MARCH
28, 2007 --
Please
Don't Be Reserved …
(Apologies
to Stephen Sondheim)
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, I don't know what to do
Your talk about "credit risk" -- leaves me in a stew
I hear nothing about the problem of the credit card squeeze
Dontcha see it has me on my knees
Oh Chairman Bernanke at 29 percent
I don't have any money left for food and the rent
That interest rate is sending me out on a limb
Gee Chairman Bernanke -- it's grim
MARCH
28, 2007 --
Government
by Thompson?
Chatting with Laura Ingraham, last week, Fred Thompson sounded
like a presidential candidate in progress.
In the event this lawyer / actor gets to the White House, LPR would hope his
vice
president is former Illinois governor Jim Thompson, and that cabinet posts
are found for John, Tommy and Emma, among other Thompsons not related.
MARCH
28, 2007 --
Bring
Boys Back from Bosnia …
How
come Republicans are not calling for a date certain to bring home our
military forces from all the foreign venues where they have been stationed
for fifty or sixty years -- plus Bosnia?
MARCH
28, 2007 --
A
Question About Inflation …
Isn't inflation supposed to be a function of the money supply?
If so, why doesn't the Federal Reserve Board act against inflation by
reducing the money supply
instead of tinkering with the interest rate
tinkering?
MARCH
28, 2007 --
Rhett
Is Not Short for Rhetorical Question …
Would Senator Lieberman have gone over to the Republicans, making
them the U.S. Senate majority, again, if he did not think the move would
have been futile with one, or more, of the RINOs then going over to the
Democrats?
MARCH
28, 2007 --
Maxing
Out?
NewsMax
reported March 24 that an unscientific poll of 90,000 people had Newt
Gingrich preferred over Rudy Giuliani and John McCain.
NewsMax added that this was surprising because the former House speaker has
not said that he will run for president.
Perhaps people prefer Gingrich because, 19 months before the election, he has
not announced?
MARCH
20, 2007 --
LPR's
Unthinkable Thought …
Does
President Bush want to be impeached?
Be
on the Lookout For …
"Girl
of the Moment," a first novel by Lizabeth Zindel, out in April
(Viking).
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MARCH
20, 2007 --
Can't
they listen?
The price at this Torrington, CT Shell station, shown
as of March 15, reminds us, again, that some people still seek
the "ambitious sacrifice of the many to the
aggrandizement of the few."
Anybody hear comments from our public officials? Democrats, of course, are
too busy hammering Republicans too notice (they might, however, eventually
blame the president for the renewed gas price squeeze) and Republicans, clearly,
are yet to find their voice.
Terri Fassio, LPR's dedicated, super webmaster at Skullco.com.
reports that prices are even more crunching in California.
Our representatives (that's a good one!) are silent, but we can still talk
with our ignition keys--not using them so often.
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On
the rise again …
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Nice
Try, Howard …
Washington
Post media columnist Howard Kurtz, speaking with Imus, March
19, cited criticism of the Bush Administration from National
Review as indication the media is not liberal.
C'mon, Howard --the media's usual suspects would characterize a ham sandwich
as a mean-spirited right-wing extremist if they believed this would help Democrats.
LPR's suggestion: read your paper, The Nedw York Times, and listen to Bob
Schieffer, Tim Russert and George Stephanopoulos, Sunday mornings.
Why
Stick to the Facts?
There
are reports that a movie is in the works based on the Valerie
Plame controversy. LPR thinks a fictional treatment, with a scene
where the wife/CIA person arranges for her husband to go on a
special mission overseas so she can spend time with a political
VIP, would be a lot more interesting.
MARCH
20, 2007 --
Once
Upon a Time in The Bronx …
… the streets were made of cobblestones. The Bronx
roadway, not far from the Bronx Zoo, shown in this photo, apparently
wants people to see what Bronx streets looked like when trolleys,
not buses, took
people to the zoo.
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Cobblestone
roadways -- looking back to the past.
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Bronx
Zoo Entrance
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MARCH
20, 2007 --
Thank
You, Jerry Bruckheimer …
Your "Cold
Case" episode, March 18, included scenes indicating that
the people who tow cars for municipalities are not necessarily
sweethearts. The episode had a car towed away with a very young
girl in
it. In this instance, the tow driver's callousness was fiction.
The towing of the LPRmobile, two years
ago, by a city marshal -- with Shana in the car -- was cruel reality.
" Cold Case" airs on the CBS network an
hour after "60 Minutes." Extraordinary that it took a fictional series
on CBS to indicate the callousness of the tow policies of municipalities --
and not the
long-running CBS magazine.
MARCH
20, 2007 --
A
Grand Opening Celebration?
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LPR
cannot look at the opening of a new Chase branch -- this
one in the northeast part of the Bronx -- as cause for
celebration. Instead of balloons,
truth-in-lending should require Chase to put up a banner stating: With
our credit card crush consumers policy, "" is an apt anagram
for "aches"
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MARCH
13, 2007 --
LPR's
Lewis Libby Litigation Lesson:
Not
only can you indict a ham sandwich, but if you can't convict for food
poisoning, you can get a guilty verdict for lying about the mustard.
MARCH
13, 2007 --
Changing
with the seasons …
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December,
in Torrington, CT, it's Christmas house; February. it's Valentine's
Day house and now:
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
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MARCH
13, 2007 --
Two
Political Questions …
Aren't
activists who now oppose U.S. Senator Joseph I. Lieberman merely following
the campaign advice of 2000: Gore/Lieberman?
If Republicans honor the constitutional principle of limited government, can
they nominate Rudolph W. Giuliani for president - a man whose hands-on and
arbitrary view of governance would lead to an expansion of the power of an
executive branch under his control.
MARCH
13, 2007 --
We'll
Miss You, Bernie …
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LPR
will miss Bernie Williams, one of the few Yankees who connected
with the fans, when he arrived at the Stadium.
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