Happy Walpurgisnacht Everybody !

Paul McGuire is an Idiot
The name Golden Dawn is used by a zillion people, organizations & companies. Trying to link the Greek political party to an occult organisation that is not satanic and at the same time labeling it as satanic is ignorant as hell.
McGuire's pathetic ramblings here

4 Reasons Funerals and Disney are SimilarA Simple, Village Undertaker, who happens to work for The Borg of funeral homes cites 4 reasons the funeral industry should look to Disney & the hospitality industry for a glimpse of the future.

• Reason 1. Both deal with emotions.
• Reason 2. Both are about memories.
• Reason 3. Both are expensive outlays of resources.
• Reason 4. Both rely heavily on their customers to refer friends and family to their services.

Probably the biggest most glaring difference is that Disneyland isn't real & your dead loved one is. Or was, maybe that's the loophole...
Funeral homes don't generally rely heavily on movie franchises & 3D cartoons, either.
I hope he doesn't want to introduce plushies and animatronics. Well, ok, I could go for animatronics maybe.

For the whole analysis go here

and just to fair, there's more than one Borg of the funeral industry.

Streetcars
Time to put a bullet in the head of this ZombieIt's time to give these anti-streetcar arguments the true death. The brain dead, zombie arguments just keep resurfacing like the moans and groans of a zombie horde. There's no reasoning with them. As John Swift put it, "You cannot reason someone out of something they were not reasoned into.". We need to employ Conan McClelland's strategies.

Yeah, they're dead. They're all messed up.
If you have a gun, shoot 'em in the head. That's a sure way to kill 'em. If you don't, get yourself a club or a torch. Beat 'em or burn 'em. They go up pretty easy.

It's stupid, a boondoggle, a waste of money, city clounsel, layoffs, brownouts…
These are not arguments - they're not even true.
The subway all over again, actually has a grain of truth as rising prices have put the cost a little higher than what was forecast years ago, but the increase is nothing compared to the whopping price increases following WWI.
We need to issue the bonds for current costs & build this thing. It's time to move on.

aw, c'mon, baby, I promise it won't be like last time...Superfluous Redundancy takes a look at John Cranley's budget tactics.

Chris Smitherman's Theme Song
While Slitherman intends to lock out the media from a NA CP meeting where members intend to seek his ouster, it's kinda hard to keep this stuff under wraps nowadays when everybody's phone doubles as a camera. Of course, now that he's an angry Republican, he might go all Steve Chabot on his splintering minions.
But what's the Sillyman want to hide? Is he afraid he might lose his temper? That his goons might get a little over zealous with the membership?

Fishwarp tells all here

UPDATE Well, apparently, it was a pretty raucous night at the NAATP as Smitherman's right hand man, racial separatist Jim Clingman, had police remove the executive board member who wanted to introduce a motion to ask the chapter president to resign before she could even speak. People outside urged members to join the newly formed local chapter of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network civil rights group.

"It’s a shame what the NAACP has come to be," Robert Richardson Jr. said. "He (Smitherman) tries to find a way to suppress those who disagree with him."

After the meeting, Smitherman fled the church flanked by bodyguards.

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Gwyneth Paltrow? People, please....Looking at People magazines "most beautiful women" I was surprised to see Paltrow at the top of the list. Then I saw the 9 runners up. ok, I'll give 'em Jane Fonda & Pink, but the rest?
OK, So here's Blogging Isn't Cool's definitive Top 10:

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The Louisville Harolds
A group of high school kids in Louisville, KY who organize & attend funerals for the homeless & indigent are the subject of a documentary called The Potters Field.

Chabot, Wenstrup Support CISPAIt should be no surprise the big business / big government Steve Chabot supported CISPA & trampled citizens' rights. He did it before with SOPA. Brad Wenstrup, a newbie, blank slate & darling of the faux libertarian COA T supported the bill that would introduce warrantless searches into your various online accounts and permit businesses & employers to snoop your files, too.
Another day, another GOP power grab and more centralised government.

Miss Us Yet ?

Is Cincinnati Ready for Fashion Trucks ?
While downtown Cincinnati has a nice fleet of food trucks that's actually set to expand, to date has not got on board with what some say is the next big mobile craze - fashion trucks.
These aren't the folks selling socks out of the back of Ryder trucks but places with dressing rooms & informed clerks what you'd expect from a high end bricks & mortar establishment like Target.
yeah, I don't get it - maybe you could set these things up outside cemeteries to provide proper attire for funerals.

More from CNN

WCPO Explores COAST / NAACP Voter Fraud ScandalIs Smitherman willing to produce the petitions he found questionable?
Read all bout it here

From City Beat

Petitioners against the city’s parking plan are supposed to get their final tally on referendum today, but a new video shows at least some of the petitions may have been signed without a legitimate witness, which are needed to validate a signature.

More here

This is what Cincinnati really needs.

Spring Steak Out
The Cincinnati Rollergirls & The C&D present the Spring Steak Out April 21st from 4 until 8 - a $10 steak dinner!

Happy 420 Day Everybody !

Saturday, besides being 420 day, is Record Store Day. Northside's Shake It will be offering 10% discounts on purchases with the donation of a canned food item. They will be offering special releases by The Greenhornes on vinyl and a CD by Chuck Cleaver & Lisa Walker of Wussy. Cleaver & Walker will also be performing at 8 while Brian Olive will be performing at the store at 6.

Radical Obstructionist Power Grabbers Piss Off Business CommunityWotta surprise, the radical anarchist anti-business antics of the NA CP & COA T cabal have drawn the ire of pro-business groups like The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, 3CDC and businesses like Al Neyer, Messer Construction and Towne Properties.

The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, 3CDC and individual businesses including Al. Neyer, Messer Construction and Towne Properties united to file a friend of the court brief Friday objecting to Common Pleas Judge Robert Winkler’s ruling against the parking lease.

Just like their boy in congress, Steve Chabot, who keeps screwing with the business community, this cadre is undermining the business community and killing the economy and job growth. They call themselves Republicans? No - purely power grabbing Erisians.

The result is to deprive such ordinances of needed certainty," "This result would cripple economic development potential in the City."

No shit.

Fishwarp article here

Brownouts ?
Thanks COA T & NA CP.
Enjoy your bloody referendum, bitches

Article that quotes ringleader and non resident of Cincinnati saying he is thrilled with the outcome of his labors here

Wild Carpathia
Sorry, no sweet transvestites from a probably not transsexual Transylvania, but it does have Prince Charles' rapier wit.
Anyway, I bring this up because Romania & other countries in Europe are facing a problem of massive land grabs by a small number of private entities subsidized by governments that have cut spending in many other areas.
See more at arc2020

What's With the Skinny Parking Lane ?
and what's with the placards on the poles ?




Dunno if it's Cincinnati drivers or American sportsmen but when they add NO PARKING AT ANY TIME & a Bike Lane they get really skinny parking lane. It's the new math, I guess.