Isn't "dipping" the same thing as "stealing"?

The Detroit News Online: "Lawmakers and Gov. Jennifer Granholm dealt with the deficit by delaying payments to state universities and community colleges, dipping into funds set aside for job training and substance abuse treatment and selling off part of the state's future tobacco settlement. Taxes were not raised to fill the hole."

I just saw a PT Cruiser with a "car bra".

Gave me the willies......

Wow! Miss America might be packin'!

BLACKFIVE: Army Medic (and Miss Utah) Competing in Miss America Pageant: "GI Jill, Sergeant Jill Stevens, a Utah National Guard Medic and OEF veteran, is someone you can be proud of and support on January 26, 2008, when she competes in the Miss America Pageant.
As a National Guard soldier in College, her university pageant director convinced her to compete. She scoffed at the idea."

She's Smokin'!

Heh....

Deja Vu - WSJ.com: "a New York alderman, Peter McGuinness, proposed a city ordinance that would prohibit women from smoking in hotels, restaurants or other public places.
'Young fellows go into our restaurants to find women folks sucking cigarettes,' the alderman argued. 'What happens? The young fellows lose all respect for the women, and the next thing you know the young fellows, vampired by these smoking women, desert their homes, their wives and children, rob their employers and even commit murder so that they can get money to lavish on these smoking women.'"

(the entire column is in the 2 comments section)

A great question

TCS Daily - My Global Warming Question: "My question is this:
what are the most persuasive reasons for believing that the rise in temperature is due to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide?"

Sad, sad people.

5 of 7 developed complications?

Sounds too much like the Laetrile scam in Mexico.

Americans seek stem cell treatments in China - Cloning and stem cells- msnbc.com: "Noting the lack of evidence, three Western doctors undertook their own limited study. It involved seven patients with spinal cord injuries who chose to get fetal brain tissue injections at one hospital in China. The study reported “no clinically useful improvements” — even though most patients believed they were better. Five developed complications such as meningitis."

MSM shocked, demands new study!

Who'd of guessed......

Michigan sees fewer gun deaths — with more permits: "Six years after new rules made it much easier to get a license to carry concealed weapons, the number of Michiganders legally packing heat has increased more than six-fold.
But dire predictions about increased violence and bloodshed have largely gone unfulfilled, according to law enforcement officials and, to the extent they can be measured, crime statistics."

Earth friendly?

Maybe he was just trying to reduce her "carbon footprint"?

My Way News - Cops: Man Cooked Parts of Slain Woman: "A man killed his girlfriend, then filleted and cooked parts of her body before calling police to tell them what he was doing, authorities said Sunday."

Is Ford back?

Wow!
35 MPG, Six airbags and...
$16,000!!!!!


Ford Vehicles: 2008 Ford Focus - See pricing details, photos, options, packages, and more

What ever happened to "rainy day funds"?

Maybe they ought to take a hard look at the "budget dudes"?

This is happening everywhere.

"It's not our fault" ..... please reelect us..... and vote us more of your money.....or stop complaining"

Lansing State Journal: Clinton Co. roads budget snowed under: "After the first of two major snowfalls, Clinton County officials said their snow removal money for 2007 was gone, forcing them to use money set aside for other projects.
'We've already exceeded what we budgeted for '07, so whatever money we use (for the rest of the year) we won't have for '08 projects,' said Mike Nobach, the director of the Clinton County Road Commission"

This is scary

Voting by mail starts for California's 2008 presidential primary: "Vote-by-mail ballots go out this week in the nation's most populous state, forcing presidential campaigns to consider using scarce dollars to lure early California voters while contests unfold in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
More than half the total votes in California's Feb. 5 primary could be mailed in, and many of those ballots will be cast long before Election Day in a state that has seen scant evidence of the 2008 presidential campaign."

Don't eat that donut or we're gonna cut ya!

Junkfood Science: A heart stopper

Bringing in the new year, Radio Iowa reported from a bariatric surgeon at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha. Increasing numbers of teens are coming in wanting bariatric surgeries, according to Dr. Ranjan Sudan, and “some doctors are looking at performing weight loss surgeries [sic] on children as young as five.”

A Fox News Debate Round-Up - Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)

A Fox News Debate Round-Up - Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)

The "unbiased, patriotic" MSM and friends

In their own words.

Best of Notable Quotables 2007 -- Media Research Center

List of common misconceptions

List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Attack of the killer bulbs?

Yeah, but isn't saving the Planet more important the health of ....polluters?

Low-energy bulbs 'could cause skin cancer' - Telegraph: "The new energy-saving bulbs produce a more intense light and can exacerbate a range of existing skin problems."

"Why I Believe Bush Must Go"

At least Ronnie went with class..... and quietly.

Why I Believe Bush Must Go: "By George McGovern
Sunday, January 6, 2008; B01

As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president."

Not everyone agrees:

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_01_06-2008_01_12.shtml#1199673472

Into the mind of madness

Loose Change 911

"Are you feelin' Hucky, punk?"

Opinion: Secular left vs. Christian left huckabee, huck, guy, put, afford - OCRegister.com: "Confronted by Preacher Huckabee standing astride the Iowa caucuses, smirking, 'Are you feelin' Hucky, punk?', many of my conservative pals are inclined to respond, 'Shoot me now.'"

Muskegon Presidential Primary info

http://www.co.muskegon.mi.us/clerk/ballotinformation.htm

Absentee voter application:

http://www.co.muskegon.mi.us/clerk/av_ballot_app_pres_prim.pdf

Comparison Test: 2007-2008 V6 Family Sedans

OK, this isn't a "family" car.

Pretty nifty photo, don't ya think?

Nissan GT-R.... zoom...

Comparison Test: 2007-2008 V6 Family Sedans: "When we last rounded up V6-powered family sedans in March 2006, the 2007 Toyota Camry XLE V6 came out on top, granting it an instant ticket to this year's face-off. But the competition is much different now, and its rivals this time around include the Nissan Altima, wholly redesigned in 2007, and all-new 2008 versions of the Chevrolet Malibu and Honda Accord."

John McCain in Norton Shores/Spring Lake Monday Jan, 14

John McCain 2008 - John McCain for President

Janurary 14 Schedule

Kazoo,Holland, Grand Rapids

Spring Lake:

4:00PM Nichols Co.

1391 Judson Rd

Spring Lake

You may want to be there by 3:30 p.m. so that you can get the best spot.
Family & Friends are welcome! Nichols is at the end of Judson Road, off of
Grand Haven Road. Has a Spring Lake Address but is in Norton Shores.

Well, duh......

Michigan GOP leaders?

Yep.....

"I try to think but nothing happens", "Soitenly", "Woob Woob Woob", "Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk", "I'm a victim of soicumstance", "Why you Numbskull".



U.S. Rep. Hoekstra fears Michigan's primary will be 'tainted': "Republican U.S. Representative Peter Hoekstra says the way the primary is set up could have a negative impact on the Republican candidates, “It's structured so poorly, and the results may be very much tainted because it's not really a Republican Primary.” Hoekstra explains, “It's really a primary that's open to all voters in the state, but all voter's in the state will probably only vote in the Republican Primary, it's really a mish-mash.'"

You had to see this one comming

Wow!

Way better than a "task force" is a "task force AND citizen advisory committee"!

And there is that little inconvience of spending the road money for other more "important" stuff years ago.....

Times Herald - www.thetimesherald.com - Port Huron, MI: "The state Department of Transportation's multi-billion dollar budget isn't enough to maintain the state's roads at their current condition, and Sen. Jud Gilbert, R-Algonac, wants solutions.

Recently, Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed a bill Gilbert sponsored last year that will create a task force and citizen advisory committee charged with proposing alternative revenue sources to pay for the state's transportation needs."

The decline is due in part to the fact the state has spent bond money generated in previous years, Gilbert said, ..."

"Availability Entrepreneurs" or simply, "liars"?

Predictions for 2008 - Climate Change - Global Warming - John Tierney - New York Times: "But there’s bound to be some weird weather somewhere, and we will react like the sailors in the Book of Jonah. When a storm hit their ship, they didn’t ascribe it to a seasonal weather pattern. They quickly identified the cause (Jonah’s sinfulness) and agreed to an appropriate policy response (throw Jonah overboard).
Today’s interpreters of the weather are what social scientists call availability entrepreneurs: the activists, journalists and publicity-savvy scientists who selectively monitor the globe looking for newsworthy evidence of a new form of sinfulness, burning fossil fuels."

God rest his soul

Major Andy Olmsted

Obsidian Wings: Andy Olmsted: "Andrew Olmsted, who also posted here as G'Kar, was killed yesterday in Iraq. Andy gave me a post to publish in the event of his death; the last revisions to it were made in July."

Michigration?

I haven't seen a "popularity" poll on Jennie lately.....wonder why........

Study confirms: Michigration: "A United Van Lines migration study said Michigan residents are leaving the state at a rate higher than any other state for two years in a row. Census Bureau figures indicate a population loss of 36,000 people."

"loophole" casino for Muskegon?

This one has an odor right from the start.

Maybe we ought to check the bank deposits of some of our City officials?

U.P. tribe to propose casino plan: "A delegation from the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians based in Watersmeet in the far west corner of the Upper Peninsula is expected to present a casino proposal to the city at a 5:30 p.m. work session.
Local leaders in contact with Lac Vieux Desert Band officials indicate the U.P. tribe wants to open a casino in an existing downtown building. The tribe reportedly is looking at the former SPX headquarters in the Terrace Point development, community leaders indicate.
It is also unknown how the tribe intends to get state and federal approval of a Muskegon casino, a difficult and usually years-long process. Some tribal leaders reportedly have indicated there is a 'loophole' that can be used to expedite the approval process."

But the Lac Vieux tribe has many hurdles to climb. Due to the distance between Muskegon and its reservation in the western Upper Peninsula, Bush said it will have to show that it owned land in the Muskegon area prior to the signing of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Control Act in Oct. 17, 1988

Michigan voters stiffed again

The democrat vote is essentially worthless in the Michigan primary and the GOPers have, AGAIN, set themselves up to let democrat crossovers determine who wins the Republican primary.

Nice job Michigan State party leaders..... yeah, right....

Obama's absence on state ballot rankles some : "But come Jan. 15, the name Obama will appear nowhere on Michigan's Democratic primary ballot. A squabble between state and national party officials over the primary date led Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards to withdraw their names from the ballot."

"Ask not what he can do for your country,

but what he can do to Hillary"

(courtesy Lucianne.com)

Oh...my....God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New Year's snowstorm hits Mich. hard - NewsFlash - mlive.com: "A fast-moving New Year's Day storm dumped more than a foot of snow on southeastern Michigan, a record blast that made driving hazardous, snarled the flight home for holiday travelers and threatened to do the same in New England."

Snow in Michigan!
In January!!!!!!!!!!!!

More "proof" of the wisdumb of the AlGoreites....