Another day, another snowstorm they’re trying to get us to obsess over. This time, it seems to be headed for everybody here in the Northeast. We got an inch or three overnight here, and the lo-cal teevee weather dork is predicting six to ten total by the time things pass through completely. Of course, after storms pass by here, they bring a sort of “back-door draft” across Lake Ontario, which means lake effect snow – probably another three to seven inches by tomorrow night. Not exactly a blizzard, but enough to get the shovel (which has been standing idle in the garage for the past week or so) out. We’ve had about 111″ so far this season (we’re kicking butt for the NY State “Golden Snowball” award – as usual – leading Buffalo and Rochester by over 30″), so this ought to take us over the ten foot mark.
On the bright side, it might actually get as warm as 30 degrees today, and that’d be pretty damn summer-like.
The weather dorks in NYC couldn’t decide what was going to happen. Last night they said it would rain but it has snowed all night. Today I have the booooring monthly conference, perhaps they’ll call it off.
The execs from AIG, Home Depot and others are in a tizzy about the union organizing bill and talking about ways to defeat it. They like their luxuries and the rest of us can always be replaced by cheap labor from some starving country. They are seriously nauseating.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/bank-of-america-hosted-an_n_161248.html
I’d better get an early start today so that when I’m late I can at least claim that I tried to be on time. Drive carefully and stay warm.
No lead on the Home Despot (Bernie whatever) on the Today Show this morning. Instead, more spew on the octuplets. This time they decided to not let the facts get in the way of a fake story. So they had live in the studio the 8 surviving members of the previous octoctuplet family. Unfortunately, one of the 8 was a stooge as one child had died, and The Today Show could not break the symmetry of the group photo !!!
Matt Laurer then had on the discredited Billy Kristol fresh from his firing from the NYT. Kristol gave kudos to Jack Kemp for establishing the supply-side theory that has basically ruined our economy.
PJ, I guess Kemp is from your neck of the woods. Thanks! 🙄
These guys must read Hartmann, otherwise why bring up supply-side economics? It’s all about framing and projection. Black is white. Bad is good. etc.
“How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years “
By Thom Hartmann
http://airamerica.com/thomhartmannpage/blog/2009/jan/26/two-santa-clauses
Arrrrrrrgggggghhhh !!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, now wait just a darn minute, Web. Jack Kemp is from Buffalo. That’s Western NY, not Central NY. And he was born and raised in LA, anyway! We do not accept responsibility for him. Plus, I’ve never been a Bills fan (Jets all the way for me, baby, except I’d have liked to have seen Donovan McNabb win the Super Bowl; not to be, I guess).
Furthermore, his middle name is – get this – French.
Afternoon all. just got back from an exhausting day chipping ice from the store sidewalk. On the plus side the car does very well in the snow.
I finally got home after a very long day. The weather dorks say that it is clear in NY, but it is raining very hard. I’ve always thought that weather dorks should be required to report from an office with a window.
Snow here. Looked like about 6 inches at lunchtime. Don’t know how much more we got after that.
Good to know the SMART does OK in snow, Andy. I’ve seen a couple of them around here the last week or so. That would be my only concern with them, with the amount of snow we get up here. One good storm, and I might lose the thing in my driveway!
Congresscritter Phil Gin begs Rush for forgiveness. There’s video but I can’t post it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/28/phil-gingrey-gop-congress_n_161964.html
Hi All
SueP – in Brazil weather dorks have gotten arrested, maybe we can torture them here. Water board the weather dorks…. (btw – it’s just me. Nina’s mom 🙂
So what do y’all think of Obama’s 8th day? I’m a little confused by him but I am hopeful.
Is this an urban myth?
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/portable/video/x5odhh_pop-corn-telephone-portable-microon_news
That’s either very expensive popcorn or the Rethug stimulus plan,
Hiya Jenn!
Hi Jenn,
Mixed feelings about Obama but it’s still awesome to have an articulate and intelligent president. I am so relieved not to see Chimpie in the headlines anymore. Though, someone just pointed out a cover of the Globe(one of the many tabloids I’m bombarded with in the super market line) which has Obama on it and some headline like, “what is he hiding!” My friend pointed out that he never saw Chimpie on any of those covers. Can anyone corroborate? I have to say, I can’t recall it either.