April 2010 Archives

Two of the best local commercials from small businesses.  Posted without further comment, except, don't be drinking anything while watching.  It will short out your keyboard:Have a great weekend....

Being that this is good Friday I thought I would forgo politics for the time being and move to a positive story. One of the things I find myself doing is complaining about bad customer service. I suppose it is a rite of passage into adulthood. When I was able to complain about a customer service experience I had advanced out of adolescence and into life as a late teen. Groups of adults can sit...

In a March 26 letter to shareholders Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, wrote:"The crisis of the past couple of years has had far-reaching consequences, among them the declining public image of banks and bankers...[W]hen we vilify whole industries...we are denigrating ourselves and much of what made this country successful...We also should refrain from indiscriminate blame of any whole group of people...While JPMorgan Chase certainly made its share of mistakes in this tumultuous time, our...

Yesterday, the President surprised both sides of the political spectrum by announcing the lifting of a decades-long moratorium on offshore oil & gas exploration along much of the Atlantic coast and eastern Gulf of Mexico, as well as coastal areas north of Alaska.  When he made this announcement, reaction was strong from both sides of the political spectrum.  Environmentalists cried foul, raising the alarm about destroying our Atlantic beaches, and Republicans, their spin machine caught...

I thought I'd open a thread for you all to share your funniest April Fool's Day stories.  I only have one.  My dad always put four teaspoons of sugar in his coffee every morning. Every April Fools Day for 20 years straight, I switched his sugar for salt.  Every April 1st, for 20 years, my father would put four teaspoons of salt in his coffee, take a drink, and laugh hysterically that he fell for...

I know today is April 1st, but this is no April Fool's joke:"Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) is afraid that the U.S. Territory of Guam is going to "tip over and capsize" due to overpopulation.Johnson expressed his worries during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the defense budget Friday.Addressing Adm. Robert Willard, who commands the Navy's Pacific Fleet, Johnson made a tippy motion with his hands and said sternly, "My fear is that the whole...