The State Senate needed 32 votes for passage and only received 24 in a vote held about 15 min ago.

The bill had previously been passed by the State Assembly and Gov. Patterson had pledged to sign it.

I was watching it live on the internet, so don’t have a news link yet.

Support had been fading with the economic doom facing NY and the recent failure to pass gay marriage in Maine.

A bit of good news.

Somehow this doesn’t give me confidence run out and buy one of these UAW made machines. I mean, where will I take my Chrysler minivan when it when it breaks down again, some gov’ment garage.. Perhaps where they repair Amtrack trains or Post Office jeeps…

Next thing I know, someone else with a broken down Chrysler will drive their car into my driveway and demand I fix it. Maybe I’ll trade them for my minivan..

So Ted Kennedy presents the Obama family with a Portuguese WATER dog..
Is this a headline in the Onion? or perhaps the Weekly World News?
Nope, its the truth.
Now, I wouldn’t be accepting anything that was remotely connected to bridges, water, automobiles or drunk driving from Ted, but that’s just me.

Barak, not that I’m on your side, but here’s some honest and free advice that apparently you’re not getting from your personal staff
“Stay away from the Kennedy family”.
No Water Dogs from Ted for your daughters, don’t try appointing princess Caroline to ambassadorships where character and values matter. ect ect.

Unless, of course, you’d enjoy living like a modern day Macbeth.
I’d rather defeat you on the battle field of ideas and values, so this is my one (free) caution to you and your family to prevent getting gutted with a knife in the back by a ‘friend’.

Military credit unions are being forced to cough up nearly $5 billion to bail out a small group of corporate credit unions that lost their shirts chasing risky loans. This would put almost half of military credit unions into the red and cause reduced loan opportunities, reduced savings returns, and higher loan rates for millions of military families.

I’ve been a member of Navy Federal Credit Union since ‘77, it’s sad to see the socialists penalize good financial institutions for the mistakes of the irresponsible ones.

Unfortunately, these types of institutions are small and it is difficult to get the attention of Timmy G. (Has he figured out his parking space for his razor scooter yet?)

Hat tip to the folks at Military Officers Association of America