Leo Gerard, Pres. United Steelworkers. Damn you.
Earlier tonight United Steelworkers Pres. Leo Gerard was on "The Ed Show." Ed Shultz interviewed him re: the (ongoing) tragedy of at least 25 miners killed at the Montcoal, WV, Performance Coal...
View ArticleLimbaugh defends a pedophile. Reminds us of his own proclivities.
. I'm not saying Rush Limbaugh's a pedophile, that he's a fat old sweaty man who likes to have sex with children. But since he's the de facto head of the Republican Party, I think asking whether his...
View ArticleHi.
. My name's Richard Newton. Older, more long-time friends, know me as Rick. But I answer to either. I live in Alabama, though I was born in our Nation's Capital and grew up in Virginia. When I was...
View ArticleBP to Change Name, Boost Corporate Image.
. London -- June 16, 2010 (Reuters) -- In an effort to shore-up precipitously falling share prices at British Petroleum (BP) company, ever since its deadly and now environmentally disastrous and...
View ArticleDNC: Learn How to Make an Ad, Please!
. In the wake of Texas GOBP CongressmanJoe Barton's shameless suck-up to BP -- which was in fact symptomatic and emblematic of the entire Republican Party's suck-up to Big Oil -- and then, 6 hours...
View ArticleTurmoil & Opportunity in India.
. A day-long national strike ("Bharat bandh") took place throughout the world's second most populace country, and largest democracy, yesterday July 5. From the BBC: "Normal life has been disrupted in...
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Satsuma
. While I cannot, and would not even try to, compete with this site's Mr. Science, or any of the professional, professorial historians here, I think I can chip-in some useful, if eclectic, information...
View ArticleMy Daddy was Atticus Finch
= Expanded 're-post' from Comment in Teacherken's To Kill a Mockingbird Diary = . I'm an Alabama lawyer. I'm from the South Alabama town of Slocomb.* Yes, 3 letters different from "Maycomb." I can't...
View ArticleConsider Talking to a Lawyer.
= NOTE: I do not provide Legal Advice below. I'm just a guy who happens to be a lawyer expressing his opinion (based on lots of experience, mind you). If you want Legal Advice, talk to an attorney...
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Obama's, Democrats', Popularity Surges.
. That would be the headline, you know. If -- hopefully, when -- the Administration and Capitol Hill Democrats spend as much time, effort, energy and attention looking to see how they can work for the...
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Prudential: Profiteering from Soldiers' Deaths
. Tonight CBS News committed an act of journalism, taking and running with a Bloomberg Markets Magazine exposé regarding the bloated, soulless, rapacious Prudential Insurance profiteering from the...
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65 Yrs Ago - Hiroshima
= Excerpted from this last year's post at LetsJapan.Worpress.Com =. . . The next morning another introductory whirlwind. I was brought to the Principal’s office where I would be officially received....
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