Archive for September 26th, 2006
All of the blog talk about the upcoming pizza tasting competition got to me today. I was hungry and driving down Hertel Avenue and surrounded by purveyors of pizza. Pictured below is the choice I made.
I decided to give in to my preference for a thin crust and went to Romeo and Juliette’s Bakery Cafe. I ordered a Quattro Formaggio Pizza to go. I couldn’t wait to get home, luckily it was only a few blocks. The pizza crust was thin, yet tender and chewy. It was perfectly cooked with a hint of char on the bottom. The dough was topped with some very good olive oil, 4 cheeses (including gorgonzola) and a hint of fresh basil. This pizza was delicious. The best way to describe it is simple and elegant.
Naturally, while I was waiting for my pizza I was perusing the desserts on display. If you’ve never been to Romeo’s, you are missing a real treat. Hidden inside this culinary oasis is a wonderful bakery, a wine bar, a cozy dining room with delicious dinners and a very informal side serving pizzas, panini and other savory food. Anyway, back to perusing the dessert. I yielded to temptation and bought a slice of the chocolate creation pictured below. The girl behind the counter said it is Chocolate Cassata Cake. I always thought cassata cake was made from pound cake. Looking at the big picture, who cares what kind of cake this really is . . .it tasted as good as it looks!
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Milton J. Jeffries, the Buffalo police officer who wrote more than 240 phoney towing charges on parking tickets, is eligible to return to work in mid-November. Why does he still have a job? This isn’t a matter of doing something wrong once or twice, he intentionally tacked fraudulent charges on parking tickets over 240 times.
Not only does he still have a job, our esteemed D.A., Frank Clark, refuses to press criminal charges. I must give Clark credit for consistency, turning a blind eye toward the activities of government employees and officials has become his standard modus operandi.
I’m not an attorney, but it seems to me that Officer Jeffries could be found liable for violating 42 U.S.C. 1983. He abused his authority as a police officer by writing the bogus towing charges. Perhaps an attorney representing the hundreds of victims of this malicious act could file a suit and exact a measure of real punishment.
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Currently, the process for nominating Judicial candidates is completely under the control of the party bosses. That, following recent court rulings, process will soon be history. Judicial candidates will be chosen through a primary process, giving voters a louder voice in the process, unless the State Legislature comes up with another solution.
Eliot Spitzer had asked the Court to allow another year to implement a solution to the current nominating conventions. Perhaps Eliot really wanted a year as Governor with the ability to influence New York’s judicial composition.
“Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.”
Calvin Coolidge
