Check this article out!
If appearing on the National Rifle Association's anti-gun list is the standard, then companies headquartered in the Lou must be the most left-wing in the nation, trouncing corporations in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. No fewer than fifteen of the companies are headquartered in St. Louis. Ten more can be found in Kansas City -- add them together and the Show-Me state appears to be the most progressive in the Union. New York City ostensibly has just three anti-gun corporations; Los Angeles and San Francisco are tied at two.
I think this "list" by the NRA displays the ignorant media campaign with which they try to force fear into people, and thus promote their own cause. I am proud to be a citizen of the city that is home to so many corporations that defy such a "huge" organization. Thanks to the NRA for helping point it out to me!
Short, long and other-worldy entries from the heartland of Middle-USA. No topic is off-limits, and no topic will be guaranteed for inclusion.
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Braun Boo-Hoo
As found in this article:
Braun's own campaign failed to generate significant campaign funds or support in national or state polls, and she conceded as much. "The funding and organizational disadvantages of a non-traditional campaign could not be overcome," she said.
Braun struggled to raise money while running up thousands of dollars in debt. She also missed the deadline to file paperwork for the initial round of federal campaign money, delaying for several weeks the receipt of any federal matching funds, expected to amount to several hundred thousand dollars.
Organizational disadvantages could not be overcome??!? How about just plain old disorganization! If you told me that I needed to get some paperwork turned in by a certain date in order to receive several hundreds of thousands of dollars, I would be sure to have it all turned in early. Another pathetic display of gross mismanagement...
Not that it matters to anyone but her staff, but thankfully she is no longer a part of the Presidential race.
Braun's own campaign failed to generate significant campaign funds or support in national or state polls, and she conceded as much. "The funding and organizational disadvantages of a non-traditional campaign could not be overcome," she said.
Braun struggled to raise money while running up thousands of dollars in debt. She also missed the deadline to file paperwork for the initial round of federal campaign money, delaying for several weeks the receipt of any federal matching funds, expected to amount to several hundred thousand dollars.
Organizational disadvantages could not be overcome??!? How about just plain old disorganization! If you told me that I needed to get some paperwork turned in by a certain date in order to receive several hundreds of thousands of dollars, I would be sure to have it all turned in early. Another pathetic display of gross mismanagement...
Not that it matters to anyone but her staff, but thankfully she is no longer a part of the Presidential race.
Sunday, January 11, 2004
Football Failures
Without much else to say on the subject, because it causes my blood to boil and makes me want to sharpen the unemployment axe, I wholeheartedly agree with what many people are saying regarding the Rams loss on Saturday.
This particular quote from Bryan Burwell sums it all up nicely.
"I understand Martz's postgame explanation for settling for a field goal to force overtime, rather than going for the victory at the end of regulation. But I completely disagree with it. I don't buy it. I will never buy it. Football's aggressive nature demanded that Martz try to win the game right then and there, and the moment he chose to play it safe, the Rams were doomed. Every strategy in football that goes against the game's most basic instinct usually ends up as a formula for disaster. "
Amen! This is football! A game! You play the game to win at all legal costs, then take the tie if you are forced to. Urgggh! I'd like to see a new coach, so Martz can move back to where he is best utilized and most comfortable: offensive coordinator. Disgraceful!
This particular quote from Bryan Burwell sums it all up nicely.
"I understand Martz's postgame explanation for settling for a field goal to force overtime, rather than going for the victory at the end of regulation. But I completely disagree with it. I don't buy it. I will never buy it. Football's aggressive nature demanded that Martz try to win the game right then and there, and the moment he chose to play it safe, the Rams were doomed. Every strategy in football that goes against the game's most basic instinct usually ends up as a formula for disaster. "
Amen! This is football! A game! You play the game to win at all legal costs, then take the tie if you are forced to. Urgggh! I'd like to see a new coach, so Martz can move back to where he is best utilized and most comfortable: offensive coordinator. Disgraceful!
Saturday, January 10, 2004
MODOT Issues
Okay, here's my gripe:
I'm heading from Hwy40 to North Lindbergh via 270. I notice some text on the normally snowflake bespeckled electronic message board which is just before the 40/270 interchange. "Northbound 270 Right Lane Closed at Olive" Right. Got it. So I get to the point of merging onto the outerbelt and traffic is already beginning to slow. I quickly get in to the right hand lane. Within the first quarter mile I am in the center lane. My strategy was to be in the center lane and, if things bogged down to much, zip into the left hand lane and zoom past all of the traffic in the closed right hand side of the roadway.
Well, guess again...
Stop. Go. Stop. Stop. Stop... (Frustration level increases with every passing minute.)
After a half hour of stop and go, I am finally nearing Olive. I've travelled almost 2 miles at this point and can't wait to get past this stupid lane closure. I'm almost through. All lanes seem to be stop and go. That's weird... I wonder why the left hand lane is also so slow...
What?!!??!
All of a sudden, and electronic arrow sign appears from behind the mostrous SUV I've been trapped behind for the past half hour. Right next to it is the first construction sign I've seen: "Left Lane Closed".
Well, that explains why the left lane is slow. I'm in the center lane and good to go, so I let this puzzling development slide.
Within sight of the Olive overpass I am suddenly exposed to another blinking arrow pointing me to move even further to my right. I swear, when that SUV suddenly changed lanes and exposed me to this electronic blinking wonder, I gasped.
What in the world is going on? The sign had said the right lane was closed, not the left. And it didn't say anything about two lanes being closed... The panic and frustration of this obvious error was evident in the many drivers around me who suddenly were trying to merge back into lanes that they had just abandoned a few miles before due to gross misinformation.
Hey MODOT! Figure out how to use your expensive billboards to actually help alleviate congestion, instead of causing more of it. My little 45 minute drive became an hour and a half epic, filled with blunders by our orange vested friends of the concrete sector.
I'm heading from Hwy40 to North Lindbergh via 270. I notice some text on the normally snowflake bespeckled electronic message board which is just before the 40/270 interchange. "Northbound 270 Right Lane Closed at Olive" Right. Got it. So I get to the point of merging onto the outerbelt and traffic is already beginning to slow. I quickly get in to the right hand lane. Within the first quarter mile I am in the center lane. My strategy was to be in the center lane and, if things bogged down to much, zip into the left hand lane and zoom past all of the traffic in the closed right hand side of the roadway.
Well, guess again...
Stop. Go. Stop. Stop. Stop... (Frustration level increases with every passing minute.)
After a half hour of stop and go, I am finally nearing Olive. I've travelled almost 2 miles at this point and can't wait to get past this stupid lane closure. I'm almost through. All lanes seem to be stop and go. That's weird... I wonder why the left hand lane is also so slow...
What?!!??!
All of a sudden, and electronic arrow sign appears from behind the mostrous SUV I've been trapped behind for the past half hour. Right next to it is the first construction sign I've seen: "Left Lane Closed".
Well, that explains why the left lane is slow. I'm in the center lane and good to go, so I let this puzzling development slide.
Within sight of the Olive overpass I am suddenly exposed to another blinking arrow pointing me to move even further to my right. I swear, when that SUV suddenly changed lanes and exposed me to this electronic blinking wonder, I gasped.
What in the world is going on? The sign had said the right lane was closed, not the left. And it didn't say anything about two lanes being closed... The panic and frustration of this obvious error was evident in the many drivers around me who suddenly were trying to merge back into lanes that they had just abandoned a few miles before due to gross misinformation.
Hey MODOT! Figure out how to use your expensive billboards to actually help alleviate congestion, instead of causing more of it. My little 45 minute drive became an hour and a half epic, filled with blunders by our orange vested friends of the concrete sector.
Friday, January 09, 2004
Labor Issues
In today's Post-Dispatch, Ron Silverman gives his opinion about what is good and bad about St. Louis:
"I think our labor relations in St. Louis are headed the wrong way, and I saw it in the grocery strike. ... We just have one of the most extraordinarily difficult problems here because the cost of construction is so high. I am for people making a living, because if they make a good living, they are able to grow the economy. But we don't have the rental rates and sales to support some of the high cost of our construction... We have to continue to work with labor to get them to understand that it's a constraint on our growth... I'd like to see mixed crews. There shouldn't be any mandatory requirement to have organized labor do your project. "
I agree wholeheartedly. There was a time when unions did a lot to prtoect the rights of the employees. Now, they just mooch money and drive the cost of everything through the roof for us all.
"I think our labor relations in St. Louis are headed the wrong way, and I saw it in the grocery strike. ... We just have one of the most extraordinarily difficult problems here because the cost of construction is so high. I am for people making a living, because if they make a good living, they are able to grow the economy. But we don't have the rental rates and sales to support some of the high cost of our construction... We have to continue to work with labor to get them to understand that it's a constraint on our growth... I'd like to see mixed crews. There shouldn't be any mandatory requirement to have organized labor do your project. "
I agree wholeheartedly. There was a time when unions did a lot to prtoect the rights of the employees. Now, they just mooch money and drive the cost of everything through the roof for us all.
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Galaxy find stirs Big Bang Debate
"We are looking back four-fifths of the way to the beginning of the universe and the existence of this galaxy string will send astrophysicists around the world back to the drawing board to re-examine theories of the formation of the universe," Francis said. "The simulations tell us that you cannot take the matter in the early universe and line it up in strings this large. There simply hasn't been enough time since the Big Bang for it to form structures this colossal."
Let me help the scientists with this newest obstacle to the selling of a theory called evolution:
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day." Genesis 1:1-5
The Big Bang is a Big Dud. Someday, the smart scientists will figure out what God knows. Until then, we can scratch our heads in amazement at their strange, determined effort to pull the "random clues" of the origin of matter together and make us believe it.
Let me help the scientists with this newest obstacle to the selling of a theory called evolution:
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day." Genesis 1:1-5
The Big Bang is a Big Dud. Someday, the smart scientists will figure out what God knows. Until then, we can scratch our heads in amazement at their strange, determined effort to pull the "random clues" of the origin of matter together and make us believe it.
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