I wait all week for that clarion call: "IZ SUNDAY!!!"

LOVE it, SCE! As usual! You're starting our new year delightfully!

When's the Senate back in session? Tomorrow or Tuesday?

Please note the TOLL FREE Capitol Hill switchboard numbers in my sig line. I suggest a bunch of us call his office and point out that he's flirting with treason if he announces he's vowing to follow and be loyal to the leader of a different nation than his own. I think his office needs to hear a TORRENT of complaints about this. This is TREASON. Un-American as HELL. Who's next on his list of "I support YOU more than our President"? Vladimir Putin?

Ummm... isn't that tantamount to treason?

When you declare your allegiance to a different world leader than to your own?

How 'bout it, lindsey? Guess John McCain's little pet dog decided to take himself out out to pee, all by his widdle sewf.

Here's another one - "Are you Petty As HELL???"

If the answer's yes, then YOU'VE got what it takes to join the NYPD.

New York PETTY (or also - PISS-ANT) Department.

They're a freakin' DISGRACE.

They shit all over the union movement every time they do that. They're making no friends - for themselves OR their own union, and they're making the rest of us in other unions just look bad. Good f-ing luck to them when the next round of contract negotiations come up. Let's see how much they'll have crapped all over themselves by then. Just pathetic and PETTY AS HELL!!!

She's stunning. GREAT dress - terrific color on her.

They look like they actually still love each other. You sure didn't see that with the last bunch who occupied the White House.

Shit Yeah!!!

It doesn't seem like a whole complete Sunday without my Sunday LOLCats!

I look forward to that "Iz SUNDAY!" every week!

Thanks much, RoccoR5955!

I just hate to see more of these giveaways to business with NOTHING attached that compels them to give back to the community or otherwise be responsible to anything other than their own profit margins.

MAN, that's a good one, eppur_se_muova!

Hmmm... yeah, I suspect that, too.

Not thoroughly studied-up on Andrew Cuomo but I am VERY concerned about at least one of his policies (in my limited understanding of it). I kept seeing this commercial promoting New York's new pro-business outreach. Businesses relocate to New York and pay NO TAXES - for TEN YEARS??? NO TAXES FOR TEN YEARS??? And what is their civic obligation then? What do they do to infuse the local community then? Is it simply the naive hope that "creating jobs" is the magic bullet, and the only cure-all we need? Are we sure, in that program, that AT LEAST they're required to create jobs IN the community, rather than outsourcing? Are there ANY obligations to the local economy? ANY obligations to the local infrastructure? ANY obligations to be accountable and responsive to the community in which they make their money and generate their profits? ANY attempts to make them share part of that wealth with the community in which they now live and presumably thrive? Or are they just allowed to keep it all - with NO benefits shared with the community that generates that profit for them?

I saw that commercial and was really disturbed by it. It looks like a reckless short-sighted giveaway program to me. More gifts to the already-have-MORE-than-enoughs. More comfort to the already comfortable. Are there ANY strings attached? Or is this just another freebie for business? Shit - the states NEED that money from business. They NEED the tax money generated by business activity. Businesses should ALWAYS be compelled to contribute - to help out - for the greater good of the community in which they do business and make their money and generate their profits and their sources of comfort. And in some cases in New York, I'd suspect that would be rather LAVISH comfort that should be taxed a lot more (like Wall Street, for example). We can't afford extravagant giveaways and freebies to business. I'm sorry, but they live here, too, and they have to cough it up, too, just like the rest of us who live here have to do. I can understand governors and state legislatures wanting to lure business to their states. But with such a reckless giveaway??? Doesn't sound like a good deal to me for anybody but the business interests - who aren't exactly renowned for their willingness to share.

Any New Yorkers here who can explain this to me?