It is Monday, right? It’s getting hard to tell, with all these days off. I could get used to this – too bad I have to go back to work tomorrow. Yesterday was hot, today will be even worse, and tomorrow worse than that. I don’t mind the heat so much if I can hang out in shorts and a t-shirt, but having to dress for work sucks. Speaking of which, I guess I better do my laundry.
Not that I’ve ever given it much thought, but I didn’t know that people modified snowmobiles to run on asphalt (I guess we just don’t get enough winter around here to satisfy everybody). Not only that, I didn’t know you could make them go 160 mph. However, if you’re gonna do that, I guess you’d better try not to hit the guardrail.
Oh well, I guess I’d better try and do something before it gets too damn hot. I’ve resisted using the a/c so far this year, but I might have to break down and get it going today.
I watched some of that Grand Prix at Watkins Glen yesterday. Quite beautiful but it looked pretty empty and my boy Helio dropped 6 places as soon as I tuned in. I didn’t see Danica at all. :hubba:
Some nice photos of Palemale and Lola as a very together couple. They have not hatched an egg in six years, since their nest was taken down and then new scaffolding erected to allow them to rebuild.
There are nice photos of a heron catching a fish in Central Park and a bunch of wet bluejay pictures, as well.
ALBANY — State Democratic leaders, disgusted with scandal-a-minute Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada of The Bronx, will move to oust him from the party, The Post learned yesterday.
A top state party official, in an unprecedented move, has prepared a letter to Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, the Bronx Democratic chairman, calling on him to formally begin the ouster effort.
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The letter, written by King deputy Edgar Santana, begins, “Quite clearly, Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. left the Democratic Party long ago in all but his official party affiliation.
“Through his repeated public statements and bad conduct, Sen. Espada has shown he is not ‘in sympathy’ with our party’s fundamental principles,” says the letter,
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“For more than a decade, Sen. Espada has cavalierly flouted campaign finance rules,” the letter says, referring to Espada’s failure over several years to file legally required campaign-contribution disclosure forms.
The letter accuses Espada of serving in office “in open defiance of state residency requirements that undergird our representative democracy,” a reference to Espada’s ownership and use of a luxury home in tony Mamaroneck, Westchester County
The letter also makes specific reference to Espada’s role in the Senate “coup” just over a year ago when, along with since-ousted and disgraced Sen. Hiram Monserrate, he temporarily bolted to the Republicans and threw Democratic control of the Senate into doubt.
“Sen. Espada’s Democratic affiliation is based solely on a desire for personal gain,” the letter concludes.
Espada was made majority leader as part of a political deal that saw him return to the Democratic fold.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/dems_ready_to_give_pedro_the_heave_oMiqpw1RHUcrzbAh4AtWVL
How can they persecute poor Pedro this way?
Is it Lily Dale that RG likes to visit? If so, there is an HBO documentary about it at 9 tonight.
Yep, that’s it. Thanks, Sue, I’ll have to record it for her.
Oh, wow, ‘No One Dies in Lily Dale.’ She’ll love it. Thanks again, Sue. Now I can get by w/o cleaning the house before she gets home. 😉
Quarter to eight and still 90 out. This sucks. Have I ever mentioned that I hate the heat?
Ha, try midnight and still 90 degrees.
So, I’m active again. John Dougherty is seeking the dem nomination to run against McCain and I built a garden for his headquarters in downtown Phoenix. He’s an investigative journalist who broke the Keating 5 story and has been exposing Sheriff Joe Arpaio for years.
Go get ’em Krista.
Hi KP!
Hey Sue! :bee: