Posts Tagged ‘alabama’

Forbes Takers vs Makers

November 29th, 2012 | No Comments

Forbes Magazine just ran a rather awesome, if not damning, article.  I loved it.  It listed the states where there are more “takers” vs “makers”.  And, it very quickly condemned those states, as well as advising anyone investing to steer clear of those states. One of them, being my own.  They chide those states for [...]

Dry run for terror?

August 31st, 2010 | 1 Comment

Dutch Question 2 Men Arrested on Terror Suspicion on Flight From Chicago to Amsterdam Dutch investigators on Tuesday questioned two Detroit-area men arrested at Amsterdam’s airport after U.S. authorities found suspicious items in their checked luggage, including a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle and a knife and box cutter. The pair were arrested [...]

Somali pirates attack the US

April 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Somali pirates on Wednesday hijacked a U.S.-flagged cargo ship with at least 20 American crew members aboard, FOX News has learned. A Kenya-based diplomat identified the vessel as the 17,000-ton Maersk Alabama and told the Associated Press all crew members are American. The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to [...]

Bipartisanship and Medicaid

February 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Just got the numbers for the Medicaid add-on from the stimulus package.  I don’t deal with Medicaid directly, but it indirectly affects what I do in a large way.  As such, I was interested in the numbers.  However, the bigger picture bugged me more than the dollars I was assigned to look at.  In essence, [...]

Wanna guess what party Larry Langford belongs to?

December 1st, 2008 | No Comments

WSFA is reporting that Birmgingham, Alabama mayor Larry Langford has been arrested by the FBI on some pretty serious charges.  At this point CNN nor MSNBC feel it’s a story worth printing. If you read the local story, it’s pretty lengthy.  It gets into what the background of the investigation is, who’s involved, and some [...]

Four more years of Bushisms?

May 27th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Barack Obama’s campaign has been all about “change“.  However, one thing seems bound not to change if Obama is elected.  Whereas we’ve had to deal with nucular, internets, and global warmings, now we’ll get muddled facts instead of words: Marking the anniversary of the March 1965 “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Ala., Obama, speaking at a [...]