Nightly Ramble: Themes And Schemes, The Gray Lady And the Iceberg, The Pope Shows Up, the Stars Fall, the Ground Shakes, And More

• In talking with a few people, I’ve decided that instead of going for an all in one shot theme change, I’m going to try and use the existing framework, and do a slow change over time. Dabble with the colors,

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Construction union thugs used the state Department of Motor Vehicles database to target nonmember workers and their families for violence, property damage and threats of sexual assault, federal officials said Tuesday as they announced the arrests

• April 15th. Tax day. It occurs to me as I watch the mail delivery guy in his jeep dropping off more bills for me to pay, that the tax bill may be due today, but by some estimates we don’t

• Scott Fybush over at NERW reports:

*Former MASSACHUSETTS governor Mitt Romney guest-hosted the Paul Harvey show on Thursday, the latest in a line of personalities helping out with the show in the absence of the ailing Harvey, who’s now 89.

OIl is at one hundred twelve dollars a barrel.   The democrats talk about energy independence, but refuse to anything to achieve it, Investor’s Business Daily:

Pennsylvania Democrats must choose between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, both of whom oppose

• Look, I for one could care less about The Perky One, unless she wants to appear on ‘The Nude News”…(Just so I can see how far that perkiness extends, mind) But this bit with her and CBS was doomed

I note Dave Schuler over at OTB this monring, talking about  the price of rice going up.

When I read this post by one of the associate bloggers at Joe Gandelman’s The Moderate Voice, it piqued my interest. The

So just when does the decision from where to order pizza delivery become a moral question?   When the decision is between a Pizza Hut and pizza business which does not have corporate policy of indifference to the delivery person’s life.   

On both sides of the pond, concerned parents complain about books targeting school children which promote willful homosexual behavior, as if it were  normal.   The parents complain and  the school boards ignore. 

Now good news, Mike Pechar, Jawa Report,

• Turns out that the upgrade I’m planning for this weekend, itself needed a few upgrades as a prerequisite. For example, I use an automatic upgrade package, which needed updating. All that’s been done. I must say, WordPress is getting easier

• I wasn’t exactly goig through withdrawal symptoms over the weekend, while the site servers got moved physically… but damned near that. At least a dozen times I saw something that screamed out to be written up for the blog, and

Matthew Daneman, writing the the Rochester, NY Democrat and Chronicle:

More than 60 years after cultural icon Rosie the Riveter symbolized women’s emergence in the workplace, the state’s corporate boardrooms and corner offices remain largely a boys-only club.

A

In 2000, Mrs Clintoin campaigned on promise to fix the upstate New York economy.   She did not.   Now Mrs. Clinton is promising to fix the national economy   Yet while Mrs.. Clinton claims this magical, albeit never demonstrated, economic genius, much

From the Telegraph, today:

Plans for Al Gore to take the Democratic presidential nomination as the saviour of a bitterly divided party are being actively discussed by senior figures and aides to the former vice-president.

The bloody civil war

From Philly.com:

Puerto Rico’s governor and four Philadelphians, including prominent fund-raiser Robert M. Feldman, were charged this morning in San Juan with federal campaign-finance related crimes.

The investigation of Gov. Anibal Acevedo-Vila, a Democrat who faces re-election this year, was