Sharron Angle proposes curing Harry Reid the same way Yigal Amir cured Yitzhak Rabin. Sharron Angle Floated '2nd Amendment Remedies' As 'Cure' For 'The Harry Reid Problems' www.huffingtonpost.com
Category: News and Opinion
Post’s Pot Attacks CNN Kettle
|Andrea Peyser in Thursday’s NY Post criticizes CNN –
Struggling CNN is moving from its perch as a reliably lefty news source and positioning itself as a carnival sideshow. How else to explain Post reports that the network is close to signing the delusional, hooker-loving ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer as a chat host?
My question to Ms. Peyser – what would she call a newspaper that employs Ashley Dupre as a columnist?
South American Dreams, South American Destiny
|South American Dreams, South American Destiny
By Michael Boyajian
Did you ever feel like you were supposed to carry out some kind of cosmic mission sort of like an involuntary dream that isn’t yours but one that was given to you by someone or something else that is meant for you sort of like a destiny.
One More Comment on the Divorce Law
|From the New York Times: "For decades, New York State’s divorce system has been built on a foundation of winks and falsehoods. If you wanted to split quickly, you and your spouse had to give one of the limited number of allowable reasons — including adultery, cruelty, imprisonment or abandonment — so there was a tendency to pick one out of a hat." So there is no divorce except for a few causes even if both members of a couple agree, right? The title of the article certainly says so.
From deep in the article, near the very bottom: "New York law has long allowed people who agree to a divorce to get one if they both sign a separation agreement and live apart for a year. A new provision could do away with the need for the agreement." That's what the change is. There is no need to lie if both parties agree — and no need to consider the interests of the children either — under current law. The difference is just one spouse could end a marriage unilaterally, and quickly. And that is not what is being presented — even by the New York Times.
The Gateway (Grounds are for Coffee, Not Divorce Edition)
|Can there be anything more emblematic than the fact that when confronted with a market-based system of regulating carbon emissions, Republicans would instead prefer the heavy hand of government regulation, so the costs would be less apparent? (Actually, that may be unfair to McCain and Graham–most Republicans would prefer we just keep on polluting) Economic Scene – In Cap and Trade, a Risk of Acknowledging Costs – NYTimes.com www.nytimes.com
It Usually Takes More Than 12 Hours For Rudy To Be Proven Wrong
|http://www.cnbc.com/id/37715195
The U.S government can’t force troubled British energy giant BP to defer shareholder dividends or establish an escrow fund for victims of the Gulf oil spill, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani told CNBC Tuesday, noting that any effort by the White House to do so is merely “political posturing.”
http://www.politico.com/politico44/wbarchive/whiteboard06162010.html
DEAL REACHED: BP has agreed to finance a $20 billion escrow fund to pay claims to people who lost income in the Gulf Coast oil spill, an administration source tells POLITICO. Kenneth Feinberg, who was in charge of payments to families of victims of the 9/11 attacks, will oversee the fund..
Reformer Running for New York State Senate Promises Change
|Reformer Running for New York State Senate Promises Change
By Michael Boyajian
Millbrook Democrat Didi Barrett is running for the New York State senate in a Hudson Valley district that includes Dutchess and Columbia counties. She is running against an entrenched incumbent who symbolizes all that is wrong with Albany and she is calling for change.
No Fault: Another Albany Deal to Benefit Those Making It At the Expense of the Unrepresented
|Since I don't have any personal experience of it, it has been eye opening to hear, on a few occasions, the views of those whose parents divorced when the were children. It hurt, a great deal. Some are desperate to get married and create the family they were denied. Others have no interest in forming a family.
Under current New York State law, two parents can divorce if it is in their mutual interest and they can agree on the terms, regardless of any concern about the children. Under a new reform just passed by the State Senate, either party will be able to demand a divorce whenever they believe that breaking up the family could provide a better deal (sexual, financial, fun and enjoyment of life). The premise is that if a couple would otherwise make home life so terrible anyway, including the lives of any children, there is “no fault.” The bill is here. Read it over, and show me where in the bill there is any provision concerning itself with the interests and needs of any children. Or any provision that instructs the courts that regardless of whether the children would be worse off if the marriage continued or ended, the parents had failed as such, and thus had a greater obligation going forward to put the children first to offset that damage.
North Korea Loses But ESPN Out On Misconduct
|North Korea Loses But ESPN Out on Misconduct
By Michael Boyajian
North Korea may have lost in World Cup play to soccer powerhouse Brazil but they put up a valiant effort throughout the game and did not deserve to be belittled by a parochial ESPN announcer covering the game who turned a sporting event into a political battle.
2010 Prime News
|This year's edition of Prime News, Prime New York's annual report on the previous year's elections has now been mailed.
For those of you who do not receive it in the mail, you can download a PDF of it at our website – www.primeny.com
Please do not use the comments section to point out the typo on page one regarding the Citywide results in the Democratic Primary for Mayor. The Westside’s own Alan Flacks have already done so.