From the Antonio2005.com website comes the charge that the Hahn web site features a graphic that was stolen from the Villaraigosa site. The implication is ‘would you want a mayor who can’t even design his own web site?”’ This charge is sure to hit home with the region’s many out-of-work graphic designers.
(A note and nod […]
Since we bought the domains Antonio2009.com and Villaraigosa2009.com last Friday (see our post below), we’ve been in something of a quandary. Since traffic to those domains is redirected here, should we use them to gain wider exposure for Independent Sources? Could we change some hearts and minds and have a positive impact on Los […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Today as Independent Sources investigated an unsolicited message received from Senator Barbara Boxer we learned that the Los Angeles mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa had not secured the Internet domains Villaraigosa2009.com and Antonio2009.com. This raised a number of interesting questions concerning his campaign, including:
Does the lack of securing the 2009 domains reveal a critical lack of […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)When the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on spyware, Barbara Boxer couldn’t help showing her grasp of … the Invisible Man?
“(Spyware) are “insidious programs that install themselves on users’ computers,” said Senator Barbara Boxer. “It’s hard to use analogies with this, but it’s sort of like somebody walking around your house, kind of invisibly.””
That […]
Pensions and bankruptcies aren’t usually front page news. But this week they were, when the taxpayers of the United States assumed ultimate responsibility for United Airlines’ $6.6b pension liability.
This is just the tip of a very large iceberg. The obligations of the agency that takes over plans from failed companies, the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, […]
The WSJ reports that 911 service surcharges on cellphone bills aren’t actually being used to improve 911 service — despite the fact that some callers are dying when they can’t be located [$]:
“Even when money has been earmarked for modernizing 911, it often has been used for other purposes. This has been true of funds […]
The story of the Suspended Cell Phone Student has remained a hot topic with some bloggers questioning the actions of the student and many more commenters dumping on the actions of the school officials.
For example, a commenter named subpatre questioned just about everything we wrote. I have indented my comments and his comments are in […]
Mickey Kaus on the Huffington Blog’s tardy, content-free contribution to the exit poll ‘debate:’
“Mystery Pollster brings the feuding Huffies up to speed on the state of the were-the-exit-polls-right debate. … If the interaction between Blogosphere I and the Huffingsphere forces the Hollywood elite to live in the same factual universe as the rest of us, […]
As an update to our April 14th story on General Motors’ plan to reinvent itself via a strategic shift in the way that it presents its brands. If you remember the posting, or revisit it via the above link, you will remember that we weren’t too impressed with their direction with the exception of believing […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Yesterday we reported on a new study of American political beliefs that divides the populace into nine types. The principal takeaway from the actual Pew Research Center report was that the center has tilted Republican. Not surprisingly, you wouldn’t know it from scanning the LA Times article.
Here’s what the Pew Research Center said in their […]
The LA Times editorial page has some extremely odd advice for the next mayor of that city. According to writer Swati Pandey, unnamed “economists and government officials” agree that in order to recover lost jobs, the city has to reduce the cost of doing business, streamline permitting and licensing, improve infrastructure, seek to bring new […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)“Sometimes it looks like a business masquerading as a movie” — Peter Guber, movie producer, complaining about the merchandising exploitation of his two Batman films.
Guber’s tens of millions of dollars of producer’s fees were not available for comment.
The mother of 13–year old Devin Brown has sued the LAPD for monetary damages. Here’s why she’s suing:
Her son stole a car.
He went joy-riding at 4 a.m.
He ran a red light.
He tried to evade police officers.
When cornered, he started to back the car into the officers.
At this point he was shot.
She alleges […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)With all of the partisan bickering and legislative gridlock, it’s nice to see an area where the left and the right agree. Whether conservative or liberal, Democratic or Republican, politicians agree on one thing…NEPOTISM (and free travel paid by lobbyists but that is a topic of another post).
In the age of daily corporate scandals and […]
Huffington’s blog is generating a lot of buzz and comments. Unfortunately the buzz is overwhelmingly negative and the comments are going up on shadow sites put up by people unimpressed with her effort. Our favorite so far is http://huffington.isfullofcrap.com/
The huffington.isfullofcrap.com blog asks who is the idiot of the day (from the blog) and I have […]
