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Call To Lonsberry
Bob Lonsberry, while hosting his wildly popular mid-day talk show in Rochester, received a call urging him to run for national public office. He declined. I felt obligated to write the following email:
Dear Bob,
One of your callers on the 03/31 show was "spot-on!!" But, dismally... your reply was not the desired one.
I speak of the caller that suggested you run for national office. That's not so far-fetched; the country needs someone who's NOT a lawyer, but who is brutally honest, with logic and common sense!!
There are several points in your favor:
1. Your unquestionable honesty.
2. Your regional name recognition.
3. Your love-of-country.
4. Your understanding and steadfast support of the U.S. Constitution.
5. Your understanding of the needs, wants and desires of your possible constitutients.
6. Your life-long residency in western, Upstate New York.
7. Your command of the problems of the local area and the nation as a whole.
8. Your logical and insightful thought into solutions to the nation's and area's problems.
Bob, now is the time to decide a little guy can beat the big guy-the professional politician!
I have admired you since the first time I met you in Cohocton. Everyone has "skeletons-in-the-closet," I'm sure you have fewer than most. Please don't let perceived negativity detract you from a civic duty!!
When you register your Exploratory Committee, I shall be at the fore to offer any and all support I can muster!! While I'm "a pensioner," my assistance financially will be meager at best; you have my every waking hour for knocking on doors, phone work, internet research, sweeping the floor, ANYTHING necessary!!
Now is the time to figuratively "grab the socialist by the nuts" and defeat him in his own territory, on his own policies!!
Please give this your usual careful, considered thought.
Lonsberry for Congress!!
Thanks,
[My Name]
Kodak "Gallery" Changes
Kodak is changing the terms for users of its Kodak Gallery online photo album and sharing service.
Effective immediately, people who have two gigabytes or less of photos stored on Kodak Gallery have to purchase at least $5 a year of prints or photo merchandise.
People with more than two gigabytes of photos stored have to make annual purchases of $20, or face photo deletion.
Previously, Kodak Gallery had no minimum purchase requirement.
Kodak Gallery has roughly 75 million users.
Porklosi's Priorities
The House will vote this week to give its main investigative arm one of the smallest funding increases of any committee, a sign that oversight of a Democratic administration isn’t a leading priority for the Democratic Congress.
The Oversight Committee, where Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) has pledged to bird-dog the $700 billion Wall Street bailout and the $787 billion economic stimulus plan, is getting a 3 percent increase, the second-smallest boost of any committee.
Overall this year, committees got a 9 percent increase, with the Small Business Committee getting the largest percentage increase, 21 percent.
Oversight remains the second-highest-funded committee overall, but only the Budget Committee got a smaller increase, and it got what it requested.
The Oversight panel had requested an 11 percent increase, or $1.6 million. In the House Administration Committee, that was slashed to $740,000.
Last Congress, Oversight got a 5.4 percent increase; in the 109th Congress, it got a 4.5 percent increase.
Til Nex'Time....
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