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Vincenzo's Crock Pot #14

posted by Vincent Nunes
Mon, 11/26/2012 - 2:23am

Please join me in signing John Kennedy O'Hara's petition at SignOn.

Here's the basic text:

The One Hundred Million Dollar Penny (Updated - S.1867)

posted by Vincent Nunes
Thu, 12/15/2011 - 10:52am

Ten days until Christmas, dear readers! Ho ho ho!

Five days to Hanukah! Mazel Tov!

Eleven days to Kwanzaa!

Boy - the holidays are coming fast and furious, aren't they?

Please go to this YouTube link - The One Hundred Million Dollar Penny - the video is 6 and a half minutes, and it explains very clearly what has happened to the American economy.

Special thanks go to Presidential candidate Ron Paul, who called for the audit of the Federal Reserve, and to Karen Kwiatkowski.

View From Here: The Shackles of Debt Locked on by the Bankers

posted by Vincent Nunes
Sat, 08/20/2011 - 6:36pm

View From Here: The Shackles of Debt Locked on by the Bankers

Strength Through Joy

posted by Vincent Nunes
Sat, 08/20/2011 - 5:33am

Before I get to the title of the posting, I'm going to approach a different subject altogether by way of a very tenuous segue.


It's been an interesting week, all told. So it is at this time that I find myself awake early on a Saturday morning, and I want to listen to something. I put on Queen at the Hippodrome du Paris, 1979. Soon into the set, comes the preamble for Fat Bottomed Girls, and Freddy Mercury can be heard to allude to female body parts...and all I can think is, "What's he talking about?"

Thank You, Dylan Ratigan!

posted by Vincent Nunes
Wed, 08/10/2011 - 1:45pm

At last...someone finally says it in plain English:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z1XOBDbIy0&feature=player_embedded

I'm looking to get a transcript, or to do this myself...but you all need to hear this, if you haven't yet done so.


Crime, Perceptions of Crime, and the Media - Part 3

posted by M Burgos
Sun, 01/16/2011 - 12:24am

Last Year I posted two essays here on Room 8 on the topic of "actual crime" versus "perception of crime" and the media's portrayal of and impact on both. The current indicator of crime by the NYPD is the CompStat report, which tallies seven crimes weekly and does a comparative of these numbers in a variety of ways. These reports are readily available to the public via each police precinct's webpage, found here.

Finance Workers

posted by GothamGazette
Wed, 08/05/2009 - 4:09pm

New York's Now Beleaguered Financial Workforce

Employees in the once booming finance sector made far more than their counterparts in other industries. But it may be a long, long time before those jibs return.

Andrew Beveridge reports:

http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/fea/20090803/202/2978

Reaction to the (not)SOTU

posted by charlie
Wed, 02/25/2009 - 4:16pm

I am curious to see what everyone on Room Eight thought about last night's speech?

Personally, I thought President Obama hit it out of the park. BUT, I wonder if it was an overly ambitious speech as well. 

Call me crazy, but after a big speech, I generally search for official statements made by our local representatives. I am always interested to see what their take on it was. The only one I have found so far is from Rep. Towns. He released an official statement last night, and I was honestly impressed. I will spare you the entire statement, but check this out:

A new day is here, and in the words of our President, ‘that day of reckoning has arrived.’ We have a lot of work to do.  I join President Obama in believing that if we work together our nation can restore the American promise.

“For all of the TySheoma Bethea’s in communities all across America, we are not quitters.”


Today's Dow dropped 345 points (3%)--what's it all about?

posted by Barry Popik
Thu, 09/04/2008 - 7:09pm

While everyone's looking at Sarah Palin and anticipating John McCain's speech tonight, a quick look at the stock market showed a 345-point drop (3%) in one day.

OUCH! What's going on here?

Wasn't the worst supposed to be over? Wasn't the recovery supposed to be started? Personally, my finances have been slaughtered this past year.

It would be nice to know about the major players who started today's selloff. Certainly, there wasn't all bad news today. The price of oil went down again.

What appears clear is that 2008 is shaping up to be a miserable economic year. The political implications should be obvious.


Mom and Pop and Economic Security

posted by Sen Jose M. Serrano
Wed, 07/23/2008 - 7:25am

The Governor’s Economic Security Cabinet will be in Harlem on July 28 as part of a statewide series of town hall meetings. The Cabinet will look at, among other things, job growth and workforce development.

 

I think there’s a lot to be learned from the 28th Senate District – which is both a hotbed of new and innovative economic activity, but also a place with a lot of economic insecurity.
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