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Our country is founded on several key values and two of the most important are the right to vote and the belief in presumed innocence. Several school districts in St. Charles county, Missouri, seem determined to teach some important lessons to their students vis á vis these rights:
United States citizens of voting age are [...]
President Bush announced a “plan” to get holiday travelers to their destinations closer to on-time this holiday season. CNN.com wrote it up in, Skepticism about holiday air travel ‘express lane’.
Bush announced a series of technical measures Thursday to reduce air traffic congestion and long delays that have left passengers stranded and turned [...]
Yesterday I discussed $20,900,000, the amount of money that the families in my sons’ high school have spent on the Iraq war since 2002. The war has cost each of the 1,000 families $20,900.
Let’s try this from the Iraqi perspective. The total cost of the Iraq war will have been $1.3 trillion during [...]
CNN.com reports, in War costs could total $1.6 trillion by 2009, panel estimates,
…[the] Joint Economic Committee [of Congress]… estimated $1.3 trillion in war costs by the end of 2008 for Iraq, and the remainder [of the 1.6 trillion estimate] for Afghanistan…. The committee calculated the average cost of both wars for a [...]
Woo hoo! Just six years after Candy and I upgraded our stereo system to a 5.1 home theater system, we replaced the 27″ television with an Optoma HD72 projector. The picture we now see has diagonal measure of approximately 90″. The improvement is so dramatic that I could easily become a couch potato. [...]
Unless you live under a rock, you are already aware that John P. “Pat” Philbin, FEMA’s director of external affairs, faked a press conference on Tuesday. All of the questions asked were posed by FEMA employees; there were no independent reporters present.
This required such incredibly poor judgment at so many levels that I can [...]
Few will argue with me when I suggest that the best way to lead a meeting or resolve a dispute is to help all of the participants both express their views and hear the thoughts and feelings of the others. It has been many, many years since anyone thought that anything from families to committees [...]
It is almost never good when your locality is mentioned in the same sentence with Detroit.
USA Today’s article, City Council pays for lessons in civility, takes an in-depth look at acrimonious squabbling on the Ashland, OR city council and includes,
More recently, public fireworks have been reported on city and county panels [...]
TO ALL THE KIDS
WHO SURVIVED the
1930′s 40′s, 50′s, 60′s and 70′s !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, [...]
Netflix is bucking the customer “service” trend, abandoning email “service” and replacing it with real human beings, based in the United States (not outsourced) on the telephone. These good folks are available 24×7 and their phone number is prominently displayed on Netflix’s web site.
The New York Times has an article on it, [...]
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