Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
PROFILES IN POLITICAL COURAGE
“Republican Chairwoman Sue Lowden showed great political courage in standing up against mandatory vaccinations in the state Senate a few years back. That brave stand gave the Culinary union all the ammo they needed to bring her down, absurdly claiming the young mother was ‘in favor of [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
NAACP FIGHTS FOR BUSSING
The Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Washoe County is in contract talks with the Teamsters this week at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks. And what cataclysmic issue is of such monumental concern in the negotiations that it warranted a full-scale press release this morning? Wages? [...]
From Iran Focus:
By Tom Bergin
ImageLONDON (Reuters) – Oil major Royal Dutch Shell has pulled out of a planned gas project in Iran, after coming under pressure not to participate from U.S. lawmakers who were concerned about Iran’s nuclear programme.
A spokeswoman said on Saturday that the world’s second-largest non government-controlled oil company by market capitalisation was [...]
From Yahoo! Finance:
ANB Financial banks closed by federal regulators over ‘unsafe and unsound’ practices
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP)—Federal regulators says they’ve closed ANB Financial National Association banks after discovering “unsafe and unsound” business practices there.
David Barr, a spokesman for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says many customers served by the bank’s nine locations had accounts under $100,000, [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
STOP THE UNION TAX GRAB
Citizen Outreach is launching a 10-day informational television campaign in Reno and rural Nevada urging voters not to sign the teachers union’s petition to raise taxes which will primarily go to paying union members more money for the bang-up job their doing in our public schools today. [...]
From Fox News:
By George Russell
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his top lieutenants on Monday are convening the first meeting of the U.N.’s Task Force on the Global Food Crisis. Ban says it will “study the root causes of the crisis,” and propose solutions for “coordinated global action” at a summit of world leaders [...]From FT.com:
By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing
Chinese companies will be encouraged to buy farmland abroad, particularly in Africa and South America, to help guarantee food security under a plan being considered by Beijing.
A proposal drafted by the Ministry of Agriculture would make supporting offshore land acquisition by domestic agricultural companies a central government policy. Beijing already [...]
From Yahoo! Finance:
By John Wilen, AP Business Writer
Gas pushes above $3.67 a gallon, while oil passes $126 on Venezuela supply concerns
NEW YORK (AP)—Oil rose above $126 a barrel for the first time Friday, bringing its advance this week to nearly $10, as investors questioned whether a possible confrontation between the U.S. and Venezuela could cut [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
SO LET IT BE WRITTEN, SO LET IT BE DONE
In formally announcing the creation of the James Commission to look into ways to make government more efficient and less expensive, Gov. Jim Gibbons said yesterday, “My first goal is if we can get government so efficient that it does not take [...]
From Iran Focus:
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran’s Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari said it would be possible to see a price of $200 per barrel for crude if existing conditions in the market continued, an Iranian news agency reported on Thursday.
“If current conditions continue, reaching a period when oil is supplied at $200 a barrel is not [...]
From Yahoo! Finance:
By John Wilen, AP Business Writer
Oil prices jump over $123 after Energy Department reports drop in diesel, heating oil supplies
NEW YORK (AP)—Oil futures extended their seemingly relentless advance Wednesday, rising to a new record near $124 a barrel as investors captivated by the market’s upward momentum looked past the government’s report of an [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
STUCK ON STUPID
Just to give you an even better idea of the stupidity of the Nevada Department of Education, especially with regard to how they handle distance learning, or “virtual” schools, by which the students complete their lessons online in the privacy of their own homes. I just received an [...]
From Yahoo! Finance:
By John Wilen, AP Business Writer
Oil prices rise to record over $122 a barrel on prediction of $200 oil, supply concerns
NEW YORK (AP)—Oil futures blasted to a new record over $122 a barrel Tuesday, gaining momentum as investors bought on a forecast of much higher prices and on any news hinting at supply [...]
From The Politico:
Clinton’s attacks on oil prices as artificially inflated, Enron-style, keep escalating, and today she appeared to threaten to break up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
“We’re going to go right at OPEC,” she said. “They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS WE DO
The Nevada Department of Education, the Nevada State Board of Education and the teachers union all have objections to one degree or another with distance learning and virtual schools – even though learning online is gaining in popularity by leaps and bounds as more [...]
From Citizens Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
THE DEAN OF RACE-BAITING
“Howard Dean, the head of the Democratic National Committee, says Republicans are race-baiting when they bring up Sen. Barack Obama’s long-time pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.”
– CNS News, 5/5/08WHAT WAS IN SANDY’S PANTS?
“The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library will not make available to the public the documents that [...]
From BREITBART.com:
Oil prices crossed 120 dollars a barrel here Monday following fresh unrest in Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer.New York’s main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for June delivery, briefly hit 120.20 dollars, before slipping back at 1520 GMT to 120 dollars, a gain of 3.68 dollars from the closing price on Friday.
The [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
VOUCHER DEMAND HEATING UP IN OHIO
“Applications for Ohio’s state-funded private school vouchers grew nearly 29 percent for the 2008-09 school year, according to final tallies by the state Education Department. Statewide, 10,245 students applied for the EdChoice scholarships, which pay up to $4,375 for eligible K-8 students and $5,150 for [...]
From Bob McCarty Writes:
As food and fuel prices continue to rise faster than they have in decades, the USDA decided now was a good time to raise milk prices. In response, the International Dairy Foods Association issued the statement below which, in my opinion, most Americans could have been summed up in far fewer words [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
LEARNING FROM HISTORY
MGM gaming chief Terri Lanni appeared on Jon Ralston’s Face-to-Face television program this week and had this to say:
“I supported Jim Gibbons. I continue to support him. I don’t agree with everything Jim believes in. I think a pledge of no new taxes is a major mistake. We [...]
From Bloomberg.com:
By Fiona MacDonald and Matthew Brown
May 1 (Bloomberg)—Gulf states are considering dropping their pegs to the dollar after the U.S. currency’s decline stoked inflation across the region, Kuwaiti Finance Minister Mustafa al- Shimali said.
``Yes, there are some’’ Gulf Cooperation Council states considering dropping their pegs to the dollar, which has fallen 13 percent against [...]
From FT.com:
By Daniel Dombey in Washington, Anna Fifield in Tehran and Haig Simonian in Zurich
The US and its allies are worried that the sanctions regime against Tehran is under threat from a possible new wave of European investment in Iran’s strategically important gas sector.
Tehran has already concluded gas deals with Chinese and Malaysian companies – [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 30, 2008
CONTACT: Chuck Muth
(775) 884-9264
GRACE/MUTH/RALSTON COMMISSION COMES TO LIFE
Almost three decades after President Ronald Reagan empanelled the Grace Commission to root out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal budget, Gov. Gibbons announced yesterday the creation of a similar commission which both Las Vegas Sun columnist John Ralston [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
DINA TAXUS TO THE RESCUE
With the last-minute, mysterious withdrawal of anointed Democrat congressional candidate Robert Daskas in the race against incumbent Republican Rep. Jon Porter, the powers-that-be appear to have settled on anointing state Senate Minority Leader Dina “Tax ’Em Til They Bleed” Titus to replace the previously anointed Daskas.
This is [...]
From Kiplinger.com:
Take a look at Kiplinger.com’s new ‘Paying for College’ Section which features, among other things, the best ways to borrow money for college, key ways to handling credit wisely and how to compare student loans.
I just went through this and it is a GREAT resource! If you’ve got children who are college age or [...]
From WTOPnews.com:
By BRETT ZONGKERWASHINGTON - Dave Gares, an independent truck driver since 1974 who hauls mostly soft drinks these days, never dreamed he’d be paying more than $4 per gallon for diesel.
It takes 220 gallons to fill up his tractor-trailer rig, which gets a little over six miles per gallon on the [...]
From FT.com:
By Carola Hoyos in London
Opec’s president on Monday warned oil prices could hit $200 a barrel and there would be little the cartel could do to help.
The comments made by Chakib Khelil, Algeria’s energy minister, came as oil prices hit a historic peak close to $120 a barrel, putting further pressure on global economies.
His [...]
From The New York Sun:
By JOSH GERSTEIN
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Rationing of rice by retail stores has spread as far as Israel since The New York Sun reported on the phenomenon in Northern California last week.
The Blue Square and Supersol supermarket chains have begun limiting purchases of rice, Israeli newspapers said yesterday. Supersol is restricting [...]
From The New York Sun:
Big New Shock at the Pump Forecast by Two Analysts
By DAN DORFMAN
Get ready for another economic shock of major proportions — a virtual doubling of prices at the gas pump to as much as $10 a gallon.
That’s the message from a couple of analytical energy industry trackers, both of whom, based [...]
From Yahoo! Finance:
By John Wilen, AP Business Writer
Gas prices hit $3.60 a gallon, crude nears $120 on labor-related supply outages
NEW YORK (AP)—Gas prices hit $3.60 a gallon and oil futures rose to their own new record near $120 a barrel on Monday as labor actions overseas threatened crude supplies. Oil prices later retreated to alternate [...]
From Townhall.com:
By Jackie Gingrich Cushman
The AP article title “Sam’s Club, Costco limit rice purchases as prices rise,” by Marcus Kabel, caught my eye.
Just last night, as my mother fixed rice for my children’s dinner, she mentioned the increase in its price. At the time, I did not pay much attention, and certainly did not [...]
From Bob McCarty Writes:
At last, a prominent politician has called for an end to — or, at a minimum, a temporary halt to — the insanity that surrounds the push for corn ethanol. That word comes, according to a news release today, from the people at the National Chicken Council:
Texas Governor Rick Perry is to [...]
From Bob McCarty Writes:
Former U.S. Comptroller David Walker delivered a somber economic message Friday at UT Dallas but told the audience of business leaders that there was still time for the nation to take its bitter fiscal medicine and keep a growing budget deficit from dimming its future.
Warning that “we are standing on a burning [...]
From MoneyNews.com:
Arab Oilmen Blame U.S. for Pricey Crude
Don’t wait for oil producers to pump the U.S. economy out of its economy dead-end, says the head of oil cartel OPEC.
In fact, if want cheaper oil, fix the broken U.S. dollar, say cartel leaders.
That’s because it’s the weak dollar, not oil supply, that’s driving crude to record [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
HAVING A BALL
Boy, can Nevada GOP Chairwoman Sue Lowden throw a party.
Last night’s Boots and Rhinestones Ball at the Peppermill Casino in Reno was, by every measure, a smashing success. A star-studded who’s-who of Republican leaders, elected officials and grassroots activists turned out to kick off what is expected to [...]
From Fox News:
HOUSTON — Oil’s meteoric rise to near $120 a barrel looks like more than just another economic bubble — growing demand and tighter supplies are likely to keep prices high. Some analysts say even $200 a barrel would not be out of the question.
The latest price surge — pushing crude to record [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
IS THERE A CONTEST HERE?
The following email is making its way around the ‘net. You may have already seen it. Not sure who the original author is, or I’d give ‘em credit:
“We in Holland cannot figure out why you (Americans) are even bothering to hold an election. On [...]
From Bob McCarty Writes:
Here’s a claim that warrants closer scrutiny in light of recent events related to a Church’s Chicken franchisee in Baltimore: The demand for Islamic financial products has surged in recent years due largely to their transparent nature.
That claim stands as the lead paragraph of a news release issued out of Hong Kong [...]
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
THE ROOT OF ALL PUBLIC EDUCATION EVIL
Comedian Lewis Black has a new show on the air called “The Root of All Evil.” Black serves as the judge while two fellow comedians make cases for why one person/entity or another is the worst blight on society. We could use a Nevada episode [...]
From MoneyNews.com:
An influential economist who long predicted the housing market bubble cautioned Tuesday that the slump in the U.S. housing market could cause prices to fall more than they did in the Great Depression and bailouts will be needed so millions don’t lose their homes.
Yale University economist Robert Shiller, pioneer of the widely watched Standard [...]
From TimesOnline:
Robin Pagnamenta and Angela Jameson
Petrol stations in Scotland have already started to run dry despite Government appeals for motorists not to panic-buy ahead of an imminent strike at Grangemouth, the country’s biggest oil refinery stationed near Edinburgh.
Several filling stations in Edinburgh had just two or three pumps open, with queues two or three cars [...]
From BREITBART.com:
The price of oil is likely to hit 150 dollars (Canadian, US) a barrel by 2010 and soar to 225 dollars a barrel by 2012 as supply becomes increasingly tight, a Canadian bank said Thursday.
The CIBC report says the International Energy Agency’s current oil production estimates overstate supply by about nine percent, since it [...]
From WSJ:
By BRETT ARENDSI don’t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food.
No, this is not a drill.
You’ve seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of the developing world. Yes, they’re a long way away from the U.S. But most foodstuffs operate in a global market. [...]
A couple of days ago, when we first started hearing of shortages, my husband and I went to Costco and continued stocking up. This is an ongoing thing with us for food storage. We asked Costco at the time about shortages and we were told there were none and they had heard of none.
Two days [...]
From Citizen’s Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
NO DAWN THIS MORNING
I spoke with First Lady Dawn Gibbons last evening at an event in the Larry Ruvo Stateroom at the Governor’s Mansion. She thanked me for thinking of her for the position of Republican National Committeewoman; however, she said that after seriously considering it she’s decided it would [...]
From the SurvivalBlog.com:
Jim:
Two months ago you could purchase Almond Nut Butter for around $7.50 per 16 ounce jar. Today the Almond butter is selling for $17.00 per jar. Today Cashew Nut Butter sells for around $11.50 and two months ago it sold for around $6.00 per 16 ounce jar. A clerk at Walmart commented that [...]
From the SurvivalBlog.com:
The mass media is currently in a frenzy about spot shortages of rice, flour, and cooking oil at COSTCO stores. I’ve fielded seven radio interviews in the last couple of days. The only good news is that we set an all-time record yesterday, with 22,217 unique site visits to SurvivalBlog in one day! [...]
From Kitco:
By: Howard Ruff
Until now, I have given equal credence to two possible scenarios:
1. We could have several years of inflation as we do now, and the powers-that-be would have a sudden rush of brains to the head, like Paul Volcker and Ronald Reagan did in 1980, and stop the “printing press,” [...]From CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN)—Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned Wednesday that organized criminal networks have penetrated portions of the international energy market and tried to control energy resources.
In a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, he said similar efforts have targeted the international financial system by injecting billions of illicit funds [...]
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