Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Izzo stays 2010

Izzo stays 2010 - College Basketball Nation Blog - ESPN
"I’ll admit it.
I like Tom Izzo.
I like how he coaches.
I like what he stands for.
I like how he treats people and I like that, in a business I fear is losing its characters along with its character, he doesn’t take himself terribly seriously.
(Anyone who can show up at Midnight Madness dressed as Sparty one year and a hippie the next doesn’t take himself too seriously)."

Mitch Albom: Tom Izzo searched his soul and did the right thing

Mitch Albom: Tom Izzo searched his soul and did the right thing freep.com Detroit Free Press

AIRBRUSHING CHURCHILL: If he were still alive, he’d shove that cigar up their ass.

AIRBRUSHING CHURCHILL: If he were still alive, he’d shove that cigar up their ass.
If he were still alive, he’d shove that cigar up their ass.
Which would be the right thing to do.

Plus this: “Viewing the now disfigured image reveals just how unhinged the vociferous anti-smoking lobby has become.
So much for the notion that only communist tyrants airbrushed history.”
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 6:39 pm"

Tom Izzo rejects Cleveland Cavaliers, staying with Michigan State Spartans - ESPN

Tom Izzo rejects Cleveland Cavaliers, staying with Michigan State Spartans - ESPN
"EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Tom Izzo is staying at Michigan State, turning down a chance to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers and perhaps LeBron James.
In a statement released by the school on Tuesday Izzo says: 'I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.'"

Evaluation: Here Comes The Judge

Evaluation: Here Comes The Judge

LA police say another Charlie Sheen Mercedes taken from driveway and rolled off cliff

LA police say another Charlie Sheen Mercedes taken from driveway and rolled off cliff - chicagotribune.com
"For the second time in five months, a Mercedes-Benz owned by 'Two and a Half Men' star Charlie Sheen was stolen and sent off Mulholland Drive near his Santa Monica Mountains home, authorities said Tuesday.

Firefighters responding to a report of a traffic accident found the silver Mercedes S600 about 100 feet down a brushy ravine around 3 a.m., Fire Department spokesman Eric Scott said.

Nobody was in the car."

It's gotta be bad breaks...brakes.....right?
Time for another ObamaMotors forced recall of Mercedes-death-machines?

Black Flight is the New Worry for Detroit

Black Flight is the New Worry for Detroit - WSJ.com
"DETROIT—This shrinking city needs to hang on to people like Johnette Barham: taxpaying, middle-class professionals who invest in local real estate, work and play downtown, and make their home here.

Ms. Barham just left.
And she's not coming back.

In seven years as a homeowner in Detroit, she endured more than 10 burglaries and break-ins at her house and a nearby rental property she owned.
Still, she defied friends' pleas to leave as she fortified her home with locks, bars, alarms and a dog."

Replace Offshore Oil With Wind?

FuturePundit: Chris Nelder: Replace Offshore Oil With Wind?
Replace Offshore Oil With Wind?
Chris Nelder looks at what it would take to replace US offshore Gulf of Mexico oil with a comparable amount of energy from wind power."

Europe's $1.6 trillion hangover

Europe's $1.6 trillion hangover - Street Sweep: Fortune's Wall Street Blog
"Banks in France and Germany alone have nearly $1 trillion in exposure to the staggering economies of southern Europe,"

Izzo's Choice - Izzo talks to Lebron!

Mike And Mike: Izzo's Choice - ESPN Video - ESPN

Petraeus passes out briefly at hearing

44 - Petraeus passes out briefly at hearing
"Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, fell ill at the witness table during a Senate hearing Tuesday and had to be escorted from the room."

Did McCain call him "My friend" one time too many?

Etheridge the Unready -- and his enablers

Power Line - Etheridge the Unready -- and his enablers
"Whoever the young interrogators of Rep. Etheridge, and whatever their motives, Etheridge unmistakably revealed that he is a bully and a nut."

Do laws even matter today?

Do laws even matter today? - USATODAY.com
"there seems to be a growing sense among many citizens that they are expected to play by the rules while others are exempt."

Monday, June 14, 2010

America's Municipal Debt Racket

Steven Malanga: America's Municipal Debt Racket - WSJ.com
"New Jersey officials recently celebrated the selection of the new stadium in the Meadowlands sports complex as the site of the 2014 Super Bowl.
Absent from the festivities was any sense of the burden the complex has become for taxpayers.

Nearly 40 years ago the Garden State borrowed $302 million to begin constructing the Meadowlands.
The goal was to pay off the bonds in 25 years.
Although the project initially went according to plan, politicians couldn't resist continually refinancing the bonds, siphoning revenues from the complex into the state budget, and using the good credit rating of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition authority to borrow for other, unsuccessful building schemes.

Today, the authority that runs the Meadowlands is in hock for $830 million, which it can't pay back.
The state, facing its own cavernous budget deficits, has had to assume interest payments—about $100 million this year on bonds that still stretch for decades."

Ace of Spades HQ

Ace of Spades HQ
"President Obama is asking for $50 Billion to distribute to state and local governments to avoid public-sector employee layoffs. (And for 'public-sector employees', you can read 'SEIU and Teacher's Unions'.)
The GOP is sure to oppose it, but may not be able to stop a concerted Democratic push.

Bailing out the states (especially California) is going to take a lot more than a piddling $50 billion, of course.
The first tranche is simply to establish precedent."

Tell Izzo how you feel in HAIKU...

Tell Izzo how you feel in HAIKU...

If Izzo Returns

 My Girlfriend Will Be Tired

Cuz of My Boner

Hey, it's college dudes...dude....

'Tea partyers' pushing to get new line on November ballot

'Tea partyers' pushing to get new line on November ballot Buffalo News
"Organizers of the 'tea party' movement are poised to mount a statewide petition drive in hopes of creating a new line on the November election ballot.
The goal is to give 'disaffected, aggravated, frustrated voters' an alternative to choosing from among the 'lesser of two evils,' Rus Thompson, leader of the local tea party, said Sunday in referring primarily to the major party nominees for governor, Democrat Andrew M. Cuomo and Republican Rick Lazio."

Political suicide!

Clear signal: Boaters can operate U.S. Coast Guard's new foghorn system

Clear signal: Boaters can operate U.S. Coast Guard's new foghorn system MLive.com
"Sensors in the lighthouse used to detect the presence of fog and would activate the signal automatically to guide ships into port.

However, the sensors began malfunctioning as they grew older and continually became covered in spider webs, Salzmann said.
To activate the fog signal, boaters must tune their marine radio to channel 79A and depress the microphone five times."

OK, this system is better than nothing at all.
But why can't the USCG clean off the spider webs?
Sup wit dat?

Muskegon County board changes policy on public comment

Muskegon County board changes policy on public comment MLive.com
"The public will now be able to make comments to the Muskegon County Board of Commissioners during meetings at two separate parts of the agenda, including an opportunity to weigh in on items before commissioners vote on them."

A small, but important, victory for the little guys.

We can speak.

Will they listen?

Why You Need Two Cameras. And maybe a third, inconspicuously recording from a distance, …

Instapundit » Blog Archive » MOE LANE: Why You Need Two Cameras. And maybe a third, inconspicuously recording from a distance,

Afghanistan on deck for ex-Spartan

Afghanistan on deck for ex-Spartan greenandwhite.com Lansing State Journal
"'Earned. Never given.'"

EPA classifies milk as oil, forcing costly rules on farmers

EPA classifies milk as oil, forcing costly rules on farmers MLive.com
"But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is classifying milk as oil because it contains a percentage of animal fat, which is a non-petroleum oil."

America's new N-word is lightning rod

America's new N-word is lightning rod

Congressman Assaults Student on Washington Sidewalk

Breitbart.tv » Congressman Assaults Student on Washington Sidewalk

What Do Protectionism, Union Power and Jones Act Have to Do with the Cleanup in the Gulf? A LOT

CARPE DIEM: What Do Protectionism, Union Power and Jones Act Have to Do with the Cleanup in the Gulf? A LOT

Sunday, June 13, 2010

YouTube - Dodge Challenger Freedom Commercial

YouTube - Dodge Challenger Freedom Commercial

Great video...from an Italian car company!

Rectifier 5K Run-Winner!

Rectifier 5K Run:
"Overall Female Great Grand Masters Winner

Place Name City Bib No Age Overall TimePace Time Back
1 Francine Lessard Muskegon MI 642 60 212 36:11 11:40/M"

http://www.runnersedgeracetiming.com/data/uploadedfiles/rectifieragegroup2010.htm

Honeybunch rules!

Black leaders urge swift federal action on poverty

Black leaders urge swift federal action on poverty :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"'Hot shoes make presidents dance,' Jackson said.
'We're bringing some hot shoes [to Washington].'"

Congress Mulls Bill to Revise 14th Amendment Birthright Citizenship

Congress Mulls Bill to Revise 14th Amendment Birthright Citizenship - ABC News
"In 1983, for example, England amended its jus soli policy so that children born in the United Kingdom were only granted citizenship if one of their parents was either a citizen or could prove some sort of permanent residency in the country."