Posted on November 19th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
On Monday, Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wrote a letter to FDA Commissioner, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, requesting a full investigation into lipstick products that have been reported to contain lead levels above the legal limit.
The report by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics recently highlighted the fact that [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2007 by SteveAudio
I’m at this event with RJ Eskow, DDay and Dante from Calitics, and several real MSM press folks:
Los Angeles, CA – For the first time in history, presidential candidates will take part in a forum focused on the issues of global warming and America’s energy future this Saturday, November 17th at the Wadsworth Theater in [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
I’ve been laying low over the past few days taking some time for myself, which is something I rarely do. I didn’t want to end the long Veteran’s Day weekend however, with out taking a moment to thank all the Veterans who have served our nation.
I just finished watching the video below of Keith [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2007 by Darrell Prows
The foreclosure picture worsens, with no end in sight, as USA Today reports:
Number of U.S. homes facing foreclosure doubles:
LOS ANGELES — A soaring number of U.S. homeowners struggled to make mortgage payments in the third quarter, with properties in some stage of foreclosure more than doubling from the same time last year, a mortgage data [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced a measure to establish a federal ban on phthalates in children’s toys on Thursday. The bill is modeled after California’s landmark ban on phthalates.
Phthalates are chemicals that added to common plastic products to make them soft and pliable and they can be found in a variety of children’s toys and childcare products that [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
My daughter who is in her first year at college, called last night to tell me there was an earthquake up in Northern California. The L.A. Times reports:
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake centered in the foothills east of San Jose rocked the Bay Area on Tuesday night, shaking up residents over a broad area but producing no immediate reports of [...]
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Posted on October 31st, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
There’s a sad piece of news on the one of the SoCal wildfires today. A boy playing with matches was responsible for the Agua Dulce area fire.
Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would ask a prosecutor [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2007 by Dizzy Dezzi
Simmer down, back there! So the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. Yippee! Hooray! I’m from Colorado, so I don’t wanna hear about the World Series, right now.
I’m thinking a Ten Post Round-Up will make me a feel a whole lot better…
From Signs of the Times:
* Fidel Castro pokes fun at George W. Bush:
HAVANA [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, John Kerry received an award this week from Small Business California for his efforts to harness the power of America’s small businesses to protect the environment and help curb climate change.
“I am honored to receive this award from Small Business California. More importantly, I want [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
I moved to Los Angeles in January ‘90, when foreclosures were a booming business for real estate auctioneers in the area. Those real estate auctioneers rejoiced in raking in the dough off the backs of those whose lost their houses, we in the midst of Bush I and the economy back then wasn’t healthy for anyone [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
It’s been a long week here in sunny Southern California where the sky was glowing with flames rather than sunshine for days on end. Evacuees are now returning to their neighbors and AP News reports that “many Southern Californians lucky enough to find their homes still standing could nevertheless face hardships for weeks to come, [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2007 by Robert Freedland
Thomas Jefferson had it right when he wrote:
“The most effectual engines for [pacifying a nation] are the public papers… [A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. [...]
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