It’s Snowing Tickets in NYC

I’ve said for years tickets are not about making safe the public, they’re about making money for the state. There’s never been more solid proof than what is going on in NYC just now… per WCBS:

You may have

Decided to share some photography my older boy put together. He’s becoming rather good at this kind of thing. As usual, drill the pic twice to get full size.

This pic is taken at one of our favorite railfanning spots,

Men are you up to Reverend Ed Young’s challenge, John Kelso, Statesman:

All I’ve got to say is praise Jesus.

The Rev. Ed Young of the Fellowship Church in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine says he’ll challenge the married

Welcome dear reader to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

Only one more shopping day until Black Friday. Good gosh, it’s November, already? I must be getting old; this stuff is going faster than

Go tell the Spartans Marines,  Cpl. James M. Mercure, Marine Corps News: 

FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan — In the city of Shewan, approximately 250 insurgents ambushed 30 Marines and paid a heavy price for it.

The Few, the Proud, the

One of the updates I did last night, should have been simple enough… the Widget Cache code got updated by it’s author. Apparently, that update caused some strange interactions with the database. I’ve disabled it until I figure out what’s

Is Barack Obaam(BO) planning an economic stimulus package or just of pay-off to campaign donors?   From Julie Hirschfield Davis, Associated Press:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats and President-elect Barack Obama are laying the groundwork for quick enactment in January

Over at OTB, James points to an AP feed which reports they’ve banned ‘Happy Hour” in the UK. Obviously, the stated concerns are health-related.

It must, however, be asked if Government isn’t overstepping it’s bounds here?  More correctly, perhaps is

I’ve done some housecleaning.

First, Bye Bye Memeorandum. Nice little widget you have there. It’s been a bloody YEAR since you last linked me. You link the blog on a regular basis, I’ll run your ad again. Not until.

Second

Raymond Hernandez, New York Times, is reporting yet more tax fraud on the part of Represnetative Charlie Rangel:

WASHINGTON – Representative Charles B. Rangel’s legal team is reviewing his tax records to determine whether the congressman received a homestead

Brian Maloney, Radio Equalizer, is reporting that Alam Colmes is leaving the Hannity & Colmes show:

After a remarkable twelve year run, Alan Colmes is set to leave FOX News Channel’s top-rated Hannity & Colmes at the end of

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… Bit’sBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

Yet another Monday, and only three shopping days left until ‘Black Friday”.

• Thanks for the feedback abot the new latout.  It pleases me

There’s a reason why Obama and his people are so busy back peddling from the goals they laid out during the campaign; reality.

Robert Stacy McCain  says it well:

Details, however, were not the Obama campaign’s strongest selling point. Rather,

In this morning’s Financial Times:

The US government rode to the rescue of Citigroup, entering an agreement to guarantee up to $306bn in problematic assets and inject $20bn in capital to restore confidence in a bank that defines the

Ooooohhh… this is rich. From the Washington Post:

NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the “Forecast Earth” environmental program during the