Thursday, July 9, 2009
Albany Returns to Normal Levels of Dysfunction
The Buffalo News reports that the last of the Democratic traitors will once again be voting for the Democratic leadership. We'll see how this plays out. If anything it seems like the useless Malcolm Smith will be gone. I have very low expectations for anything meaningful coming out of New York's government this year. Our only hope is for voters to throw a lot of these bums out in 2010.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
New Website
Gentle Readers,
Now that my blog has reached a critical mass of about three unique hits per day, I'm thinking of branching off and expanding the sasiadizzle empire. I've purchased a domain name and server space for a website that is my real name .com. I plan on using the blog to post more lucidly with timely, but transient information and thoughts, and using the website for more permanent ideas. Some of the ideas that I am tossing around are my ideas for reforming New York State government, the state of DCPS, or something else entirely. I'm putting the question before you, what should the new site be about?
-Mr. Sasiadizzle
Now that my blog has reached a critical mass of about three unique hits per day, I'm thinking of branching off and expanding the sasiadizzle empire. I've purchased a domain name and server space for a website that is my real name .com. I plan on using the blog to post more lucidly with timely, but transient information and thoughts, and using the website for more permanent ideas. Some of the ideas that I am tossing around are my ideas for reforming New York State government, the state of DCPS, or something else entirely. I'm putting the question before you, what should the new site be about?
-Mr. Sasiadizzle
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Thoughts on the Boss
When I was seventeen I didn't care for Bruce Spingsteen. But lately, his music has really been hitting a nerve with me, and I started to over-analyze it when I realized that Bruce Springsteen's music is largely about how great it is (and often how badly it sucks to be) seventeen. And by design a seventeen-year-old can't really appreciate the beauty of being seventeen-- although I'm pretty sure I understood how badly it sucked at the time. Now that I'm looking back almost a decade on that time, the Boss's music is that much more beautiful. I'm pretty sure that there is someone out there writing songs about how great it is to be 26 that I am just not appreciating, but I'll get to on the far side of 30...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Calling all Gourmands, Foodies, and Drunks...
I'm am hereby shamelessly plugging a new blog PEAKBAGGERS. Peakbaggers is run by a rising young brewer and sommolier in training, Adam Bystran. You can read about the new brews Adam is crafting as well as his recommended food and beer pairings. If you like food or beer you will like his site, bt if you like food AND beer (and I know you do) you will love his site. It's a great resource if you're having a party, want to expand your horizons or even if you are sitting alone in a darkened room sobbing. What are you waiting for? Hop to it!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
B.S. in Kenny Rogers Studies
A B.S. in Kenny Rogers prepares the student for a wide variety of life situations. In addition to the normal fine arts, humanities and physical education requirements, students must take the following core courses:
KRS 101: Knowing when to hold 'em
KRS 121: Knowing when to fold 'em
KRS 141: Knowing when to walk away
KRS: 161: When to run
KRS 201: Survivin'
KRS 221: What to throw away
KRS 241: What to keep
KRS: 261: Making every hand a winner
Students will have plenty of time to visit the bursar after their dealing is done.
KRS 101: Knowing when to hold 'em
KRS 121: Knowing when to fold 'em
KRS 141: Knowing when to walk away
KRS: 161: When to run
KRS 201: Survivin'
KRS 221: What to throw away
KRS 241: What to keep
KRS: 261: Making every hand a winner
Students will have plenty of time to visit the bursar after their dealing is done.
Monday, June 29, 2009
A Democrat and a rock-ribbed Upstater:
As a Democrat and a rock-ribbed Upstater, I've been more than a little dismayed by Upstate's political situation. Today's New York Times had an article which dismayed me ever further. (And, yes, you can be a rock-ribbed Upstater and still read the Times!)
Pretty much, Upstate has failed think of itself as a unit with similar interests, and that is, to a certain degree, understandable. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse are different from each other and have different interests from smaller cities like Utica, Watertown, Rome, and these all have different interests from the rural areas.
Downstate, however has been a fairly unified voice. In part this is because on a state and national level, Downstate votes overwhelmingly Democratic. The Republicans that do get elected Downstate, Pete King and, recently Vito Fossella on the national level, and the Republicans in the State Legislature realize that to survive they need to work for the urban interests that are normally seen as the purview of Democrats. Working across the aisle is a pre-condition for surivival of the species Republicanus downstatus. Thus, on a national and statewide level, Downstate interests are represented fairly well in both the Democratic and Republican caucuses.
Upstate Democrats suffer from the fact that they are a tiny minority in their own party on the state-level. In part this is because, until recently, their were more Republicans in Upstate, and there are more people Downstate. Unfortunately, through gerrymandering and the aquiescence of the state and local parties, Upstate Democrats were concentrated into two Buffalo-based districts that have a long history of electing worthless boobs (see Stachowksi and Thompson). The rest of Upstate has been gerrymandered so that Democrats are massively deconcentrated into ineffective minorites (see these ridiculous districts: 59, 51, 61) The Ithaca area is divided between THREE Senate districts to prevent Ithaca area DEmocrats from electing one of their own. Buffalo suburbs are sucked into districts that stretch counties away into the countryside. What does this accomplish? Upstate elects a lot of Republican hacks who never face competition and cannot speak unequivicoly for any community of interest: rural, urban or suburban. And Democrats elect a small number of hacks who never face any Republican competition.
And because Upstate consistently elects braindead party machine hacks from both parties, BOTH parites are lead by downstaters. This is understandable to a certain degree with the Democrats, but the fact that the REPUBLICANS are lead by downstaters is mind-boggling. And members of both parties cling to their downstate leaders because they are party hacks whose interests are better served by service to party than to constituents. Upstaters very rarely are nominated for, much less elected to, higher office because there is so little intelligence or initiative and the party machines already have what they need from upstate and have little interest in running upstates for higher office.
More rant to come....
Pretty much, Upstate has failed think of itself as a unit with similar interests, and that is, to a certain degree, understandable. Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse are different from each other and have different interests from smaller cities like Utica, Watertown, Rome, and these all have different interests from the rural areas.
Downstate, however has been a fairly unified voice. In part this is because on a state and national level, Downstate votes overwhelmingly Democratic. The Republicans that do get elected Downstate, Pete King and, recently Vito Fossella on the national level, and the Republicans in the State Legislature realize that to survive they need to work for the urban interests that are normally seen as the purview of Democrats. Working across the aisle is a pre-condition for surivival of the species Republicanus downstatus. Thus, on a national and statewide level, Downstate interests are represented fairly well in both the Democratic and Republican caucuses.
Upstate Democrats suffer from the fact that they are a tiny minority in their own party on the state-level. In part this is because, until recently, their were more Republicans in Upstate, and there are more people Downstate. Unfortunately, through gerrymandering and the aquiescence of the state and local parties, Upstate Democrats were concentrated into two Buffalo-based districts that have a long history of electing worthless boobs (see Stachowksi and Thompson). The rest of Upstate has been gerrymandered so that Democrats are massively deconcentrated into ineffective minorites (see these ridiculous districts: 59, 51, 61) The Ithaca area is divided between THREE Senate districts to prevent Ithaca area DEmocrats from electing one of their own. Buffalo suburbs are sucked into districts that stretch counties away into the countryside. What does this accomplish? Upstate elects a lot of Republican hacks who never face competition and cannot speak unequivicoly for any community of interest: rural, urban or suburban. And Democrats elect a small number of hacks who never face any Republican competition.
And because Upstate consistently elects braindead party machine hacks from both parties, BOTH parites are lead by downstaters. This is understandable to a certain degree with the Democrats, but the fact that the REPUBLICANS are lead by downstaters is mind-boggling. And members of both parties cling to their downstate leaders because they are party hacks whose interests are better served by service to party than to constituents. Upstaters very rarely are nominated for, much less elected to, higher office because there is so little intelligence or initiative and the party machines already have what they need from upstate and have little interest in running upstates for higher office.
More rant to come....
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Tom Golisano, WTF?
So, I've been meaning to blog about the disaster that is the NYS Senate for a long time now, but I haven't had the time to really give such a post the attention and care it needs. But I want to share the following which I have stolen ver batim from an excellent political site, politics1.com
FLORIDA. Sources tell Politics1 that billionaire businessman Tom Golisano -- a former three-time Independent candidate for New York Governor -- is now contemplating a Democratic run for Florida's open US Senate seat. Golisano, who owns homes in both New York and Florida, recently switched his residency to the Sunshine State. The New York Times also reported Golisano was the driving influence beyond the recent New York Senate leadership coup which three the body into turmoil. Governor Charlie Crist (R) contacted Golisano last week to seek his financial support for Crist's Senate campaign, but was politely rebuffed.
Tom Golisano, who just moved to Florida, who ran three times for governor of New York as an independent, who just spent millions to ensure the Democrats took the New York State Senate despite being a registered Republican, who then engineered a takeover of the NYS Senate by Republicans, a man who allegedly cut his girlfriend with a broken bottle and a tax dodger is thinking about running for Senator from Florida as a Democrat? WTF?!?!?
FLORIDA. Sources tell Politics1 that billionaire businessman Tom Golisano -- a former three-time Independent candidate for New York Governor -- is now contemplating a Democratic run for Florida's open US Senate seat. Golisano, who owns homes in both New York and Florida, recently switched his residency to the Sunshine State. The New York Times also reported Golisano was the driving influence beyond the recent New York Senate leadership coup which three the body into turmoil. Governor Charlie Crist (R) contacted Golisano last week to seek his financial support for Crist's Senate campaign, but was politely rebuffed.
Tom Golisano, who just moved to Florida, who ran three times for governor of New York as an independent, who just spent millions to ensure the Democrats took the New York State Senate despite being a registered Republican, who then engineered a takeover of the NYS Senate by Republicans, a man who allegedly cut his girlfriend with a broken bottle and a tax dodger is thinking about running for Senator from Florida as a Democrat? WTF?!?!?
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