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Unfortunately, you may get a lot of desperate sellers if the rumors regarding HSBC are true and they decide to significantly downsize in the Buffalo area: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020725/At-10-000-jobs-HSBC-disappointing-start-year.html http://www.buffalonews.com/business/business-columns/david-robinson/article459929.ece

Anyone remember "The Terror of Tiny Town", the only all-midget western movie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K1DmbMPZZ8

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Because it's the classic "limousine liberal", that's why. "Sacrifice by all" ... except for me. In other words, a hypocrite.

http://news.yahoo.com/police-arrest-soldier-foiled-terror-plot-114852473.html Army soldier Naser Jason Abdo shouted the name of a military psychiatrist accused of a 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, during his first appearance in court on Friday on a charge related to an alleged terror plot. Abdo, 21, was formally charged with illegal possession of a firearm two days after his arrest in a Killeen, Texas, motel room in possession of suspected bomb-making materials. "Abeer Qassim al-Janabi Iraq 2006; Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood, 2009," Abdo shouted at the media as he was led out of the Waco courtroom.

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The Washington Post went to its archives and dug up their 1964 reviews of the Beatles and Rolling Stones: Beatles: The first of three appearances by The Beatles on the "Ed Sullivan Show" last Sunday night demonstrated, once more, that our adolescents don't know the difference between parody and the real thing. For that matter, neither do the Beatles. They are, apparently, part of some kind of malicious, bi-lateral entertainment trade agreement. The British have to sit through dozens of dreadful American television programs. In return, we get the Beatles. As usual, we got gypped. Nothing we have exported in recent years quite justifies imported hillbillies who look like sheep dogs and sound like alley cats in agony. There was once an intentional trade that is comparable, in reverse. The Soviet Union sent us the Moiseyev Dancers and we sent them Ed Sullivan. ... Much of last Sunday's audience was created by plain curiosity. People wanted to know what all the shrieking is about and they got an answer -- four quite ordinary musicians who happen to have unusually good diction for their own field. The haircuts can be seen on almost any street corner and young boys insist their clothing be shrunk until it is three sizes too small. The Beatles do offer some relief from the folk singers and our young do need some reason to scream. Those of us who are old enough to vote will simply have to endure one more monstrosity created by mass media. Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones were in town yesterday but you didn’t miss anything unless you happen to be 12 years old and a girl. The Stones are from England and they play amplified guitars and harmonicas and drums. They are not the Beatles. The Beatles are smiley and nice and funny. The Stones are morbid and pathetic and very close to being ugly. There are five of them. Four of them play instruments and weigh 140 pounds each. Mick Jagger, the fifth, sings and stares and dances. He was educated at the London School of Economics and weighs 146 pounds. They’re touring the United States so that all the 12-year-old girls who have had to make do with canned voices on records and radios can dress up and comb their hair and scream at them in person. Dressing up is very important. If you wear the right kind of boppy little hat and eye-makeup and tight pants one of the Stones may wave at you. Mick Jagger doesn’t wave, he points. He has a lot of thick brown uncombed hair and he dances while he sings. Yesterday he wore checked bell-bottomed hip-hugger pants and danced with his microphone. The microphone was on a long chrome-plated stand and had a round weighted base to keep it from falling over. Jagger picked it up and jumped around and turned it upside down and hugged it. “Ah caint get no sat-is-fac-tion,” he said. He aslo played the tambourine with his wrist and his knees and his rump. “Ah caint get no sat-is-fac-tion,” he said. Then he started to take off his jacket. He did it very slowly and gracefully, and then almost — but not quite — threw it into the audience. “Eeeeeee,” said the audience. There were a lot of policemen there too. They formed a human wall around the stage and shoved back all the girls who tried to take the place of the microphone. They held their nightsticks in their hands and shoved gently. Suddenly, from the midst of all those girls, a young man in a red sweater jumped on stage and made a desperate grab at Jagger’s tambourine. The police got there first. They twisted his arm and grabbed him around the neck and pushed him to the floor and then dragged him struggling and kiccking up the aisle. Then suddenly it was over. Jagger dropped the microphone and leaped off the stage into a sea of blue and vanished. The group was here for only a one-night stand. The Rolling Stones have made a lot of records and a lot of money. This reporter was told they were great musicians and gave great concerts. This reporter was told wrong.

http://www2.insidenova.com/news/2011/jul/26/6/criminal-profiler-serial-butt-slasher-wont-stop-un-ar-1197834/

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-niagara-falls-wallenda-20110727,0,7672294.story

And they signed Schuylar Oordt (TE Northern Iowa) per his Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/#!/schuylaroordt

That's MISTER blockhead to you, fella!

Actually, you should be watching multiple news stations, because all of them have good points and bad points. Even people who claim to be "centrist" are inherently biased. That's why you should read multiple online newspapers every day as well. There is no "one true thought" out there, as much as you want it to be.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/07/24/2011-07-24_oregon_rep_david_wu_faces_calls_to_quit_after_woman_accuses_him_of_unwanted_sexu.html

Of course, if you would stop downloading gay porn all of the time, this wouldn't be a problem in the first place.

Forgive me for posting the entire article, but it is a pay-subscription site: The Empire State Can Rise Again Upstate cities like Buffalo and Rochester were once powerhouses. They can be again, if politicians encourage local entrepreneurship By JONATHAN COHEN AND JOHN GIARDINO Wall Street Journal JULY 23, 2011 To understand how New York earned its nickname as the Empire State, take a trip along Interstate 90 west of Albany. Syracuse is the first stop. Built by the descendants of German immigrants in the 18th century, at its center is a large university that boasts Jim Brown, Lou Reed and Joe Biden among its alumni. Here in 1937, Willis Haviland Carrier built his famous air-conditioner manufacturing company, which, ironically, made the Sun Belt habitable for millions of migrant New Yorkers. Next, pay a visit to Rochester, birthplace to such diverse influences as Xerox (founded in 1906), the Mormon Church, and Susan B. Anthony's women's rights movement. Some 75 miles away is where Nikola Tesla's experiments with electrical power made Buffalo known as "The City of Light" at the turn of the 20th century. Two U.S presidents—Millard Fillmore and Grover Cleveland—were born in Buffalo, and a third, Teddy Roosevelt, was sworn in there. Mark Twain edited the local newspaper; Frank Lloyd Wright built at least four homes and a major factory; and F. Scott Fitzgerald lived as a boy on Irving Place. Today New York's once-vibrant upstate region is no more. People are moving away in droves. Industries like Bethlehem Steel in Buffalo and Kodak in Rochester are dead or dying. Cultural institutions struggle for funds and relevance. The University of Buffalo, once regarded as the crown jewel of the SUNY system, barely ranks on a national level. Buffalo's population, 580,000 in 1950, is now dwindling toward 260,000, and the city is now the third poorest in the nation on a per-capita basis. Can the region revive? Not as long as it follows the failed top-down strategy its leaders have long pursued. For years, elected officials have promised exciting projects to turn things around. A high-speed train is the fantasy of the moment. From time to time, convention centers and other forms of temporary employment do materialize. But these projects create very little sustainable income. In fact, they often have a negative effect. In the 1980s, the late Congressman Jack Kemp led an effort to replace Buffalo's perfectly well-functioning transit corridor, Main Street, with a subsidized subway line and a downtown pedestrian mall. Ridership never achieved projected levels for the subway. The system has never paid for itself and, by banning cars, the pedestrian mall killed downtown's commercial district. This is a pattern in a city where real-estate deals are often disguised as economic development strategies. Last year, a brave group of locals was able to defeat a sweetheart arrangement to bring the fishing and hunting superstore Bass Pro to Buffalo's waterfront—but only after tens of millions in misguided spending. The successor scheme is to relocate Buffalo's university buildings five miles down the street to the new "bio-medical corridor." It's all part of something called UB 2020 and it has a price tag in the hundreds of millions. As Bruce Fisher, who directs the Center for Economic and Policy Studies at Buffalo State College, remarked earlier this year, "What's so striking [about the plan] is that there's not much in it about intellectual innovation, but a whole lot in it about real estate." How it will generate long-term jobs is anybody's guess. But there's no question that the local contracting industry is pleased. If there is one lesson to be learned from New York State's history, it's that people and ideas must precede bricks and mortar. The empire-building spirit can be restored if local officials get real about smaller populations and smaller budgets, and pursue policies that encourage local entrepreneurship—not dependence on Albany and Washington. First, everyone needs to stop running recklessly at mirage-like projects. Instead, resources should be invested in making communities work for the people who live in them now: safer and cleaner streets, high-quality schools, and infrastructure improvements for the facilities that anchor neighborhoods. Privately sponsored Business Improvement Districts where local businesses join together to fund and manage basic neighborhood improvements could be a part of the answer. (Such districts have been a great success in Manhattan.) Then there's IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge Grant, which is awarding $50 million in technology and services to 100 deserving cities world-wide. Syracuse is using its grant to analyze neighborhood data on crime, poverty, garbage collection and housing vacancy to determine where to allocate city resources. The data-driven approach, as opposed to the real-estate development model, is one that other municipalities throughout the region would do well to follow. Regulated hydrofracking to develop the region's shale gas reserves is also something worth considering if it indeed delivers the $214 million in additional tax revenue and 16,000 new jobs that advocates promise. At the same time, there must be radical change in Albany. This means weaning upstate cities off downstate tax revenues. No more unneeded convention centers, light-speed rail projects, and subsidized fishing stores. When it comes to the university system, the primary investments should be in outstanding teachers, not building projects. Above all, give the municipalities a bigger role in determining public-employee benefits and pensions. Albany dictates the rules and rates governing pensions for retired public employees, 25% of whom live out of state. The municipalities literally have no bargaining power. Even if officials wanted to, it's mathematically impossible to raise property taxes high enough to offset pension obligations. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has accomplished a lot quickly: a balanced budget, marriage equality, a cap on real estate taxes. Brimming with energy, he is fairly a modern embodiment of the spirit that built the Empire State. Will he lead the reform necessary to revive upstate? It's long past time. Mr. Cohen, a former aide to Mayor Ed Koch, and Mr. Giardino, a member of Buffalo's Financial Control Board, are the co-founders of the New York Policy Forum.

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http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Benny-Hill-behind-bars-1482617.php