Spitzer Fiddles While NYC Falls Apart

From Eliot Spitzer’s Never-Never Land:

Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — The base fare for New York City’s subways and buses will stay at $2 through 2009 after the state authority that operates the network found $220 million in additional

I note Boortz, yesterday, looking at this Michael Vick business with his usual jaundiced eye:

Now .. here’s the laugh of the week. Vick’s attorney is Billy Martin.  Here’s what Martin had to say to the press after Vick disappeared

Lest anyone think the Oil for Food business has gone away, The NY SUN will disabuse you of that notion straight away:

A Switzerland-based oil trading company has pleaded guilty to paying $13 million in kickbacks to the Iraqi government

Hume, last night:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is trying to kill an amendment that would shield from lawsuits — employers who require their workers to speak English.

The Wall Street Journal reports one of those employers being targeted by an

McQ over at Q&O:

Frankly I’m surprised it has taken him so long to realize the potential.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to turn OPEC into “an organization of monopoly and exploitation,” according to Saudi King

McQ over at O&O made a trip to an oil platform, and relates his experiences here.

There’s a lot going on in that post, but I do want to point up something  that relates to a discussion we had the

Socialists, and leftards, do I repeat myself, chant that healthcare is a right.  Nonsense.  Healtcare is a commodity.  That it is product of human endeavor.   Healthcare only exists when some human endeavors to create it.

Humans who are required to

Nothing to see here. Just Move On, Citizens.

(Washington Post) – Federal prosecutors on Friday accused Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) of soliciting bribes in two alleged schemes that had not been previously disclosed.

The allegations, detailed in a seven-page

I’ve had some time to consider the Spitzer “I don’t have a plan anymore” speech of yesterday One thing I noted Spitzer’s “poor me” act, wherein he, in dropping the “drivers licenses for illegals” monster he’s been pushing, complains that

Michelle

Yes, my site’s been down most of the day because of a Rackspace server outage.

Yes, I’d wondered about that. There were a few others down, too. Glad to see you back online.

“Fat and stupid is no way to go through life, Son.” -Dean Wormer

I envision that line being fed to Rosie O’Donnel. It fits so very well.

Fat we know about. Stupid, we know as well, though there seems to

Heh.

I noted earlier today, that Bruce at Q&O noted the site and ran the test.

It advised him they’re writing over there at the College Undergraduate level.

I ran the thing myself on BitsBlog, and came up a bit

Just a thought;

I’ve been watching the business with the script writer’s strike out in Hollywood, with some amaze. The first thing to see problems of course, as this cracks up, is the monologues for the late shows… Letterman, Leno,

I was interested to see Blue Crab Blvd commenting on the possibility of Rosie O’Donnel showing up at MS-NBC:

The Melted Steely Knoll Troll and the Mouth That Roared Lies together at last. Obviously, MSNBC is trying to corner the

Billy Beck makes a point that I made yesterday:

Doug Mataconis links and quotes Radley Balko on the latest rumblings among the savages:

“This is why ‘spreading democracy’ is such a foolish foreign policy objective. There are lots