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People?s Ownership of the Means of Production
2009-06-04 21:54:00 As people decry Obama's dastardly socialism, let's put into perspective the percentage of American industry that has been nationalized in order to prevent it from failing and throwing hundreds of thousands more people instantly out of work. HT to that Trotskyite Andrew Sullivan More About: People , Production
Government Consolidation Bill Passes State Senate
2009-06-04 21:54:00 Regardless of the news out of West Seneca and Evans today, the state can applaud the Senate 's passage of the consolidation bill. This is a significant development, as it empowers the people - you and me - to get certain taxing entities to dissolve or consolidate. This has ... More About: Government , State , Bill
Evans & West Seneca Vote Today to Downsize
2009-06-03 15:10:00 West Seneca votes today to reduce the size of its town board from 5 to 3, and Evans votes to downsize from 4 to 2. Will this make a significant dent in the tax burden we carry in WNY? It might help Evans and West Seneca in a ... More About: Today , West , Vote , Downsize
The Waterfront
2009-06-03 15:10:00 Firstly, let me congratulate the Waterline restaurant, which has replaced a somewhat smelly deli at the Waterfront Village. I had a really great grilled turkey & brie sandwich yesterday (which clearly solidifies my reputation as an effete French librul), which came with a mesclun salad. It beats the ...
Beebe & Becker on Sanchez
2009-06-03 15:10:00 Every day this week, the Buffalo News has been printing short excerpts from the upcoming book that staff reporters Maki Becker and Mike Beebe wrote about Altemio Sanchez and the bike path killer case. The excerpts have been gripping, and I'm really looking forward to getting a glimpse into ...
Erie County Flaccid Stability Board
2009-06-03 15:10:00 The Erie County Fiscal Stability Board has found the Collins Administration's proposed 4-year plan to be acceptable enough to justify it entering into advisory mode, commonly referred to as going from a "hard" to a "soft" control board. In other words, the control board has determined that county government's wild-ass ...
Hi, Who?s This, Please?
2009-06-03 03:09:00 Possibly the strangest story ever. It all started with an inquiry about the bottle bill to Senator Antoine Thompson's Albany office. Then it got weird. A staffer who identified himself as John Taylor answered the phone at Thompson's Albany office. He said the Buffalo-area senator was on his ...
Car Browsing Redux
2009-06-03 03:09:00 A couple of weeks ago, I did a post about my experiences at three auto dealers when I went out car browsing - not shopping - browsing. I made it crystal clear to everyone and anyone I spoke with that I was not buying anything that day, and that ... More About: Browsing
Main Place Mall - It?s Failtastic!
2009-06-02 03:09:00 Becky from Clarence Grad 72 took a trip to the Main Place Mall , and posted some pics and some reminiscences. The only thing I think of whilst strolling through the Main Place Mall is that it needs the Aud Treatment®. Just rip it down. In any event, this ...
The Murderer
2009-06-02 03:09:00 Via Andrew Sullivan, I am led to the conservative blog "Little Green Footballs", which has posted information concerning the suspect who is alleged to have shot abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. A couple of times I've predicted that we'll see a return to the militia movement we had to ... More About: Murderer
Transit Wegmans Parcel
2009-06-01 03:09:00 I saw and snapped this at the Transit Rd. Wegmans in East Amherst (or Williamsville or whatever it is over there) today. [caption id="attachment_9144" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Click to enlarge"][/caption] Following up on this post, the Clarence Town Board will be taking this up at its June 10th meeting.
Killing is Pro-Life
2009-05-31 21:08:00 An abortion doctor was murdered in Wichita, KS today while on his way in to church. This isn't just murder, and most likely a hypocritical one, at that. This is terrorism. The cops have a plate and are searching for the suspect. More About: Life , Pro-Life , Killing
Comment Threads are Fun
2009-05-31 21:08:00 This thread has become quite comical, with Ostrowski accusing me first of being a member of the Political Class?, then when he couldn't prove that, of being a "stooge" and "errand" boy for the Political Class?. The proof is that I support politicians like Higgins and Obama. Also, ... More About: Comment
Cheney the Fear Fetishist: STFU and You?re Wrong. The End.
2009-05-31 21:08:00 Richard Clarke in the WaPo: Yet listening to Cheney and Rice, it seems that they want to be excused for the measures they authorized after the attacks on the grounds that 9/11 was traumatic. "If you were there in a position of authority and watched Americans drop out of eighty-story ... More About: Fear , Wrong
Think of Canada as a foreign country
2009-05-31 15:07:00 That's the headline of this Buffalo News article today. I look forward to future insightful headlines including, Think of Cuba as an island. Think of Everest as a mountain. Think of Mars as a planet. Think of Motrin as an anti-inflammatory. Think of Europe as a continent. etc. More About: Country , Canada , Foreign
GM & Chrysler
2009-05-31 15:07:00 GM is expected imminently to go bankrupt, and Chrysler 's sale to Fiat, S.p.A. is expected to go be concluded by the end of next week. While in a perfect world, these companies wouldn't need government handouts to stay afloat, this isn't a perfect world, and it's more desirable to ...
C?mon Down to Cleveland Town, Everyone
2009-05-31 03:06:00 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y smLA5TqbIY[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o ZzgAjjuqZM[/youtube] It's time to make something similar poking fun at Buffalo. HT Shredd & Ragan More About: Town , Cleveland
A New Pledge of Allegiance?
2009-05-31 03:06:00 I found this interesting. I pledge allegiance to the principles of the American Revolution, stated by Jefferson, and for which the Minute Men and Washington's Army fought: that government's only purpose is to protect our natural rights to life, liberty, and property; that any government that does more than protect our ... More About: Allegiance , Pledge
About the Buffalo Libertarian ?Movement?
2009-05-31 03:06:00 Here's a comment I posted in Ostrowski's thread, and I'm reprinting here. The United States has evolved over its 200+ year history, and with each election, the social contract changes. Sometimes rightward, sometimes leftward. Never has it gone to either extreme, however. We have never had ... More About: Buffalo , Libertarian
Preening Freeners
2009-05-31 03:06:00 Here, Buffalo Geek explains that the movement to, say, get the state constitution overhauled isn't really off to an auspicious start. Leonard A. Roberto, founder of Primary Challenge, is hoping to get 4.7 million New York voters to cast a ballot next year to abolish state government. Before a ...
Meta
2009-05-31 03:06:00 Thanks to Peter Herr and Buffalo Stuff dot net for the very nice piece about me and the site. Check it. More About: Meta
If It?s Sunday, It?s Hardline with Dave Debo
2009-05-31 03:06:00 This week on Hardline, join host Dave Debo for a look at the size of local government. At 10am, regionalism advocate and "The Cost" proponent Kevin Gaughan will discuss downsizing votes in West Seneca and Evans. Also... Is the Erie County Legislature too big? Martha Lamparelli, the chair of the ... More About: Sunday
CrimeReport.com: Buffalo
2009-05-31 03:06:00 The City of Buffalo is adding raw crime data to this Google Map mashup.
In Clarence, Wegmans Lobbies You
2009-05-29 09:03:00 I came home yesterday to find a large envelope from Wegmans. In it was a very slick mailer with a business reply card informing me that Wegmans wants to close its existing Transit Road store in East Amherst and move it further north on Transit on the Clarence side ...
Progress on Government Consolidation
2009-05-28 15:01:00 Albany controls it all. Every municipal and county government is an integral subset of state government, and the latter doesn't make it easier for the former to consolidate or reform in order to help keep expenses and taxes down. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is looking to change all that. ... More About: Government , Progress
Gay Marriage, Prop 8 & Obama
2009-05-28 15:01:00 Because I'm not from Gulli-fornia, I haven't paid exquisite attention to the Prop 8 battle. In a nutshell, the California Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. Opponents put forth Prop 8, a ballot question to ban gay marriage, and it won by a narrow margin. There was a ... More About: Marriage , Gay Marriage , Obama
PUSH Buffalo Green Jobs & Housing Town Hall Meeting
2009-05-28 03:56:00 From the BP Mailbag: On Thursday, May 28th at 6p.m. PUSH Buffalo is hosting a Green Jobs & Housing Town Hall Meeting at 271 Grant St. There, PUSH and community members hope to open a dialog with and gain support for its platform from local elected officials. The ...
Friday: Buffalo Public Hearing on Proposed State Senate Ethics Rules
2009-05-27 21:55:00 From the BP mailbag, comes this announcement of a public hearing on proposed ethics reform rules for the New York State Senate which will be held in Buffalo on Friday , May 29th. Notice of Public Hearing : New York State Senate Standing Committee on Ethics SUBJECT: To address a number ...
Exodus
2009-05-27 21:55:00 While Tom Golisano changes his domicile from New York to Florida in a press-released, "pay attention to me" fit of pique, we should be far more concerned about the case of the Bell family's escape of New York taxation for the warmer climes and lower taxes of Florida. Golisano ... More About: Exodus
Sotomayor on Ethnicity & Gender
More articles from this author:2009-05-27 21:55:00 Prodigal Son left this comment yesterday: Do you have a problem with the fact that she thinks Latina women make better judges that white men? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/us/15ju dge.html I don?t have a problem with anything else that she has said (that I have heard), including the policy-making issue. But reverse discrimination kinda bugs me, because ... More About: Gender , Ethnicity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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