Posted on 02/19/2007 8:38:01 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Thanks, anyway.
I added the link you gave me to my favorites.
Thanks. I'll give that a try.
AWWWWWWW. /S
"You should have knocked him on his arse"
But that would be SOOOOO insensitive!
Might affect the poor dear's self-esteem.
The nanny state might send you to a "re education camp".
One more day of Global Warming in NYC, then the temp returns to seasonal averages.
TINFOIL LOGIC RE CRACK BABIES
If children born to parents who used drugs, alcohol and nicotene during pregnancy are known to have learning problems (ADD, ADHD, DYSLEXIA, ASHBERGER'S, TURRETS, AUTISM, ETC.), then by cracking down, so to speak, on mothers for the past 25 years should net a DECREASE in these problems.
A "labour beautification course" as they used to say in East Germany!
A little editing goes a long way.
We had six inches of global warming the other week.
"I need the link for opening WABC radio streaming audio in Windows Media Play. Anyone got that?"
Try this direct link- it works for me: http://rope.wmal.com/windowsmediaplayer/wmal.asx
I think the guy who was just on is FReeper PJComix.
He is so jealous of this show, he can't stand it.
His FReeper comments are the same comments he just
made to Roger. He kept talking about canned laughter.
What's this i hear about the British Government, wanting to tax you, if you live on a "nice street"?
There ya go!! Clouding the issue with common sense and logic!! SHEEESH!!!
BTW, Mom smoked (she passed at 82) so maybe that explains why I'm the way I am.
I'll change my name to Margaret Thatcher and my husband's name to Tony Blair -- just for you. LOL!
It replays again next Sunday at 10:00pm on Fox News.
They did two "pilots". They will play the second "pilot" the following Sunday and replay it the next Sunday after.
Confused?
Marty was fired in San Diego.
Ah, my favourite subject!
Its been in a while but Red Ken extended it today:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/gla/story/0,,2016625,00.html
Livingstone praises congestion zone extension
Matt Weaver and agencies
Monday February 19, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Ken Livingstone today hailed as a success the westward extension of the congestion charge zone in London, despite angry protests from residents in west London.
The city's mayor, who was the driving force behind the controversial road toll scheme, said traffic was flowing freely in and around the zone, which expanded today to cover most of the City of Westminster and the borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
He said: "The zone was, until now, one of the most congested areas in the UK, and first indications are that traffic levels have been reduced, as expected, by the scheme."
London was taking the lead in tackling a problem that blighted "virtually every major city in the world", he said.
"This has contributed to London seeing the world's first significant shift from the private car to public transport, and as a result cities all over the world are looking to London's example."
Earlier, west London residents vowed to continue their fight against the extension of the zone. Up to 100 people from residents' and business groups marched in Earls Court to protest at today's doubling in size of the £8-a-day zone.
The West London Residents' Association chairman, Gordon Taylor, who organised the march, described the boundary of the zone as a "Berlin wall".
"It is very crude and inflexible," he said. "There's no regard for family and social patterns. People will have to change their whole lives and shopping patterns."
He added: "We will continue the fight until the charge disappears from London."
The AA motoring organisation warned that the zone could become a "monster" for drivers, and Westminster council questioned the need for the extension.
Transport for London said this morning's rush hour had gone well. Malcolm Murray-Clark, the director of congestion charging, said: "The scheme has been extended to one of the most congested areas in the UK, in an effective and well-run process."
He said that since the charge was introduced in 2003, traffic levels had dropped in the central zone by 20%. This meant that last year almost 70,000 fewer vehicles entered the zone each day than had done so prior to the charge's introduction.
And the transport campaigner for Friends of the Earth, Tony Bosworth, said the charge had produced good environmental results.
"The congestion charge has reduced congestion, increased bus and bike use and cut carbon dioxide emissions," he said.
But Paul Watters, the AA's head of public affairs, said the zone was tough on drivers, and that its smooth start today had been largely due to the school half-term reduction in traffic.
"As confused drivers wander in off the edges or from free through-routes and get pursued for £100 fines by the bailiffs, the London congestion charge could become a monster.
"Such a beast only survives through punishing mistakes, with more than 30% of income currently coming from penalty charge notices."
He added: "It was one thing to try to control traffic in a predominantly financial and business area, but when you clamp down on 220,000 drivers in a busy and economically mixed area of the capital, the impact and reaction is likely to be significantly worse than what went before - particularly when most residents voted against the extension."
Westminster council sent a letter to Mr Livingstone, that asked: "In deciding to extend the congestion charging zone westwards, what assessment did you make of the likely benefits that would accrue to residents of the City of Westminster weighed against the costs of the operation?"
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