This looks like a very interesting book. I might buy it for my daughter for Christmas. She’s started reading the Chronicles in paperback. She can’t wait to see the movie.
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Getting what they deserve
Video of Four Hostages Airs on Al-Jazeera
Images of four peace activists taken hostage in Iraq — one of which is an American — was shown on the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera Tuesday.
This has to be the ultimate irony. So-called “peace activists” being taken hostage by terrorists. (Oops, sorry, that’s supposed to be “insurgents.”) But maybe these moonbats are getting what they deserve? After all, they’re over there in Iraq giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Porkbusters!
I support the Fiscal Watch Team Offset Package. Help the Blogosphere cut the fat! Read more about it here. I’m proud to say that both of my home state Senators, Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint, support this worthy cause.
Only pay for the channels you want
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to suggest that cable companies could best serve their customers by allowing them to subscribe to individual channels instead of packages of several stations.
But is the technology there to do this right now? Would they have to reprogram your set-top box or would they limit your channels at the corporate offices? (Read more.)
Shut ‘Em Down
I’m not a fan of unions by any means. (The United Steel Workers union cost my dad his job at Bethlehem Steel.) But in this case, they may have a point.
A group that wants to change unionize Wal-Mart is trying to discourage Americans from shopping there during the critical holiday season. The group’s latest tactic is to convince Wal-Mart customers that the store may be cheating them at the cash register.
Originally from CNS Headlines on November 22, 2005, 11:23am
WakeUpWalMart.com has investigated Wal-Mart’s sloppy shelf-tag pricing and prices at the register. I work for a competitor of Wal-Mart and I know that if we had as many shelf tags wrong as Wal-Mart apparently does, they’d shut us down. Fines can be as much as $1,000 / day / item. Maybe Wal-Mart can afford to pay fines like that, but other grocery store chains can’t. The margins are too small.
Purposely or even inadverdently misleading customers about prices is just a bad business practice. Can’t figure out why Wal-Mart’s screwing up they way they are unless it’s just plain incompetence on the part of their workers. (In which case the workers don’t deserve to get paid more.)
