres. Obama’s agenda; it seems likely that they’ll have even less patience now. …
It will be fun to watch them eat their own. They, the liberal bloggers, don’t understand that these pols main objective is not to pass Obama’s laws, they want to get reelected and if they veer too far from the middle they might lose their jobs. For the dems this looks like one of those cases where getting what you wished for ain’t all that great. Now they can’t blame the reps for their failure to pass stuff the libs want, now everything that happens, good and bad, will be 100% dems, including Obama. Notice that they stopped blaming Bush for everything, that was wearing thin and now it’s all theirs.
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Apple iPhone 3GS sold out in UK:
O2, the exclusive carrier for Apple’s iPhone in the UK, reports that the iPhone 3GS is currently “out of stock”. …
In the first month of sales, the iPhone killer, Palm Pre, sold 100,000 units. In the first THREE days that the iPhone 3GS was available Apple sold ONE MILLION handsets. Yet some pundits still claim the Pre is a threat to the iPhone.
BTW: Pundits is short for, “Punting Idiots”
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Chrysler settles lemon claims for a price:
As if buying a lemon isn’t bad enough, Chrysler is now demanding that some customers who settle lemon-law claims forfeit any future legal claims against the company. …
My dad used to be a Chrysler man. I doubt he’d be one today. Let’s get serious, buying a GM or Chrysler car today is an act of complete foolishness.
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“New GM” will cover future product-liability claims, but not pending ones:
After the Chrysler bankruptcy left consumers without recourse to the company for potential product defects, GM had originally sought a similar outcome for itself. But under pressure from the government and consumer groups, GM has now agreed to stand behind product liability claims for all GM cars and trucks that are filed after the company emerges from bankruptcy, according to court documents (PDF).
Left behind in the new agreement are consumers who have existing liability claims against GM that were pending before the automaker filed for bankruptcy. Many of these consumers have been left as the most vulnerable members of society as a result of car accidents or incidents allegedly caused by defects in GM vehicles. Among the 300-some claimants are quadriplegics and catastrophically injured children, says Sean Kane, CEO of Safety Research and Strategies of Rehoboth, Mass.
In GM’s initial bankruptcy filing, the company planned to abandon these claims. …
I used to be a GM customer, never again.
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New York Senate Democrats claim quorum, start passing bills - syracuse.com:
Democrats claimed control of the split New York Senate on Tuesday, declaring a quorum after a Republican took a short cut through the chamber because an exterior parlor had been blocked by Democrats for a press conference they never held. …
Even dems at the state level know how to cheat.
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The ‘Absentee’ Senator - WSJ.com:
Franken wins by changing the rules.
The Minnesota Supreme Court yesterday declared Democrat Al Franken the winner of last year’s disputed Senate race, and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman’s gracious concession at least spares the state any further legal combat. The unfortunate lesson is that you don’t need to win the vote on Election Day as long as your lawyers are creative enough to have enough new or disqualified ballots counted after the fact.
Mr. Franken trailed Mr. Coleman by 725 votes after the initial count on election night, and 215 after the first canvass. The Democrat’s strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total. The Franken legal team swarmed the recount, aggressively demanding that votes that had been disqualified be added to his count, while others be denied for Mr. Coleman.
But the team’s real goldmine were absentee ballots, thousands of which the Franken team claimed had been mistakenly rejected. While Mr. Coleman’s lawyers demanded a uniform standard for how counties should re-evaluate these rejected ballots, the Franken team ginned up an additional 1,350 absentees from Franken-leaning counties. By the time this treasure hunt ended, Mr. Franken was 312 votes up, and Mr. Coleman was left to file legal briefs. …
… Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election. If the GOP hopes to avoid repeats, it should learn from Minnesota that modern elections don’t end when voters cast their ballots. They only end after the lawyers count them.
In order for reps to win close elections they will have to learn how to cheat like the dems do.
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GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested:
An anonymous reader writes
“Apparently, since gas consumption is going down and fuel efficient cars are becoming more popular, the government is looking into a new form of taxation to create revenue for transportation projects. This new system is a ‘by-the-mile tax,’ requiring GPS in cars so it can track the mileage. Once a month, the data gets uploaded to a billing center and you are conveniently charged for how much you drove. ‘A federal commission, after a two-year study, concluded earlier this year that the road tax was the “best path forward” to keep revenues flowing to highway and transportation projects, and could be an important new tool to help manage traffic and relieve congestion. … The commission pegged 2020 as the year for the federal fuel tax, currently 18.5 cents a gallon, to be phased out and replaced by a road tax. One estimate of a road tax that would cover the current federal and state fuel taxes is 1 to 2 cents per mile for cars and light trucks.’”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
They will know where you went, how long you stayed there, every move you make. Big brother is here and his name is Obama.
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