A word about the on-going repatriation of Chinese art that is causing market prices to soar. China points to the French and British who removed items during the Boxer Rebellion,and to the the Taiwanese who took many artifacts with them when they left the mainland. Few speak of the tremendous destruction visited upon China’s cultural… [Read more…]
June 29, 2011
A settlement was announced today in the class action suit against Bank of America: In the largest settlement to date related to the rogue mortgage lending wave, Bank of America said Wednesday it would pay $8.5 billion to settle claims with investors holding about $100 billion worth of mortgage-related securities sold by its Countrywide unit.… [Read more…]
June 29, 2011
Forget the Law, it’s all in the slight of word, it’s the Obama Doctrine: “It’s the right thing to do.” At his News Conference today, President Obama was asked if his actions in Libya were in violation of the War Powers Act. The President of course built his foundation for an answer that stopped short… [Read more…]
June 28, 2011
The soap operas have left TV because Capitol Hill and the President have given the public their fill. Here is the not too surprising headline from The Hill’s assessment of the Democratic lawmakers’ relationship with their leader over budget talks. It is all part of the “I did not know the gun was loaded” approach… [Read more…]
June 26, 2011
My Garden is my refuge. Each summer I try to have a couple of gatherings there. This summer ahead of my special birthday year in 2012, I have pulled out all the stops. This first party was to honor the husband on father’s day of a woman who was my dear friend. She is gone… [Read more…]
June 26, 2011
March, 2009: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and fellow Democrats on Tuesday warned American International Group Inc that its employees should return bonuses or face a massive tax bill that would return most of the money to the federal government. “We expect that you will report back to Congress on your efforts to recoup these… [Read more…]
June 26, 2011
The OWN network’s “Finding Sarah” is just sad to watch. Admittedly I have watched it sporadically but one could wish a better view of the Duchess than the episodes I did catch. In one meeting with Dr. Phil, he leveled his sights at her and said: “You are emotionally bankrupt.” She fought this pronouncement and… [Read more…]
June 25, 2011
China has become the newest colonial power and in a global spread unequaled by previous colonial powers. Articles have been written about their colonization of Africa that has been on-going for decades. Currently they are making inroads into South America albeit Brazil and some other countries in which the Chinese have built a great deal… [Read more…]
June 25, 2011
It seems editors and search engines have much in common. The news that Goliath Google is being investigated by the FTC for its search and advertising practices was not front page news for the New York Times. It was front page back of the bus in the tech section. Any time our behaviors as consumers… [Read more…]
June 24, 2011
A friend of mine works in customer service for a cable company. Pretty much the first thing he hears from clients in summer is that they have arrived at their beach house and the cable is not working. But the beach…what about the beach? These people are more upset than if it were happening in… [Read more…]
June 23, 2011
With thieves steeling copper wire from telecom companies, utility wiring and etc. here to meet the Chinese demand [TGDaily], China inked the largest deal for copper with the Afghanis in return for money and infrastructure to extract it. They have reaped the greatest benefit from the Afghan war. But the most chilling victory has been… [Read more…]
June 23, 2011
A very long post by the Chinese Communist Party on the People’s Daily English website lauds the Chinese Communist style of socialism and the party as having been behind the success China enjoys today as the 2nd largest economy in the world. Here is how they view themselves: The Third Plenary Session of the CPC… [Read more…]
June 21, 2011
As a youth, SamHenry lived in Toronto, a place that in the 1960s was heaven and unlike all other North American cities. She worked for an elderly English woman at the Red Cross Society, Out Post Nursing Station department. One day she and her supervisor were talking about history and then World War I. She… [Read more…]
June 21, 2011
This morning SamHenry woke up to the era of a new telephone answering system platform for Frontier Telephone. None of the larger telephone carriers want to take over this small island of communication because it is so technologically behind it would cost millions to play catch up. It was not the effort that had to… [Read more…]
June 20, 2011
On State of the Union with Candy Crowley this past Sunday, David Axelrod, formerly of the White House, now in Chicago heading up Obama’s re-election campaign cut potential GOP Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Obama’s former Ambassador to China, off at the knees. He more or less branded him as politician who sees an opportunity and… [Read more…]
June 30, 2011
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