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Los Angeles Times: DWP Pays to Drink Sparkletts

Despite spending $1 million in the last two years to assure Los Angeles residents that their tap water is not only safe to drink but also top quality, city officials spent $88,900 in public money during that time on bottled water from private firms.

The Department of Water and Power, which supplies the city’s water and promotes it, spent the most on bottled water, paying $31,160 to Sparkletts.

There you go again……..

Technorati Tags: Sparkletts, DWP, Department of Water and Power, City of Los Angeles

ASSociated Press: GOP Road to White House May Start in Tenn.

Some of the Republican Party’s presumed presidential hopefuls will be in Memphis this March to meet with party activists and try to gain momentum for their campaigns.

The Southern Republican Leadership Conference will meet March 9-12 at the Peabody Hotel.

A number of presumed candidates, including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, are scheduled to attend and speak.

The Southern Republican Leadership Conference will meet March 9-12 at the Peabody Hotel.

A number of presumed candidates, including Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, are scheduled to attend and speak.

If McCain and Giuliani attend, Flap will obtain press credentials and blog from the event.

The Website is here.

Developing………

Technorati Tags: Republican Party, Southern Republican Leadership Conference, Bill Frist, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani

Los Angeles Times: Compton Killings Highest in Years

At least 72 people were killed in Compton in 2005, the highest toll in a decade for a city that has ranked among the most dangerous in the nation for 30 years.

The rise in homicides frightened residents who have long lived with high levels of gang violence but had seen a downturn in violent crime in recent years.

In addition to those killed in Compton, at least nine more people were shot to death in unincorporated areas within a few blocks of the city boundary.

Suppose those Bangers didn’t read Tookie’s books………..

Technorati Tags: Stanley Tookie Williams, Crips

Los Angeles Times: Rose Parade Gushes Color

The 117th edition of the Tournament of Roses Parade

Grand Marshall: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

A Downpour of Color

Waiting for the Show to Start

Flap loves a good parade – even in the rain!

Subway Restaurants’ “Fresh Magic” float glides through the rain.

The tropical setting gave onlookers hopes of sunnier days as the China Airlines’ float rode down the main promenade.

General view of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom headquarters in Moscow, January 2, 2006.

Reuters: Chastised Russia all but abandons gas blockade

Russia was forced to all but abandon a gas blockade against neighboring Ukraine on Monday after European trade partners said their own supplies had been hit and warned Moscow relations would suffer.

State-controlled Gazprom said it would restore full gas supplies to Europe by Tuesday, two days after the gas monopoly stopped supplies to Ukraine when Kiev refused to pay a fourfold price rise.

Germany, Russia’s main trading partner, warned it would think twice about importing more gas unless Moscow could prove it was a reliable supplier.

The Snake (Bear) remembered who its customers are in true capitalistic fashion……..

The stadium at Graz, Austria, on Monday Dec, 26, 2005, after the name of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was removed from the stadium overnight. Officials in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hometown Graz, removed his name from the soccer stadium overnight, complying with the California governor’s demand in a bitter dispute over his death penalty stance. Schwarzenegger had written to the mayor of Graz a week ago, asking that his name be removed after local activists called for the stadium to be renamed because of Schwarzenegger’s refusal to block the execution of convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams in California.

MARK STEYN: Like It Is: Tookie goes to Austria

“…People have had enough of him,” Peter Pilz, an MP in the Steiermark regional parliament, told The Guardian. “For us, he has committed a state crime…”

“…Americans have responsibilities, Europeans have attitudes….”

So, like the von Trapps, Arnold is singing as he goes:

Green Party poseurs

And posturing mayors

Renaming stadia

For multiple slayers

Dull civic honors of cheap cheesy rings

These are a few of my least fav’rite things…

Arnold to Graz: Don’t ring me, I’ll ring you.

Good Grief……..

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Hometown Terminates Schwarzenegger from Web Sites

Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Graz Removes Schwarzenegger’s Name from Stadium

Stanley “Tookie” Williams Executed: The Austrian Retribution – The Response

Stanley “Tookie” Williams Executed: Goodbye to a “Homeboy”

Stanley “Tookie” Williams Executed: The Austrian Retribution

Stanley “Tookie” Williams Executed: The Funeral

The Execution of Stanley Tookie Williams: Tookie Saves Lives?

The Tookie Files Collection

Technorati Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stanley Tookie Williams, Crips

AFP: Europe feels pinch as Russia-Ukraine gas row deepens

A story about nursing a SNAKE back to health comes to mind.

Captain Ed has More Russian Hot Air Over Ukrainian Gas