February 9, 2011
February 9 is … Toothache Day. Why celebrate this?
BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
he news as I see it and the views as I want them.
In 1870, the United States Weather Bureau was authorized by Congress. We think people always just sat around and talked about the weather, but it took an act of Congress to do something about it! The weather bureau is officially known as the National Weather Service (NWS) and is a department of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The National Weather Service protects the life and property of U.S. citizens by issuing forecasts and warnings for natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and severe weather conditions. NWS communicates this information to the populace through an intricate and varied network. The NOAA Weather Wire Service or NWWS is the primary satellite communications system for NWS transmission. Warnings and other services are delivered in this manner to newspapers, radio and TV stations and emergency agencies. More than 6400 individual products are transmitted every day. NWS also generates data to be delivered to the public over a nationwide network of FM radio transmitter sites. Most of the U.S. including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa can receive these broadcasts. Cable TV weather channels and AM radio channels also broadcast this information. No matter how you learn the weather forecast, the age old question still seems to be, “So how’s the weather?” Glad to see the drug addict Lindsay Lohan has now become a thief. She will be arraigned today for felony theft of a $2,500.00 necklace from a L.A. Jewelry store. She had enough cash on her to pay for the necklace when she stole it. She should have stolen a brain or some self respect. This is a bad idea and I am a lawyer. How can the U. S. Government become a referral agency for private industry? In an unprecedented and controversial move, the White House has launched a new program at the Department of Labor which will refer workers who have complaints about their bosses to a toll free number at the American Bar Association, where they can get a lawyer to work on their case on a contingency fee basis. More than 40,000 workers annually contact the Department of Labor with complaints about their bosses. But Labor can’t get to all of them, an estimated 10%, because of budget constraints, the White House says. So the White House has instead launched a program for “unresolved complainants” with the ABA. Workers will now be provided a toll-free number that connects them with ABA lawyers nationwide who are experienced in things like alleged workplace abuses of minimum wage, overtime and family medical leave laws. The White House in a statement says this is “a new effort between the federal government and private bar to assist complainants” who may need help with “worker rights.” In a statement, the ABA calls this new alliance “unprecedented.” But will this create more lawsuits against companies? Will it stymie job creation at the very companies the President says he needs to help lower the high unemployment rate, including small businesses? Will this new program simply make it easier for lawyers to get business they may have garnered anyway? And since Vice President Joe Biden says the lawyers will be working on a contingency fee basis, and not pro bono, doesn't that pretty much guarantee that the lawyers will be more apt to earn those fees via lawsuits against businesses? Moreover, will the government set up an ABA referral service at Labor for small businesses and employers who are having trouble with miscreant employees or are being harassed by frivolous lawsuits filed by troublemaking workers? Small businesses may have cause for further concern, given the controversial, allegedly anti-business history of the officials the Obama administration has nominated to oversee these new programs. The White House has also enlisted the ABA to launch a toll-free hotline number at the Department of Housing and Urban Development to help homeowners with foreclosure issues, as well as a separate ABA toll free number to help veterans at the Department of Veterans Affairs, too. An ABA release notes that its new toll-free line at the Labor Dept. will help workers who may be part-time or independent contractors in the agricultural, construction, or hotel industries. Already, the Department of Labor has more attorneys than any other department besides the Department of Justice, sources note. In a video briefing on the White House’s website, Vice President Joseph Biden says that this new ABA government program is part of his Middle Class Initiative. The Vice President noted that “it’s not enough to say that everyone has the same legal rights” or “has equal access to justice.” The Vice President also noted that in an estimated one half of all civil cases, one party has no legal representation, and that the economic crisis has created “more unrepresented litigants.” Who in the hell thought this was a good idea? Is anyone driving the bus in Washington D.C.? The President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, appears to be heading for Germany. He and his staff is concocting an elaborate lie saying he needs an extensive medical checkup and will head to Germany for it. He will never return to Egypt as President. I don’t see why he is concerned about saving face at this late date. How do you explain to your citizens “I need medical services but what we have in Egypt is not good enough for me.”? He must have stolen money hidden in Germany. John Paul Getty III, the heir to an oil fortune who was thrust into the spotlight in the 1970s after being kidnapped by Italian mobsters, has died. He was 54 and had been wheelchair-bound and in need of constant medical care since 1981, when a drug overdose left him paralyzed and almost blind. Getty passed away Saturday at his family's country home in southern England. The cause of death was not disclosed. This guy led a tragic life compounded by his billionaire grandfather’s cheapness. His grandfather refused to pay the 17 million dollar ransom saying he had 14 other grandkids and if he paid for one he would have to pay for them all. His father, a drug addict who had abandoned the family, did not enough money to pay the ransom. The kidnappers later cut off one of their captive’s ears and mailed it to a newspaper with a new ransom demand of 2.8 million. Getty, Sr. negotiated the amount down to 2.2 million and paid it. The figure paid was the legal maximum that was tax deductible for old granddad. Life never got much better for John Paul Getty III after his release from over five months of captivity. Births on this date in history: 1909 Carmen Miranda [Maria do Carmo Miranda Da Cunha] Marco de Canavezes Portugal, vocalist/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy) 1914 Ernest Tubb Texas, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You). Edgar Alan Poe’s favorite song. 1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee (Rose Hovick) actress, dancer, stripper: You Can’t Have Everything, The Trouble with Angels, The Stripper, My Lucky Star; subject of Broadway show & film: Gypsy; sister of actress, June Havoc; died Apr 26, 1970. 1914 - Bill Veeck Baseball Hall of Fame owner: Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Browns, Chicago White Sox; promoter: outrageous door prizes, ingenious promotional schemes [Bat Day, fireworks, exploding scoreboards, player names on backs of uniforms]; signed AL’s first black player [Larry Doby: 1947] and oldest rookie [42-year-old Satchel Paige: 1948]; died Jan 2, 1986. Tennessee votes against secession 1861 Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states 1863 Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane 1867 Nebraska becomes 37th US state Events from this date through history; 1825 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US President 1849 Roman Republic declared 1861 Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & Vice President of CSA 1861 1870 Grant signs the bill establishing Federal Meteorological Service 1871 Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress Music at the top of the charts on this date; 1944 1952 1960 1968 1976 1984 |
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