By Susannah Rosenblatt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 29, 2007
Following San Francisco’s lead, Los Angeles County and city officials are urging people, businesses and government to switch off nonessential lights for one hour next month to save energy.
Led by Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke and City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel, the proposed effort asks Angelenos to simultaneously [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Well it has become apparent, that everyone from the nerdy little kid to the old geezer down the street, the predominate reason for getting high speed internet access, it’s not to check email, (who the hell needs high speed for email), not music, though close, movies? nah… try Porn!
With the porn business doing spectacularly and [...]
If this is important to you, get off your butts and tell your senator!
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2007 (Introduced in Senate)
S 156 IS
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 156
To make the moratorium on Internet access taxes and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce permanent.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 4, 2007
Mr. REID (for Mr. [...]
I’ve found recently, a lot of people, even those who are (or feel they are) identity theft conscious have no idea which instrument to use when it comes to ordering online.
Credit cards are just that, a line of credit that is processed through a credit card clearing house which after a few days will loan [...]
Climate Change: Did NASA scientist James Hansen, the global warming alarmist in chief, once believe we were headed for . . . an ice age? An old Washington Post story indicates he did.
On July 9, 1971, the Post published a story headlined “U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming.” It told of a prediction by [...]
The question arises, when it comes to diets, can you still lose weight and keep it off while still being properly nourished?
I guess the secret to losing weight, which is no secret at all, stop eating so much and you’ll lose weight. Simple huh?
The problem is, what do you do when you start feeling [...]
In the past, I’ve said Bernanke was acting like he was going through OJT (on the job training). Finally he has realized jacking up interest rates did little to curb any blip in inflation but killed off the housing market in grand style so he dropped the rate the other day because someone in charge [...]
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
In a complex set of transactions, Dubai is moving to acquire 19.9 percent of the Nasdaq in New York, placing the Arab government in an ownership position of the key U.S. stock exchange and raising concerns in Congress.
As a result of the transaction, Dubai also will acquire 28 percent of [...]
Carlyle sells stake to Abu Dhabi
By James Politi in New York
Published: September 20 2007 19:41 | Last updated: September 20 2007 19:41
Carlyle agreed on Thursday to sell a 7.5 per cent stake in itself to an arm of Abu Dhabi’s government – the latest US private equity group to bring in a sovereign wealth fund [...]
Bush Vows To Veto SCHIP
Sep 20
…the president planned to open with a statement challenging Democrats on their proposal for a $35 billion increase in a children’s health insurance program. Bush has threatened to veto the bill.
The $35 billion increase for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, called SCHIP, would bring total spending to about $60 billion, or twice the [...]
Oh no… I can’t go on the view, that woman, that right wing woman is there. She is going to destroy our way of life with her thoughts.
I like Dennis Miller’s take on old Barry… Barely Manenough.
I couldn’t get over Sally Fields the other night when she went on the rant about the war and then says if mothers were in charge there would be no wars…. Yeah right. There’s a reason men are in charge. Women go nuts at the drop of the hat. There would be no wars, just [...]
