In a long list of Valley memories...Brier Hill in the 1960's: "Mommy, it's raining orange and it stinks." And Mom said something like: "Those are jobs, lots of jobs." Did Sheet & Tube, Republic and certain other "people" (corporations) care? (Actually, most of them cared...about golf courses, martinis, sex and money, things, themselves.) Bottom line now...under current fracking laws (oops, there aren't any fracking laws)...do CHK and HAL and certain other "people" care? HAL yes, they care...about maintaining the "HAL loophole" and golf, Crown Royal, monstrous homes and salaries, stock prices, an inept and powerless EPA, sex and things, themselves.
"Gasland" is worth watching...fricking fracking. The Halliburton loophole probably(?) needs to be closed. There have already been large losses of wildlife and many cases of severe water pollution. The (in)directly related human illnesses and deaths---well, Cabot, Noble and the other big players aren't exactly admitting any guilt. What price jobs??? (And yes, really, how many people do you know who are employed in the natural gas industry? Should we include everyone who is involved in the process---steel, electronics, excavation, monitoring, transportation et al?)
Hmm...our tax dollars at work as usual..."experts" representing American greed, selfishness, corruption and sloppy politics (our wonderful Federal government) telling Detroit, Youngstown, and other cities what they already know. "Our study indicates...we need another study. We need to better understand why we're all so sleazy and self-centered." Um, duh...and by the way...I wanna be a czar too! If Jay can be a car czar, and Elvis was almost the star tsar of drug czars...maybe war tsar of bar czars? Or a czar on par with Hedley Lamarr? (Another "deep" thought...us using the word "czar"...is it our anti-commie history? Is it our longing for the brutal beautiful days of Nicholas and Alexandra? "Czar" and empire...there's a natural fit.)
It's tough enough figuring out and correcting (real and perceived) problems without alcohol and/or other drugs. It's up to you, and you alone, Kelly. You certainly have it in you to be a great boxer again. Remember when, not long ago, you were down to earth, not stumbling and slurring, not hurting yourself and others (outside of the ring)...you were just a good, hard-working, straightforward person. Maybe Ojai, or somewhere warmer and more "worldly"(?), would be better for you than ENE Ohio?
Jack Wollitz and others would probably agree: The Mahoning River now (and for at least 10 years) has some of the best smallmouth bass fishing in the world. Two spots in particular are extraordinary for smallies: Downtown Warren, immediately downstream from the Market St. bridge (using the shoreline underneath the Huntington Bank Building); and a less obvious area (unless you're a smallie angler)---between the B&O Station and the Water Plant in Downtown Y-Town.
The river "isn't any cleaner than 30 years ago"? Complete bullspit. Sure, the PCB's, dioxins, mercury, etc. are still deep in dredging zones (strong reason NOT to use typical existing dredging measures)...but the "clean water" fish are abundant: smallies, largemouth, walleye, "silver" and channel and other catfish, bluegills and sunnies, and (if you're into stealth) muskie.
Here's a haunting "artifact"...3 of us on the top floor (NW office) of City Centre One on 9/11 watching the ghastly events on TV... Flight 93 flies within 1500-2000 feet of our window, on a slow, low line toward New Castle.
There are few, if any, "people" buying gold now. In 2011, the two biggest buyers are Mexico and Russia---nations, not individuals. (Sidebars for thought...Hugo Chavez today announcing the physical return of gold to Caracas from (mainly) London...Mauritius moving to the Chinese yuan and Indian rupee, away from our dollar,,,)
Bottom line: the piper always has to be paid---some way, somehow. No one, no country can spend more than they create forever.
Separate but related...don't underestimate the power of the high frequency traders now. These algorithmic blunderbrains account for about 70% of daily US trades. Baah, baah said the sheep, as the lemmings walked over the cliff...and nobody created anything of any value.
But, look how many lovely new schools we now have across this nation! We should be so proud of ourselves. Keeping up the appearance, the illusion of spectacular wealth...isn't that more important than the reality of overspending? ("Look how big and beautiful their new house/school/whatever is! They're rich, rich, rich!...Oops. they're upside down.")
And, as an example, a local anecdote...Liberty...all the money poured into the pretty high school...who has benefited? Well golly gee, Mr. Sarcasm, don't you and your offspring want shiny new things that could help your self-esteem, your self-pride, your self-love, your community image?
So what if Johnny can't read, write, or speak a human language. At least he has a shiny new school---which created/retained (past tense) construction positions and was suppose to help Johnny want to learn more.
We all lack common sense at times. And sometimes, we can be real boneheads.
Start of Dumya's 2nd term: Federal debt $5.7 trillion (almost all of the 5.7 created during Dumya's 1st term?) End of Dumya's 2nd term/presidency: Federal debt $10.7 trillion Obumma...now we're heading toward $15 trillion...with the continuation of Boosh policies (This "new Obama" debt isn't new at all. It's (almost?) entirely made up of transferring trillions in bad private debt---particularly from the mortgage mess---to the public side.)
Some other factors/priorities to consider...the US spends more on "defense" than the rest of the world combined. American entitlement programs eat up about as much as our military orgy. (How many entitlement dollars are we squandering?) Military and entitlements...about 80% of (y)our federal tax receipts? Our health (lack of) care system---from our unique insurance ripoff, to big pig pharma's complex moneyed army, to many doctors who participate in the gluttony...---um, hello to the obvious again and a large piece of a "free" enterprise system run amok. A muck among us. The top 1%...hey, who wouldn't want to be CEO and/or a top shareholder of XYZ Corp? Trickle down? My butt. Amass more and more for the richest in our country at an accelerating rate? As a (in)famous Dumbocrat said: "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts." Our massive education expenditures...what are we learning/making/thinking? We're lucky(?), for now, that some things---food, gas, water....---are relatively cheap in the US. What are our priorities? Cutting funds to those who need it most...they don't vote or contribute to our never-ending political prostitution. The poor, who are now poorer and growing fast(er) in numbers, are an easy target. Meritocracy? Mediocracy? Where are we and where are we headed?
Lease will protect Valley landowners from water contamination
In a long list of Valley memories...Brier Hill in the 1960's: "Mommy, it's raining orange and it stinks." And Mom said something like: "Those are jobs, lots of jobs." Did Sheet & Tube, Republic and certain other "people" (corporations) care? (Actually, most of them cared...about golf courses, martinis, sex and money, things, themselves.) Bottom line now...under current fracking laws (oops, there aren't any fracking laws)...do CHK and HAL and certain other "people" care? HAL yes, they care...about maintaining the "HAL loophole" and golf, Crown Royal, monstrous homes and salaries, stock prices, an inept and powerless EPA, sex and things, themselves.
December 29, 2011 at 1:12 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Clatter that arose was city’s 9th quake
"Gasland" is worth watching...fricking fracking. The Halliburton loophole probably(?) needs to be closed. There have already been large losses of wildlife and many cases of severe water pollution. The (in)directly related human illnesses and deaths---well, Cabot, Noble and the other big players aren't exactly admitting any guilt. What price jobs??? (And yes, really, how many people do you know who are employed in the natural gas industry? Should we include everyone who is involved in the process---steel, electronics, excavation, monitoring, transportation et al?)
December 25, 2011 at 12:08 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Youngstown OK’d for Obama cities project — finally
Hmm...our tax dollars at work as usual..."experts" representing American greed, selfishness, corruption and sloppy politics (our wonderful Federal government) telling Detroit, Youngstown, and other cities what they already know. "Our study indicates...we need another study. We need to better understand why we're all so sleazy and self-centered." Um, duh...and by the way...I wanna be a czar too! If Jay can be a car czar, and Elvis was almost the star tsar of drug czars...maybe war tsar of bar czars? Or a czar on par with Hedley Lamarr? (Another "deep" thought...us using the word "czar"...is it our anti-commie history? Is it our longing for the brutal beautiful days of Nicholas and Alexandra? "Czar" and empire...there's a natural fit.)
December 23, 2011 at 12:53 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Trainer: Pavlik should relocate
It's tough enough figuring out and correcting (real and perceived) problems without alcohol and/or other drugs. It's up to you, and you alone, Kelly. You certainly have it in you to be a great boxer again. Remember when, not long ago, you were down to earth, not stumbling and slurring, not hurting yourself and others (outside of the ring)...you were just a good, hard-working, straightforward person. Maybe Ojai, or somewhere warmer and more "worldly"(?), would be better for you than ENE Ohio?
December 23, 2011 at 12:14 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Rebuilding The Mahoning River
Jack Wollitz and others would probably agree: The Mahoning River now (and for at least 10 years) has some of the best smallmouth bass fishing in the world. Two spots in particular are extraordinary for smallies: Downtown Warren, immediately downstream from the Market St. bridge (using the shoreline underneath the Huntington Bank Building); and a less obvious area (unless you're a smallie angler)---between the B&O Station and the Water Plant in Downtown Y-Town.
The river "isn't any cleaner than 30 years ago"? Complete bullspit. Sure, the PCB's, dioxins, mercury, etc. are still deep in dredging zones (strong reason NOT to use typical existing dredging measures)...but the "clean water" fish are abundant: smallies, largemouth, walleye, "silver" and channel and other catfish, bluegills and sunnies, and (if you're into stealth) muskie.
November 20, 2011 at 8:13 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Know of any 9/11 artifacts in the area? Let us know!
Here's a haunting "artifact"...3 of us on the top floor (NW office) of City Centre One on 9/11 watching the ghastly events on TV... Flight 93 flies within 1500-2000 feet of our window, on a slow, low line toward New Castle.
September 11, 2011 at 10:56 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Stock market volatility returns
There are few, if any, "people" buying gold now. In 2011, the two biggest buyers are Mexico and Russia---nations, not individuals. (Sidebars for thought...Hugo Chavez today announcing the physical return of gold to Caracas from (mainly) London...Mauritius moving to the Chinese yuan and Indian rupee, away from our dollar,,,)
Bottom line: the piper always has to be paid---some way, somehow. No one, no country can spend more than they create forever.
Separate but related...don't underestimate the power of the high frequency traders now. These algorithmic blunderbrains account for about 70% of daily US trades. Baah, baah said the sheep, as the lemmings walked over the cliff...and nobody created anything of any value.
August 19, 2011 at 9:46 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Hubbard tax-delinquent properties on rise
But, look how many lovely new schools we now have across this nation! We should be so proud of ourselves. Keeping up the appearance, the illusion of spectacular wealth...isn't that more important than the reality of overspending? ("Look how big and beautiful their new house/school/whatever is! They're rich, rich, rich!...Oops. they're upside down.")
And, as an example, a local anecdote...Liberty...all the money poured into the pretty high school...who has benefited? Well golly gee, Mr. Sarcasm, don't you and your offspring want shiny new things that could help your self-esteem, your self-pride, your self-love, your community image?
So what if Johnny can't read, write, or speak a human language. At least he has a shiny new school---which created/retained (past tense) construction positions and was suppose to help Johnny want to learn more.
We all lack common sense at times. And sometimes, we can be real boneheads.
August 8, 2011 at 9:29 a.m. permalink suggest removal
All eyes on Dow after 513-point drop
Start of Dumya's 2nd term: Federal debt $5.7 trillion (almost all of the 5.7 created during Dumya's 1st term?)
End of Dumya's 2nd term/presidency: Federal debt $10.7 trillion
Obumma...now we're heading toward $15 trillion...with the continuation of Boosh policies (This "new Obama" debt isn't new at all. It's (almost?) entirely made up of transferring trillions in bad private debt---particularly from the mortgage mess---to the public side.)
August 5, 2011 at 3:35 p.m. permalink suggest removal
All eyes on Dow after 513-point drop
Some other factors/priorities to consider...the US spends more on "defense" than the rest of the world combined.
American entitlement programs eat up about as much as our military orgy. (How many entitlement dollars are we squandering?)
Military and entitlements...about 80% of (y)our federal tax receipts?
Our health (lack of) care system---from our unique insurance ripoff, to big pig pharma's complex moneyed army, to many doctors who participate in the gluttony...---um, hello to the obvious again and a large piece of a "free" enterprise system run amok. A muck among us.
The top 1%...hey, who wouldn't want to be CEO and/or a top shareholder of XYZ Corp?
Trickle down? My butt. Amass more and more for the richest in our country at an accelerating rate? As a (in)famous Dumbocrat said: "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts."
Our massive education expenditures...what are we learning/making/thinking?
We're lucky(?), for now, that some things---food, gas, water....---are relatively cheap in the US.
What are our priorities? Cutting funds to those who need it most...they don't vote or contribute to our never-ending political prostitution. The poor, who are now poorer and growing fast(er) in numbers, are an easy target.
Meritocracy? Mediocracy? Where are we and where are we headed?
August 5, 2011 at 12:42 p.m. permalink suggest removal