It's Not Chocolate, It's Mockolate!
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 02:00:42 PM EST (promoted by DEMachina). RSS.
For the longest time, when people thought chocolate, one of the names which would pop into the consciousness would be Hershey's. The Pennsylvania business, which lent its name to the town where its headquarters is, manufactured all sorts of candies and treats which had one thing in common - chocolate. But, betrayal and outrage are the only possible reactions to the distressing news coming out of the candy giant. If you're a chocolate connoisseur, Hershey's chocolate isn't really chocolate.
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Breaking the bank
wetkarma.
Posted to Business on Mon Sep 22, 2008 at 09:11:52 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
I never want to see another story about how we can't afford the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Under the US bailout plan, the government proposes to buy the mortgage loans of virtually every under-performing 'sub-primze' mortgage in America.
Calculated cost? $700b. Its so expensive, that we will have raise our debt ceiling limit to pay for it.
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To Sort Of Serve And To Kind Of Protect
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Sun Sep 21, 2008 at 09:22:59 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
When it comes to crime, the public expects a certain level of service from its police department. They expect them to respond to complaints, secure evidence, investigate and hopefully arrest the bad guys. It's an added bonus if they can respond while the crime is still taking place, but there's no guarantee that will happen. What would you say if you had a city where the crime rate seems to be going up and, while the police still respond, it turns out they take a lackadaisical approach to the rest of what the public expects them to do? Well, if you live in Chicago, you have that dilemma where the public is feeling distinctly ill-served by the police.
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Those Conquistadors Run No More
MayorBob.
Posted to Media on Sat Sep 20, 2008 at 09:17:48 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Most who sat through it ended up scratching their heads and wondering "what?" It was the first in what was promised to be a series of Microsoft ads featuring former CEO Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. In the end, the sentiments that the ad was a remarkably subtle attempt to rebrand the software giant lost out to the chorus of boos and WTFs. Thus, almost before it began, the Bill Gates-Jerry Seinfeld ad blitz was cancelled.
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Calling All Adjectives!
Board of Directors.
Posted to Etcetera on Fri Sep 19, 2008 at 09:44:53 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Are you tired of people calling you astute, brilliant, interesting and funny? Then come on in, and let's see if we can't change all that!
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GM Unveils Electric "Chevrolet Volt"
profwhat.
Posted to Business on Fri Sep 19, 2008 at 06:37:00 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
For a cool $48,000, General Motors will sell you a car that can do 0-60 in about 9 seconds, and hit a top speed of 150 MPH. Sound overpriced? Did I mention it's the new electric Chevrolet Volt?
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I Now Pronounce You Party A And Party B.
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 03:31:09 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
To some, Rachel Bird and Gideon Codding are traditionalists who believe what was good for prior generations should be good enough forever. To others, the Roseville, California couple is small-minded in refusing to go with the flow and change with the times. To Rachel and Gideon, they are now, and forever will be, bride and groom. To the state of California they're the less romantic, yet fully functional "Party A" and "Party B." Because Rachel and Gideon are so insistent on their right to be referred to as bride and groom on the official state document certifying their union, the state says it cannot recognize their marriage.
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Texas Judge's Probation Condition Is Definitely Not Pro-Baby
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 06:47:07 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
By all accounts, Felicia Salazar failed a critical test of being a mother - protecting your children from harm. The Travis County, Texas woman admitted she didn't intervene while the father of her 19-month-old daughter brutally beat the child. Never in trouble with the law before, she cut a deal with the court that got her probation rather than prison time. But, should the judge in the case be able add that Salazar can have no children during her probation? That's the question troubling some who think the judge overstepped his bounds.
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This Is Not The Way Things Were Supposed To Work
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 05:54:21 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Since 1999, states have enacted Safe Haven laws as measures to help protect the most vulnerable among us. For the most part, the laws allow parents or guardians, to surrender children they are responsible for with the state. They are intended to remove younger children (you might say babies) from threatening environments and not punish the surrendering custodian. Most of the laws are quite strictly worded, along those lines. Nebraska apparently is not one of these as, within a few months of enactment of that state's Safe Haven law, two older children have been surrendered under the Safe Haven law - inappropriately in the minds of many Nebraskans.
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What's In A Naming Right?
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Tue Sep 16, 2008 at 06:27:23 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Two National Football League clubs, the Giants and the Jets call Giant Stadium in the Meadowlands home. They will still be sharing a home stadium when Giant Stadium is replaced by a new stadium in 2010. What to call it is creating a major stir up in New York these days. No, it's not going to be a toss between Giant or Jets Stadium. The controversy surrounds the result of naming rights negotiations with a major insurance company. On the one hand you have those who are upset that a company which used to insure the Auschwitz concentration camp might end up on the side of the building. Then there are those who say, hasn't enough time passed since that unpleasantness?
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If A Man's Home Is His Castle, What's His Stoop?
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Mon Sep 15, 2008 at 12:49:05 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Kimber VanRy believes the police in Brooklyn ought to have better things to do. He doesn't have a problem with them being on patrol and available to protect law abiding citizens from assault and what not. But he believes they may have stepped over a very broad line in doing what they did to him on August 27th. Because that's the date he was handed a summons to answer up in court for drinking in a public place. He's especially torqued at the notion because the public place where he was drinking was his front stoop.
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"Once In A Century" Economic Crisis Afoot [Breaking News]
HidingFromGoro.
Posted to Business on Sun Sep 14, 2008 at 10:56:31 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
So says Alan Greenspan.
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