January 01, 2008
Happy New Years!
Posted by jbholston at 09:55 AM
Gary Hart; ....There is something called the national interest. It is not an ideology. It is not the possession of a single cabal of self-appointed imperialists. It is not achieved by substituting consensus for principle. It is not "bipartisanship" for...
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Sunday Morning
Darcy would have to use someone’s garage. For a moment she could see it, East Bay late-afternoon sunlight broken by grime on the small high window. There would be cobwebs. She wondered, what garage was this in her little dream? Perhaps one she’d hidden in as a young girl, in some place they hadn’t lived long. A strong curl of gasoline smell. But there wouldn’t be that, would there?
Chet Baker sang like velvet from the CD player she’d moved into the kitchen.
I may dream a million dreams
But how can they come true?
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Posted
May 13, 2004
Indian Gaming Scams...
The history of gambling 'resorts' as reparations to Indian tribes is seedy, at best.
Various non-Indian operators, many of them from outside the U.S., have made tens of millions of dollars 'advising' tribes as the deal-makers to get these projects going. They typically provide all the cash necessary as 'loans', so that although 'tribal members' own the equity, all the economics are controlled by, and flow to, the non-Indian financiers.
The tribes are then constructed for the purp ...
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Posted on March 10, 2003
Corporate Executive Assistant
This was submitted by a woman who has built a career propping-up manic Fortune 100 executives. Travel! Glamour! Moronic bosses! -- JB
I’m a career Executive Assistant. After graduating secretarial school, I had a thought about climbing the ladder, starting out as a Personnel Assistant and going to college at night – found out after hiring many Executive Assistants, who would make much more money than me, to go back to my initial plan. Also, being a Libra, I found it most challenging to make quick or big decisions, always trying to weigh the facts and end up being very frustrated so, I went back to my first instinct and love of secretarial work. I found the perfect career workin...
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