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Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31, 2006 Southwest about to face the crunch By Ian Mylchreest Despite its reputation as the fun and cheap airline, Southwest now finds itself with the highest-paid pilots in the business. And, reports Reuters, those pilots may take a haircut on their next contract negotiation.
The problem is that the fuel hedges are about to run out and that money was a great part of the company's [...]
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 Say what? By Len Butcher Ah, that wacky Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Just a barrel of laughs. They probably don’t even need Comedy Central in Iran with him as their president. First he’s calling for the destruction of Israel. Then he’s defying the U.N. and the rest of the world on his country’s plans to go forward with their nuclear program. He [...]
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Bally's out of the bag? By David McKee Sprawling Bally's Las Vegas's fate has been hanging in limbo ever since Harrah's Entertainment vanquished Caesars Entertainment. (Feel free to insert your favorite "fall of the Roman empire" analogy here.) Harrah's boss Gary Loveman has floated the possibility of imploding the blue-rinsed old gal, but Harrah's likes to emphasize that no decision has been [...]
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Homecoming Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius We step out of town for a few days, and the whole world goes crazy! Let's see if we can play catch-up, with a heaping helping of Quick Hits. Here we go!
• We TOTALLY think Assemblywoman Sharron Angle should continue her brave fight against voter fraud by pursuing a lawsuit that seeks a new [...]
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Recession is looking more likely, say recessionists By Ian Mylchreest It's notoriously hard to predict a recession but the people who seem to do best at it are getting mighty nervous reports New York Times columnist David Leonhardt. We've gone through a summer that started with the Fed trying to slow things down and ended with recession in the next 12 months a real possibility.
Leonhardt [...]
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Who cares how they die–kill them! By Len Butcher Elijah Page is alive today. He should have been put to death last night. Mike Rounds, governor of South Dakota, is also alive. He should be put out of office next election. The good guv decided to stay the execution of Page, only hours before the killer was supposed to take his last breath on [...]
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 Environmentalists sue to stop Coyote Springs By Ian Mylchreest Two environmental land groups sued the Bureau of Land Management in federal court Monday saying that the bureau's land swap with Coyote Springs developer Harvey Whittemore was illegal, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Coyote Springs resulted from a land swap that gave Whittemore acreage central to his development in return for desert tortoise habitat the bureau deemed [...]
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 Consumer confidence takes a dive By Ian Mylchreest The latest consumer confidence survey from the Conference Board has taken a dive, reports the Associated Press. The confidence index fell to a reading of 99.6, down from 107.0 in July.
That is the lowest number since November when the problems of recovering from Katrina pushed the numbers lower. The big factor, apparently, was the declining [...]
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006 Beatles win round 3 By Ian Mylchreest In what might rank as the world's longest running legal strife since Dickens' "Bleak House," the Beatles and their survivors are again suing Capitol Records and EMI Records, alleging fraud because of underpaid royalties. The latest round took place in a Manhattan court room where a judge has rejected a defense motion to dismiss the suit, [...]
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Monday, August 28, 2006 Hezbollah regrets kidnapping–NOT! By Len Butcher Well, well. The Hezbollah leader says that if he had known the Israelis were going to respond the way they did, he would not have given the order for his group of terrorists to go into Israel and capture two Israeli soldiers. Right, and Willie Sutton wouldn’t have robbed all those banks if he thought [...]
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