Rangel rangeling again.

Two years after creating a center in his own name at City College, Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel has come through with a $3 million defense grant for the school -- for a project the Pentagon doesn't even want, The Post has learned.

The $3 million cash infusion is going to an existing academic department, rather than to the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at CCNY, a $30 million project that will immortalize Rangel's name and house his papers when he retires. Rangel had previously arranged $2 million in taxpayer funds for the center.

The latest piece of congressional pork is to fund research into new composite materials that could be used to protect Army trucks from attack. The grant is tucked into the massive Defense Appropriations Bill moving through Congress.

Word of the funding comes as the House is set to vote today on a Republican-backed resolution to strip Rangel of his Ways and Means Committee chair pending an ethics investigation, after revelations that he didn't disclose income on multiple properties, as well as failure to pay taxes and other issues.

The Pentagon doesn't want the research money, but Rangel got the funding anyway by getting the Appropriations Committee to direct the cash to CCNY.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver still leads NY down hill.

Did Gov. Paterson dole out a six-figure, do-nothing job as a golden parachute for a politically connected bureaucrat — just as the state faced its worst fiscal crisis in a generation?

Let’s hope he did.

Because the alternative — that the governor was actually taking the counsel of Downtown development chief Avi Schick — would be truly frightening.

The Post’s Tom Topousis reported recently that Paterson quietly let Schick keep drawing his $213,000-a-year state salary for eight months after he’d resigned as head of the state’s economic-development agency in January — by hiring him as an “adviser” on Downtown rebuilding.

Schick, a close ally of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, remains the (unpaid) chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., where he’s dawdled for years over the deconstruction of the former Deutsche Bank building at Ground Zero.

What kind of advice could Schick possibly have to offer — creative new ways to further stall work?

Most likely, Schick was merely given the adviser post to kill time. He left that job this month mere days before he was hired by a Manhattan law office.

Then again, given Paterson’s recent fecklessness on Ground Zero — notably his inability to mitigate the latest dispute between the Port Authority and developer Larry Silverstein — it wouldn’t be surprising if Schick did have his ear.

Either way, the payout’s outrageous.

It’s bad enough to take lousy advice — worse yet to pay for it with

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Senate votes to defund ACORN In a show of bipartisan common sense, the Senate has voted 83-7 to remove federal funds from ACORN, the community organizing group dedicated to voter fraud and embezzling public funds. ACORN is an organized crime syndicate masquerading as a community service group. The only things it should receive from Congress are subpoenas.Kudos to Senators from both parties who bowed to common sense and approved the Johanns. Let's hope this kind of behavior is contagious and makes it over to the House.

Now I want to know who the 7 jackasses are that voted against this. Wonder who's pock they are in???????

thinks that No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. And no one should be denied insurance for a pre-existing condition. If you agree, please post this

Pork in New York.

I just checked out a link on the Times Union website that is showing the pork in the budget. I want to know since when did the largest legalized mafia ( the Catholic Church ) get money from the State. The church is closing down schools and church's due to not having enough money. But yet in Albany county I see that they are getting almost half a million tax dollars, to fund sport complexes and Art centers. Keep up the great work Breslin. See where they are wasting your money. http://www.timesunion.com/data/pork/

Security at Colonie Center.

OK, I know I have issue's with almost everything. But today we went to Colonie Center. As we were walking in I noticed a lone travel bag next to a garbage can. So being the good person I am, I told a store clerk to call security about it. Well, since she was on the phone and was to busy to give a shit, I assume she did not call. An hour and a half later when we left the bag was still there. As luck would have it a Security Guard in their A/C comfy car was passing by. So I called out to them to tell them about. I stated that it has been their over an hour. She looks at me with deer in headlights look and mumbles about calling somebody. I do not know, but I thought the people who drive around in the car with the lights on telling you to move where the somebodies.

So it's nice to know that security at the second largest mall in our area is spot on. I know we are not worried about such acts of terror could happen in our little piece of the world, but remember we did have ( and still do) have terrorist living and trying to sell weapons in the area. Remember the sting operation of 5 years ago. What did you think they all ran away, saying "stay away from Albany. They are on to us".

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/05/nyregion/05CND-MOSQ.html?ex=1138597200&en=4e9fabfcdeaa9cd3&ei=5070

About time some one in Albany NY got their head out of their ass.

ALBANY -- Citing the month-long impasse in the state Senate, Assemblyman James Tedisco, R-Glenville, said he is introducing a bill that would allow voters to recall any officials they feel haven't met their duties.
Under the "recall" law, the electorate could collect signatures for petitions to remove any state elected official, Tedisco said. For a governor or attorney general, 50,000 signatures would be needed. For state legislators, including senators and assembly members, the lesser of 10 percent of the votes in their district or 5,000 signatures would be needed.