Well this in unconventional:
Inmates in 58 county jails across New York are getting playing cards with the pictures of missing persons in hopes the photos will jog memories and help solve cold cases.
Under a state Senate pilot program, 7,200 decks of cards are being sent to the jails. They include telephone numbers of tip lines that offer rewards to anyone — including prisoners — who provide information about the crimes.
The cards were paid for with a $10,000 grant from Republican Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno from funds he controls.
“This program seeks to go right to the source of crime, providing incarcerated criminals information via playing cards who, in turn, may have credible information or leads that help solve these crimes,” Bruno said in a statement.
What’s odd in your life?
Who said this? No, no hints will be allowed.
“Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities…”
jezeus…who’s an elitist?…and who’s not?
She really said that. Is that the DLC version of the “the haves and have mores”?
yup…bill-o just brings out the best in people.
talk about tone deaf.
Yay. You’re all too good. It was during her FoxNews – O’Reilly Factor interview. Sure got carried away.
Go take a look. Courtesy Jedreport.
Watch the video with bonus comment…a repost from my Updated diary entry.
ayup…kinda puts lie to this bit of fluff:
this should become a campaign ad in indiana, and elsewhere.
stuck in the Coffee Machine. Doesn’t pump gas b/c secret service detail…ya know..just one of the regulars. That video is also hill.ar.ri.ous
Oh sure . . . just an everyday American who did midnight diplomatic raids on Tuzla, gets government-appointed bodyguards, hasn’t driven or pumped gas in FSM-knows-how-long, and has $109 mil in the bank.
I can identify with that.
given all the talk from McClinton about suspending the gas tax for a few months…l found this little known, or at least acknowledged, congressional perk interesting:
and cruise it on down the road.
I saw that. F*cking gall of some elected officials.
The LA Times had an article in today’s paper about House members griping because Rep. Cleaver (D-MO) wants them to drive cleaner cars.
Most of the people complaining are Republicans–shocker, right?–but even Dem. Diane Watson whines about it.
They should get what I get. A fully-paid one-year bus pass.
When the morons of Los Angeles voted our moronic mayor, Villaraigosa, one of the first things he started in on was how the elected officials should take public transportation, no, everyone needs to take public transportation. Months later, LA Times columnist Steve Lopez started writing articles mocking the councilpeople and Mayor for not using public transportation. Well, we now know the mayor needed his own car for his booty calls, but the other people haven’t gotten caught cheating (yet) and they complained that traffic is too bad and there’s no way they can leave the westside to get to downtown on the bus and blah, blah, blah. Nevermind that these same people are, seemingly, doing everything in their power to make our rail system go nowhere and giving every excuse in the book why they need their gas-guzzling cars.
Same as it ever was. There’s a great song by The Foremen from about 1994 concerning news items you might have missed:
Balls of Steel.
Wow, I’d say!
Uhhh…
I’m trying to work up some outrage over the playing cards thing, but I guess I’m just no Stoller. I’ll go stub my toe and see if that helps.
I gotcher odd right here:
well, look at what JPL found, Pacific Ocean is doing a
flip
and the Longshoremen are standing down today along the west coast. Says something for the attitude adjustment it took to get the Longshoremen to make this kind of a statement. There are just a few rednecks in the group.
Backstory: Bricks-and-mortar merchants don’t like the taco trucks. Law is a taco truck can not park some place for longer than 30 minutes. If they do, it’s a $60 fine. Most trucks eat the costs and stay for 5 hours. Most taco trucks are in areas where there are no other restaurants, but my main street is host to 5 taco trucks after 6pm and there are restaurants.
LA Supervisor let the bricks-and-mortar merchants pretty much write a new law: You have to move after 1 hour or risk a $1000 fine and up to 6 months in jail. I’m not even going to get into the hoops the taco truck vendors have to jump through (they’re more regulated health-wise, have to park near a bathroom, etc…). The taco vendors vow to fight the law.
All this drama has been going on for the past month, with the LA Times running op-eds (by a Vietnamese guy, no less–Yes, I love this town) about this travesty. So, for the past week, most of the city has been in an uproar (hey, there’s been almost no fires or earthquakes, we need something to talk about). Tonight, Carne Asada Is Not A Crime is organizing to show solidarity with the taco truck vendors; everyone is supposed to go out and eat at one.
So, even though I’m scarfing down a burrito tonight, I’ll be out shooting photos and trying out my bad Spanish to do some liveblogging for LA Metblogs.
spending more due to inflation, makes it look like the consumer is buying more…
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/consumer-spending-up-mainly-because-of/n20080501180309990029