This should be fun. Aram Roston has written an article for Playboy magazine about computer programmer Dennis Montgomery. (NPR,BernieHund)
In the article titled "The Man Who Conned the Pentagon," Roston tells the story of how Montgomery convinced top officials in the Bush Whitehouse that Al Jazeera broadcasts contained embedded [...]
Others have talking points, quick hits, or gleanettes. Nor'Towners are stuck with Sludge Cakes!
I ddn't make it to the Wednesday meetings of the North Las Vegas City Council, so we'll have to rely on the Main Stream Media (MSM) to fill in the gaps:
Council voted' [...]
"O, O!" Nevadans did cry out: "Who's the Anointed One, destined by our Mining, Casino, and Construction Overlords to be the One True Governor in 2010?
"O! Woe is Us", they did cry! "Last time it was all so Clear Cut! The elites, [...]
One topic at a longish meeting of the North Las Vegas City Council last night (Dec. 15th) was an exercise in determining what should be Nor'Town's primary responsibilities. The idea is to rank services so as make it easier to identify where to snip.
Council and staff spent the weekend and [...]
From a North Las Vegas Police news release:
INCIDENT: UPDATE: Woman Killed in Her Home During Family Disturbance 09-29510
North Las Vegas – This is an update to the earlier press release regarding the homicide that occurred at about 12:55 a.m. December 16, 2009 at a home in the [...]
Divorce December finds the crack Re-elect Nixon Gibbons' team in full featured panic/goofball mode. Consider:
The childish offer to our handicapped-parking-challenged State Senate Majority Leader to join a state board for the handicapped. (Sun) The threat by the Gube for 10% new across the board [...]
Bunch of special sessions with the city council this week as council tries to figure out what happened to the city budget.
You'll learn (maybe)
why water fees are being diverted to the general fund why "more cops" funds were (are being?) diverted to the general fund why [...]
Now that Dave Berns has been given the boot from KNPR's State of Nevada cuz he wanted it, you know, to remain a news show instead of the typical public radio/tv sop for rich pseudo-intellectuals who like animal shows [...]
This post is just an excuse to list some of my favorite highlights from the debate over the severance of city manager Rose from Nor'Town last week. A few of these didn't make Lynnette Curtis's or Amanda Llewellyn's writeups. Here's what you missed if you weren't there:
A citizen' [...]Now, us'n Nevada Republicans supporting Jim Gibbons are ever so proud of the Guv's sudden spurt of interest in the state budgetary process. (RJ)
No doubt there's a bunch of Sandovalistas out there wondering why the Gube couldn't have called for those [...]
No doubt everybody's breathing a sigh of relief over the news that Nevada's reduced its emission of toxic crap by 10%!
Those of us who can still breathe, anyways.
Which probably is fewer than you'd think given that Nevada still leads the nation in mercury emissions, thanks to the foreign conglomerates [...]
The North Las Vegas Alliance of Home Owners' Associations and Concerned Folk will be having it's monthly meeting on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 6 pm at the Aliante Library (assuming the city doesn't shut the library down due to budget pressures between now and then). The Agenda, from the organization:
N.L.V. [...]
Some scary murder statistics in the Review-Journal today. According to a table of "murder clearance rates", Nor'Town solves around 50-60% of its murders, while Metro police solve 70-80% and Henderson, a dull and staid community, solves most of its murders, when it can get up the energy to commit' [...]
The ouster of City Manager Gregory Rose seems to have been a full-out rebellion against the so far short lived reign of mayor Shari Buck.
It was striking that the mayor was unable to cajole even one of her companions on the City Council to vote for Rose. It's been [...]
Holy crap! Elections are heading Nor'Town's way again! Guess I should start posting stuff I get from campaigns, like:
(North Las Vegas, NV) – Lucy Flores, Democratic candidate for Assembly District 28, will kick-off her campaign at a community celebration on Saturday, December 5, at Lincoln Elementary School. The District 28 seat is currently held [...]
City Council voted to remove City Manager Gregory Rose "without cause" and handed him his severance package worth over $337,000 today. (RJ) Council voted 4-1 for the removal. Mayor Shari Buck, as threatened earlier, voted against, because she felt that there were not "any good reasons" for removing the [...]
AH. Nothing says "Christmas" better than a pink slip!
Yes, after a lovely tree lighting ceremony and cookies, City Council bellies up to the bar today, most likely to fire the current city manager Gregory Rose, hand him his $337,000 in parting gifts (thanks for playing, Mr. Rose!), and pick [...]
Boy, oh, boy, oh boy! Now, could you possibly picture Brian Sandoval or Wazzisname from North Las Vegas--you know, the guy who signed over a $337,000 golden parachute to the city manager up there, you know, the guy against government [...]
Sigh. Everybody's making fun of us. From Jon Ralston's column about what prominent Nevadans have to be thankful for this Thanksgiving:
Whoa! Where else do you get $337,000 for messing up? Besides Goldman Sachs, I mean.
$337,000 is how much it's going to cost Nor'Town to get rid of its current City Manager Gregory Rose. (RJ) City Council will be voting on the "settlement" at the December 2nd meeting, barring postponement. [...]
Yes, really. According to KTNV, an automobile belonging to Nevada State Senator and Nor'Townie Steven Horsford, and sporting his official State Senator license plate, was seen parked in a handicapped spot without the required plate or tag over at Aviary Park.
State Senator 17 [Hosrford's number] left his SUV parked not only in' [...]
Looks like a tough Thanksgiving for Nevada charities this year, so you all might want to send a contribution in to your favorite charity. (KLAS)
Help the Three Square foodbank folk get more turkeys.
Give to the Las Vegas Rescue Mission.
Or to the [...] Steve Miller, over at AmeicaMafia.com, has an interesting article about the governor's attempt--or lack thereof--to crack down on that beloved Vegas tradition, the "doorman scam." The "doorman scam" is the practice at local casinos wherein doormen give special favors to taxi drivers [...]
So, executive-leaving Nor'Town City Manager characterized the use of "More Cops" funds to support cops already on the force.
"The issue is a simple coding error. It's just paperwork," City Manager Gregory Rose said earlier this month. (RJ)
However, the "More Cops" funds, we are told, are meant only to support' [...]
Yes, really. The assembly guy for district 13 calls our leaders "pigs." Last I checked Assembly folk were leaders, no? Or would he want to deny that he's a leader? (ProgressNV) Self-esteem issues, maybe?
Oh, and he seems to have the president confused with the Joker from Batman.
Funny, he's only [...]
Oh, please, Mr. Guberner, give us hope in these trying times!
But, saith the Gibbers: “I would like to tell the citizens of Nevada we have seen the worst of the economic crisis and are seeing the fruits of recovery,” But, of course, he [...]
Stand back, Nevada! Jim Gibbons is going totally Palin on your ass!
Yep. Gibbons has gone rogue over the stimulus money, and singlehandedly usurped the powers of the Legislative Interim Finance Committee by approving at least 11 projects without any Legislative oversight. ([...]
So, I was reading an article from the Review Journal about how the Southern Nevada Water Authority executive board just voted to appeal a recent ruling against the Authority's plan to pipe water out of rural Nevada down here so that casinos can fill their pools and to replace [...]
Wow! I feel like a kid in a candy store!
Just look at all those nifty candidates I get to pick from in the Nevada Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, now that I'm a Nevada Republican! ([...]
This just in from the Protectors of Tule Springs:
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!!!!Despite the lack of press coverage (more to come this weekend, I think), the Protectors of Tule Springs, along with other coalition groups has done what everyone told me was impossible 3 years ago.
The cities of Las Vegas and North [...]
This just in from the Protectors of Tule Springs:
HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!!!!The cities of Las Vegas and North Las [...]
Channel 8 is reporting that Nor'Town City Manager Gregory Rose is on paid leave and may be leaving the city permanently. (VegasNow) TeeVee folk think it's because of the missing "More Cops" money, but Rose has apparently denied it.
More about missing "More Cops" money:
I-Team: Tax' [...]If you are just getting to the point in your therapy sessions where you don't have night sweats about that hideous mayoral campaign we recently endured, David McKee reminds of how that was, at least partly, a feud twixt the Boyd family and the Fertittas. ([...]
The Clark County Commission voted to support a resolution in favor of making the northern Vegas Wash into a Urban National Park. (RJ)
Next up, city of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas:
November 18th Las Vegas City Council 9am- Corner of Stewart and Las Vegas Blvd. near Fremont street. Bring change for [...]
It only took the Gube a week to come up with this swift response to a Nevada Supreme Court decision to boot a Gib-appointee off the bench. Yep. To something that happened last week.
Probably slept in Monday.
[...]First they stick us with the only fellow truly worthy of the title "Republican governor," and then they run away after learning what that really means.
Abandon rule by pure market forces and the resulting slaughter-bench of all decent human [...]
Just a follow up on a post from last week: Clark County, the City of Las Vegas, and North Las Vegas are voting on resolutions to make the upper Las Vegas Wash into an Urban National Park. Here are the meeting times again:
November 17th Clark County Commission 10am 500 S. [...]
Just a follow up on a post from last week: Clark County, the City of Las Vegas, and North Las Vegas are voting on resolutions to make the upper Las Vegas Wash into an Urban National Park. Here are the meeting times again:
November 17th Clark County Commission 10am 500 S. [...]
According to Ralston's Flash, an invite to the Xmas party for the Sierra Nevada Republican Women's Club promises to award an "amazing door prize from the Governor" (Sun)
Now, my sources, ever unreliable, have discovered what that door prize will be! Here's a top-secret photo of the Governor practicing for [...]
This just in from the Protectors of Tule Springs:
On November 17th and 18th, an unprecedented event will take place. The Clark County Commission, the City of Las Vegas, and the City of North Las Vegas will all be placing a RESOLUTION on their agendas which will read in part: This is a resolution supporting [...]
This just in from the Protectors of Tule Springs:
On November 17th and 18th, an unprecedented event will take place. The Clark County Commission, the City of Las Vegas, and the City of North Las Vegas will all be placing a RESOLUTION on their agendas which will read in part: This is a resolution supporting [...]
No, not because of the usual stench circa Craig and Losse--man, that ain't the pigfarm, is it?
Nope. I mean: you'd better hold your nose because the BSS Nor'Town is agoin' down!
We learn today that Councilperson Anita Wood has' [...]
Stand back prognosticating- wannabes! Let the real master of futuristic navel-gazing tell you what will really happen in the coming year!
Chuck Muth, who hates America because he deserted the Nevada Republican Party of purists like me and my pal Jimbo Gibbons, will [...]Here's the agenda for the next meeting of the NLV Alliance of HOAs etc:
AGENDA
DATE: THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5, 2009
PLACE: ALIANTE LIBRARY--- 2400 DEER SPRINGS WAY.
TEL. 839-2980 (For directions if needed) or call Cynthia at 438-5005.
TIME: 6:00 P.M. (Main meeting room)
NOTE: As always we welcome any suggestions of topics to [...]
Harry Reid's folks are circulating a press release saying that your governor Jim Gibbons is still making the same claim that the bomb attached to the Reidmobile back in mob days was only a telephone book in a shoebox:
From the release:
Even after Sue Lowden’s and Gov. [...]Read 'em and weep, Reid-Republicans! Northern New York state will predict the outcome of the Nevada primaries better than any waffling liberal prognosticators! Dede Scozzafava, forced out of a New York congressional race by a real Republican, is a sign [...]
Now that I'm an official Nevada Republican*, unlike backstabbers like Chuck Muth, I've had a complete change of perspective about all sorts of things, including humor.
Take the illustration to the right.
it is totally tasteless and not a bit funny. [...]
Now that I'm a Nevada Republican, and a true believer like my pal Jimbo in the central core of goofiness that lives inside the party like a tumor, I am deeply offended by Quitter Sandoval's lame-o campaign slogan: "A reason to believe again." [...]
Well, that certainly cleared a lot of things up! The Review-Journal, which was oddly worried in the hardcopy edition about "civility" in political discourse today--a position that so obviously contradicts the editorial policies of the paper that one could only spew one's morning [...]
Up on northern Nevada TeeVee, they're saying that Jim Gibbons remains a beacon of hope for the core true believers of the Nevada Republican party. You know, guys like me and Jimbo:
One elected Democrat who wished to [...]
It's very liberating now that I'm officially a Nevada Republican. I get to be racist, call health-care reformers granny-killers, and support the absolute right-to-life of human fetuses, by which I mean a right-to-life more absoluter than any [...]
WHAT: Rory Reid Heads to Pahrump House Party: Candidate to visit Nye County on Wednesday.
WHEN: Wednesday, October 21, at 6 p.m.
WHERE: 5561 Genoa Ave., near Route 160 and East Country Place Road
[...]
Okay, Comrades. The nonsense and idiocy has got to stop.
I mean the nonsense and idiocy that would drive nonsense and idiocy from the Nevada Republican Party. More specifically, I mean the central core of nonsense [...]
WHAT: Barbecue for Rory Reid's Gubernatorial Campaign
WHERE: Justice Myron E. Leavitt Family Park (formerly known as Jaycee Park) near Eastern and East St. Louis avenues, Las Vegas, NV.
WHEN: Sunday, October 18, 4pm. Rory Reid will have brief remarks at 5pm.
I had one of them spicy hamburgers at the Wednesday shindig, [...]
So here's Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins, expressing his excitement with the thought Clark County won't be caring for abandoned desert tortoises anymore and his hatred of all small animals getting in the [...]
So here's Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins, expressing his excitement with the thought Clark County won't be caring for abandoned desert tortoises anymore and his hatred of all small animals getting in the way of [...]
Nevada governor Jim Gibbons felt it necessary to contradict his own lawyer yesterday after said lawyer, rightly concerned with the limited prospects of his client, asserted
Watch the Gøøber beg you not to hold him responsible for his record and other things "beyond his control."
Watch him say, with a straight face: "What we did was right!"
And then we learn of a strange new group of people called "TeeVee Readers." Eh, don't ask.
' [...]
That special session of the legislature that is so, so necessary for plugging up holes in the budget is pretty much a sure thing, I'm guessing, now that Jim and Dawn will going to trial over [...]
For you folks up north: Rory Reid will be kicking off his kick Gibbons out of office gube campaign at the following locales:
WHAT: Rory Reno Kickoff Event
WHERE: California Building in Idlewild Park in Reno.
WHEN: Thursday, October 15 at 5:30 p.m. A barbecue will follow.
There's media blather about event [...]
WHAT: Meeting of the North Valley Democrats
WHERE: Aliante Library, 2400 W Deer Springs Way, North Las Vegas, NV
WHEN: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 6:30pm
[...]WHAT: Rory Reid officially to announce campaign for Nevada Governor
WHERE: Doris Hancock Elementary School, 1661 Lindell Road (Lindell and Oakey), Las Vegas, NV
WHEN: Wednesday, October 14 at 5:30 p.m.
Let the games begin!
[Ralston has a flyer.}
[...]Intrepid news hound Fatcat Review-Journal publisher Sherman Frederick has detected a change in mental state viz. the putative Nevada governor, Jim Gibbons. (RJ) The attitude shift was detected at an affair dubbed a "soiree" by Mr. Frederick, probably one of those clandestine rightwing orgies to which we hoi [...]
Ah, ain't it great when bi-partisanship works? Especially the kind where Gibbons gets out of the way and let's Barbara Buckley clean up the mess? Well, I'm sure northern Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief. Their disappointment at losing their favorite gooftard [...]
Woah. Besides the Redevelopment Meeting Weds. Oct. 7th at 5:30pm and the Regular City Council Meeting, same day at 6pm, City Council will be holding a marathon special session over TWO DAYS this week.
Friday, Oct. 9th from 10am 11am to 6pm and Sat. from 9am to 3pm, Council [...]
Following up on that book called "World Without Us," I was wondering, what would the World Without Gibbons be like?
For example, what would campaign finance be without the governor setting the highest standards?
The [campaign finance] disclosure laws are [...]The Gibbons' campaign site is up, and lookin' cheap and sleazy, too. I'm guessing that's the campaign's theme?
[...]Let's see. You're a political reporter who wants to write an article about the disgusting state of Nevada's campaign finance laws. So, where to go for a good example of how politicians Nevada can suck in the money without revealing who's sending it in? Why North Las Vegas, of course,' [...]
So, I went on that Solar Tour thing last weekend and saw a couple of houses with people living in them who could afford to shell out $30,000 or $40,000 to put a solar panel on the roof and an [...]
One doubts Michael Mishak was able to keep a straight face describing the latest Myth, Inc., enterprise.
Chuck plans to create a "news service" wherein Chuck writes his "fair and balanced" drivel, albeit anonymously, and calls it "news". [...]
Yes, the latest John Ensign, Tom Coburn, Mike Slanker revelations are indeed amusing, but would anyone be willing to speculate why Congressperson Shelley Berkley's people are sending out a link to a Politico write up suggesting that the Senate Ethics Committee will probably [...]
Once upon a time there was a little Gøøber who was told by his Staff that an Evil Ogre called the United States of America was sending $45 million to the little Gøøber and his Kingdom to build a Magic [...]
Yep, it's Adulterer versus Wannabe-Rodeo-Sexter-Adulterer, Groper v. Groper, as John Ensign attacks the administration of Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons for having too many czars.
One wonders what other possible interpretation could be put to Senator Schtup's remarks, such as:
"We are now facing a situation [...]
From an imaginary debate amongst the Gubewannabes:
Montandon: “I would move the state capital to North Las Vegas. It’s time we moved government to a place that really deserves to have 63 lawmakers living there for four months. I bet that will cut down on the length of sessions.” (Sun)The out-of-towners will be [...]
If North Platte, Nebraska, counts as the "media circuit," that is.
Turncoat Tierney Cahill was the teacher who challenged then US Congressional backbencher Jim Gibbons for his House seat back in two thousand [...]
Ever notice that putative Nevada governor Jim Gibbons can't do anything without getting a judge involved? Like, get divorced, grope unwilling gals in a garage, wear a napkin hat at a lovely cruise sponsored by a [...]
News that GOP Gubewannabe Brian Sandoval was the target of questions concerning ethics violations by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics no doubt fueled the false hopes of the foolish in the Nevada Repug party that maybe, just maybe, [...]
Let's see if we can sort out the "puzzling" chain of events surrounding the recent train wreck over trains:
Harry Reid secures $45 million in pork barrel spending for designing the maglev train project, and consequently forgets about it. [...]Our Nor'Town mayor channeled Nevada governor Jim Gibbons in the papers the other day.
North Las Vegas Mayor Shari Buck expressed regret that the Legislature didn’t anticipate a recession when it had a surplus of revenue.
Err...like Nor'Town did? Anticipated the recession so well with all the buy outs and cut backs, I mean.
Buck [...]
Comrades! Exciting news from the front lines of the credit wars!
Station Casinos has joined the New Shay's Rebellion! Just look at their amazing contribution to the movement:
Station Casinos stopped making payments on its $5.7 billion debt load. (RJ)
Brave lads!
Up in Nor'Town, the bankrupt [...]
Comrades! Exciting news from the front lines of the credit wars!
Station Casinos has joined the New Shay's Rebellion! Just look at their amazing contribution to the movement:
Station Casinos stopped making payments on its $5.7 billion debt load. (RJ)
Brave lads!
Up in Nor'Town, the bankrupt [...]
From the Better Late Than Never Department:
WHAT: North Valley Democratic Club Meeting
WHEN: Thursday, September 17th, 6pm
WHERE: Aliante Library, 2400 W. Deer Springs Ave., North Las Vegas, NV
MORE INFO: at Facebook and www.northvalleydems.com/
[...]Well, one doesn't usually need toothpicks under the eyelids to get through a Pate 2 Pate, but when Dullard Sandoval McMilquetoast climbed aboard the Ralston express the other day, they would have been helpful.
He was, shall we say, dry as a judge. [...]
Buoyed by the news that Barbara Buckley won't be running agin 'im, the Gøøb continued his desperate and doomed campaign to be re-Gøøbed in 2010, as illustrated by some Gøøblets:
Governor tries to blame the continuing collapse of the doomed, overly-mortgaged boom-town, single-industry [...]
