Blagojevich babbled...'I'm gonna fight, fight, fight...

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich  made a statement to the media at his downtown Chicago office building a short time ago.

The embattled governor has kept his trap shut up till now, since his arrest last week on federal corruption charges.

Prosecutors say FBI wiretaps caught Blagojevich scheming to deal President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat for campaign cash or a plum job.

Blagojevich told reporters that he's innocent and would not step down and "would fight till his last breath." You gotta hand it to this creep, he isn't going quietly into the night!

The stage is set. The characters have taken their positions. Stay tuned...

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Hilda Solis named Labor Secretary by Obama

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I think she's a great pick. I use to live in La Puente (early sixties) and she's from there. However, there's a lot more reasons to think she's a really smart choice. Click here for her story in the Daily-News Latino.

1950: This was a popular children's gift for Christmas

I was born on November 7th, 1950, so regretfully, I don't remember this little bit of trivia. But it was sure fun seeing it and comparing it to what children get today for Christmas. What a difference between generations! No wonder we're often world's apart from this new generation. Lo tech versus high tech. Simple versus complex. Inexpensive versus very expensive. I suppose I'm not the only baby boomer out there that feels nostalgic this Christmas. Peace.

Some American's Are Already Sick of All Of That Snow!

As winter whiteouts spread across the country there are some people who are less than delighted with a visit from Old Jack Frost!

Bush Bails out Automakers to the Tune of $17.4 Billion

President Bush announced he was bailing out the Big Three this morning.

He said he did it to avoid them going into bankruptcy which would weaken the economy.

He called this move a "stop-gap"measure. Note that Congress wouldn't take this step before going into recess.

I think this bail-out was the wrong thing to do. In typical Bush fashion, he sidestepped Congress to get his own way.

Las Vegas hasn't seen this much snow since records were kept

                               

 I have a nephew who lives near Las Vegas.

He works in the city however.

 I've been there many times myself, and in every season,   but have never seen snow there. Don't tell me there's no global warming!

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Blog babble on a Rainy Thursday Afternoon

I was checking out the most popular post in the last 48 hours and without a doubt it's the column I wrote for the Times-Standard - Election Fallout: Hate Groups Show Growth (see column on right for a link) a couple of weeks ago. Over 100 readers looked at it.

I have two followers. One, is Tom Holloway who has his own blog: "The Grand Life" (See my blog roll). And the other is ANEMONE (who does not have a blog). I do not know who this person is...but thanks for subscribing!

There's been 50 foreign visitors in the last 48 hours. England and Canada lead the way for the most appearances.
Hello to: Rheden Gelderlands, Netherlands; Taby, Stockholms-Lan, Sweden; Waremme Liege, Belgium; Istanbul, Turkey; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania; Thana Maharashtra, India; Rezekne, Latvia; London, United Kingdom; Huddersfield, Kirklees, United Kingdom; Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom; Erwitte, Nordrhein-westfalen, Germany; Torhout, West-vlaanderen, Belgium; Newport, United Kingdom; Delta, British Columbia, Canada; Winnipeg, Mantiba, Canada; Birmingham, United Kingdom; Shannon Clare, Ireland; Belgrade, Serbia Proper,Serbia; Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom; Stratford, Ontario, Canada; Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Athens Atiki, Greece; Veldhoven, Noord brabant, Netherlands; Tasikmalaya, Jawa Barat, Indonesia; Sudbury, Ontario, Canada; Haarlem, Noord-holland, Netherlands;Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; Whitby, Ontario, Canada;Brno, Jihomoravsky Kraj, Czech Republic; Ajax, Ontario, Canada; Sable River, Nova Scotia, Canada; Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Etropole, Sofiya, Bulgaria; Keighley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom;
Naples, Campania, Italy; Plaza, Cagayan, Philippines;Auckland, New Zealand; Ijmuiden, Noord-holland, Netherlands; Padova, Veneto, Italy; Northwich, Cheshire, United Kingdom; Reutlingen, Baden-wuttemberg, Germany;Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, United Kingdom; Wallsend, North Tyneside, United Kingdom; Tumba, Stockholms Lan, Sweden; Barnsley, United Kingdom; and Knottingley, York, United Kingdom.

Thanks also to the rest of my visitors from throughout the United States. You're getting too numerous for me to list anymore. Your coming in the hundreds every day and I just have to say...thanks for coming my way!

BLOG ON!

Take a Tour of the First Ice Motel in North America

About 10 km east of Québec City, near Montmorency Falls and within the grounds of the Duchesnay winter resort, the first ice hotel in North America is erected each January.

 Its 22 beds were sold out when it first opened in 2000. In its last iteration it had 85 beds, all made of ice but lined with deer furs and covered with mattresses and arctic sleeping bags.

 Only the bathrooms are heated, in a separate insulated structure.

 The hotel is usually made (the architecture and size may vary from season to season) with 4,750 tons of sculpted ice, forming arches over rooms with 16 foot (5 m) and larger and higher spaces for two art galleries (filled with ice sculptures of course) a bar, a movie theater, and a chapel where weddings are celebrated.

 The walls are more than 4 feet (1.2 m) thick on average. All of the furniture is made of ice. In addition to using ice glasses as in the Kiruna ice hotel, the bar (and room service) also serves cold cuts on ice plates.

Photos from Damn Funny Pictures

 

Obama Picks New SEC chief and other regulators

President-elect Barack Obama introduces Mary Schapiro as his designate for Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman during a news conference in Chicago, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008.

 With them is Gary Gensler, the President-elect's designate for Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman and Daniel Tarullo, right, for a Federal Reserve seat.

(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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