The Other Manning

An Ode to Peyton Manning

Super Bowl Ticket: $700
Program: $25
Coke Cola: $5
Watching your little bro toss the winning TD from the skybox: Priceless

Congrats to the New York Giants for winning the Super Bowl and a very entertaining 4th quarter. So much for the perfect ending for the perfect season for the Patriots.

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Presidential Elections

Presidential Elections

First, it looks like Mitt Romney has won the Maine Caucus per CNN and Assoc Press.

Next, Mark Steyn has a long article looking at McCain and Clinton, and why they can't both lose. He has a question for Guiani and I expect the urban legend is already being created, at least I SURE HOPE it is an urban legend.

The Clintons are nothing if not lucky, and Hillary must occasionally be enjoying a luxury-length cackle at the thought of being pitted against a 71-year-old "maverick" whose record seems designed to antagonize just enough of the base into staying home on Election Day. In the 2000 campaign season, running in a desultory fashion for the New York Senate seat, Rudy Giuliani waged a brief half-hearted campaign just long enough to leave the Republican Party with no one to run against Hillary except a candidate who wasn't up to the job.
Has he managed to do the same this time round?

Is the UK out of its bleeding mind???

Husbands with multiple wives have been given the go-ahead to claim extra welfare benefits following a year-long Government review, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
Even though bigamy is a crime in Britain, the decision by ministers means that polygamous marriages can now be recognised formally by the state, so long as the weddings took place in countries where the arrangement is legal.

I'm speechless.

Flex Fuel Cars

If only the government would mandate all cars be flex fuel, so they can burn gasoline, ethanol or methanol we could free ourselves from imported oil. It will only cost about $100 per car and no government subsidy required. That is the promise of these conservative writers.

While I would like the US to be energy independent, I am skeptical of government mandates. If it is the right thing to do, the market will make it happen.

This is just wrong

The NY Governor is trying to make abortion a civil right.

They don't like it when we protest

Roy Mallette, in Cicero County New York, saw the assessed value on his property increase in one year from $200,000 to $980,000. Almost a 5 fold increase. To show his unhappiness in this tax system, he paid the tax bill in coin and small bills. The county treasury office that receives the payment spent a day counting the money and the workers complained how he was protesting at the wrong office. They just collect the tax not make the assessment. That may be true, but by paying his bill on time and paying in coin and small bills, his plight got the attention of the media and therefore the politicians. If he had written a letter to the paper or to the politicians it would have been much easier to ignore. Now the County has experienced some of the pain he felt having the property reassessed with the increase in taxes as a result.

Public Employees beware

Orange County is going to court to void an increase in the pension of Sheriff Deputies an earlier Board of Supervisors had agreed too. If they win this lawsuit, it will mean one of the BIG reasons people work for government rather then the private sector is the guaranteed pension.