You will not find too many Presidential candidates vowing to carry on the torch for Bush and Cheney. I think at last count, it stood at Zero. Since the present administration is not in a position to help with any campaigns, they have more time to do what they have been doing all along… hand out favors and alienate the rest of the World.
The general public has enough to worry about with the really big issues, like the war (which Bush and Cheney can take full credit for) and the economy (for which they deserve at least partial credit). The administration has walked behind this giant pile of lemons and opened up a little lemonade stand where they are giving away judicial appointments and other sweet stuff to the little people that have helped make it all possible.
Gustavus Adolphus Puryear IV was on loan to team Cheney to prepare him for debates in 2000 and 2004. He has made millions as the general counsel for CCA the private company that houses many of America’s federal prison inmates. Putting a man who has made obscene profits from imprisonment on the bench as a trial judge seems counterintuitive, but so does installing a man who made obscene profits as an executive for a defense contractor as Vice President.
I used to work for a Fair Trade Coffee company. I think labeling is vitally important to that business because they had to effectively differentiate the product from all the conventional coffee on the shelf. Since part of the branding was environmental responsibility, packaging decisions had to preclude any of the wasteful, gimmicky stuff. When I worked there, they were opting for unlabeled bags from a large domestic manufacturer. They then had a local printer mass produce self adhesive labels in huge quantity and they contracted a workshop that employs mentally disabled people to put labels on bags on a weekly as needed basis.
Labelworldusa.com can make your Wine Label or other label in large quantity. If it makes more sense for you to print your own, they have solutions of various capacities for that as well. They have design services and they know about branding.
I like the idea of insert labels made with FDA approved food safe inks. They allow for more flexibility with your food packaging decisions.
Consumer Affairs journalist David Wood wrote an very good article about Kimkins and it hit the net early today. He was pretty critical of Woman’s World, so much so that I want to go back and see if they really wrote some of the stuff that he is quoting. A lot of the hype sounds almost insane in retrospect.
The only new news for people who have been following along are some frank quotes from lawyer John Tiedt.
I am glad to see the story retold on a website with the reach and traffic of a site like ConsumerAffairs.com.
FoodConnect.com looks like an excellent resource for people regardless of what way of eating they choose. Users can submit their recipes to www.foodconnect.com and nutritional information is generated by the site. The accuracy of this information may not always be precisely accurate, but I think it would be a great guide when you are looking for new recipes to fit into your life.
If you are looking for unhealthy food, try the recipe that someone came up with when they tried to replicate their favorite rib recipe from a restaurant that closed in Hawaii. One serving has 104% of your daily recommended sodium and 84% of the fat that you should have in a day. There are recipes with goat cheese and dates that are a lot healthier.
I like the rating system. There is a sidebar table of the highest rated recipes for each category. That’s how I found the rib recipe. It must be really good. I might try it with a reduction in the salt.
I hadn’t expected this. Ralph Nader announced that he is running for President. I’m going to tell him the same thing that I used to tell the healthy and tenacious guinea pig that had outlived my children’s interest in him by a few years.
He actually has exceeded his life expectancy by about the same number of years that poor old Piggy did.
This invisibleSHIELD video might be the biggest workout that these geeks have ever had in their lives. They spend most of this video piling weights on a stretched sheet of their polyurethane film product. Scratch proofing is a smart investment for pricey gadgets like the iPhone and this material is obviously not flimsy. This is the same material that is used to protect the leading edge of helicopter blades by the US Army.
A cute girl walks by partway through the video, BTW.
My title is an absolutely true statement. It is also almost completely beside the point with regard to the accusation made via a YouTube video by some greasy guy.
I didn’t really want to watch the video, but I did anyway. It is pretty unconvincing. Political opponents will have to take very private joy from this. Nobody could look good associating themselves with the ploy. The MSM is so far not touching his story with a ten foot pole. I think it is possible that the perpetrators of this are apolitical people who did it for attention and money. Larry Sinclair is going to get money, at least $10,000 from a website that is piggy backing on the story with a publicity stunt.
Livescribe has an amazing new product. It is a smart pen. It is so powerful that I can barely understand what exactly it is supposed to do. It records audio and when you take notes on special dot position system paper, you end up with synced files. When you review notes, you can tap the pen on your paper and review the audio that was recorded when you were writing. I can see how this gadget might look useful to a university student. Other targeted niches include your CSI types.
The seven figure sales at Kimkins.com were due in no small part to the favorable coverage in Woman’s World Magazine. This publication has huge circulation, and the print versions will often sit in waiting rooms and salons enjoying months or years of repeated perusal. People seeking to expose the Kimkins fraud did not get very far in trying to convince Woman’s World to make any kind of reversal or apology. We personally received no answers to our questions last year and instead got a cease and desist order. In response to the letter, I made changes to the cover image that I was using to make it arguably transformative. There was no follow up from the magazine. I didn’t send any further correspondence to them. Many, many interested people did.
After a long wait, the magazine has finally apologized in detail, on their website. A print apology is also forthcoming. I thank them for it.
Reuters now has embeddable videos. They open with an advertisement. This week, you might see one from MSN that closes with some kid playing an acoustic guitar and singing the words No One Wants To Look Dumb. I was wondering whether there is a longer version of this jingle somewhere. I figured out the chords. They are G and D.
