Monthly Archives: May 2010

Racial Profiling or not? My bank’s frau…

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Art Stone

Racial Profiling or not? My bank’s fraud department suspected a problem with a $1,000 charge from a Chinese Restaurant located 2000 miles from where I live. Would it be wrong for the bank to have included the type of restaurant … Continue reading →

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My college has “Pride”. What kind of p…

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Art Stone

My college has “Pride”. What kind of pride? It’s hard to discern from the picture. The story on the inside announces the reason for this prideness – 4 basketball players are actually going to graduate this year! Now that is … Continue reading →

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America’s Red Guard… stopped in at We…

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Art Stone

America’s Red Guard… stopped in at Wendy’s and immediately noticed a young (20-something) man wearing a red hammer & sickle T-Shirt. He had on camoflague pants and was wearing a bandana with a red circle and Asian writing (it looked … Continue reading →

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The Dish Network/Weather Channel dispute

Posted on May 24, 2010 by jmyrlefuller

This past week Dish Network announced it would be dropping The Weather Channel and creating a new weather channel called “The Weather Cast.” The primary reason they cited was rights fees– which were going up about 9%. The other reason … Continue reading →

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Canceling Sirius – Long time readers kno…

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Art Stone

Canceling Sirius – Long time readers know that I signed up for Sirius/XM Internet (only) streaming about a year ago to add it to the database. One of my concerns was that Sirius could end up playing the AOL game. … Continue reading →

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BP’s plan – I know very little about dr…

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Art Stone

BP’s plan – I know very little about drilling oil wells, but one thing is confusing me. BP’s ultimate plan – the one that takes 3 months is to dig a parallel well, and then go horizontally and dig into … Continue reading →

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Harvest of Shame This year is the 50th a…

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Art Stone

Harvest of Shame This year is the 50th anniversary of Edward R Murrow’s expose of the brutality of evil greedy farm owners and how they exploit migratory farm workers. I was out on Long Island (aka Lon GuyLand) yesterday – … Continue reading →

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Nick Digilio & Shrek – Nick is on WGN-AM…

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Art Stone

Nick Digilio & Shrek – Nick is on WGN-AM in Chicago and mostly does entertainment industry stuff. He was talking about the release of Shrek this weekend, and he was talking to someone who finally validated and picked up on … Continue reading →

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Today’s poll question was inspired by W…

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Art Stone

Today’s poll question was inspired by Warren Eckstein, who has a Pet Show on WOR’s network on the weekends. He was asking a caller if her dog’s personal trainer comes out to the house. Is this country screwed up or … Continue reading →

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Hawaii election

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Art Stone

Republicans never win in Hawaii – until today. In a special election done by mail in ballot, the district where Barack Obama grew up elected the Republican. Pigs were seen flying around the volcano. Look for interesting spin on Monday’s … Continue reading →

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Testing reminder – college is finishing …

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Art Stone

Testing reminder – college is finishing up for the year. FCC rules require college stations to only be on the air when regular classes are in session. This means probably 2/3 of all college stations will now be down until … Continue reading →

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Oil spills cause hurricanes – that’s th…

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Art Stone

Oil spills cause hurricanes – that’s the preposterous notion I just heard on NPR. This is laying the foundation for blaming future hurricane damage on BP. Do trial lawyers donate a lot of money to NPR?

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Today feels earily like September 2001. …

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Art Stone

Today feels earily like September 2001. Following 9/11, the US Stock markets were closed for about a week – when it was time to restart trading, the market was very fearful. That day, and for the next few days – … Continue reading →

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Mandy Connell update – she’s in Louisvi…

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Art Stone

Mandy Connell update – she’s in Louisville, Kentucky now [The capital of Kentucky is pronounced Frank-Fort]… Maybe it is because it’s Friday, but the transformation is incredible – she went from being a political talker in Florida who can keep … Continue reading →

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Who controls the world… around $360 TR…

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Art Stone

Who controls the world… around $360 TRILLION in financial transactions (loans and derivatives) are based on LIBOR. Once a day, a group of banks submit their offers – the high and lows are discarded, and the average becomes the LIBOR … Continue reading →

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