Baby, It's Cold Outside!

Hello My Dear Friends! I, like you, am just trying to keep warm. First, to my Dear Friends and Family in Western New York, sorry about your luck! It must really suck to be you today! For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, well...

Ouch! The Gov closed over 130 miles of Thruway, from Rochester to Pennsylvania! Over 80 miles of RT 81 was closed, from Brewerton to the Canadian border! Here, in "snowy Syracuse", well...

Can you see the sun? I can. Anyway, enough about that. Snow or not, it is bitterly cold. So, I've chosen a few stories that should warm you up and, by warm you up I mean make you hot under the collar. Are you aware that the NFL, the NHL, the PGA and other sports leagues are registered non-profit organizations? They pay NO state or federal taxes. Yup. One Senator is trying to change that, since the non-profit NFL made 9 Billion dollars last year but, so far, he's getting zero support. Teams do pay taxes, but the league does not and hasn't since 1942. Jerry Sandusky, you remember him, is back in the spotlight. He began a hearing today with the Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System, attempting to get his Penn State pension reinstated. His argument? His conviction on 45 counts of child sexual abuse shouldn't have affected his pension because he wasn't actually an employee of Penn State when the crimes occurred. He retired in 1999. Sandusky argues that his "activities" at the college, after his retirement shouldn't preclude him, or his wife, from collecting the $4900 a month pension because he wasn't an employee (just a predator and pedophile). The hearing is expected to last a few days. Finally, after the First Family wrapped up their two week, taxpayer funded holiday vacation in Hawaii, the White House announced that the First Lady would not be returning to Washington with the rest of the crew. Nope. She was staying on in Hawaii for a few more days as part of her birthday gift from the Pres. How sweet, right? Wrong. That means that Air Force One will, at some point, have to return, empty, to Hawaii to pick up the First Lady and then return to Washington, again. The cost to you and me? $800,000! That's some Birthday gift. Especially since it's a gift paid for, not by her loving husband, but by the taxpayers. When it comes to gift giving, they say it's the thought that counts. Well, I think that gift sucks and that's what counts! Hey, Mr. President, buy your own damn gifts.
Po