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55 Blog Posts Under This Category Now Displaying Page 2, Blog Posts 26 to 50 « Previous | Next » Page 1 2 3 Category: Current Events (posted 94 days 15 hours ago.) Corporate America Rewards the Inept. - Mike Fak(17,931)   Let’s see. You have a job and you do it poorly. As a direct result of your decisions the company tanks, investors lose hundreds of millions of dollars and employees are laid off in droves. Now what would a person imagine would happen to you if you were this person. Don’t worry. In corporate...Category: Current Events (posted 98 days 7 hours ago.) U.S. Park Police Receive Scathing Reviews - Mike Fak(17,931) In another story about the inadequacies of our Homeland Security System, A government investigation into the U.S. Park Police states there is low morale, poor leadership, inadequate training and poor organization within the service. Outside of that, things are fine in our nation’s capital.
The...Category: Current Events (posted 101 days 16 hours ago.) NFL Makes Another Bad Business Decision. - Mike Fak(17,931) In just a few weeks the call for Major League Baseball teams to report to spring training will happen. I can’t wait. With baseball the only thing embarrassing about the sport is who is on performance enhancing drugs and who isn’t.
With another NFL season over, the obsession the NFL needs to be...Category: Current Events (posted 105 days 12 hours ago.) Medicare; a Bureaucracy of Nonsensical Paperwork - Mike Fak(17,931) There have been enough nightmares written about the fundamental flaws in our country’s retirement and healthcare systems to fill the congressional archives. In fact, I would imagine the amount of testimony would require another floor be built to house all the reports of bumbling and mismanagement...Category: Current Events (posted 108 days 13 hours ago.) Economic Experts have little Expertise. - Mike Fak(17,931) More and more investment firms are jumping on the phrase that we are heading for a recession if in fact we aren’t already in one. I have read that statement several dozen times and always the question I have is why these so called experts are hedging their statements. If indeed they are the best...Category: Current Events (posted 112 days 6 hours ago.) New York Debating Decision to Require Calorie Content Posted on Fast Foods - Mike Fak(17,931) The City of New York is trying to take a bite out of the obesity or overweight rate of 54% in their city by requiring calorie counts be on fast food chain menus.
Of course the restaurant association thinks this is a terrible idea.
I have even read the argument this violates a fast food...Category: Current Events (posted 115 days 15 hours ago.) Energy Companies using Consumer’s Money to Fund Public Relations. - Mike Fak(17,931) Finally in Illinois, the Illinois Attorney general’s office is raising serious questions about energy providers using consumer money to get positive recognition and press in their communities.
The Program started in South Carolina with the Palmetto Electric Cooperative in 1989 calling it the...Category: Current Events (posted 120 days 6 hours ago.) The Smithsonian; Directors Living Lavishly on Taxpayer Dollars - Mike Fak(17,931) If a picture is worth a thousand words then a portrait must be worth at least $58,500. Actually, this sum of taxpayer money was approved by the retiring director of the National Museum of the Native American, W. Richard West. In another fit of self-importance, this bureaucrat wanted his painting...Category: Current Events (posted 124 days 12 hours ago.) Nuclear Security; Homeland Questions Abound. - Mike Fak(17,931) On December 18 th I wrote about the terrible security at our nation’s nuclear power plants. In that article I explained how a security employee at the Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant complained of security personnel sleeping on the job. For his efforts he was admonished by his employer...Category: Current Events (posted 141 days 13 hours ago.) Ethanol not as Environmentally Friendly as Claimed. - Mike Fak(17,931) The continual push of ethanol as an alternative fuel for our nation’s vehicles has another twist. It appears experts didn’t take into account that ethanol might be an environmentally dangerous industry to our sea life.
Yes, ethanol, praised as an environmentally excellent alternative as a...Category: Current Events (posted 147 days 13 hours ago.) Clean Burn Coal Plant a Taxpayer Fiasco - Mike Fak(17,931) A clean coal power plant is going to be built in Central Illinois starting next year. At least everyone thinks it will. Or maybe it won’t just yet. Or maybe it will cost too much and the hell with the whole idea.
In just three days, reports concerning the potential “New Age” power plant have...Category: Current Events (posted 150 days 16 hours ago.) The Business of Security has little to do with Security. - Mike Fak(17,931)
Energy giant Exelon has announced the firing of the private company they had hired to provide security to their nuclear power plants throughout the Northeast and Midwest. The actions came on the heels of a report by a Pennsylvania television station that included video tape of security guards...Category: Current Events (posted 154 days 13 hours ago.) Is the News Creating more Tragedy or is it just us? - Mike Fak(17,931)
The suicide note left by Robert Hawkins, the young man who killed eight innocent people before turning the gun on himself, started out with “Now I’ll be famous.” At what cost doesn’t seem to have been a question in the demented youngster’s mind.
You all know enough about the horrendous...Category: Current Events (posted 168 days 12 hours ago.) Seminole Tribal Council Under Federal Scutiny - Mike Fak(17,931) If there has ever been a culture that lived by the beat of a different drum it was the Seminole Native American Tribe. The Seminoles are the only other sovereign nation on these shores as they never surrendered nor signed a formal treaty with the United States. Rather than be subjugated by...Category: Current Events (posted 171 days 16 hours ago.) Phony Bomb Threats at Schools Require Real Punishment. - Mike Fak(17,931)
Living in Central Illinois is a lot like living in any small town area across the country. For the most part, nothing really terrible happens here. Vandalism sticks it ugly head up once in a while. There is a robbery from time to time but like most of America, things are fairly peaceful.
In...Category: Current Events (posted 174 days 12 hours ago.) To Each His Own (Sport): Racism and Team Ownership - Alf Gordon(13,029) The Houston Dynamo, our local soccer team, just won their second championship last weekend; in response, the city held a big pep rally during the week to celebrate. I was leaving work as the crowds of fans were coming in to celebrate. I heard a couple of guys talking behind me as I was walking to... Category: Current Events (posted 182 days 13 hours ago.) Televangelists Should Pay Taxes on Personal Profits. - Mike Fak(17,931)
My favorite story in the Bible is the one where Emperor Jesus goes on tour. The entourage of gilded chariots, body guards, personal masseuses and wagon trains of gold and fine silks as he goes about the Holy Land asking for more dough makes for a compelling read. Oh wait. I got my Biblical...Category: Current Events (posted 189 days 13 hours ago.) Consumer Products Safety Commission Chiefs Toy With Integrity. - Mike Fak(17,931) Well the great mystery of how dangerous, lead covered toys could be all over American store shelves has been solved. Now the who-dun-it definitely had a fall guy all set up with the Chinese manufacturers. The story also had toy companies like Mattel as obvious bad guys in this debacle. But now...Category: Current Events (posted 192 days 16 hours ago.) U.S. Diplomats Complain As They Face Draft. - Mike Fak(17,931)
In a show of solidarity, members of the Foreign Service, more commonly known as the U.S. Diplomatic Corps, took their grievances to an open meeting convened by the U.S. State Department. The diplomats and their union are up in arms about the report that not enough representatives were dumb...Category: Current Events (posted 193 days 11 hours ago.) How Do Illegal Immigrants Rate in the United States? - Alf Gordon(13,029) These days, if you don't see a story on your nightly news about the "undocumented workers" issue in the United States, you're comatose. It's one of the hottest topics of discussion in the country today. And the way that politicians and the media are leaning on this issue lets us know just how... Category: Current Events (posted 196 days 13 hours ago.) A Biohazard Catastrophe; Terrorists Need Not Apply. - Mike Fak(17,931) Whenever I feel like getting a heated conversation started at a local coffee shop, I throw out a simple question. I ask why fellow caffeinists think we haven’t had a major attack in our country since the World Trade disaster. I have yet to have someone state they believe it is because we have...Category: Current Events (posted 199 days 16 hours ago.) FEMA, a Disaster Not Waiting to Happen. - Mike Fak(17,931)
Since you are a blog reader, I find it unnecessary to spend any time restating the incredibly inept blunderings of our Federal Emergency Management Agency during Hurricane Katrina. Suffice it to say as time moves on and more and more facts of that debacle are made known, it has become apparent...Category: Current Events (posted 203 days 15 hours ago.) "No Child Left Behind" a Flawed Ideal - Mike Fak(17,931) In 2002, President Bush, with the aid of a majority in Congress, passed the “No Child Left Behind Act”. The law, which had the altruistic intention of requiring every child in America receive a quality education was a very good idea. The problem was the President failed to understand that the...Category: Current Events (posted 206 days 15 hours ago.) Mishaps Reported at U. S. Labs working with Deadly Viruses and Toxins - Mike Fak(17,931)
My grandmother always said it was the little things that count. I hope she wasn’t right when it comes to this story. I’m talking about micro organisms, the bad kind; like Ebola or the Black Plague, or Anthrax or other micro organisms we have created and now must find a cure for.
From time to...Category: Current Events (posted 217 days 16 hours ago.) Pentagon Official Paid for not Working - Mike Fak(17,931)
It is one of those stories that should be all over the news but one must look hard to find the story filed by The Washington Post. The Post reported that a now senior official for the U.S. Air Force was given a job with a defense contractor for two months that required he do nothing including... |
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