1/08/2011

Frank - The Perfect Man . . . I have a way to go



A man walks out to the  street and catches a taxi just going by. He gets
into the taxi, and the  cabbie says, 'Perfect timing. You're just like
Frank.'

Passenger:  'Who?'
Cabbie: 'Frank Feldman. He's  a guy who did everything right all the time.

Like my coming along when  you needed a cab, things happened like that to
Frank Feldman every  single time.'

Passenger: 'There are always  a few clouds over everybody.' 

Cabbie: 'Not Frank Feldman.  He was a terrific athlete. He could have won
the Grand-Slam at tennis.  He could golf with the pros. He sang like an
opera  baritone and danced  like a Broadway star and you should have heard him
play the piano. He  was an amazing guy.' 

Passenger: Sounds like he  was something really special. 

Cabbie: 'There's more. He  had a memory like a computer. He remembered
everybody's birthday. He  knew all about wine, which foods to order and
which fork to eat them  with. He could fix anything. Not like me. I change a
fuse, and the whole  street blacks out. But Frank Feldman, could do everything
right. 

Passenger: 'Wow, some guy  then.' 

Cabbie: 'He always knew the  quickest way to go in traffic and avoid
traffic jams. Not like me, I  always seem to get stuck in them. But Frank,
he never made a mistake,  and he really knew how to treat a woman and make
her feel good. He would  never answer her back even if she was in the wrong; and
his clothing was  always immaculate, shoes highly polished too - He was the
perfect man!  He never made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to Frank
Feldman.'  

Passenger: 'An amazing  fellow. How did you meet him?' 

Cabbie: "Well, I never actually  met Frank. He died and I married his
wife.

1/05/2011

Will Rogers Columns are Laid Back to Rest

For the last twelve months we have been presenting two versions of columns written by Will Rogers from back in the day. This web publication carried the Daily Columns and our monthly print magazine carried Weekly Columns, as they appeared in newspapers across North America. We had received good feedback on these columns and enjoyed bringing them to you. Now, with the new year, it is time to move onto something else and we have decided to extend our print magazine feature called "Behind the Lines" and include more of this subject here on our daily web publication. Any day now you can expect to see this change put into place.

Now that it is official, that it is the year 2011, we will soon start to be updating information relating to the 2nd annual Porcupine BASH that is scheduled for the last weekend in August. Based on what we have been working on, there will be some really exciting news to be reported on soon, relating to new additions to the 4 day event. So keep an eye on that segment of this site as well.

Very soon, we will be taking the Test Pattern off the TV set in the upper right hand side of this site and it will become alive with the current weekly "Hunters Exchange Television" show, available here 24/7 until a newer show takes its place. We are really excited about being able to bring you this excellent outdoor sportsmen's national show and soon there will be a new Sport Fishing show as well.

One of the most popular features on this site is the "Channel Surfing" that is updated weekly and gives our readers a excellent report of the best to expect on the boob tube through the week ahead. The next area on the site getting a lot of action is the Sudoku and the Crossword Puzzles. Up there in the top right hand corner in our "TV Listings" and this is far better than any printed TV guide anywhere. Just enter your Zip Code at the top and pick the service provider you are receiving your signals on, in that area, and you will have all your listings, in current time and for many days ahead. If you happen to be traveling, this listing can not be beat. Go ahead and try it out . . . it is the best and it is FREE !

Everything on this site is FREE for all our viewer friends, while some of the same subjects will overlap our monthly print magazine, the items seen here are not the same as in our print publication. Each of our print and digital products, stand alone in their content, and the same thing does not show up in any of the others. We provide this site as a service and it allows us to show everybody what we are all about and provide timely items, that would have no value maybe, in a monthly magazine, maybe even a month away.    

If you think we have something good here, please spread the word to all your friends about checking this site out.

1/04/2011

We will soon owe our soul to China

Every day it seems we learn more and more about how we are losing our country to others who to not hold our values of freedom. Gas pumps expected to top $5.00 a gallon within the year and that money will also be going to counties that don't really like us in the first place. I believe what is killing America, is world greed, and if things don't change fast, we need to learn new languages.  - the Captain






FROM JEROME CORSI'S RED ALERT
By Dr. Jerome Corsi
(c) 2010 RedAlert.WND.com

U.S. companies forced to accept 50-50 agreements

China is demanding that U.S. companies wrap parts of their worldwide operations into new joint venture companies in which Chinese interests own 50 percent, as a condition of doing business with China, the Wall Street Journal reported.

This fulfills a prediction I made in my book "America for Sale," in which I argued that increasingly China would seek to own assets as a condition of doing business with American companies and as a requirement if the U.S. government expected China to continue buying U.S. debt.

The Wall Street Journal reported that General Electric is finalizing plans for a 50-50 joint venture with a Chinese military-jet maker to produce avionics, the electronic components of aircraft.

In a similar deal, General Motors established a joint venture this year with SAIC Motor Corp., its longtime Chinese partner, to produce and sell micro-vans in emerging markets including India and Southeast Asia.

"To make the GE deal happen, GE Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt made an extraordinary concession, agreeing to fold into the venture all of GE's existing world-wide business in nonmilitary avionics," the Wall Street Journal wrote. "GM, in its deal, contributed technology, its manufacturing facilities in India and the use of its Chevrolet brand name in that market."

Along with the joint ventures, the participating Chinese companies get the full benefit of U.S. technological advances, which the Chinese are then able to use in other non-related business applications.

Ultimately, the Chinese intend to have Chinese corporations, aided by cheap labor and abundant government financing, dominate the international business areas that China is today entering through 50-50 joint ventures with U.S. companies.

China leases oil rights in Texas

Last October, China announced the state-owned Chinese energy giant CNOOC is buying a multi-million dollar stake in 600,000 acres of South Texas oil and gas fields.

Reporting the story, Monica Hatcher of the Houston Chronicle suggested China was "testing the political waters for further energy expansion into U.S. energy reserves."

That China is buying U.S. oil and natural gas rights in the continental United States will strike millions of Americans as paradoxical, especially since the U.S. continues to be a net importer of approximately 60 percent of the oil consumed in the United States.

The Houston Chronicle reported China paid $2.2 billion for a one-third stake in Chesapeake Energy assets, with CNOCC laying a claim to a share of the energy resources in South Texas that have the potential to produce up to half a million barrels of oil per day.

The Houston Chronicle reported that as part of this deal, CNOCC agreed to pay approximately $1.1 billion for a share of Chesapeake's assets in the Eagle Ford, described as a broad oil and gas formation that runs from the southwest of San Antonio to the Mexican border.

The Houston Chronicle also reported that the deal with China could create as many as 20,000 jobs in the United States, as well as provide the capital Chesapeake needs to increase its rig count in South Texas from 10 rigs to 42 rigs by the end of 2012.

Five years ago, the Bush administration blocked China on grounds of national security concerns from a $18.4 billion deal in which China planned to purchase California-based Unocal Corp.

Today, China has the cash, U.S. corporations need the business and the Obama administration has no plans to reverse the debtor relationship in which China has become one of the U.S. government's needed lenders.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jerome R. Corsi received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling books THE OBAMA NATION: LEFTIST POLITICS AND THE CULT OF PERSONALITY and the co-author of UNFIT FOR COMMAND: SWIFT BOAT VETERANS SPEAK OUT AGAINST JOHN KERRY. He is also the author of AMERICA FOR SALE, THE LATE GREAT U.S.A., and WHY ISRAEL CAN'T WAIT. Currently, Dr. Corsi is a Senior Managing Director in the Financial Services Group at Gilford Securities as well as a senior staff writer for WorldNetDaily.com.

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