Early Sunday morning I hustled up to the LAX Post Office in order to overnight a check. At one time you could use Express Mail to mail an item on Sunday and have it arrive Monday.
The lady at the counter punched in the destination zip code. “It’ll arrive Wednesday,” she said.
“But I thought this was […]
This is the first of the ten topics discussed by the students in Ambassador Derek Shearer’s Rebranding America project. The complete report can be found here.
The point papers or policy memo is divided into four sections - Problem, Strategic Interests, Means, and Possible Outcomes. The means section is further divided into […]
The John Edwards “Love Child” story (originally broken at the end of 2007, National Enquirer above) became a local (that is Los Angeles) story when the National Enquirer story wrote that John Edwards left the Beverly Hilton room of Rielle Hunter recently at 2:30 am. Despite this the LA Times has continued a hands off […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)One of the great mysteries of Los Angeles area transportation is why the Green Line light rail system goes near, but not to, LAX. To an amateur, it might seem that the world’s fifth largest airport by passenger count (62m of them last year) would be a natural stop on any rail system; fortunately, the […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Derek Shearer is a former Clinton era Ambassador as well as Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Recently he offered a course which attempted to determine what America’s post-George Bush foreign policy should be. This course consisted of assigned readings and the compiling the results into […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)An Open Letter to Channel Intelligence:
In conflict to your patent, Independent Sources has created a wishlist:
1. Patent Reform to stop idiots like you from abusing a broken process.
2. Tax Reform so I don’t have to have a Phd to fill out my tax forms.
3. Personal responsibility to return to our society.
4. “Get Smart” DVD.
Well, that’s […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)I just saw this on Yahoo and have to give credit where credit is due. Whether or not you are a Cub fan you probably know the story of the infamous Steve Bartman that leaned out over the field, interfered with a ball, and allegedly cost the Cubs the chance to go to the World […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)I was poking around the net typing in names of old friends and teachers into Google and seeing whatever happened to them. I came across this photo of my 5th grade teacher, Terry Bartholome:
Unfortunately, I found my teacher the photo from the Megan’s Law database. Not exactly the place you want to find one of […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Reason #757:
Showing us that there are more ways than one that a woman can be “literally busting out of a tight tee” (and they’re not all good):
Ouch!
As I’ve noted before, these guys are geniuses.
Concentate on four areas - Differentiate from Obama
“The War: Our aims are victory, and we will leave each region of Iraq as our victory on the ground allows us to turn another province over to Iraqi security forces.” I’m consistent in my views, Obama isn’t. My way is working, Obama’s won’t.
“Money: Tax cuts […]
The real issue with Jesse Jackson’s crude comments isn’t that the “minister” uttered him. Anyone who has followed Jackson knows this is just his true character popping through the persona that he tries to project. It’s that Jackson actually took offense at what Obama said.
Obama in a speech last month on Father’s Day suggested […]
Researchers Didier Sornette and Ryan Woodard of ETH Zurich in Switzerland and Wei-Xing Zhou of the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai, China think so:
In their analysis, the team gathered data on oil prices since 2005 in US dollars, euros, and other major currencies (to confirm that the results are not […]
The folks behind the always funny HelloRocky.com have adopted an investigative journalism slant and hit a bulls-eye with this piece on Senator Dodd and the “Friends of Angelo”:
The pompous dunderbutt just crafted a bill to provide $300 billion in taxpayer loan guarantees to Countrywide Financial Corp. and others. While this was going on it […]
Following Paul Krugman’s lead The Economist this week lays out the case that speculators are not to blame for oil’s increase in price.
Pointing out that the increase in speculation tracks nicely with the tripling of oil prices the author of the article then attemps to prove that this is a mere coincidence - […]
Zimbabwe’s low inflationary days are over. Just a few months ago, inflation was barely over 100,00%, a figure that is paltry to today’s rate of over a million percent. Some facts:
Strongman, Dictator-For-Life Robert Mugabe’s destruction of the once thriving economy is nearly complete.
A loaf of bread costs 30 billion Zimbabwean dollars.
Bills are only good for […]
