JANUARY 20, 2009 --

Are they going there again?

LPR reads of continuing decline in the barrel price of oil, and is wondering why the cost at New York City pumps is starting to climb, again, and are very close to $2 a gallon.

JANUARY 20, 2009 --

The Struggling Class

The report that nearly 60% of Americans say they are "struggling" suggests that the people hit by credit card oppression should get bail outs, not Wall Street -- and underscores the need of our officials to receive Federalist 57 sensitivity training to learn how to stay close to the voters. And yes, LPR is in "The Struggling Class."

JANUARY 20, 2009 --

A very brief LPR observation …

Imagine how cold it would be if we didn't have global warming.

JANUARY 20, 2009 --

Noble Justice?

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman -- and winner of a Nobel Prize -- calls for criminal investigations of Bush administration officials. His January 16 column states as "fact...that the Bush Administration's abuses extended from environmental policy to voting rights." The column concludes by asking President Obama to "reconsider his apparent decision to let the previous administration get away with crime."

LPR wonders: if Mr. Krugman were called to serve on a jury on a case charging a Bush administration official with wrongdoing, would he be dismissed for cause, or would the defense have to use a peremptory challenge to dismiss him?

LPR advises Republicans, the only way to block the criminalization of politics by the left is to get majorities in Congress. For LPR the greatest fury in Hell comes from a leftist who suddenly has subpoena power. In Stalin's Soviet Union, weren't previous Soviet officials, under Lenin, shot? (Along with previous officials under...Stalin?)

Republicans, lose your congressional majority and be prepared to be dragged to the dock for show trials conducted by the left after they have found you guilty. (See, e.g. the Krugman NYT column of January 16, 2009.)

Note: The two spellings of Noble and Nobel are not typos. But I am not suggesting that the name of the book chain has been changed.

JANUARY 6, 2009 --

Where are the New Yorkers?

LPR took photographs of people from California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Toronto, Guatemala, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, New Jersey, Connecticut. (Curiously, LPR did not meet any New Yorkers.)

Two Connecticut celebrants

Three from Indiana, temporarily avoiding confinement