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Archive for October 4th, 2005
Tuesday, October 4, 2005 Oh, no! FBI joins war on porn By Len Butcher Porn. Now there’s a word that should have us sitting up and taking notice. Next to its obsession with celebrities, Americans have made sex a close second — talking about it, doing it, and watching it. Especially watching it. Seems more Americans watch it then do it, which I find more than a little surprising, [...]
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 Belated blog on blowhard Bennett By Steve Sebelius A belated word about Bill Bennett. The Book of Virtues author who was education secretary under former President Ronald Reagan has been in the news lately for some rather interesting remarks he made on his radio show.
It seems Bennett — engaging in what he later described as “a thought experiment” said “If you [...]
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 Gambling 1, Baptists, 0 By Steve Sebelius Mississippi’s Baptists have lost the battle to keep casinos from coming on shore. That state’s Legislature has allowed Gulf Coast casinos displaced by Katrina to move as far as 800 feet inland, less than the 1,500 feet the casinos wanted but more than the 0 feet Baptists insisted upon. Gov. Haley Barbour says he’ll sign [...]
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 DeLay indicted, Part Deux! By Steve Sebelius So U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay has been indicted. Again.
This time, an all-new grand jury has indicted the controversial lawmaker for money laundering, for allegedly sending $190,000 in corporate donations from a Texas-based PAC to an arm of the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C. The RNC arm then returned $190,000 in “individual” contributions to [...]
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 Quotable By Steve Sebelius “I think there must be a journalist school where students taught how to kill Tara Reid.” — Party girl Tara Reid, complaining about media coverage.
Actually, according to the Various Things & Stuff Polling Center (where we make up believable statistics about various issues), 95.2 percent of all journalists not only say they don’t want [...]
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 Small-Car Dealers Race to Keep Up With Demand By Dave Berns “Nationally, Toyota officials say the Corolla, one of the Japanese company’s smallest and most fuel-efficient passenger cars, had 8.7 days’ supply of inventory at the end of the third week in September. In the industry, inventory of 50 to 60 days’ supply is seen as adequate,” reports today’s Seattle Times.
“With only a nine-day supply of [...]
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 Alaska-Southwest Airlines Vie For Gates at Seattle-Area Airport By Dave Berns “Alaska Airlines has formally declared a tug of war over Boeing Field, submitting a competing bid to Southwest Airlines’ proposal to begin flights at the small airport,” reports today’s Seattle Times.
“Seattle-based Alaska Airlines sent a proposal to the King County Executive’s Office late Friday outlining plans to offer 68 flights a day and to build [...]
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 Trends Watcher Spots New Corporate Approach By Dave Berns “It’s a turbulent time in the business world. Prestigious firms are under scrutiny for their practices, and corporate high-fliers are going to court and sometimes to jail. Yet it’s also a time when people are seeking new ways to incorporate spiritual practices and moral values into their workaday lives,” writes today’s edition of The Christian [...]
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 British Oil Companies Making Big Money By Dave Berns “British companies are making their highest levels of profits for almost five years, as soaring crude prices have helped the country’s oil companies cash in, official data showed today,” reports The Times of London.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 Southern Nevada Continues Residential Sprawl By Dave Berns “Rural housing markets around Las Vegas have spread to Mesquite, Logandale, Pahrump — even to northern Arizona,” reports today’s Las Vegas Review-Journal.
“The next bedroom community could spring up on a 10,000-acre private parcel of land in Inyo County, Calif., near Tecopa.”
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