Muskegon Heights downtown authority misses meeting with city council

Every day there is less and less of this once fine city left to salvage.

Muskegon Heights downtown authority misses meeting with city council
"Muskegon Heights City Council members on Monday were 'infuriated' that the city's Downtown Development Authority board stood them up at a meeting that had taken months to schedule."

Maritime academy plan still floating

Your tax dollars at work?

Maritime academy plan still floating: "Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's plan to build a boarding school on Belle Isle to teach maritime skills to Detroit high school students is a vision of hope for some parents"

Gov. Paterson admits to sex with other woman for years

Isn't the "loyal wife" photo getting a bit old.... and pathetic?

Gov. Paterson admits to sex with other woman for years

Queenfish: A Cold War Tale - New York Times

Queenfish: A Cold War Tale - New York Times: "A new book, “Unknown Waters,” recounts the 1970 voyage of a submarine, the Queenfish, on a pioneering dive beneath the ice pack to map the Siberian continental shelf. The United States did so as part of a clandestine effort to prepare for Arctic submarine operations and to win any military showdown with the Soviet Union."

HMAS Sydney found off Australia's west coast

"sunk with all hands".

How does that happen?

Rest in peace, brave sailors.

HMAS Sydney found off Australia's west coast - Telegraph: "The Sydney, a cruiser, was the biggest ship from any country to be sunk with all hands lost during World War II."

Liberalism is gone – don't let tolerance pass with it | csmonitor.com

Liberalism is gone – don't let tolerance pass with it csmonitor.com: "Few dare to say it, but it's time we acknowledged a sad truth about American politics: liberalism is dead – and it has been for 40 years"

DRUDGE REPORT 2008®

DRUDGE REPORT 2008®: "MAJOR POLITICAL BOMBSHELL: DEVELOPING"

The Barack Obama Double Standard -- Doug Patton -- GOPUSA

The Barack Obama Double Standard -- Doug Patton -- GOPUSA: "Imagine in 1999, that a videotape had come to light showing the pastor of Texas Gov. George W. Bush's church making vicious, hateful comments about America and cruel, racist statements about Americans of color."

Excellent US economic stats site

http://www.bls.gov./eag/eag.us.htm

The Cactus Cuties Sing the National Anthem

Listen to these little gals blast out our national anthem.

CARPE DIEM: The Cactus Cuties Sing the National Anthem

Core Principles: This is how state government does business

Core Principles: This is how state government does business: "After a funding dry spell, the state is gearing up for the largest higher education building boom ever in an effort to kick-start the economy and replace some deteriorating campus buildings."

Oops - CNBC's Cramer Said 'Don't Move' From Bear a Week Before Collapse

Oops - CNBC's Cramer Said 'Don't Move' From Bear a Week Before Collapse: "But, on March 11, Cramer told an e-mailer not to sell the beleaguered investment bank’s stock on his show’s Web site:

“Dear Jim: Should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terms of liquidity and get my money out of there? --Peter
Cramer says: “No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble. If anything, they’re more likely to be taken over. Don’t move your money from Bear.”"

Love Client Number Nine

Love Client Number Nine: "Love Client Number Nine
[To the tune of 'Love Potion No. 9,' with apologies to Lieber & Stoller. . . and Elliott Spitzer"

Muskegon casino info

An e-mail going around town about opposition to the indian casino plans for Muskegon.
The entire set of e-mails is in the "comments" section below.

Some of you live and/or work in the City of Muskegon. Apparently the mayor and majority of City Commissioners are unwilling to even entertain discussions with anyone ‘outside’ Muskegon---despite the fact that a casino would devastate the entire region, not just this wonderful, reviving small community. Even more unthinkable would be multiple casinos established by multiple tribes—which Commissioners’ Municipal Service Agreement made with the LDV tribe recently notes is possible.

How Minimum Wage Hurts Teens

-- How Minimum Wage Hurts Teens
"the Bay State's minimum wage, now at $8 an hour and the highest in the nation."

Obama's church

No wonder the inner city culture is so disfunctional
"Senator Barack Obama is not a Muslim, contrary to invidious rumors. But he belongs to a Christian church whose doctrine casts Jesus Christ as a 'black messiah' and blacks as 'the chosen people'. At best, this is a radically different kind of Christianity than most Americans acknowledge; at worst it is an ethnocentric heresy."

THE MCGREEVEYS' SECRET 3 Way

Just how sick are our politicians?

Just watch!

THE MCGREEVEYS' SECRET Three-Way Orgy

"A former driver and aide for former N.J. Gov. Jim McGreevey says Dina Matos McGreevey must have always known her husband was gay - because he was the other man in bed with them."

JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share

HOLY SHIT!

The "SMART" guys are telling us that no one has a clue how to price the "innovative" investments the "smarter than us guys" have created.

Monday is gonna be a bitch!

My Way News - JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share: "JPMorgan Chase said Sunday it will acquire rival Bear Stearns in a deal valued at $236.2 million - or $2 a share - a stunning collapse for one of the world's largest and most venerable investment banks."

Ionia Free Fair-June 21-22

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Poll says citizens approve gun ownership

The Volokh Conspiracy - -#1205637836#1205637836: "In the WaPo poll, 72% of respondents said that they considered the Second Amendment to be an individual right, not just for militia only"

Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued?

Think about this.

Extreme muslims have realized that lawyers (mostly in America and the free world) are more powerful than suicide bombers.

Will the west ever long for the days of those silly suicide dudes?

Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued? - Yahoo! News: "leaders of the world's Muslim nations are considering taking legal action against those that slight their religion or its sacred symbols."

D.C.'s Gun Ban Gets Day in Court

D.C.'s Gun Ban Gets Day in Court: "The nine justices, none of whom has ever ruled directly on the amendment's meaning, will consider a part of the Bill of Rights that has existed without a definitive interpretation for more than 200 years."

University of Michigan athletes steered to professor University of Michigan Academics and Athletics

University of Michigan has a stink that may cover all of Ann Arbor

"John Hagen was, as he has been for decades, close to some of the most recognized athletes at Michigan. University records obtained by The News show that the veteran psychology professor has taught at least 294 independent studies from the fall of 2004 to the fall of 2007, and 85 percent of those courses, 251, were with athletes."

Watch An Upright Piano Get Shredded

If you have "issues" about those long ago piano lessons, try this video.

CARPE DIEM: Watch An Upright Piano Get Shredded