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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Are There Problems With Foreign Aid?
http://video.foxnews.com/#/v/4702391/are-there-problems-with-foreign-aid/?playlist_id=86858
This video mentions the Marshall Plan and raises a great point.
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This video mentions the Marshall Plan and raises a great point.
http://www.teaparty365.org/
Friday, May 27, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
An Increase In Oil Production Via Obama
Very sad but kind of funny knowing that oil production can take 10- years based on having to develop new technology. I think we should make a move in the next 90 days to lower gasoline prices. But you probably would not be in rush to see things happen if you did not pay for the gas going into your gas tank either.
Go to the page below and see a potential solution to lower your gasoline cost in the next 90 days.
http://1mjl.com/economics/an-increase-in-oil-production-via-obama
This is a video that is sad due to the lack of real solutions offered by the leader of the free world.
http://clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/8178/2462324?wpid=9171
Go to the page below and see a potential solution to lower your gasoline cost in the next 90 days.
http://1mjl.com/economics/an-increase-in-oil-production-via-obama
This is a video that is sad due to the lack of real solutions offered by the leader of the free world.
http://clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/8178/2462324?wpid=9171
Friday, May 13, 2011
Video of Stew Leonard
The WSJ had this video of Stew Leonard talking about customer service and how he operates his chain of grocery stores on the East Coast.
He makes some great points in this short video and offers ideas that might be applicable to businesses outside the grocery store chain.
You can find this interesting video here---------
http://1mjl.com/leadership/stew-leonard-talks-customer-service
He makes some great points in this short video and offers ideas that might be applicable to businesses outside the grocery store chain.
You can find this interesting video here---------
http://1mjl.com/leadership/stew-leonard-talks-customer-service
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Buisness Owners Attempt To Find Exit Door
This is a great article about a real business owner that, like a lot of owners is wondering how to exit the successful venture he started more than 20 years ago.
If you are considering opening a business or exiting a business, this article might offer you the insight you are looking for.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/business/smallbusiness/12sbiz.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
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If you are considering opening a business or exiting a business, this article might offer you the insight you are looking for.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/business/smallbusiness/12sbiz.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
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Starbucks chief takes aim at speculators: report
Howard Schultz, president of Starbucks Corp.has attacked speculators for pushing up the price of coffee to a 34-year high, the Daily Telegraph reports Wednesday. Schultz said that more transparency is urgently needed to identify those responsible for pushing up raw material prices, the report adds.
Howard, if he is not already, needs to be hedging his coffee purchases in the open market. If he is already hedging, he needs to work with a company that actually makes him money by hedging his purchases.
Schultz goes on to mention the growers that are getting the smallest portion of the inflated price of coffee. This is getting too funny. Anyone that provides a market with liquidity, is now a villian. Please give it a rest now Howard and focus on making a cup of coffee that does not taste as if the beans were roasted for more than 1 year.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
White House struck by lightning on Easter 2011
I am not sure about the odds of the White House getting struck by lightning on Easter, or how often if ever, it has happened. And there is a good chance that the strike itself could have hit behind the building itself.
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Arizona Liberals Hope to Create America's 51st State: 'Baja Arizona'
Political tensions have been high in Arizona for a while now, but now some liberals are actually talking about seceding from the state. Lawyers and activists from Pima County, Reuters reports, are pushing to create America's 51st state, titled Baja Arizona and encompassing the Democrat-heavy Tucson and the southern county of Pima as a whole. The movement and idea of Baja Arizona dates back to the anti-war protesters of the 1960s, but this year's renewed interest includes signature-collection for petitions and ambitions to add the question to the November 2012 ballot. As Reuters observes, the new state would beat several others in land mass (Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut and New Jersey) and in population (Alaska, Montana, Wyoming or the Dakotas).
Arizona liberals in Tucson, want to split the state of Arizona into 2 states with the state to the South called "Baja Arizona". If there is one way to lose the immigration debate from both sides of the aisle, you can guarantee that this will be it. This has not happened since the days of the Civil War.
It would be hard to see this taking place, when the state of California is such a mess fiscally. This division would almost surely be followed by a California style operation. Then 5 years after the golden beginning, they can live the dream by watching their municipal bonds be worth close to nothing.
Haven't we learned anything in the last 4 years? Why would even think about destroying the best state in the US?
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Arizona liberals in Tucson, want to split the state of Arizona into 2 states with the state to the South called "Baja Arizona". If there is one way to lose the immigration debate from both sides of the aisle, you can guarantee that this will be it. This has not happened since the days of the Civil War.
It would be hard to see this taking place, when the state of California is such a mess fiscally. This division would almost surely be followed by a California style operation. Then 5 years after the golden beginning, they can live the dream by watching their municipal bonds be worth close to nothing.
Haven't we learned anything in the last 4 years? Why would even think about destroying the best state in the US?
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Monday, May 9, 2011
China urges US to lift export controls
WASHINGTON — China Monday urged Washington to lift export and investment controls directed against Beijing, saying such a move could go a long way towards conquering the steep trade imbalance between the two powers.
But in their annual bilateral dialogue, US officials continued to press Beijing over its allegedly undervalued yuan as a way to redress China's $273 billion trade surplus with the United States.
"The way to resolve this imbalance is to ease the export control regime of the United States towards China and to encourage US exports to China rather than restricting Chinese exports to the United States," Chen Deming, the Chinese trade minister, told reporters.
Chen said Washington's forex argument over the trade issue between the world's two largest economies "is not founded."
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It will help if the US exhibits a "pair" of guts! Negotiations with China need to be a little hardcore vs. what they have been for say 2 years (but prob. more like 20 years over certain administrations) . You really have to spine up if you are going into a room with the "new" world leaders that have been eating your lunch for for so long, and their currency manipulation allows them live a quality life while growing a country of epic proportions.
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But in their annual bilateral dialogue, US officials continued to press Beijing over its allegedly undervalued yuan as a way to redress China's $273 billion trade surplus with the United States.
"The way to resolve this imbalance is to ease the export control regime of the United States towards China and to encourage US exports to China rather than restricting Chinese exports to the United States," Chen Deming, the Chinese trade minister, told reporters.
Chen said Washington's forex argument over the trade issue between the world's two largest economies "is not founded."
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It will help if the US exhibits a "pair" of guts! Negotiations with China need to be a little hardcore vs. what they have been for say 2 years (but prob. more like 20 years over certain administrations) . You really have to spine up if you are going into a room with the "new" world leaders that have been eating your lunch for for so long, and their currency manipulation allows them live a quality life while growing a country of epic proportions.
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Michael Lebb
Sunday, May 1, 2011
City Workers Make Porn Film While on the Job (No Government Leadership)
City officials failed to discipline two traffic officers who appeared in a pornographic film while on the job, NBC4 LA has found.
This video shows the lack of government leadership when it come to enforcing the rules their department operates under. In a government hierarchy, the leaders are expected to stay on top of situations such as this, and not need the media to push them “to do the right thing” in terms of investigating tax dollars being spent so someone can soil the uniform they wear in a porn video, while they are being paid to perform the task for which they are employed. To me, this has very little do with porn, or the city employee that shows up in the porn video. But this video has everything to do with the (lack of) leadership of the Los Angeles traffic enforcement. The 2 individuals in the video that are on top of the chain of command, exhibit less than honest responses to the inquiry, if what we are seeing in the video is true. Will the residents of Los Angeles ever NOT get ****** when it comes to government?
City Worker Porn Video
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This video shows the lack of government leadership when it come to enforcing the rules their department operates under. In a government hierarchy, the leaders are expected to stay on top of situations such as this, and not need the media to push them “to do the right thing” in terms of investigating tax dollars being spent so someone can soil the uniform they wear in a porn video, while they are being paid to perform the task for which they are employed. To me, this has very little do with porn, or the city employee that shows up in the porn video. But this video has everything to do with the (lack of) leadership of the Los Angeles traffic enforcement. The 2 individuals in the video that are on top of the chain of command, exhibit less than honest responses to the inquiry, if what we are seeing in the video is true. Will the residents of Los Angeles ever NOT get ****** when it comes to government?
City Worker Porn Video
Michael Lebb
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Twitter @1mjl
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