You-you-you- know everything!

Favorite part of the piece:

“Maybe the fascination with Chelsea Clinton is her steadfast pursuit of her right to privacy. While the majority of Americans begin to discover the downside of babble, living 24-7 on-line, Twittering, watching reality TV, and generally just talking too much about ourselves, Chelsea is one of the few people in public life reminding us what privacy is—the right to it, the pleasure of it, and the dignity of it.”

A girl after my own heart… and why I am not a twitterer!

More power to her if there is a wedding and her family and friends wouldn’t say beforehand. All things considered, Chelsea Clinton deserves at least one day off from the national spotlight, her wedding day. If you agree, say “I do.”

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And now he’s apparently going to add Afghanistan to the mix of his subliminal begging. He wants to get the public back on his side for this war. Good luck with that.

Syracuse (WSYR-TV) – Welfare and food stamp recipients Wednesday started getting letters in the mail letting them know extra money they received in their benefit payments this month, is supposed to be used to buy school supplies for their kids.

The problem is, the money was available on their cards Tuesday, and local retailers tell us they were swamped with people cashing in.

The owners of the Sunoco on the corner of Wolf and Grant Street in Syracuse were swamped Tuesday; food stamp recipients, they say, who found an extra $200 per child on their benefit cards, were coming in to cash in.

“One person said she was going to buy a cell phone, I said ‘Wow, I thought the money was supposed to be for the kids — other people were just buying cigarettes and beer,” says Sunoco gas station owner Diane Goly.

It’s very possible most of those people didn’t even know this cash that mysteriously appeared on their cards was supposed to be used to buy school supplies for their children — the letters from the state telling them that were still in the mail.

Governor Paterson announced at a press conference Tuesday that he was using $140 million in stimulus money to fund this program — but prior to that, it seems he kept this allocation close to the vest.

“We hadn’t done a lot of planning for it because we didn’t know about it,” says Ann Rooney of Onondaga County Human Services.

Social Services had no say in the program or how the cash was distributed; they just learned about it last week and were told not to say anything about it to the public until Tuesday, when the governor announced the program at a press conference.

“We would have liked to have been involved in the process and have some input,” says Rooney.

Congressman Dan Maffei says, “The Governor gave me no heads up that they were going to do this, so this is a program that the state is implementing without the input of at least our congressional office.”

State Republicans claim the governor developed this plan in secret with no legislative input and it’s ripe for fraud and abuse.

We tried speaking with the governor’s office Wednesday about this, and they deferred us to the Office of Temporary Assistance.

They admit the letters should have gone out well in advance of the money, but there was a lot of overhead and they wanted to make sure the cash was out before school started.

With the governor’s plan, there’s no accountability. His office is just hoping folks do the right thing and spend the extra cash on their kids. Rooney thinks there may have been a better way to ensure that. “Perhaps we could have done something with Mary Nelson, who’s having her barbecue this weekend and put some of the money in her hands to supplement what she’s doing with the backpack giveaway,” she says.

Nelson says she found out about the money and says she’s heard of people using it on other items rather than on their children. It shocks her, but she says it’s not the children’s fault and that she’ll still help them. “Maybe those parents should come by and bring some of those supplies, and feel bad for what they did,” Nelson says. She wishes she could have received at least some of that money; with just days left before the Youth Day Barbecue, she still needs enough supplies to fill up 1,000 backpacks. She also says she needs about 2,000 backpacks for folks who may not have signed up

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Poll: Obama Approval Rating Drops to 47 Percent
Rasmussen Reports shows 52 percent disapprove of President Obama’s performance, while 47 percent at least somewhat approve.

FOXNews.com

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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President Obama’s approval rating has dropped to 47 percent, a new low, according to the Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll.

The survey released Thursday showed 52 percent of those polled disapprove of Obama’s performance, while 47 percent at least somewhat approve.

The poll appears to reflect the growing discontent over the health care reform push on Capitol Hill, as well as the continuing challenge Obama faces in trying to turn public opinion.

The new survey showed 42 percent favor the Democrats’ health care plan, while 53 percent oppose it.

Obama’s approval rating has been steadily creeping downward in recent weeks.

A Quinnipiac University poll last week pegged that number at 50 percent.

The Gallup tracking poll still shows Obama’s approval rating at 53 percent.

Rasmussen surveys 500 likely voters per night for its tracking poll and reports results based on a three-day average — for the full sample of 1,500 likely voters, the margin of error is 3 percentage points.

BTW, the latest rumor talks about her wedding dress, lol.

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The weather in MA and around the Cape (in the 90s) has been sooo fine the last couple of weeks! The bluest clear skies ever and if it rains, it does, just for an hour or so. Almost tropical with the humidity and all. I spent some time with relatives last week anchored off of Nantucket.

I’m hoping someone can post a few private pix just for our little enclave here at Big Pink. I am sooo happy for Chelsea and Marc. Welcome to the newest genre of MIL jokes.

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