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To Ease Budget Woes, California Might Sell Ads on Electronic Freeway Signs–Sacramento Bee headline, 2/5/2010

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Vincenzo Kolchak sent the story and his idea for dancing electrons…

Speed Limit70Cruise better with
SHELL Gasoline
With Platformate

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I wondered, “Why stop with electronic freeway signs?”
 
On a two-lane blacktop somewhere near Modesto…

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The article is here.

Image: (sign) upload.wikimedia.org via commons.wikimedia.org;  (Sears) acgadmin.fry.com via autoclubgroup.com

Posted in Business, California, Advertising, Economy, Automobiles |

I await the official word from some evangelical, religious cult from Pan-Appalachia…

Monday, November 17th, 2008

in order to assess blame for the cause of this latest tragedy.

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AFP

The photo shows the horrific, southern California fire.
 
Look closely.

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Whose face appears in the terrible flames?
 
Is it Osama?
 
Satan?
 
The A.I.G. CEO?

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No. 
 
It is Anthony Quinn as the bedouin leader, Auda abu Tayi,
from the 1962 David Lean classic–LAWRENCE OF ARBIA.
 
I don’t get it it!

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Image: (Anthony Quinn […]

Posted in California, Movies, Crime, Holier Than Thouists-Conservative Evangelical Arm, Natural Disasters |

Employee Suggestions Help Stanford Hospital Save Millions–Yahoo headline, June 18, 2008

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Where do they put all of those patients?
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Image: Original Photo c. Lee Bennett, Jr./ATPM.com

Posted in California, Nevada, Medicine |

Let’s put them McNuggets where the sofa was.

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Feng Shui MacDonald’s offers calm and fries
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By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
The Daily Telegraph

Last Updated: 11:41pm GMT 17/02/2008

A McDonald’s restaurant in California has become the first in the nation to undergo a Feng Shui makeover in a bid to encourage customers to linger over their Big Macs and fries.

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Images: from biggestmenu.com; 1.cnn.net; bangkokpost.net; (waterfall) aspencountry.com

Posted in Business, California, Cuisine, Philosophy |

Or, we could call it 582 million Quarter-Pounders…

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Huge beef recall stems from Calif. plant
By GREG RISLING, Associated Press Writer Mon Feb 18, 2:11 AM ET
LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs.
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Officials said […]

Posted in California, Health, Architecture, Cuisine, Department of Agriculture |

Under Dick ‘n W, all protection falls to corporate tyranny.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

This grotesque letter is but the latest
in an 8-year riptide of greed and reason number 83,246 for the turning out of the party of big business.
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Doctors balk at request for data
Physicians object to a letter from Blue Cross seeking information that could lead to policy cancellations.
By Lisa Girion, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
February […]

Posted in California, Health, Medicine, Insurance Industry |

Schools Scramble To Find Questionable Meat–Los Angeles Times headline

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

One could argue that it would be better to find good meat.
Many districts have stopped serving ground beef products in response to allegations that a packing house used ‘downer’ cattle.
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By Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
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February 3, 2008
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Leave no patty unturned, no meatball overlooked.
That was the mandate late last week as school district officials […]

Posted in Business, California, Education, Health, Cuisine, Children |

“It makes a significant difference when you have somebody in the statehouse willing to take the lead.”–W’s ‘Heckuva job, Brownie’ to Arnold.

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Ca. Fire Documents Conflict With Reports
By AARON C. DAVIS – 13 hours ago
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Several aircraft were able to fly in strong winds on the first full day of last month’s Southern California firestorms, contradicting officials’ earlier claims that the weather had grounded virtually all aircraft, according to documents released Saturday.
Twenty-eight of 52 […]

Posted in Bush, California, Natural Disasters, Schwarzenegger |

What ever happened to that devil-may-care senator who used sight gags to keep the Judiciary committee in stitches?

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

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Max Follmer
The Huffington Post
Feinstein Faces Dem Censure After Backing Mukasey
November 12, 2007 11:50 PM
One day after voting to elevate a divisive conservative judge to the federal appeals court in New Orleans, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the president’s guest aboard Air Force One. She had been invited to survey the damage from the recent spate […]

Posted in California, Cong-SENATE, Diane Feinstein |

This type of behavior is closer to Archie & Jughead than to public service.

Friday, October 26th, 2007

FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA
By Al Kamen
Friday, October 26, 2007; A19
FEMA has truly learned the lessons of Katrina. Even its handling of the media has improved dramatically. For example, as the California wildfires raged Tuesday, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy administrator, had a 1 p.m. news […]

Posted in News Media, California, Movies, FEMA, Comics |

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