- New York Board of Election officials are considering the possibility that the final vote tally may end in a tie for the 20th Congressional special election. That would give Governor David Patterson the option of declaring a “failure to elect” and require an electoral do-over.
- The five permanent UN Security Council nations and Japan have agreed to a sternly worded letter for North Korea. Meanwhile, the world waits for North Korea to announce when it will conduct its next act thumbing its nose to the world…
- Governor Sarah Palin told Democratic state Senators not to “drag their heals” on voting on Palin’s choice to fill a state Senate vacancy. Some Democrats complained back that if she was in a hurry to fill it, she wouldn’t have taken 28 days to come up with a nominee.
- The Idaho legislature voted down a 10 cent per gallon tax on gasoline, and then also defeated subsequent bills for 7 cent, 5 cent, 4 cent and 2 cent gas tax hikes. One of the supporters of the 2 cent gas tax urged his fellow legislators to vote for it because it was a “piddly” tax that could not even buy an ice cream cone.
- Illinois Governor Pat Quinn wants campaign funds to be reset at zero after each election. Of course, he only has $83,000 in the bank for next year’s election while one of his main opponents has $3.5 million.
- In a debate over taxing prostitution, a Nevada state Senator called Las Vegas policing of prostitution a “joke.” The $5 per sex act tax proposal died by one vote in committee.
- A Wisconsin state Senator wants to eliminate politicians to save money, specifically the Lt. Governor and Secretary or State positions in his state.
- Sarah Palin is denying that she asked Alaska Senator Mark Begich to step down after the conviction was dropped against former Senator Ted Stevens. Now she says she only agreed with the Republican state chair that Alaska deserved a “fair, untainted” Senate election. Hey, no pressure on you Senator Begich.
- Residents in Kauai, Hawaii, were told by the state that fixing a bridge would cost $2 million and take 2 years. Volunteers bypassed the state and using volunteers and donated materials fixed it in 8 days.
- Barack Obama’s half-brother has been linked to an attack on a 13-year-old girl in the UK.
- A cure for global warming is a nuclear winter. Maybe beach resorts in the arctic aren’t such a bad idea after all.
- Lobbying is a $3 billion dollar a year industry in Washington because every dollar spent on lobbying brings a rate of return many times the investment.
- In case you’ve wondered…an Area 51 engineer said that the UFO sightings in the 1960′s were really light flashes from high-speed experimental jets. He also said, “Area 51 was the most boring place I ever worked.”
- President Barack Obama has said, “I’m always good for a beer.” It appears his beer of choice is Budweiser.
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