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Gotta love feisty older women!…..

A 91-year-old New York pharmacy cashier refused medical attention and went back to work after a thief punched her. Florence Critelli grabbed the man’s hand and screamed when he reached over and grabbed cash from her cash register at the Rite Aid in East Northport on Long Island. He punched her in the chest, knocking her down, before fleeing. “He

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Can you believe this? How ridiculous is this? New York looking to ban salt in all restaurants.

And people wonder what’s wrong now days.

And for those of you in favor of Obamacare…..if it passes, you wait. Anything deemed “not good” for you….will be made illegal.

Crazy crazy crazy times we live in……

Chefs Call Proposed New York Salt Ban ‘Absurd’, MyFoxNY Fox 5 News WNYW:

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I really find this all to be pretty weird……

DETROIT (Reuters) – Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall.

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Don’t they already tax the hell out of people in New York City?

A tax on soda….really?…..

NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged state legislators to levy a tax on soda, saying the money raised would help plug the state’s shortfalls in health care and education funding.

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Interesting….although I don’t think I have ever watched the academy awards……

Cablevision’s 3.1 million customers in New York could lose access to the Academy Awards if ABC’s parent company follows through on a threat to pull the plug at midnight Saturday in a dispute over payments.Cablevision says The Walt Disney Co. is seeking an additional $40 million a year in new fees for the right to carry its New York affiliate,

An affluent housewife in Long Island, New York, accused of hiring a hit man to off her hubby lamented she could only afford to maim him — but then was thrilled to learn she could whack him at a bargain-basement price of just $20,000.

AP – An air traffic controller at New York’s Kennedy Airport has been suspended after he allowed two children to radio instructions to several pilots.

AP – Buffeted by ethics inquiries, veteran New York Rep. Charles B. Rangel stepped down Wednesday as chairman of the House’s powerful tax-writing committee, delivering a fresh political jolt to a Democratic Party already facing angry voters.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Harold Ford, a former representative from Tennessee, will not challenge Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the New York Democratic primary, The New York Times reported on Monday.

These numbers come from an article at the Washington Examiner.

I would bet that some would make the ridiculous argument that some or most of these “projects” or items kept people employed or created temporary jobs for people to work. Uhmmm…sorry….BS!

I have questions about a couple of them that just don’t make sense to me. Oh, who am I kidding, most of them don’t make any sense to me.

What are some of your responses to the items below? Come on, be clever!

BOLD are some of my comments.

The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went:

- $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.

I would kind of hope a helicopter had some sort of GPS

- $30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.

- $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.

I am sure Microsoft would have had problems paying for that themselves.

- $430,000 to repair a bridge in Iowa County, Wis., that carries 10 or fewer cars per day.

Reminiscent of the “bridge to no where”.

- $800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., serving about 20 passengers per day, to build a backup runway.

- $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.

uhhmmm……geez…..all the comments I could make. Freshman women sex lives.

- $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.

- $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.

$261,536.46 per foot! Long live the turtles and other wildlife.

- $1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla.

So you don’t fall in and scrape your knee?

- $9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.

Even the ghost towns have to be kept up!

- $2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.

Must be all those democratic voters that materialize out of no where.

- $6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.

Well with global warming upon us, Minnesota will probably need it soon.

- $173,834 to weatherize eight pickup trucks in Madison County, Ill.

- $20,000 for a fish sperm freezer at the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in South Dakota.

- $380,000 to spay and neuter pets in Wichita, Kan.

I am thinking this is somehow in line with the book that came out about not having pets…carbon foot print is to big.

- $300 apiece for thousands of signs at road construction sites across the country announcing that the projects are funded by stimulus money.

Propaganda. That’s right Obama. Get your message out how ever you can. Of course I heard an interesting point on this. It will probably only hurt the Dem’s. Who likes being in construction. So the Republican’s could probably make out on this one. Still doesn’t make it right.

- $1.5 million for a fence to block would-be jumpers from leaping off the All-American Bridge in Akron, Ohio.

What the hell…..let them jump. It’s not liking blocking this off will suddenly change their minds.

- $1 million to study the health effects of environmentally friendly public housing on 300 people in Chicago.

Does that come out to $3,333.34 a person for this study. And for what exactly????

- $356,000 for Indiana University to study childhood comprehension of foreign accents compared with native speech.

- $983,952 for street beautification in Ann Arbor, Mich., including decorative lighting, trees, benches and bike paths.

I live in Michigan and am in Ann Arbor, MI almost every day. It doesn’t need it.

- $148,438 for Washington State University to analyze the use of marijuana in conjunction with medications like morphine.

Here ya go…for free….”A better high!”.

- $462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri

$21,000 per crapper. Are they made with gold and diamonds?

- $3.1 million to transform a canal barge into a floating museum that will travel the Erie Canal in New York state.

- $1.3 million on government arts jobs in Maine, including $30,000 for basket makers, $20,000 for storytelling and $12,500 for a music festival.

- $71,000 for a hybrid car to be used by student drivers in Colchester, Vt., as well as a plug-in hybrid for town workers decked out with a sign touting the vehicle’s energy efficiency.

See, no one can afford these damn cars. Have to have a stimulus package to get one.

- $1 million for Portland, Ore., to replace 100 aging bike lockers and build a garage that would house 250 bicycles.

Do you know what this is. I heard what this was on the radio. This is basically where the city buys bikes and leaves them laying around for people to use and return for free. They are expected to do the right thing by returning them.

Sources: News reports, Office of the Senate Minority Leader, Office of Sen. Tom Coburn